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Computers & Programming

Computers & Programming

Parsing Strings with Multiple Delimiters in Swift

I have a specification at work that says my software needs to see a URL like this: https://blog.rectorsquid.com/derf?test={id}&test2={data} and then open the URL as if it were something like this: https://blog.rectorsquid.com/derf?test=12345&test2=hellothere I first wrote some code that would split the input using the open curly brace as a…

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Computers & Programming

Unmoving Windows 11 Taskbar

Windows 11 doesn’t let us place the taskbar on the side of the screen. Let’s count how much vertical space is taken up by things that are not the document that we are editing: title bar, tool bar, status bar, scroll bar, task bar, the measurement bar in…

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