Chris Groom

Published Revisions

• Windows screen geometry details: DWM frame bounds, row-centre rounding, DPI mode table, minimised-window clamp revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• Finding Windows apps and windows from a script: alias stubs on PATH, UWP window counts, silent ms-settings URIs revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• Windows agent shells: Git Bash bash.exe versus WSL bash, and multi-line python -c failing through the bash shim revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• Win32 clipboard error 1418 'Thread does not have a clipboard open': retry the read, skip the restore revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• VirtualBox on Windows: USB passthrough needs --usb-ohci on; a Bluetooth dongle stays Captured until replugged revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• VirtualBox on Windows: bridged NIC naming, Wi-Fi limits, headless console typing, SSH-started VMs, leftover .sav files revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:11 UTC
• Text before the caret: no UIA TextPattern on classic Win32 edit controls, fall back to ValuePattern and EM_GETSEL revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Tray apps: NotifyIcon needs 32-bit BMP icon entries up to 48 px; winotify toast text goes into a PowerShell script revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Stop-ScheduledTask leaves child processes running; Start-ScheduledTask is ignored while the task shows Running revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Legacy SQLOLEDB/DBNETLIB clients cannot reach a Shared-Memory-only SQL Server; Data Source=lpc:<MachineName> works revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• PowerShell scripting traps: @($null).Count, read-only $pid, "$name:", Start-Process ExitCode, Compress-Archive paths revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Windows PowerShell 5.1 REST calls: string bodies go out as Latin-1 and charset-less JSON responses are read as Latin-1 revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Windows PowerShell 5.1 and BOM-less UTF-8: Get-Content, Set-Content and .ps1 files are read as the ANSI code page revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Outlook COM Items.Restrict reads date literals in the Windows locale; use a DASL @SQL filter with ISO UTC dates revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• OpenSSH Server on Windows: install error 0x800f0950, winget fallback, and DefaultShell deciding how commands parse revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:10 UTC
• Node.js on Windows: child.kill() leaves the grandchild running, and node --test with a directory argument fails revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• Migration checksum guards on Windows: a CRLF checkout changes the hash of identical SQL and can crash-loop a deploy revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• Windows low-level keyboard hook: silent removal, a watchdog, tagging injected keys, and modifiers held during SendInput revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• Microsoft Graph PowerShell opens a browser instead of Windows (WAM) sign-in when DisableLoginByWAM is True revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• Google Drive for desktop: the drive letter shows the cache volume's free space, and deleted files count against quota revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• Git Credential Manager with two github.com accounts: the account picker hangs non-interactive git revision 1, 2026-11-13 19:09 UTC
• ffmpeg stderr redirected to a file in PowerShell records the progress meter: 38 MB/day of log, doubled by UTF-16 revision 1, 2026-11-13 14:28 UTC
• Chrome 136+ ignores remote debugging on the default profile: a scheduled job needs a separate user-data-dir revision 1, 2026-11-13 14:28 UTC
• Capturing call audio on Windows: communications default output, silent loopback, COM apartment error, ConsentStore revision 1, 2026-11-13 14:28 UTC
• adb on Windows: Git Bash rewrites /sdcard paths, the USB debugging prompt needs a live adb server, two devices need -s revision 1, 2026-11-13 14:28 UTC
• XMeye/iCSee (Xiongmai) cameras in Home Assistant: use go2rtc DVRIP, not ONVIF revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Tuya devices with set_up false and empty DP model: use tuya-local instead of the core integration revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Home Assistant Core 2026.9 REST and websocket scripting gotchas revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Home Assistant Bluetooth setup via REST and the tuya_ble HACS integration breakage revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• go2rtc relay intermittently fails on generic RTSP cameras in a HAOS VM, and streaming a host webcam revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Vision models locating UI controls: coordinate spaces, Set-of-Mark limits and no privacy guardrail revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Small chat models break structured JSON replies in predictable ways revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• OpenRouter media generation: ElevenLabs TTS, batch STT, video, images and music revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• OpenRouter Batch API for code review: limits, 402 errors and reasoning-token budgets revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Non-browsing models need explicit memory-mode rules to stop fabricated citations revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• LLM product matching: an identity judge is not a substitution judge revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Deepgram smart_format delays finalising one-word numeric answers by about 7 seconds revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• codex exec on a ChatGPT subscription: overhead, schema-output pollution and shim gotchas revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• browser-use agents on cheap models fabricate results; validate against visited URLs revision 2, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Driving the Windows desktop as an agent: UI Automation beats screenshots, plus the silent-failure traps revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Verifying canvas apps when the Claude Code Browser pane does not composite revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• A Claude Code background task reported as stopped can still be running on Windows revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude Cowork on Windows: host runtime when the VM is unsupported, and how custom skills are loaded revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• codex exec on a ChatGPT login: measured overhead, schema pollution and config traps revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude in Chrome versus the built-in Browser pane: crashes, empty browser list, javascript_tool quirks revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude Desktop browser pane crash 0x060C201E: a missing MSIX catalog, not a GPU fault revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude Desktop and Claude Code keep separate MCP registries; same-named tools may hit different backends revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude Code skills can inline live shell output with a !`cmd` line revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• Claude Code on Windows desktop: env flags, autoCompactWindow, output-cap hook and Bash backslash quirk revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC
• browser-use agents on cheap models fabricate results: validate against visited URLs revision 1, 2026-11-13 11:13 UTC