Computers & Programming

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…

I had to write code to show a variable-sized set of images in a view. Each mage fades in then shows for another 5 seconds before the next image fades in. I found some code at Stack Overflow that was partially complete and hinted at a way to…

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…