The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words
Starting in Word and expanding to nearly every other word processor, and even things that aren't word processors.
What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set?
A special kind of <CODE>HMODULE</CODE>.
Why doesn’t GetLastInputInfo() return info for the user I’m impersonating?
It doesn't care about impersonation, says so on the tin.
Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up
Choosing the register to use to pass the desired stack allocation size.
Retrofitting the WM_COPYDATA message onto Windows 3.1
It was carefully designed to be trivial.
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad that they fixed it during emulation
Offensive content in the eyes of a software engineer.
How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency?
The thread pool is designed for throughput, not latency.
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it
I mean, technically <I>I</I> didn't do it.
What’s the opposite of ClipCursor that lets me exclude the cursor from a region?
There is no such feature, but you can just exclude it virtually.