Stories by nikbackm

Collections: Alexander Goes West (A Silly Counterfactual)

Standards for ANSI Escape Codes

Humanity May Achieve the Singularity Within the Next 12 Months

Hail and Farewell (2019)

Stay Gold, America

Getting the linker to verify identical functions

Windows 11 now warns when typing your password in Notepad, websites

Story-time: C++, bounds checking, performance, and compilers

Lots of PCs poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today

Why It's Important to Call Bullshit on Columbus

Is This Tomorrow?

The case of the crash when destructing a std:map

Reader Q&A: What's the best way to pass an istream parameter?

The CoInitializeSecurity function demands an absolute security descriptor

Tales from the Far Side

Crashes and Competition

Could AIs become conscious? Right now, we have no way to tell.

Quick Note on Penny Singleton

Is the Arm version of Windows ready for its close-up?

How does the classic Win32 ListView handle incremental searching?

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