Stories by nikbackm

Explorer is a single-instance application

How real-mode Windows loaded code from the disk

Concepts Are Ready [pdf]

The web is swallowing the desktop whole and nobody noticed

Why is Alt+D the keyboard shortcut for putting focus on the address bar?

Inside NASA’s daring $8B plan to finally find extraterrestrial life

The Amazon forest is the result of an 8,000-year experiment

A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

Always Set Impossible Goals

ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for technical documentation

Windows Won't Let My Program Crash

Targeting the Windows Subsystem for Linux from Visual Studio

Creating an object behind the airtight hatchway isn’t a security vulnerability

Delete an inline function, save 794 kB

Types and Tests

Bash in Windows Insider build 15002 – many fixes but a couple of bugs

Add a const here, delete a const there

Progress Bars Are Surprisingly Difficult

Why can’t VarDateFromStr parse a Hungarian date generated by VarBstrFromDate?

Concealing bugs

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