Are we programming the computers, or are they programming us?
My blog runs on WordPress. This post you’re reading is on WordPress as of 2025-10-24. But that will be changing. I am tired of WordPress. It has become a cesspool of garbage software, a problem made possible through poor initial design of WordPress itself and a problematic social ecosystem. Its governance model keeps it stagnant, […]
The whole point of a programming language is to do something. I’m a big critic of Object-oriented programming paradigm, despite thinking in Java well due to extended exposure in college. But this shouldn’t be an excuse to push an unintuitive way of converting thoughts into software. I learned Java, C++, and JavaScript back when they […]
A first-principles orientation and explanation for old-school system and scripting developers to understand web development and frameworks. C developers and other system language developers have grown up with a clear understanding that code does not just run and must be converted from the programming language to machine language, with various intermediate forms of code, such […]
I was asked to provide feedback about the Windows Feedback app. I submit a lot of content on there, however I have never received any response from Microsoft. I’m not sure if they actually see my feedback. Make it more feature-full for browsing and finding reports, editing, updating, and removing files from reports, sharing reports […]
Stop using OBS basic. Use PRISM instead.
If you want to ever see how much CPU or GPU a particular process is using over time, use Sysinternals Process Explorer (procexp) and find the process, open up its properties, and have a look at the Performance Graph and GPU Graph. This is a feature I didn’t know existed in Procexp, but I have […]
Updated Feb 2025 Maintaining a system has always been a pain point, especially on Windows, where getting your OS back up to speed after a fresh reinstall requires manually searching, downloading, installing, and configuring about a hundred apps and individual mods for Windows. As of the past few years, the maintenance story has changed dramatically […]
A few years ago, Microsoft, under Sundar Pichai’s leadership, changed its stance on open source and started to embrace Linux ideas. The package manager concept was one of them. For a long time, Windows did not have a package manager. Some people made a 3rd party one called Chocolatey, but it often contained outdated packages […]
Updated 2025-02-13. Windows 11 has a confusing mess of options for how to back-up your computer, with the most useful and powerful ones being hidden in the older Windows 7 Control Panel locations. This article should present all of the options and more or less de-complicate finding them and knowing when to use them. List […]
Anastasi in Tech on YouTube recently came out with a new video about Light Speed Computers. There have been a number of contenders for the next big step in computing technology, notably quantum computers and Graphene chips. As this breakthrough seems to be a big one, I am posting a quick TLDR summary here. Since […]