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VOTEShameless Plug: uArm Swift
Mason Wheeler
I just ran across this on IndieGoGo. Everyone remember the cute lab robots from the first Iron Man movie? Well, the people at uFactory are trying to actually build them. (More or less.) They’re building… … Read more
8 years ago in Personal
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Generic TObjectList layout has changed
Mason Wheeler
I ran across a really strange bug at work yesterday: Access Violation when performing a certain operation in the program. These are usually really simple. Easy to reproduce, and the debugger takes you right to… … Read more
8 years ago in Delphi
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I am officially sick of DVCS
Mason Wheeler
We use Mercurial at work. It’s nothing particularly new to me; I’ve been working with it ever since SDL, a major open-source graphics library that I’ve been using and contributing to for a long time… … Read more
9 years ago in Delphi, Thoughts
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Dear Idera, please Don’t Clutter Up our build process anymore
Mason Wheeler
I was compiling a new branch at work today, which used a different version of Delphi than the one I had been working on, and along the way I ran into tons of spurious File… … Read more
9 years ago in Delphi, Thoughts
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A new Industrial Revolution?
Mason Wheeler
I’ve written before about the history of steel, how it’s been around for millennia, but was of limited use to civilization as a whole until the details of its manufacture were published. It’s impossible to… … Read more
9 years ago in Thoughts
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What does the Google Code shutdown mean for other services?
Mason Wheeler
My brother lives in Provo, Utah, one of the few cities in the country fortunate enough to have Google Fiber service. And they are truly fortunate; he describes it as awesome and amazing, the kind… … Read more
10 years ago in Thoughts
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Beware of Format Injection
Mason Wheeler
So, first things first, I’ve moved on again. And it was quite a move, all the way across the country to the Philadelphia area, home of the Liberty Bell, the cheesesteak, and the baseball team… … Read more
10 years ago in Delphi
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Making people’s lives better… in 4 years.
Mason Wheeler
I don’t think anyone can argue that technology makes many aspects of our lives simpler and more convenient, but it often brings complications with it as well, as we all know. But every once in… … Read more
10 years ago in Thoughts
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Programming and (human) languages
Mason Wheeler
StackOverflow just announced that they’re opening up yet another foreign language version of SO, this one in Japanese. They’ve already done this in Portuguese, and now it appears they’re continuing on the same path. When… … Read more
10 years ago in StackOverflow, Thoughts
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Introducing DFMJSON, the DFM parser and scriptable bulk editor
Mason Wheeler
Yesterday at work, while tracking down a graphical glitch, I found that TPanel objects on many, many dialog boxes in our system (over 300 of them) had a certain property set incorrectly. There are basically… … Read more
10 years ago in Delphi, Scripting
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