Spastic Hamburger

Just got a note that GitHub is updating the VS version on the cloud to Visual Studio 2026. Shouldn’t affect things too much since the code is already C++20 compliant but we’ll find out once we get things building again.

On that note, I’m taking a bit of a break since I’ve been hard at it for months. In the meantime, if you want to take a look or…[Read more]

Yep, saw that! Haven’t had a chance to browse, though. Will definitely need to! 🙂

There have been some curation come up on Hacker News but I haven’t been making much note of the threads. There was one project that let you scroll through them like a roll of film 😛

Had some new recipes come in: http://www.godecookery.com/godeboke/godeboke.htm

Could be a lot of fun making dishes from a thousand years ago. May need to try some of them!

Had this come in: https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/labububot/overview/

Still have no intention of getting one but could be a lot of fun!

Sorry to hear that the fur-balls are having some issues. I know how that can be: my dog hurt her neck last year and that wasn’t fun 🙁 She’s fully recovered now 🙂

Yep, we also had Mothers’ Day yesterday. 🙂

Finally getting some rain over here, which is nice. Hopefully it continues to rain off and on for a while. We’ve got several bodies of…[Read more]

On May 6, 2026 at 6:54 pm Spastic Hamburger said
I suspect winuser.h needs to go before afxwin.h but I need to take some time to study the logs some more.

Turns out that wasn’t the issue. Still getting the same error:
C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio2022EnterpriseVCToolsMSVC14.44.35207atlmfcincludeafxwin4.inl(154,11): error C2039:…[Read more]

Got tired of the bugs and missing features in COSMIC so I switched to Cinnamon. In the past, I’ve always used XFCE or gone piecemeal but many packages I like of the latter are no longer maintained. I don’t know, I just felt like using Cinnamon right now.

It currently uses X11 so we’ll see if I have similar issues when it switches to Wayland.

Not…[Read more]

We’re getting some errors regarding UpdateLayeredWindow even though we don’t use it in the project. I suspect it’s another missing include somewhere upstream that’s resolved in windows.h so it’ll take me time to figure out which file(s) in MWEdit need the header that defines it.

So far, here are the files in the Windows API that we’ve discovered…[Read more]

So it turns out that MSVC doesn’t like it when I try to use bool instead of BOOL for MFC stuff, which is annoying. Looks like they never updated the type to C99 or modern C++. Blech:
D:aMWEditMWEdituiload_dlg.h(69,15): error C2555: 'CEsmLoadDlg::OnInitDialog': overriding virtual function return type differs and is not covariant from…[Read more]

Turns out it’s an issue with how COSMIC does compositing: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Input_grabbing_in_games,_remote_desktop_and_virtual_machine_windows

So basically, I can either drop PopOS, drop COSMIC, or wait for them to fix things.

Workers and Resources is great! Highly recommend it if you like realistic city builders…[Read more]

The Witcher launches in fullscreen and I can choose the resolution from the in-game menu. It’s currently set to 4k, which is the monitor’s native resolution.

Haven’t used either one myself but I do see them recommended in the OSS circles. 🙂

Yeah, I see E-61 machines mentioned a lot but the decent ones seem to start at around 2,000 USD with new La Marzocco units going for around 6,000 USD. That’s a lot just to get a cup of coffee! 😛

Yep, will make a note of it for if I get over there! 🙂

Hard to treat them here due to how wet things usually are. They just come right back a few…[Read more]

So the flickering hasn’t come back so I’ll open a bug report when I get the chance. 60 Hz is fine, would just be nice to have 144 Hz as an option is all since my monitor supports it 🙂

The Witcher now works again, still trying to figure out what’s wrong with Workers and Resources. It seems stuck in windowed mode, which could be the issue, with…[Read more]

We’ll want to update the build files to tell MSVC not to enable warnings for system header files. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/external-external-headers-diagnostics?view=msvc-170

GCC and CLang handle this better and don’t issue them for system headers by default.

I also need to update the build files to mark some…[Read more]

Working on the clean up. Several things are being caught so I’m fixing the stuff I missed. Some of the newer 64-bit functions are different so I’ve updated the variables for those as well. I’ve temporarily used unsigned long long but we’ll want to switch to std::uint64_t once we update the formatting strings, which will need to be done all at once…[Read more]

Looks like I may have figured out my screen flickering bug that activates on session lock: only happens when the monitor is set to 144 Hz so it looks like a bug in the compositor. Will open a ticket when I get the opportunity now that I know what’s causing it. I set the refresh rate to 60 Hz yesterday and, today, the flickering never materialized.…[Read more]

Okay, finished up reviewing the files for circular dependencies. I’ll get it committed and uploaded in a day or so, resolve anything I missed, and hopefully things will start building again. We’ll find out

Got a ceramic teapot I picked up but I mostly make single cup tea. And usually without milk and sugar. Looks like the standard includes some mentions of others according to Wiki but not sure about how extensive it is. The standard costs roughly 85 USD, which seems expensive just to get instructions on how to properly make tea 😛

In a similar…[Read more]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103

Ah, tea.

Got to love nature. 🙂

And, over in Romania, there’s a park built in a grotto.

Cool! No price listed at all so likely expensive 😛

Yanko posts some cool stuff. Their articles come up every now and then over here 🙂