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Conway in Borland Delphi

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

Yet another version of my Polyglot Conway project, this time in good old Borland Delphi 1.0 (which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary!) from 1995, running on Windows 3.1, and as usual you can find the source code on my GitLab account.

Filling the Timesheet with HTAs

Fri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0200

If you are currently employed or have worked in the past in a Swiss company, you know how important the all-powerful timesheet is to your employer. Every company comes up with their own version of it, particularly those who are cheap enough not to pay a monthly SaaS subscription to one of those gazillion timesheet services online. Most of those home-made contraptions use Excel, because why not.

My Faithful Logitech C930e Webcam

Fri, 16 May 2025 00:00:00 +0200

I like boring technology that lasts decades: 2 years ago I was raving about my Harman Kardon SoundSticks (spoiler alert: they are still in service) and today I’d like to rave about my faithful Logitech C930e, an HDMI webcam that’s been with me for 10 years this month.

Share Your Terminal Live on the Web With ttyd

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

If you’re in the business of giving demos or talking at conferences, webinars, or other gatherings, sooner or later you’ll have to show your terminal for a demo; in this case, this week’s article will surely interest you: ttyd.

Automatic Dark Mode via CSS

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0100

Dark mode (or dark theme, depending on whom you ask) is a great thing, and major operating systems have adopted it in the past few years as a native feature: Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop environments such as GNOME, Xfce, and KDE have a dark mode built-in.

32 Years of PC Configurations

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200

I’ve been keeping track of the various characteristics of personal computers I’ve owned during the past 32 years, and here’s a table comparing those data points.

Notepad Log Files on Visual Studio Code

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0200

Did you know that you can use Windows Notepad to create log files? It’s a feature that has been available on Windows since at least version 3.1… and I know it because, well, I’m old enough to have used such a feature to keep my own journal around 1992.

Adopting WezTerm

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0100

I’ve recently discovered WezTerm, also known as “Wez’s Terminal Emulator” by Wez Furlong, and I’ve adopted it completely, becoming my default terminal application.

EditPlus

Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100

Last week I was celebrating the 20 years of my Harman Kardon SoundSticks, but last Monday there was another anniversary that some of us celebrated fondly: EditPlus 1.0, released March 20th, 1998, is 25 years old!

Containers and DLL Hell

Fri, 11 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100

Back in the 1990s, shared libraries were all the rage. Instead of having to ship a 20 MB *.exe file to your customer in various floppy disks, you could cut some code out, put it in a set of *.dll files, and reuse that code across all your products. Every vendor would then install lots of DLL files in your system, and they would be reused by other apps from the same vendor.