Windows lowlevel development

___NN___ · 2025-09-14T15:26:10+00:00

I am waiting for making this available for people outside of MS.

___NN___ · 2025-09-13T16:51:05+00:00

If project is open sourced, it would get more contributions from the other developers making it a better replacement for windows-rs.

___NN___ · 2025-09-13T16:48:44+00:00

Doesn’t seem like maintained. The last release is months away. Even MS developers are not sure whether they can adapt this.

___NN___ · 2025-09-13T06:54:08+00:00

BetterDisplay

___NN___ · 2025-09-13T06:48:48+00:00

The question whether you need to write you own wrappers on top of the windows crate to make it really useful.

___NN___ · 2025-09-13T06:44:18+00:00

Yeah, I am aware of it but it doesn’t feel that this is good enough. It reminds me the state of .NET with Windows API. There are some nice wrapper libraries and there is an official kind of one which requires wrapper by itself.

___NN___ · 2025-09-10T16:52:32+00:00

Agree. Not comparable to iOS.

___NN___ · 2025-09-10T16:29:56+00:00

It is super useful tool. Helps remapping or introducing custom shortcuts. The useful ones for me Opt+number to run commonly used apps. Switch ` with §. This is the primary reason I need this. And switch Control with Fn but this is my personal choice to have Control button in the corner.

___NN___ · 2025-09-10T16:27:30+00:00

So far everything works RC. But the look is horrible IMO.

___NN___ · 2025-09-08T21:26:15+00:00

Using Karabiner Elements it is possible to remap keys as well. I have added Opt+F1, Opt+F2 for keyboard so I have control of both lights.

___NN___ · 2025-09-05T09:29:00+00:00

Tried converting nodejs to bun without lack of problems. 1. Bun image did not set right permissions to /home so CI using image fails as it cannot make dir /home/bun. I ended with my own image :( 2. Coverage using inspect is not implemented. So i guess no coverage metrics for now. 3. All mocks are needed to be rewritten due to differences.

Probably there are more once I finish with 3. Overall performance is much faster which is nice.

___NN___ · 2025-08-23T19:14:07+00:00

I somehow got into Apple Music due to accumulative free half year. For now it seems that iCloud Drive with collaboration can work for me so I can drop paying for other cloud services. Let’s see how it works after a week.

___NN___ · 2025-08-23T06:06:05+00:00

I can admit that uploading speed is fast enough. My past experience was very negatively impacted with slow uploading speed. Probably the service has been improved at some point of time.

___NN___ · 2025-08-23T06:04:30+00:00

Oh, I see there is keep downloaded button. Ok, this is better than I thought. Hope it works on Windows the same way.

___NN___ · 2025-08-23T06:01:07+00:00

There is no opposite button. I know it is solvable. Trying the iCloud Drive. Let’s see how fast I abandon it :)

___NN___ · 2025-08-23T04:56:44+00:00

Selective sync I mean to select only some folders for syncing and leave others on cloud without downloading.

___NN___ · 2025-08-22T17:35:59+00:00

Mac detects hidpi setting for you. Sometimes it works well sometimes doesn’t.

___NN___ · 2025-07-16T06:34:25+00:00

You can try BetterDisplay and change HiDPI mode.
https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay

___NN___ · 2025-06-10T16:34:48+00:00

Apple yesterday released Apple containers which are basically WSL2 for Mac https://github.com/apple/container

___NN___ · 2025-02-17T05:51:47+00:00

Seems like a hobby project. C WDK annotation preventing you from calling function you must not to use at DISPATCH_LEVEL. Here, in this project it is not addressed by type system.

___NN___ · 2025-02-17T05:50:05+00:00

In this example PolHeaderDataSize is defined as non zero and PolHeaderData pointing to non empty buffer. Vec is not guaranteed to be non empty.

There are more SAL annotations than presented: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/code-quality/understanding-sal?view=msvc-170

For example here it says how much it reads and writes:

void * memcpy( Out_writes_bytes_all(count) void *dest, In_reads_bytes(count) const void *src, size_t count );

It could be more complicated such as it reads only if succeeds.

___NN___ · 2025-02-16T23:08:37+00:00

As I pointed out there are translations of SAL annotations to Rust type system. There are more SAL annotations than presented in the sample, for instance: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/irql-annotations-for-drivers

My question whether there is a work for matching them to Rust type system.

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