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Potato Storage

Posted on August 26, 2018August 26, 2018

Finally – able to view 2 files side by side. Sure you can undock it and do it with the window but it doesn’t work as well and the Delphi IDE really freaks out if that second window goes to a different monitor with a different DPI setting. Installing Project is dead for a while […]

Web Dev

Browser Selection for Any Link

Posted on July 13, 2018

“Browser Select is a utility to dynamically select the browser you want instead of just having one default for all links. similar to the prompt in android to choose a browser when a link in a non-browser app is clicked/touched. it may not be useful for everyone but it really helps when you use multiple […]

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Running “rm -rf /” Is Now Bricking Linux Systems

Posted on July 13, 2018

“For newer systems utilizing UEFI, running rm -rf / is enough to permanently brick your system. While it’s a trivial command to run on Linux systems, Windows and other operating systems are also prone to this issue when using UEFI.” Read more

Web Dev

Google Chrome Will Start Using 10% More RAM Now, Thanks to Spectre

Posted on July 13, 2018

As if Chrome wasn’t a huge pig to begin with. Chrome often consumes 4-6GB of RAM on my PC in every day browsing. “Soon Google Chrome is going to use even more of your RAM, assuming that it’s even possible to use more than it already does. This is because of Chrome 67’s new Site Isolation feature to […]

Delphi

Fixing Delphi’s Interface Limitations

Posted on July 12, 2018

Delphi’s interfaces are rooted in COM interop, but in most cases are used for non COM purposes. Unfortunately there are some big limitations with Delphi interfaces, and in a critical area where interfaces are the most useful.

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Delphi Language Progression Suggestions

Posted on May 28, 2018July 12, 2018

Since ~Delphi 2010 we have had generics, attributes, iterators, and some other compiler niceties. While many of the features we would like are difficult to implement, I believe that a few simple language features are long overdue: Simple type inference Auto variables Block level variables

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