Tag: Windows
Death Ray Manta and … OST?
Death Ray Manta: A Fish Like No Other Perhaps surprisingly, I have few regrets from my time in videogames over the years. Sure there’s the odd bit of me behaving like a nob here and there that were I to do over, I would try not to be such a nob and there’s a few...
Getting flag emoji on Windows (11)
Due to political reasons, Microsoft has actively refused to add flag emojis on Windows 11. Given how common flag emojis are, it's honestly more annoying than I thought it'd be, especially when discussing international events like Eurovision where these emoji would be useful. People use these flags to denote their nationality, or a country they...
A eulogy for the most misunderstood Windows version (Ulveon)
https://ulveon.net/p/2026-06-04-a-eulogy-for-the-most-misunderstood-windows-version Windows Vista feels like the runt of Windows' lineage. A troubled and probably even rushed development cycle, combined with complacency on part of the OEMs with XP being very modest on hardware requirements, meant that Windows Vista got a bad rap amongst computer users for being slow and buggy, even nowadays. Its notoriety for...
“I don’t wanna use Linux because terminal”
My thoughts on the whole aversion to Linux because of the Command Prompt.
PowerShell swallows your exit codes (and buffers your output)
A cargo build over SSH reported failure despite succeeding. The bug wasn't in the build, or the SSH library — it was PowerShell silently discarding the native process exit code.
every windows SSH agent is broken, so we built one
Bitwarden's SSH agent freezes under load. Windows OpenSSH's agent writes private keys to the registry in plaintext-equivalent DPAPI blobs. no standalone memory-only agent exists for Windows. so we built ephemeral-agent in Go.
four wrong answers and a test tone
desktop audio kept turning to static. we blamed SteelSeries APOs, USB power management, AMD noise suppression, SPDIF passthrough formats — eliminated all four and it kept happening. the fix is clicking 'Test' in the sound control panel. we have rewritten this post three times.
waving goodbye to windows - part 1
Okay, so the title might be a little misleading. I waved goodbye to Windows in favor of Linux (obligatory "I use Arch, btw") some time ago. Given that my personal laptop's hardware was of the 2016 era, I just couldn't run Windows very well any longer. Not that I wanted to anyway. I opted for an Arch-based distribution called CachyOS, set it up once, and didn't fiddle with it at all. It worked great! But as the aging hardware continued to cause problems, it became apparent that it was time to mov...
Mein Umstieg von Windows 11 zu Linux Mint (Werbung – unbeauftragt, unbezahlt)
Werbung – unbeauftragt & unbezahlt:Aufgrund von Markennennung, Produktdarstellung und Verlinkungen handelt es sich um Werbung, auch wenn ich das Produkt selbst gekauft habe und keine Kooperation besteht. Inhalt Die Entscheidung Vorbereitung Die Installation Die weiteren Schritte Es wird gedruckt Eine AusweisApp bitte Das erste Zoom-Meeting Vorsicht DAU! Fazit Es ist nun circa einen Monat her,...
ClickFix Fixes Ranked
The cool thing about ClickFix remediation is nobody walks away happy.
ClickFix Fixes Ranked
The cool thing about ClickFix remediation is nobody walks away happy.
ClickFix Fixes Ranked
The cool thing about ClickFix remediation is nobody walks away happy.
ClickFix Fixes Ranked
The cool thing about ClickFix remediation is nobody walks away happy.
Better Logic For Showing Auth Windows With Your Local MCP Server
Parent WAM authentication dialogs to MCP clients like VS Code and Claude Desktop by traversing the process hierarchy to find a usable window handle.
Don’t Forget The Forgotten Tech User
Windows 10’s end-of-life points to the sheer neglect that computer users face when their world isn’t completely defined by technology.
Windows On Linux, The Clever Way
Forget WINE; a weirdly fascinating technique to make Photoshop work on Linux involves chopping up a remote access client into a windowing interface. It’s wild, but it kinda works.
Extracting Icons From A Windows DLL Or EXE With C#
Extract icon resources from Windows DLL and EXE binaries to a local folder using C# and the Win32 API via P/Invoke.
The Floater Manifesto
Our technology should be good enough to work across operating systems now. The best way to test that is by using literally every platform. Which is what I plan to do.
Windows Server 2025 GA’ed, along with System Center 2025
Microsoft has just released Windows Server 2025 and System Center 2025 in General Availability. You can find more information on the Microsoft Release status site. Current status as of November 1, 2024 Windows Server 2025 is now generally available. It delivers security advancements and new hybrid cloud capabilities in a high performing, AI-capable platform. Windows...
Converting HEX Color To SolidColorBrush In WinUI 3
WinUI 3 has no built-in HEX-to-SolidColorBrush converter, so here's a small C# helper that parses ARGB hex strings into a usable Color object.
Too Close To The Kernel
The CrowdStrike mess points out just how close some developers get to the kernel—and efforts to lock things down will help highlight the tension between security and user choice.
Robby Russell - oh my zsh, Planet Argon
Robby Russell shares the origin story of Oh My ZSH and how Planet Argon evolved alongside the terminal customization revolution he sparked.
Remove Windows’s Invisible US-International Keyboard Layout
On Windows 10 and Windows 11, sometimes "United States-International" keyboard layout will appear in Window's keyboard layout options. This keyboard layout is not what you normally want since most keyboard uses the normal US keyboard layout and not the US-International layout. Keyboard layout list from taskbar showing English (United States) languagewith United States-International keyboard layout...
sudo embrace
Microsoft’s decision to introduce sudo for Windows is strangely symbolic of how influential UNIX has been even on non-UNIX ecosystems.
Mac All The Keyboards
The standard Macintosh keyboard layout makes it easy to add writer-desired special characters without pulling up a menu or relying on software trickery. Here’s how to get it on Linux and Windows.