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- WordPress? More like TurdPress
2025-10-24 · My blog runs on WordPress. This post you're reading is on WordPress as of 2025-10-24. But that will be changing. I am ti…
- Why the human brain prefers Procedural and Functional Paradigms
2025-10-16 · The whole point of a programming language is to do something. I'm a big critic of Object-oriented programming paradigm, …
- Understanding Web Dev for Systems Developers
2025-06-24 · A first-principles orientation and explanation for old-school system and scripting developers to understand web developm…
- Windows Feedback Center Review
2025-03-06 · I was asked to provide feedback about the Windows Feedback app. I submit a lot of content on there, however I have never…
- Time to ditch OBS for PRISM
2025-03-01 · Stop using OBS basic. Use PRISM instead.
- Performance profiling your app with Procexp
2025-02-20 · If you want to ever see how much CPU or GPU a particular process is using over time, use Sysinternals Process Explorer (…
- The Best Way to Maintain Windows 11
2025-02-17 · Updated Feb 2025 Maintaining a system has always been a pain point, especially on Windows, where getting your OS back up…
- How to use Winget
2025-02-16 · A few years ago, Microsoft, under Sundar Pichai's leadership, changed its stance on open source and started to embrace L…
- Windows PC Recovery Sources
2025-02-13 · Updated 2025-02-13. Windows 11 has a confusing mess of options for how to back-up your computer, with the most useful an…
- Light Speed Computers TLDR
2025-02-07 · Anastasi in Tech on YouTube recently came out with a new video about Light Speed Computers. There have been a number of …
- Practical concerns for a Hash-based filesystem
2025-01-29 · So, as you may know, I am ardently pursuing a new file system architecture that incorporates a few key strategies for or…
- Dear File System, stop breaking my workflow
2025-01-28 · Why does my computer break so much? As I work on more coding projects, I use more tools, which come with limitations, so…
- Developing a Windows Theme Auto-Switcher with Claude: An AI Pair Programming Journey
2025-01-06 · Recently, I decided to create a Windows application that would automatically switch between light and dark themes based …
- The Mystery of the Indestructible Folder: A Windows NTFS Experience
2025-01-03 · As someone who’s no stranger to the intricacies of Windows and NTFS, I thought I had seen it all—until I encountered a f…
- Merging and Moving Folders in Windows: Why So Complicated?
2025-01-02 · Moving or merging folders in Windows can be unexpectedly frustrating. If you’ve tried a simple move or mv command in Pow…
- Adding Diacritics to Letters with PowerToys
2024-12-30 · Today I found out Microsoft PowerToys has added a new feature called QuickAccent that lets you add diacritic marks and o…
- The Case for a Redesign of WordPress Admin panel
2024-12-19 · The WordPress Admin interface is undeniably one of the most pivotal entry points into the WordPress ecosystem for millio…
- Understanding Block-Based Themes and the New Workflow for WordPress
2024-12-19 · Note: This article was generated with ChatGPT-4o based on a conversation I had with it. Recently, I updated my WordPress…
- Zeffy Donation Form Demo
2024-07-07 · 3 ways to embed Zeffy donate into website. Note, the black border will not show up in the website. Button Popup
- My time working at St. Francis Hospital
2024-05-13 · When I started working here, the kitchen floor was always dirty, and equipment was dirty and often unmaintained. Various…
- Does OOP reduce bugs?
2023-11-23 · I was reading some article about OOP, a well-written article with better detail and an author with more robust industry …
- C's popularity is its only asset
2023-07-30 · A few days ago I saw this Instagram short. One of many like it that I've seen over the years, listing popular coding lan…
- How to Hard Refresh Any Browser on Mobile and PC the RIGHT way
2023-07-29 · tl;dr: You have to access the specific site's cache information by using a button to the left of the URL in your browser…
- ChatGPT explains Simple and Mathematical explanations of Quantum Computing
2023-06-30 · I've been using ChatGPT for a while to learn about programming, however most of what I want to learn has changed since t…
- How to hide YouTube suggested videos at end of video
2023-06-19 · Unhook – Remove YouTube Recommended Videos – Microsoft Edge Addons Sometimes it is nice to not be distracted…
- How not to bastardize mathematical notation in a language.
2023-06-19 · Why are we using == and := for operators in programming languages when we could have used =? and left = alone? This is s…
- Reason #1 to avoid Java: Annotations
2023-06-02 · Annotations Annotations started out as a simple feature in Java for signalling to the tools that read Java code the valu…
- Dear programmers, please stop coding in C, C++, and Java
2022-03-23 · This post is a work in progress. It contains unfinished thoughts. Way back in the 1960s there was a language called LISP…
- Install Guide for WinGHCi
2020-07-12 · Date: July 12, 2020 (2020-07-12) Until this year, the Haskell Platform shipped with the WinGHCi interpreter, a GUI versi…
- Action Layers
2020-07-05 · Use Action Layers to decide what the mouse should do with objects that contain text.
- File selector
2020-07-04 · Select a file by choosing either the default folder or the last-used folder.
- Symbols in computer science
2019-12-04 · Computer scientists need a system of symbols to simplify and unify the expression of concepts, and thereby reduce the co…
- Linux sucks, and there's nothing you can do about it
2019-11-06 · Recently I started working on a startup tech business to implement some of my tech ideas. I got a work-space on campus a…
- Transcript of FileSystem Conversation
2019-09-17 · Below is a transcript of the conversation I had about FileSystems on the Redox-OS Mattermost chat. amdphreak1:08 AM I am…
- Character Map update
2019-08-09 · Vote for an update to the Character Map application on Windows.
- Set Theory in Programming
2019-04-04 · In high school and college math courses, we learn about ways to express groups of items as subsets and supersets. This b…
- Haskell and functions
2019-04-04 · The following is a pair of commands in Haskell that creates a list of numbers and performs a calculation on that list to…
- Do. Or do not. There is no trie!
2019-04-03 · During my journey to educate myself on computer science topics that were not covered in my undergraduate University curr…
- Wide Gamut Monitor Support on Windows 10
2019-03-09 · Wide-gamut monitors are becoming ever more popular, but Microsoft has not made Windows operating system easy to use with…
- "Set Membership" Symbol Redesign
2019-03-08 · Set Theory In high school and college math courses, we learn about ways to express groups of items as subsets and supers…
- The Future of Programming
2019-03-03 · In 2019, during my research into finding or making a dream language, I gave a presentation and prepared a slideshow at t…
- NixOS and the Linux distribution as a "channel"
2019-02-16 · I am currently installing and setting up NixOS, a GNU-Linux distribution that lets you configure your system and install…
- First thoughts on Angular and Typescript
2019-01-31 · Today, I looked at a friend's web project written in Angular 2. I had visited his web app the day before, and it was a r…
- How to write recursive functions
2019-01-30 · Recursion is a powerful concept in programming, and it can make code easy to read and understand. This tutorial takes a …
- SQL Introduction and Setup
2019-01-27 · This tutorial is intended for complete beginners, and should help you avoid the annoying pitfalls that most people encou…