Graham Downey
@grahamdowney.com
Programmer, tinkerer, and music lover.
Breathing new life into old things!
Breathing new life into old things!
This is peak web design
June 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is peak web design
This 25 year old copy of Microsoft Word knows the difference between Canadian and American spellings. Why can't anything built using Chromium??
June 3, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This 25 year old copy of Microsoft Word knows the difference between Canadian and American spellings. Why can't anything built using Chromium??
That Dell Dimension is peak PC case design
May 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
That Dell Dimension is peak PC case design
Maybe he thinks everyone is still buying DVDs
May 6, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Maybe he thinks everyone is still buying DVDs
How would you set up a new machine in an area with no internet access?
April 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How would you set up a new machine in an area with no internet access?
I'm not here for a conversation with ChatGPT or for someone who has never written C to tell me my understanding of the language is wrong. Maybe try reading some real documentation and tutorials to familiarize yourself with the language instead of asking AI to think for you.
April 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I'm not here for a conversation with ChatGPT or for someone who has never written C to tell me my understanding of the language is wrong. Maybe try reading some real documentation and tutorials to familiarize yourself with the language instead of asking AI to think for you.
I wrote an entire HTTP library in C for a lastfm plugin 3 years ago. I have a pretty good understanding of how strings and memory management work in the language.
April 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I wrote an entire HTTP library in C for a lastfm plugin 3 years ago. I have a pretty good understanding of how strings and memory management work in the language.
Never rely on AI for real information. It has no real intelligence and is frequently just wrong. I used the wrong slash because I was on my phone, but \0 is 100% a null terminator in C. There is no regex in C, and strings are just arrays of chars in memory.
April 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Never rely on AI for real information. It has no real intelligence and is frequently just wrong. I used the wrong slash because I was on my phone, but \0 is 100% a null terminator in C. There is no regex in C, and strings are just arrays of chars in memory.
Length is calculated by running through the array until you hit /0. Since that's the first byte it thinks there's no string data. It's the difference of buffer size vs data length. Can use that trick to store multiple strings in a single block.
April 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Length is calculated by running through the array until you hit /0. Since that's the first byte it thinks there's no string data. It's the difference of buffer size vs data length. Can use that trick to store multiple strings in a single block.
I miss being able to drop back into the basic HTML version
April 1, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I miss being able to drop back into the basic HTML version
They have EVs still running on the same battery after 15+ years?
April 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
They have EVs still running on the same battery after 15+ years?
I always wonder what kind of climate these cars are in and how that impacts battery life. Where I am we get -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer. Even on a new EV you could see up to 35% capacity loss in the cold months.
March 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I always wonder what kind of climate these cars are in and how that impacts battery life. Where I am we get -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer. Even on a new EV you could see up to 35% capacity loss in the cold months.
How much on an EV would be owner serviceable where you could just go to a junk yard to buy cheap replacement parts to drop in for repairs also?
March 31, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How much on an EV would be owner serviceable where you could just go to a junk yard to buy cheap replacement parts to drop in for repairs also?
My car is 25 years old and still running on the original engine and transmission. If this was an EV would I still have a usable battery when our weather drops to -40C over the winter and +40 in the summer?
March 31, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My car is 25 years old and still running on the original engine and transmission. If this was an EV would I still have a usable battery when our weather drops to -40C over the winter and +40 in the summer?
Worse than Clippy asking if you want help writing a letter
March 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Worse than Clippy asking if you want help writing a letter
Why does browser support matter for a command line tool?
March 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Why does browser support matter for a command line tool?
I've actually heard a lot of great things about SDL3 since it came out
March 14, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I've actually heard a lot of great things about SDL3 since it came out