Bakin's Bits

2025

2025-05-03
Blocksifter Roadmap, 2025
2025-04-14
`-Wzero-as-null-pointer-constant` vs `std::strong_ordering`

2022

2022-09-25
Blocksifter status - 2022-09-25
2022-09-02
Recursive Error Message Considered Not Helpful
2022-08-02
Bitrot in a Devops World
2022-07-29
Unit Testing 'Legacy' Code You Can't Change - 1 - Threading The Needle
2022-07-08
Unit Testing 'Legacy' Code You Can't Change

2021

2021-11-07
Air-Gapped Hardware Wallets and FUD - 5 (end)
2021-11-07
Air-Gapped Hardware Wallets and FUD - 4
2021-11-07
Air-Gapped Hardware Wallets and FUD - 3
2021-11-07
Air-Gapped Hardware Wallets and FUD - 2
2021-11-07
Air-Gapped Hardware Wallets and FUD - 1
2021-09-23
Filesystem as Database
2021-08-28
Ways to Register a Plugin
2021-08-17
A Readable Production Quality Bitcoin Service
2021-08-13
Advantages of Semantic Logging
2021-05-01
This blog, revived and restarted with Hugo on Gitlab

2015

2015-08-05
A TestNG Listener can register itself with TestNG
2015-05-11
WinSvr 2012 R2 hanging due to event 129 from vsmraid: solved (for me)
2015-04-17
Breaking a Windows command line into separate arguments, respecting quotes and backslashes

2014

2014-11-03
ReFS disk scrubbing doesn’t play nice with other work on the same disks
2014-09-11
Visual C++: Letting C++ programmers get away with new murder without warning
2014-07-22
Failed EFI boot with 0xC000000F and missing winload.efi, running native
2014-07-09
Two nearly perfect keyboards: Das Ultimate and WASD CODE
2014-05-25
Bad cables can masquerade as other errors
2014-05-25
ReFS on Windows 8.1/Server 2012 R2 and "ERROR 665" "The requested operation could not be completed due to a file system limitation"
2014-05-20
Windows Server Storage Spaces: striped and mirrored with tiering requires 4 SSDs
2014-01-05
Biggest mistake in C#: That strings can be null

2013

2013-11-19
Breadth-First Traversal with Alternating Directions at Each Level
2013-11-18
Two coding interview questions done badly, for different reasons
2013-05-05
Review of "An Introduction to Modern Mathematical Computing with Mathematica" (Borwein, Skerritt)

2012

2012-11-18
‘typename’ is not always a substitute for ‘class’ in a template parameter
2012-08-21
When is a newline required to separate command line arguments? When it is in your eclipse.ini!
2012-06-27
Does enumerating files with FSCTL_ENUM_USN_DATA ever miss any files?
2012-03-25
A plea that the class Point should not be an example for data abstraction

2011

2011-08-18
Is the PE Attribute Certificate Table octaword-aligned or octabyte-aligned?
2011-07-11
An example of documenting a broken feature as normal behavior
2011-05-04
Comment on: A Memory-Efficient Queue for Primitive Types (in Java)
2011-05-02
A Memory-Efficient Queue for Primitive Types (in Java)
2011-03-27
An Unbounded Spigot Algorithm for Pi – the Java version
2011-03-26
Object-Oriented Permutation Generation

2009

2009-04-14
A couple of my articles on CodeProject

2007

2007-11-12
Typing Mathematical Formulas in Word 2007
2007-11-09
Race Conditions and Debugging Multithreaded Programs: What Are Race Conditions?
2007-09-07
Building the Home Supercomputer
2007-09-07
Persistent Data Structures – now (possibly) practical
2007-08-21
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