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Because cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than building natively

I want Microsoft to do better, want Windows to be a decent development platform-and yet, I constantly see Microsoft playing the open source game: advertising how open-source and developer friendly they are - only to crush developers under the heel of the corporate behemoth's boot.

The people who work at Microsoft are amazing, kind, talented individuals. This is aimed at the company's leadership, who I feel has on many occassions crushed myself and other developers under. It's a plea for help.

The source of truth for the 'open source' C#, C++, Rust, and other Windows SDKs is proprietary

You probably haven't heard of it before, but if you've ever used win32 API bindings in C#, C++, Rust, or other languages, odds are they were generated from a repository called microsoft/win32metadata.

Guide: Run FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64 in QEMU on Apple Silicon Mac (MacBook Pro M1, etc) with HVF acceleration (Hypervisor.framework)

This guide was adapted from https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278#running-ubuntu-server-for-arm64

Running FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE for ARM64

Install Xcode from App Store or install Command Line Tools on your Mac running on Apple Silicon.

So you want to modify the text of a PDF by hand...

If you, like me, resent every dollar spent on commercial PDF tools, you might want to know how to change the text content of a PDF without having to pay for Adobe Acrobat or another PDF tool. I didn't see an obvious open-source tool that lets you dig into PDF internals, but I did discover a few useful facts about how PDFs are structured that I think may prove useful to others (or myself) in the future. They are recorded here. They are surely not universally applicable --
the PDF standard is truly Byzantine -- but they worked for my case.

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

	<?php
	/*
	A simple PHP class to perform basic operations against Amazon S3 and compatible
	services. Requires modern PHP (7+, probably) with curl, dom, and iconv modules.

	Copyright 2022 Marco Arment. Released under the MIT license:

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights

	import SwiftUI
	import Charts
	import Combine
	import Foundation

	final class GameState: ObservableObject {
	struct Player {
	var position: Int
	var halfSize: Int = 150

	// swift-tools-version:5.3
	import PackageDescription
	let package = Package(
	name: "countdown-solver",
	products: [
	.executable(name: "countdown-solver", targets: ["countdown-solver"]),
	],
	dependencies: [
	.package(url: "https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-parser", from: "0.3.0"),
	],

	import SwiftUI
	import PlaygroundSupport

	struct Screen: View {
	var body: some View {
	TabView {
	InstagramHome().tabItem {
	Image(systemName: "house.fill")
	}
	Text("Instagram").tabItem {

	import SwiftUI

	struct ContentView: View {
	var body: some View {
	HStack {
	Text("Hello")
	.padding()
	.background(.blue)
	.overlay {
	Color.yellow

	// macOS x86_64 syscall works as follows:
	// Syscall id is moved into rax
	// 1st argument is moved into rdi
	// 2nd argument is moved into rsi
	// 3rd argument is moved into rdx
	// ... plus some more
	// Return value is stored in rax (where we put syscall value)

	// Mac syscall enum that contains the value to correctly call it
	enum Syscall: Int {