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How to Call Windows Native APIs in Electron

How to Call Windows Native APIs in Electron Calling Windows native APIs in an Electron app feels like wanting to see the ocean but only having a map. …

О, сколько нам открытий чудных готовит COM STA-дедлок

Мне сложно судить о практической ценности данного статьи, поскольку я уже весьма далек от .NET-разработки прикладных приложений, статья написана больш…

Putting your live windows on an infinite canvas: the "park & swap" trick (C++ / WGC / D3D11)

The problem Alt-tab and multiple monitors are how we've juggled windows for 30 years. I wanted something spatial: zoom out, see every window at once; …

the same test passed in CI and failed on my laptop, and the code was identical

i maintain a powershell script that strips a pile of telemetry and bloat services off a fresh windows install. the feature people actually care about …

The joy of coding a command line english dictionary program in dotnet

In today's globally connected digital village, we often come across words and syllables which are quite new to us. Most folks hardly take the trouble …

MXC Internals: How Microsoft's eXecution Containers Actually Isolate Agent Code

My Claude Code hook silently ate every Korean character, and it took me an hour to figure out why

I spent an hour last week debugging a hook that wasn't broken. Here's the setup: I run Claude Code on Windows, and I'd written a little UserPromptSubm…

Why I built a native libmpv IPTV player for Windows — an HDR tone-mapping deep-dive

Up front, so there's no confusion: the app I'm describing (Nightmare TV) is a player only . You bring your own M3U / Xtream Codes playlist — it ships …

Why Windows Still Can't Open HEIC Files in 2026 (And What Actually Works)

The scenario is familiar: someone takes a photo on an iPhone, sends it to you over email or WhatsApp. You try to open it on Windows — a warning appear…

Deep Inside the COM: Hunting the COM Global Interface Table (GIT)

If you've worked with classic Windows COM for any decent amount of time, you've almost certainly run into this frustrating reality: an interface point…

WSL containers, Coreutils for Windows, and agents

Microsoft CEO: We’re moving from OS and apps to agents instead

ILO Self-Test Error: Диагностика и реанимация встроенной NAND-памяти в серверах HPE ProLiant Gen8/Gen9

Всех приветствую! это будет самый первый пост и его я решил посвятить следующий теме ILO Self‑Test Error, как диагностировать, в чем проблем…

Reset — прохождение сложной машины от Tryhackme

Годная машина на тему Windows AD, Kerberos. В начале разведки получаем доступ к гостевой шаре. Оттуда достаем файл с паролем, но не знаем от какой уче…

PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found

PowerShell 7 Taking 30+ Seconds to Open After Windows Update — Root Cause Found A deep-dive diagnostic that led to an unexpected culprit: a corrupted …

TinyLoad v6 — split opcode tables, encrypted dispatch, and control flow flattening

TinyLoad v6 is out. if you haven't seen it before — it's a PE packer for Windows. one .cpp file, no dependencies, MIT. repo here . v5 hardened the stu…

I built a Windows optimizer that refuses to run if Outlook is open

I wrote a PowerShell script that hardens and tunes Windows 10/11. Pretty standard stuff. Disables telemetry, kills bloatware, tweaks the registry for …

UpdateBlockerProTray: A Lightweight, Stable Windows Update Blocker That Actually Works

I built a small utility to solve one of the most annoying Windows issues. I've always been frustrated by Windows Update automatically re-enabling itse…

Docker Desktop Won't Start After a BIOS Update? Check This First

I spent way too long troubleshooting this. Reinstalled Docker Desktop multiple times, wiped config folders, checked WSL, verified Hyper-V — nothing wo…

Deep inside the COM: Reading Windows ROT Without Asking Permission. Detective story

This is Part 4 of the "Inside the Running Object Table" series. Parts 1-3 covered the public COM API and rpcss internals. This one is about going furt…

Auditing Windows security from a Python script, no pip install needed

I had a problem. I wanted a Windows security audit script I could drop on any machine, run as admin, and walk away with a readable report. Just a sing…

Stop Typing Your Slack Messages — Use Your Voice Instead (Windows)

I type fast. Around 90 WPM on a good day. But even at that speed, I am constantly falling behind in Slack. Slack is a different kind of typing. It is …

KESTREL: AD enumeration that doesn't announce itself

The tooling problem is embarrassing Everyone in AD security uses BloodHound. It's good at what it does, attack paths, delegation chains, ACL edges. No…

Govorun PC: переносим офлайн-диктовку с Android на Windows за один вечер (с Claude)

На Android у меня живёт  Govorun Lite  — офлайн-диктовка на русском. Нажал кнопку, сказал, текст вставился. Никаких облаков, никакой отправк…