The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Jun 5, 2026
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The back cover of C++: The Programming Language also raises questions not answered by the front cover
Not doing the reading.
Jun 5, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Avoiding having to calculate the gcd when doing cycle decomposition
Math is hard. Let's go counting!
Jun 4, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Cycle decomposition in clang’s libcxx
Rotating in the minimum number of steps by performing cycle decomposition.
Jun 3, 2026
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Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm
We've seen this before.
Jun 2, 2026
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Rotation revisited: Another unidirectional algorithm
Moving in a straight line, in a different way.
Jun 1, 2026
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The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was “modern”
Modern this and that.
May 29, 2026
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Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 3
A variation where we try only once.
May 28, 2026
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Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 2
Just let each person take turns trying.
May 27, 2026
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Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation among multiple coroutines, part 1
Caching the result and knowing when the cache is valid.
