Rumors say Windows 12 will be subscription based and "AI focused". If true then I'll switch to Linux instantly - and I guess I'm not the only one.

With AI, I'm about as fast as without 🤷: Currently writing a C++ app and compared the speed, on average for small tasks: Without AI manually: 10 min With AI: 11 min [prompt (2 min) - agent runs (3 min) - review code (2 min) - let it fix the bugs, then I clean up (4-6 min)]

The ridiculous amount of steps to buy and play Minecraft: • create Microsoft account • buy game in Windows store • download mincecraft launcher • create xbox account • update minecraft launcher • create minecraft profile • download and install minecraft

Just released the website builder RocketCake in version 7.1 with multiple HTML file import, improved CSS code generation and lots of improvements for macOS Tahoe. That last one was quite some work where I prefer not to speak more about (debugging trauma) 😁

Windows updates which broke my app in 20 years: 1 MacOs updates which broke my app: Nearly every. Single. One.

Good news: RocketCake 7.0 website builder just released! New features include support for CSS animations, HTML Import, table pasting, simple shopping cart component, and a lot more! Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/

What happens internally in a browser when it takes a text from some HTML code to show it on the screen is insane. Even whitespace is surprisingly complex. Re-Implementing these algorithms is quite an eye opener.

RocketCake 6.4 available now: iPhone 17 support, global css file support, new free website templates, HTML5 video subtitle support, ftp enhancements, and a lot more: ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev #webdesign

What year is this

Just uploaded CopperCube Game Engine version 6.7.2 Small update, small improvements: www.ambiera.com/coppercube/

Vibe coding is getting out of hand: In this thread some clueless dev is vibe coding a credit card payment processing system and discards all points by redditors telling him to stop right now. Read the horror yourself here: www.reddit.com/r/webdev/com...

RocketCake 6.3 just released: Improved HTML / CSS / JavaScript code generation, swipe support for slideshows and carousels, right side option for side bar menu, and a lot more. Get it here: ambiera.com/rocketcake/

You are an old^H^H^H experienced developer when you reinstall all your daily dev tools and realize the majority of them are still hosted on sourceforge instead of github.

I can't believe I had to waste development time to implement this today. Hope the text isn't too harsh - what do you think?

So, reading through the UK's OSA (online saftey act) - and running a small discussion forum - it seems like the only way to continue safely is to just close it for all users from the UK. It's a shame, but what are the alternatives?

Just had an enlightening chat with a google support person. Which is a sentence surprising in itself (they have support people now?) A feature which I was using stopped working a week ago. Support person made me look if I had the settings set correctly. The settings also weren't existing anymore.

Good news! RocketCake 6.2 is available now - it's a free update. Includes a global website color picker tool, improved upload speed, new font family stacks, new free website templates. Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev #webdesign

Adding a lib to a C++ project can take hours or days. Everyone uses different or no package managers, build systems, compilers and language versions. It's so frustrating. Not sure why solving this and putting all this into the standard isn't #1 priority since years.

Good news! Rocketcake 6.1 just released - free website builder. New: modern fullscreen mobile menu, accordion component, and a lot more. Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/ #webdev

When I started with HTML, we had a these 9 units. Today we have 42: px % em ex cm mm in pt pc vh vw rem vmin vmax lvh lvw swh svw svb svi dvh dvw dvb dvi dvmin dvmax Q cqw cqh cqi cqb cqmin cqmax ch rch lh rlh cap rcap ic ric rex Did we create a monster?

UBlock origin is no longer supported. "Chrome recommends removing it." I recommend removing Chrome.

After a month of testing I now phased out Outlook and using an alternative email client for business mails. Much happier now. Not sure who at Microsoft is thinking this 'new' Outlook disaster is a good idea.

Most dangerous JavaScript API pitfall IMO: String::replace() only replaces the first occurrence, *unless* you provide a regex instead of a string as pattern - then it replaces all. String::replaceAll() fixes this, but is only available since ECMAScript 2021

Just learned that it's just a few lines of JavaScript to make a HTML table interactive and sortable using the table.rows property - really nice. So I did this for the webstatistics component - the recent visitors table is now sortable:

Good news: RocketCake, the website builder has just been released in version 6.0! Includes shape dividers, built-in visitor analytics, accessibility features, new free templates and a lot more. Get it here: www.ambiera.com/rocketcake/

Took a brave step and installed Windows 24H2. Clicking on "new email" notifications by Outlook stopped working. Not bad but annoying, infuriating after 2 days of work. Tons of people are complaining about this. How could MS's QA oversee this? Aren't they using Outlook?

Look what lengths I go through to ensure maximum compatibility:

Already got two requests this year from companies wanting me to fix their systems. Which were built partially by AI (and apparently no one understands the code). So much for AI taking away our jobs.

To celebrate the new year, most of my software is 40% off for a few days: • RocketCake 5 responsive website editor • CopperCube 6 game engine • MindArchitect 2 mind map editor • DiagramPainter 2 diagram editor • and more Get it here: www.ambiera.com/discounts.html Happy new year!

I created a harmless C# .exe which just plays a sound and uploaded it to virustotal let it check if it contains a virus: 7 out of 72 virus scanners flagged it as malicious (!) That says more about the broken state of the security industry than it does about my file.

OMG, Ms Paint now supports generative delete! Mark any object in a picture, press the button and the object is removed (= overdrawn with a generated fitting background) Awesome!

Google has become completely useless now - searching for one of my (more than 10 year old) software only finds pages referring to it and even linking to it, but google doesn't list the website of the software itself as top result anymore.

It's such a small feature but improves productivity a lot. Don't know why I haven't added this before - but it will be included in the next update - context menu for closing tabs:

So.. how is macOS on a M4, especially XCode 16 working for you? I have mixed feelings - clang itself crashes frequently for me :(

Looks quite familiar here. Still nice.