Mohit Sindhwani
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Mohit Sindhwani
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Work: CTO, Quantum Inventions.
Also: Councillor, ITS Singapore.
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Posts: ITS/ Transportation, Ruby, Rails, Windows, Tech, Programming, Life, Languages & Oddballs.
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Every single time I walk past this I am reminded of @scott.hanselman.com
Sign that says "to the left, to the left - Beyonce"
November 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Of course, #Windows being Windows, it means that you can endlessly customise it - you can change the default icon for these file types in the registry to something that fits you better - the icon's not the old one (which also you can get) but looks better to me.

I can write this up, if you care
November 15, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Like I'd like the UI to be more compact, more dense but still readable and obvious. The picture shows the new Office icons which can't be told apart easily when you reduce the sizes (I _think_ the older ones were better.

#Tech
November 15, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Somehow, this post on my blog for making #MermaidJS sequence diagrams prettier is quite popular and I needed to refer to it myself today. So, ya, if you want prettier #SequenceDiagrams: notepad.onghu.com/2024/making-...

(I'm reminded I need to work on Part 2)

#Diagramming #Programming
October 15, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Moving large amounts of data to/ from cloud storage providers at least on Windows is a ridiculously bad experience. Trying to copy a large folder from "all files on device" Dropbox is just randomly stuck for 20+min.

#PC #Tech
Windows ezplorer copy window showing that copying from Dropbox to Desktop transfer is stuck at 49%
October 5, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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So, you can get the "Plus" Tab with the "Pro" Pen, or the "Pro" Tab with the "Plus" pen. I wish it was simpler!

#tgif #Tech
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I know there's a popular post that this never fixed anything for anyone, but in reality, it did fix it for me today!

That said, there seems to be a grammatical error in "one or more audio service"

#WIndows10 #Windows #PC #Tech
September 23, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#throwback to when I was using #Palm #WebOS and it didn't have an IME for Japanese, so I put together a small app to let you enter romaji and get kana which you could copy to your other application... was better than nothing & helpful!

#Tech #Programming
September 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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In an unexpectedly aggressive move, it seems that #Google #Drive will keep rewriting Registry entries on #Windows to make the New > Item context menu always have the entries to create New > Google Docs/ Sheets/ Slides. Why!?

#PC #Enshittification
September 7, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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I've always had #Microsoft #Office, so I never realised that #OneNote is not available to everyone to edit in the Desktop app on Windows.

(Not doing Microsoft bashing here, and not looking for alternatives - just surprised)
A notice showing that Microsoft Basic does not allow using the OneNote Desktop app on Windows for editing.
September 5, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Delighted to discover TaskbarGroups, a simple program that lets me get something similar to a Quick Launch toolbar on the Taskbar in #Windows 11. After a lot of setup & tweaks (most working), I think I'm ready to start using Windows 11 as my #PC daily driver (to find more things).

#Windows11 #Tech
A screenshot of TaskbarGroups that shows icons of apps for quick launch.
September 2, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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#TIL that #Windows11 can schedule Windows Updates at times when you're more likely to use renewable energy!

From: www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...
August 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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#Windows is probably extremely configurable and allows apps to inject plugins into things like Explorer. Unfortunately, it gets abused by people like whoever came up with this ugly implementation in the Recycle Bin (Microsoft? #Dropbox)
July 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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When your kid is old enough to enjoy music with you, but not old enough to have his own device, this feature on #Samsung #Galaxy is quite a bit of fun.

If you see these #Bluetooth devices near you, it's us!

#music #FamilyTime
Screenshot of bluetooth music sharing feature on Samsung devices.
June 1, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Finally, started with installing #JRuby 10 & running Hello World before trying other things in the next few weeks. If you've wanted to experiment, here's a simple illustrated guide to get it running and the first steps:
notepad.onghu.com/2025/jruby-1...

#Ruby #Programming #RubyOnWindows
Windows dialog showing JRuby installation is complete.
April 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Somehow, I need to find time to get into at least a little bit of #Jruby 10 later today. Good thing that I already have Java 21 on my computer.

#Ruby #RubyOnWindows #Programming
Distracted boyfriend meme with "All my Other Stuff" looking at "Me" while I seem keen to check out "JRuby 10"
April 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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A few years back, I remember seeing a few electrical slots in some hotels in Japan that were 24時間通電 electricity for you to charge your gadgets while up were out... which really is the #1 reason to hack these 🙂
April 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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I see why we might mean different things!
Tollywood can be Bengali cinema or the cinema of the Telugu-language
April 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Did #Microsoft #Excel just change the columns to be numbers instead of leters?

#Office
Screenshot of Microsoft Excel showing numbered columns
April 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Had to refer to this post again today for grayscale and CSS filter-based map display with #OpenStreetMap and #OpenLayers:
notepad.onghu.com/2024/open-la...

#web #programming #maps #GIS
A web map rendered in dark colours
April 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Hi, I meant the city/ province Shizuoka - Japan's tea country.

Need to find an English name/ link later, if I get the chance.
March 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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I've been using very good @samsung.bsky.social Note/ S Ultra for almost 7 years, but this device (and the older #BlackBerry 10 and #Palm #WebOS devices) still makes me nostalgic for a certain #productivity.
A picture of the BlackBerry Priv
March 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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With OneNote, I think the biggest challenge is deciding the correct number and organisation of the notebooks. This post explains the approach that I am currently using with #OneNote and #MindMaps to organise information.

Link: notepad.onghu.com/2025/product...

#productivity
A mind map showing 9 branches as explained in the main post.
March 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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After a few more hours, Part 2 of my posts exploring @duckdb.org and trying to do some common things is out! It focuses mostly on timestamp functions and the CLI to help you get started in earnest.

Read: notepad.onghu.com/2025/explori...

#DuckDB #Programming
Exploring DuckDB - Part 2 (Dates, Times, CLI) In the previous posts, we went through setting up DuckDB and exploring DuckDB for common tasks involving importing data, aggregate queries and type casting. In this post. we continue our exploration by looking at some more common things we need, especially around date and time functions. We use the same dataset as before. so be sure to read either the full post. or at least the background to the sample data in that post, before jumping in. As before, most of these tips may apply to any language from which you execute queries, but I ran all of these from the official DuckDB command line application. In this post. we will look at common things to do with: * Working with Dates and Times * CLI dot commands * Command Line Options for the CLI client
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This is so cool! Works perfectly, even on #Windows

github.com/red-data-too...

Need to find a way to add this into my series of DuckDB posts. The attached graph is based on exploration explained in Part 1: notepad.onghu.com/2025/explori...

#programming
Bar graph rendered on the command line using Youplot.
February 21, 2025 at 2:44 PM