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Minor trivia: the original motivation for adding SetWindowRgn was for Microsoft Bob characters and speech bubbles.

Very impressive. Nice work.

rePalm and the numerous projects on your home page are quite impressive. Nice to see WI running on it!

Very nice to see new PalmOS apps being written, and good job on your strategy game. I co-authored Warfare Incorporated, an RTS originally on Palm devices, if anyone remembers that.…

Good times.

The article suggests json patch is idempotent, but it isn’t idempotent for array mutations. JSON merge patch on the other hand is fully idempotent (in the array case the array is r…

Thank you. I was wondering that.

Love it - my wife and I enjoying playing that - on an iPad. Nicely made.

Comment from the presentation: “Worked with fido alliance to work across platforms”.

+1 impressive independent of anything else. +1 for doing this as an intern.

That's a fair point, I'll restate: the level of abstraction that developers were exposed to was 95% the same. Exposed message loops, window classes, window messages, unpacking wind…

Once Microsoft agreed to the graphics api change, it was open season to redesign the window manager api because backward compat was moot at that point. The OS/2 window manager api …

This is an important point. Being easier to create means faster to market, faster to create new features, easier cross platform, more value for users in less time. Not all apps can…

I’ve seen the open plan sold as what engineers are asking for, but anecdotally I don’t see them asking for that, so I wonder what drives it. Does it attract people right out of col…

Why are open plans (among software engineers) so common in the industry? Is it really that most software engineers like them?

I think it’s an economic reality for for-profit companies that make apps. If company A doesn’t go the html app route, and company B does for the same effective product, company B w…

It’s about time to market and iteration speed being important success factors, coupled with users accepting the costs in exchange for the benefits.

GHEdit was released ~2 years ago: https://github.com/spiffcode/ghedit/blob/master/README.md

Another reason to go public is because the SEC forces companies with 2000 stock owners (used to be 500 pre-2012) to file public disclosure documents similar to being public, so com…

Nice demo. Reminds me of a well done Galaxians clone for Atari 400/800 that used programmable character set animation for the aliens. It was impressive.

A Javascript based one: https://codesandbox.io/s/2px9y0p480

STUN is part of the story. The overall process is called Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).

What year did you receive the cease and desist and was it from Brinks Hofer / Brinks Gilson & Lione?

Try cgdb.

I’m curious how Apple will balance PWA support with the business case for the App Store.