Another attempt at recording some Perseids
More meteors, more video processing.
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Tasting a Japanese Taiyō no Tamago mango
I’ll spend my money on mangoes if I want to, thanks.
Bugged audio after sleep with the Windows 11 July 2026 update
Maybe that should say buggered instead.
Confused co-ordinates with Win32 popup menus and middle-clicking
A Windows bug, and not a new bug at that.
I got invited to a Windows Insider meetup
I went along and ate some prawns.
It looks like Forza Horizon 6 does not like Process Explorer
Microsoft, meet Microsoft.
Everyday Windows annoyances: Creating desktop shortcuts
Are you not meant to use the desktop these days?
I finally installed the ASRock Rack W880D4U motherboard that I bought in my NAS
It works better with RAM.
Google Wallet, barcodes, self-service checkouts and feeling incompetent
If only there was another dimension so that I have some new ways to point my phone.
Everyday Windows annoyances: Inconsistent font sizes
What do you mean, it’s intentionally like that?
I disabled menu animations in Windows. So why are my menus animating?
Giving users a bit of control is now passé.
What happened to the minimum brightness of my Pixel 8?
Yes, sometimes I look at my phone when I should be sleeping.
It looks like Microsoft has forgotten how text encodings work
Or how to do a basic bit of testing.
I’m not a fan of how Direct2D renders Windows 11 emojis
In this case I prefer version zero.
The glitchy Win32 tooltip control
I don’t like glitches.
The case of the slow-to-get-going Ethernet port
Some protocols are nicer than others.
What’s new in Columns UI 3.2.0 and 3.3.0
Everyone else blogs about their releases, so why shouldn’t I?
EE, you’re taking the biscuit
A pounds-and-pence biscuit, as it turns out.
DXGI occlusion statuses: broken and a pain
DXGI stands for DirectX Graphics Infrastructure, if you were wondering.
A couple of Perseids from 2025
Better late than never.
It’s cold, so why not point a Canon EOS R5 Mark II at Jupiter?
And at the largest moon in the solar system, as it turns out.
Shooting the moon with a Canon EOS R5 Mark II
With a touch of colour.
The Windows 11 installation that was eating my disk space
Everything seems to be working, so all must be okay?
The October Windows 11 update breaks Win32 edit controls in tabbed dialogues
It’s okay, it came with AI stuff too.
Photos from Athens, Delphi and Arachova
Some photos from a short trip to Athens, Delphi and Arachova.
Where is the documentation, Microsoft?
Maybe I should start putting the Windows SDK in a Git repo.
I built a Tube arrivals Android app
Or are they departures? Or perhaps it’s train propinquity?
Oi Google, tabular numerals exist
Another badly tested UI update.
The pain of transferring a domain from Gandi.net
Luckily, there was an easy fix via the domain registry.
Oh Google, please test your UI
If you’re going to change your UI every month, the least you can do is make sure it works.
Everyday Windows annoyances: The Start Menu search
Sometimes it does what you want.
Don’t auto-install junk on my PC, Microsoft
It’s a waste of energy, as it turns out.
Everyday Windows annoyances: Things randomly changing
Change isn’t inherently bad. But I don’t things I interact with every day to suddenly become bugged.
No thanks, Adobe
It looks like inflation is 176% in Adobe land.
What does each step in the ClearType Text Tuner do?
Some things you have to work out yourself.
Playing around with HDR AVIF images
Great brightness can be fraught with problems, as it turns out.
BypassIO, aksdf.sys and my X-Rite spectrophotometer
Aladdin says no DirectStorage for me. Luckily, I have the final say.
Seeking a lightweight power bank: The INIU P50-E1
Carrying around too much weight gets annoying after a while.
Irrationally irritating bad reviews
A little bit of knowledge can be dangerous.
In photos: Sydney and Melbourne
Some photos from a recent trip.
Emojis in Windows 11: A mess once you look closely
And, I like to look closely.
What do all the recent NTDDI_VERSION values mean?
The answer isn’t always straightforward, as it turns out.
Civilization VII: It needs some love
A bit of attention to detail wouldn’t hurt, either.
DirectWrite strikes again
Unique things should be, erm, unique.
The squished iPlayer picture on my Sony TV
No, Sony, I don’t like my TV picture squished, stretched and cropped at the same time.
Getting Windows 11 24H2 to install
Error 0xC1900101-0x40017, you say?
The (now resolved) crash releasing an IDWriteTextFormat
No, I don’t like infinitely recursive loops.
Goodbye, Ghost
I gave the blog a face lift. And made it static. Happy Halloween?
Cahoot: An awful 2FA login process
I’m happier when I can copy and paste one-time passwords.
Everyday Windows annoyances: A lack of context menu focus
It won’t be a surprise that I noticed a new annoyance with the Windows 11 File Explorer.