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No I Won’t Pay Just to Fullscreen Your Game

Posted on December 16, 2025

bestcrosswords.com is my go-to online quick crosswords website. It hosts American-style 15x15 free-to-play puzzles at different difficulty levels. According to them, they’re “the largest supplier of free crossword puzzles on the web, publishing 15 grids daily from an archive of more 100,000”. That’s awesome! You know what’s not awesome? Asking... [Read More]
Tags:
- hacking
- web
Unanticipated Linux/XDG Development Issues

Some issues I shouldn't have had while making a really simple application, relating to Systemd, D-Bus, Inkscape, XDG specifications, GNOME documentation, and GLib/GTK+ behaviour.

Posted on December 1, 2025

This post contains a more-than-usual amount of links to documentation and code. I’ve tried to link to the versions that are current at the time of writing, and to the exact relevant location in the pages. [Read More]
Tags:
- linux
- gnome
- xdg
- opinion
Kvantum + Qt6 Tooltips Workaround

Posted on November 14, 2025

If you use Kvanutm to style your Qt6 apps, there’s a chance your tooltips look like this: [Read More]
Tags:
- hacking
- qt
- desktop
Getting Windows to Use VSCode File Icons

Modifying Windows [registry] to change its boring file icons to beautiful VSCode Seti icons. More complications than I signed up for.

Posted on February 19, 2023

If you’re reading this way in the future, please don’t skip the Retrospect section. [Read More]
Tags:
- windows
- vscode
- hacking
C#: Runtime Polymorphism with Compiler Support

Writing runtime-polymorphic code without dropping IntelliSense support. An interesting problem.

Posted on November 20, 2022

The other day I was working on DiscordIPC when I came across a problem that I found very interesting, an abridged version of which is presented in this article, along with its interesting solution. [Read More]
Tags:
- dev
- c#
- .net
- oop
Behind the Scenes: Doge

A deep dive into the making of Doge, and exploring behind the scenes.

Posted on July 4, 2022

Almost a year ago while playing a game and talking to someone on Discord, I saw the in-game overlay that Discord provides to its users. I had been using Discord for years by then, but only then did I realize how convenient it is. It shows people in your voice... [Read More]
Tags:
- dev
- doge
- discord
- dotnet
Simplifying Windows 10+ HiDPI and Scaling

Looking into blurry apps, DPI awareness, scaling, and fixing issues, but simply.

Posted on March 17, 2022

If you’re a Windows user and keep your display scaling at anything other than 100%, you’re probably familiar with this blur problem: [Read More]
Tags:
- windows
- gui
- easy

No I Won’t Pay Just to Fullscreen Your Game

Unanticipated Linux/XDG Development Issues

Some issues I shouldn't have had while making a really simple application, relating to Systemd, D-Bus, Inkscape, XDG specifications, GNOME documentation, and GLib/GTK+ behaviour.

Kvantum + Qt6 Tooltips Workaround

Getting Windows to Use VSCode File Icons

Modifying Windows [registry] to change its boring file icons to beautiful VSCode Seti icons. More complications than I signed up for.

C#: Runtime Polymorphism with Compiler Support

Writing runtime-polymorphic code without dropping IntelliSense support. An interesting problem.

Behind the Scenes: Doge

A deep dive into the making of Doge, and exploring behind the scenes.

Simplifying Windows 10+ HiDPI and Scaling

Looking into blurry apps, DPI awareness, scaling, and fixing issues, but simply.