Declaration of VAR

Players queue for Heroes of Might and Magic

It’s not like we at work don’t have things to do, but suddenly we decided to play Heroes of Might and Magic. So we created a virtual machine, installed the game and started a hot-seat game via RDP.

For notifying about next players turn we created a Slack channel. But soon enough it became annoying to announce next turns manually, so I created a simple web-application for that.

Barefaced phone scammers

I got a phone call the other day. The man on the other end told me (with a strong indian accent), that he is from “Computer Solutions” (or something). That already sounded fishy, but he also used my full name, which lowered my guard for a bit, so I did not hang up right away.

Right after “how are you” he said that according to their “systems” my computer is in danger, because, as they can “see”, there was some “hacking software” downloaded to my computer, and they will now help me to get rid of it.

Chunked upload to Twitter with C# / .NET Core

While images can be uploaded to Twitter in one request, uploading a video is a different story.

And although I’ve managed to implement it, I am not entirely happy with the result, and later you will see why is that.

DNB, communication and Face ID

Some more experience with norwegian bank DNB. In 2019.

In particular, about their implementation of Face ID, the way they do communication and other things.

Logstalgia, build for Windows

There is this amazing tool Logstalgia which visualizes web-server logs. Sadly, there were no new builds for Windows after the version 1.0.9, so I decided to make one with the latest version (1.1.2 at the moment).

I will describe the process and also publish pre-built binaries.

GLFW and Dear ImGui

Last time I tried SDL and Dear ImGui and that was quite interesting. So today I would like to explore a GLFW and Dear ImGui combo.

There will be also a silly SDL vs GLFW comparison.

Rectangle previews after recent Twitter redesign

Twitter got a new design, and that broke our pictures - these geniuses made rectangle previews for everything, even for square pictures.

Fortunately there is a kinda workaround - to post GIFs instead of images, because GIFs don’t get rectangle previews. Retarded problems - retarded solutions.

Yet another new set of Qt icons

Not that long ago Qt logo and other stuff got rebranded, and most of the Qt tools got new icons. But then some freshly hired demiurge from the design team apparently decided that those are just boring and came up with a new design, which in my arrogant opinion is basically a piece of shit:

Just what kind of designer would get an idea that this diagonally-mutilated two-color thingy (with all capital letters!) is better than the current nice and clean version? I reckon, a very creative and talented kind.

SDL and Dear ImGui, C++ GUI without Qt

Qt is certainly great, but there are other ways for creating cross-platform GUI, one of such ways being a combination of SDL and Dear ImGui.

While, in my opinion, it barely can compete with Qt (especially Qt Quick) in terms of beauty and fancy, it is nevertheless a simple, lightweight and quite powerful “framework”.

Visual Studio Code and CMake for Qt

After numerous promises of how Qbs will be the Qt’s default build system, The Qt Company suddenly killed it, announced that qmake is a dead man walking too, and actually Qt is switching to CMake.

So I guess we should start using CMake for building Qt applications as well. Let’s see then what it takes to switch from qmake to CMake with a couple of basic examples.

I also wanted to try Qt development with Visual Studio Code, and now is a good occasion for that.