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Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared

Direct Win32 API, Weird-Shaped Windows, and Why They Mostly Disappeared

πŸš€ Discover this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: I’m fed up with generic looking apps. Today, all Windows desktop apps look the same as they are the same; they are all built on crap React, Electron, electronbun, and Tauri browser wrappers that mimic the real Desktop apps. They run slow, take a shit load of memory, basically bloatware. Notepad is a freaking basic NOTE taking app, not a Word replacement, calculator is a calculator, not a NASA moon mission planner. Somewhere along the way, Microsoft has lost the plot. It’s like they have…
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Gush Review – Jessica Hardwick is great as a mother navigating a whirlpool of emotions | stage

Gush Review – Jessica Hardwick is great as a mother navigating a whirlpool of emotions | stage

✨ Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Parents and parenting,Traverse theatre βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: THere are some of the more profound life transitions of becoming a parent. Going out late at night and lying down for a long time. Responsibility comes. It's an experience that requires redefining, transforming you from a caregiver to a caregiver, from a solo player to a team leader. Even when He approaches you, you know He will change you.This is the fixed point in the world of transformation that playwright Jess Brodie identifies: not birth, but the moment…
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β€˜Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking | Games

β€˜Seeking connection’: the video game where players stopped shooting and started talking | Games

πŸš€ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: The video game Arc Raiders is set in a lethal imagining of an apocalyptic future for humanity. Survivors have been forced to live deep underground in colonies while mysterious, murderous AI machines patrol the surface. Only the desolate ruins of former cities survive, and reckless human β€œraiders” take trips topside to conduct dangerous scavenging missions.For all the menace of these armed robots, called Arcs, the deadly droids are not the biggest threat in this hugely popular game, which was released late last year and has…
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Has the new Devil Wears Prada collection lost its flair?

Has the new Devil Wears Prada collection lost its flair?

πŸš€ Read this must-read post from BBC Culture πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: Wintour has cleverly positioned herself as someone enough to embrace a caricature of herself. Cartoons are likely to be kinder nowThis isn't the only publicity round for the film that has been made recently to blur the lines between actors and fictional characters, an approach that's fitting for this cultural and political moment, where fantasy and reality often seem similarly blurred. TimothΓ©e Chalamet's stunts for the Oscar-nominated film Marty Supreme, in which he played an arrogant opportunist, included a viral video in which he pretended…
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Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Imagine you don't know anything about programming, and you want learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there's a highly recommended set of books by Knute or something with a promising title, The Art of Computer Programming, so you buy them. Now imagine that it's more than just a poor choice, but that all the books on programming are at written at that level.That's the situation with books about writing compilers.It's not that they're bad books, they're just too broadly…
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‘I wanted my work to be shameless’: 93-year-old artist Joan Semel talks about her pioneering nude photographs | coloring

‘I wanted my work to be shameless’: 93-year-old artist Joan Semel talks about her pioneering nude photographs | coloring

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Painting,Art,New York,Museums,Art and design,Culture,Feminism πŸ’‘ **What You’ll Learn**: HeyOn a bright, sunny day in New York, light pours into the SoHo studio of 93-year-old painter Joan Simmel. She has lived in a ground-floor railroad apartment since 1970, working in a high-ceilinged room overlooking Spring Street, dominated by decades-old snake plants. A loft filled with canvases occupies one side of the carpeted room, while the other wall displays four recent paintings that will appear in her upcoming exhibition, Continuities, spread between Alexander Gray Associates locations in New York…
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Anna’s Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight * TorrentFreak

Anna’s Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight * TorrentFreak

✨ Explore this insightful post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: Anna’s Archive is generally known as a meta-search engine for shadow libraries, helping users find pirated books and other related resources. However, last December, the site announced that it had also backed up Spotify, which came as a shock to the music industry. Anna’s Archive initially released only Spotify metadata, and no actual music, but that put the music industry on high alert. Together with the likes of Universal, Warner, and Sony, Spotify filed a lawsuit days later, hoping to shut the site down. Through…
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Review of The Blue Trail – A hypnotic tale of elder rebellion in the Amazon in a chilling dystopian tale | film

Review of The Blue Trail – A hypnotic tale of elder rebellion in the Amazon in a chilling dystopian tale | film

✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: Film,Science fiction and fantasy films,Drama films,Brazil,Older people,Culture,Americas,Society,World news βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: gApril Mascaro's intriguing, wayward film is a kind of road movie, or perhaps river movieβ€”the Amazon, in fact, set in Brazil's remote northwest. It's a film that walks by the nose, wanders across land and water, and is beautifully shot with gorgeous visual compositions. There are sometimes uncanny similarities between Fitzcarraldo or The African Queen, but the cinematic allusions are not the point. This is a drama that seeks to transform and liberate its aging…
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steipete/wacli: WhatsApp CLI Β· GitHub

steipete/wacli: WhatsApp CLI Β· GitHub

πŸ’₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: πŸ“Œ **What You’ll Learn**: WhatsApp CLI built on top of whatsmeow, focused on: Best-effort local sync of message history + continuous capture Fast offline search Sending messages Contact + group management This is a third-party tool that uses the WhatsApp Web protocol via whatsmeow and is not affiliated with WhatsApp. Core implementation is in place. See docs/spec.md for the full design notes. Messages: search/list includes display text for reactions, replies, and media types. Send: wacli send file --filename to override the display name. Auth: optional WACLI_DEVICE_LABEL / WACLI_DEVICE_PLATFORM env…
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Does Vincent Kompany offer a glimpse into football after Pep Guardiola?

Does Vincent Kompany offer a glimpse into football after Pep Guardiola?

πŸ”₯ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ **Category**: βœ… **What You’ll Learn**: There have been concerns among fans this season that the game's top teams, facing stubborn man-to-man defensive schemes, are taking a less aggressive approach to attack.But Bayern under Kompany tend to take this risk, playing freely both on and off the field. They often dominate, and are a joy to watch – a style that involves all eleven players and starts right at the back.In the round of 16 of the Champions League, Bayern faced an Atalanta team that opted for man-marking across the pitch.…
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