#old code

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As I promised on my main blog, here is the Spirit Society Gin outfit~! This is my old creator code, since I have reset my island, so all of my newer designs will have a different creator code~!  !!Do not reupload my designs or images without permission, do not remove description!!

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Plugin Review: Plugin/Theme Information Embed By Lee Willis

Plugin Review: Plugin/Theme Information Embed By Lee Willis

I stumbled upon this plugin while looking for something else. From the description, it looked like a good fit for my review process. Real-time information about a plugin or theme as part of a proper oEmbed. Nice. I was soon to discover that when this plugin was released it was, quite likely, pretty darn good. As long as you used the .org address without a language subdomain prefix, it would…

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Arghhh, my heart 💔

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A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now

The millennium bug is back with a vengeance, after programmers in the 1990s simply pushed the problem back by 20 years

Programmers wanting to avoid the Y2K bug had two broad options: entirely rewrite their code, or adopt a quick fix called “windowing”, which would treat all dates from 00 to 20, as from the 2000s, rather than the 1900s. An estimated 80 per cent of computers fixed in 1999 used the quicker, cheaper option.

“Windowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,” says Dylan Mulvin at the London School of Economics.

Coders chose 1920 to 2020 as the standard window because of the significance of the midpoint, 1970. “Many programming languages and systems handle dates and times as seconds from 1970/01/01, also called Unix time,” says Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, an engineer at cloud platform provider Fastly.

Unix is a widely used operating system in a variety of industries, and this “epoch time” is seen as a standard.

The theory was that these windowed systems would be outmoded by the time 2020 arrived, but many are still hanging on and in some cases the issue had been forgotten.

“Fixing bugs in old legacy systems is a nightmare: it’s spaghetti and nobody who wrote it is still around,” says Paul Lomax, who handled the Y2K bug for Vodafone. “Clearly they assumed their systems would be long out of use by 2020. Much as those in the 60s didn’t think their code would still be around in the year 2000.”

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Old code

Am I the only one to look at old code and think, “what the hell does this do exactly and why in God’s name does it even work?”

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Old C++ Code

I was inspired by a recent post by Brent Simmons to write about some ancient C++ code I wrote back in the min-90’s. At that time I was just learning to develop Windows applications in C and C++ was just starting to get some traction, no unlike Swift in the Mac and iOS community today. When you created a Windows application you’d have to write a WindowProc (Windows Procedure) that would process…

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