You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds. No Electron, no Game Engines, no Web frameworks. Just a lean fast .EXE produced in seconds. Works on any Windows machine WITHOUT Internet connection. Software Development is actually going backwards.

Great series of blog posts: Making Crash Bandicoot https://t.co/7KTgpWSUeq Thread on @hackernews: https://t.co/8wW7aCCDLp #GameDev #CrashBandicoot #PSX #RetroGaming

Is it normal that a @vcpkg_io library port *update* submitted in summer (August) is *still unprocessed*?? https://t.co/LF1Fm02Sfn #cpp #WinReg

A320 AIRBUS for the Commodore Amiga (Thalion/1991) In-depth flight simulator of the A320 Airbus passenger plane, well presented and complete. Programmed by Rainer Bopf through 3 years. Has data disks (new scenarios) and a sequel in 1995. #AmigaReposts #retroflightsim #flightsim

The first MiniDisc recorder from 1992 next to the last one from 2006

L’ignoranza o l’approssimazione culturale regna anche nei telegiornali. Sono *presidenti* di regione, NON “governatori”! (Non siamo in USA.) #ignoranza

It's interesting that people still require #WindowsXP support in 2025! https://t.co/ZmVaAlA15c #WinReg #cpp

The best part of a project built by volunteers is that anyone can volunteer, from high schoolers to professors and anyone in between! High schoolers have written complex C code and hand written assembly in FFmpeg.

Such wonderful memories of the design team, the intense work and the incredible results...industry shaping results. Often, when you are working like crazy, in the middle of a project like this you have no idea of the magnitude of the impact it will have. You know you are part of

#PlayStation #PS2 #Linux #retrocomputing

When I got a physical Debian distribution with an Italian computer magazine (Dev - Edizioni Infomedia) around 1997. #linux

Ted Gioia: The Glorious Future of the Book https://t.co/FKfIs34nV6 #books #book #ebook

"Fascinating" bug: How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2 https://t.co/JlPhQQIqvV #cpp #bugs

When I'm programming, the number one thing that makes me sad is when I open C++ files that look like this.

Even the WindTre app failed with the very explanatory <ironic> error message along the lines of “Something went wrong”.

#WindTre oggi pomeriggio e in serata era impossibile usare la connessione Internet mobile. Come avere un cellulare quasi inutile. #fail #disservizio

There's no point in reporting this stuff because the vulnerability is simple: stable maintainers using AI who have no idea what they're doing and are using it as a substitute for the work everyone else assumes they've performed It'll keep happening until that bug's fixed.

BREAKING: FFmpeg 100x speedup from handwritten assembly 13:55:30 <•haasn> rangedetect8_avx512: 121.2 (100.18x) that may be the biggest speedup I've seen so far

If you see a github user with this badge it’s because they have code ~1,000 feet underground in the Arctic Circle. 5 years ago Github took a snapshot of all public repos, stored it on photographic film (essentially big QR codes), and stuck it in a mining tunnel.

And I recall Windows XP did have a "Theme library" with a C-interface Theme API in the Platform SDK (<uxtheme.h>?) to manage different visual styles. (Not sure if that was versatile enough, though...)