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January 2023 (continued)

  1. An unexpected DPI-scaling failure

    Recently, I printed this colour chart using X-Rite’s i1Profiler calibration software: I was creating some calibrated ICC profiles for my printer for the first…

December 2022

  1. The oddness of the BBC Weather scroll bar

    I often would find myself confused by the scroll bar underneath the days in the forecast on the BBC Weather website. Sometimes it would look like the days were…

September 2022

  1. Print Rewards: Unscrupulous behaviour by Canon

    Canon Europe has (or had) a printer rewards scheme called Print Rewards, where you earn points for printing and replacing ink cartridges. Those points can…

April 2022

  1. A message from my bank

    I recently tried to move money between two accounts held with the same business bank. I did everything as I usually would, using the relevant mobile…

December 2021

  1. The ten-month-old SSD that ate my data

    I recently noticed that the audio player I use, foobar2000, was refusing to play a certain song in my media library. It complained that the file was corrupt.…

November 2021

  1. Seaford to Eastbourne: a long walk

    I had some free time in mid-September, so decided to go on what seemed like the most picturesque hike that was relatively close to home. I jumped on a train to…

  1. The (unsolved) mystery of the self-terminating applications

    For several months, I’ve been troubled by an odd phenomenon when using Visual Studio. Its first occurrence was several months ago, when I was using Visual…

October 2021

  1. The case of the self-installing Google Drive client

    Yesterday morning, I was greeted by this after logging into my Windows PC: Google Drive was asking me to sign in. This was the fourth time this had happened in…

March 2021

  1. Official Asus XG-C100C firmware update available

    I’ve had the Asus XG-C100C 10Gbps Ethernet card for a while but only really started making use of networking speeds faster than 1Gbps when I recently bought a…

  1. The mystery of the slow downloads folder

    I keep my downloads folder sorted by date, with the most recent downloads first. However, recently, I had been having a problem where Windows Explorer…

August 2020

  1. The freezing Dell U2720Q monitor

    I recently bought a Dell U2720Q 4k monitor. However, I had a curious problem: when using my desktop PC, the monitor would occasionally lock up. The screen would…

April 2020

  1. A winter hike

    I’d known hail to be a momentary phenomenon. This hail, however, was fierce, and didn’t seem to be in any rush to go away. It was late February and I was at…

October 2019

  1. A short time with a Pixel 4

    I pre-ordered a Pixel 4 (the non-XL model), intended as an upgrade from a Pixel 2. I received it last week – and sent it back a few days later, having not…

  1. The slow programs and my sound drivers

    I recently noticed that some programs on my Windows PC were taking a long time to start. I knew, for example, foobar2000 should start instantly. And yet, it was…

  1. The history of a website: musicmusic’s (foobar2000) stuff

    musicmusic’s foobar2000 stuff first appeared in 2003, as a website to host components I had written for the foobar2000 audio player. Hosted on free web host…

March 2019

  1. A bit of trouble with TreeView_GetItemState

    Recently, I had a bit of trouble with TreeView_GetItemState [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/desktop/api/Commctrl/nf-commctrl-treeview_getitemstate] …

August 2018

  1. __init_subclass__ – a simpler way to implement class registries in Python

    I overlooked that fact that Python 3.6 added a new class method to object…

June 2018

  1. A day with CSV files and Excel

    I recently tried to open a CSV file in Excel and was greeted with the mysterious error, 'The file format and extension of test.csv don't match...', followed by 'Excel has detected that test.csv is a SYLK file...'

March 2018

  1. The mystery of the Windows 10 message box icons

    I noticed that, in Columns UI, the Windows 10 standard error icon as displayed by…

  1. The beauty of a fold

    I previously wrote [https://blog.yuo.be/2016/05/11/columns-ui-can-now-be-compiled-using-clang/] about how the following: console::formatter() << "some text" <<…