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2025

Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 2original ↗
11 Nov 2025
Reflections on My Tech Career – Part 1original ↗
22 Oct 2025
Finding a VS Code Memory Leakoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2025
Acronis True Image Costs Performance When Not Usedoriginal ↗
26 May 2025
Google Maps Doesn’t Know How Street Addresses Workoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2025
What this blog is aboutoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2025
Find me on bskyoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2025

2024

Life, death, and retirementoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2024

2023

Localization Failure: Temperature is Hardoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2023
32 MiB Working Sets on a 64 GiB machineoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2023
When Debug Symbols Get Largeoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2023
No Start Menu for Youoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2023

2022

Compiler Tricks to Avoid ABI-Induced Crashesoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2022
Please Restore Our Registers When You’re Done With Themoriginal ↗
22 Nov 2022
Why Modern Software is Slow–Windows Voice Recorderoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2022
Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelismoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2022
11 mm in 1.25 nanosecondsoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2022
Determinism Bugs, Part Two, Kernel32.dlloriginal ↗
6 Jan 2022
Two Deterministic Build Bugsoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2022

2021

Windows Performance Analyzer, From Store or SDKoriginal ↗
12 Nov 2021
Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and othersoriginal ↗
26 Jul 2021
Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Timeoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2021
Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Changeoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2021
Ditching WhatsApporiginal ↗
29 Jan 2021

2020

ARM and Lock-Free Programmingoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2020
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 3: When x+y=x (y != 0)original ↗
19 Oct 2020
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 2: Bad Epsilonoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2020
Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Changeoriginal ↗
5 Oct 2020
Floating Point in the Browser, Part 1: Impossible Expectationsoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2020
The Easy Ones – Three Bugs Hiding in the Openoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2020
GDI leaks and the importance of luckoriginal ↗
11 May 2020
What Outranks Thread Priority?original ↗
15 Apr 2020
Big Project Build Times–Chromiumoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2020
Creating a Public Symbol Server, Easilyoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2020
Bulk ETW Trace Analysis in C#original ↗
6 Jan 2020

2019

O(n^2), again, now in WMIoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2019
Heap Snapshots–Tracing All Heap Allocationsoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2019
63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructionsoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2019
We Need a Carbon Tax, Now, That Goes Up Over Timeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2019
Taskbar Latency and Kernel Callsoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2019