1 November 2020

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7GUIs

The tasks were selected by the following criteria. The task set should be as small as possible yet reflect as many typical (or fundamental or representative) challenges in GUI programming as possible. Each task should be as simple and self-contained as possibl…

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The missing explanation of ZK-SNARKs: Part 1

What are ZK-SNARKs and how do they work? This is a question I’ve had for years, and always felt like the resources I found gave no clear intuition as to how all of that stuff worked. So today, after a breakthrough in my own understanding, I thought it would be…

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Pattern matching in C# 9.0

In this post I introduce pattern matching and explored the different patterns available in C# up to version 9.0 of the compiler. Also, I will show how the switch statement has been empowered to support patterns and the new switch expression introduced in C# 8.…

Why is subtracting these two times (in 1927) giving a strange result?

If I run the following program, which parses two date strings referencing times 1 second apart and compares them: public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException { SimpleDateFormat...

Uno Platform 3.1 Released

Earlier this month, Uno released version 3.1 of their multi-platform UI framework for .NET developers. The highlight of the new release is the extended support for Linux, built using a Skia-based backend. Other relevant features include new controls (such as W…

A Spectre is Haunting Unicode

In 1978 Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry established the encoding that would later be known as JIS X 0208, which still serves as an important reference for all Japanese encodings. However, after the JIS standard was released people noticed somet…

WinXP - Windows XP in React

Windows XP in React and Hooks! Try Minesweeper, Internet Explorer, Notepad in your browser!

Exploring Ubuntu Desktop on the Raspberry PI

With the release of Ubuntu Desktop 20.10 being available for the Raspberry PI this week I thought I'd take it out for a spin on one of the R...