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With sufficiently poor luck you might have already noticed The New Thing in the latest Discord update: Home/End keys now navigate to the start/end of the current paragraph instead of a line.
This is a tiny post about fixing that.
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Making a binary brush in Procreate
Running GM2024.11+ games on Windows 7
If you try to run a game compiled in GameMaker≥2024.11 on Windows 7, you'll be met with the following error message:
![An error message reads [originally in Spanish]: The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll](/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/mfplat_error.png)
Or, in English,
The procedure entry point MFCreateDXGIDeviceManager could not be located in the dynamic link library MFPlat.dll.And that is an inconvenience, but it is a fixable one. Continue reading
screen_redraw in GameMaker: Studio
(mouseover/click to play GIF)
Featuring more tricks that you probably haven't heard about, and not just for old GameMaker versions!
Continue readingTaking desktop screenshots in Electron v35
This is a small post about how to use electron.desktopCapturer to capture a screenshot
in the new realities of main/renderer process separation.
GameMaker: Custom pseudorandom number generators!
I wrote a bunch of PRNGs for GameMaker!
This is a large-ish post about what these are, how they work, when you might want to use them, and performance comparisons.
Continue readingGrid-based spirals
Good for placing objects around a grid cell! Like this:
(click to interact)Click/tap to select point
You give the function a grid XY and it tells you where the next point should be to have it go in a spiral.
Continue readingGameMaker: Radial health/progress bars
This is a post about turning this
into this:
(click to interact)Click/drag to adjust %
Continue readingGiving Vivaldi a frame on KDE
Default appearance and after tweaking
Lately I've been setting up some software in Steam Deck's desktop mode and I couldn't help but to notice that some applications (like Vivaldi or Obsidian) don't quite fit with the rest of the windows.
Continue readingAdding exceptions to “session-only” cookies in Vivaldi
As in, to have the browser clear cookies on exit except for specific websites.
In a way this is also for myself as once in a while I look for the setting in a wrong place and a handful of outdated forum posts aren't helping.
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