Found first hiccup: LiveJournal cross-post plugin did not work on the new site. The error was somewhat misleading: something like ‘message from www.livejournal.com: malformed, unable to parse’. In fact it […]
Iran is all over the news these days, however this post is not about politics. On a photograph of a press conference in Tehran, I noticed something curious: the backdrop […]
Instability is bad, but letting me specify a combination of template parameters that cannot possilby work is much worse. In VS 2019 with dotnet core 3.0, I created an ASP.NET […]
Any programming language gives you plenty of opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot, and C# is probably not the worst, but I ran into an interesting example today. C# […]
Google had shut down Recaptcha v1 on March 31st, killing my feedback page in the process. I found out yesterday, fixed today. Pros: new captcha is much easier to use […]
Warning: this post is politically charged. Russia has just enacted a law that forbids dessimination of “untruthful information” over the Internet. The actual legal definition is very lengthy, but it […]
After a trip to Europe I ended up with a mix of US and Euro coins in my wallet. Sorting them out proved surprisingly easy: if you can quickly figure […]
I absolutely detest the “what number/letter/picture comes next” type of puzzles. They are typically based on catching the pattern that the author had in mind when creating the puzzle. Well, […]
In the last month or so I realized that I am having difficulty using GMail. I could not put my finger on it, until it hit me: look at the […]
After upgrading to a newer version of Unity, we found that our process began to fail with StackOverflowException. Investigation showed that it happened because the following registration behaves differently depending […]
