Grant Winney

Recent Posts

Jan 23, 2023

Goodbye Gryphon (an honest review from an exhausted user)

A few years ago I bought a Gryphon router, sold on the promise of being our family's "first line of defense against digital dangers". Due to a confusing ux and increasingly buggy software that has me completely doubting their ability to perform their core mission, I'm out.

This Week I Learned

Jan 22, 2023

TWIL vol.5

This week I learned about malicious site blocklists and some APIs that might be interesting to dig into, read up on encoding vs encryption, and discovered a goofy Outlook bug and a workaround for it.

This Week I Learned

Jan 15, 2023

TWIL vol.4

This week I discovered why VS 2022 won't show the Form designer in legacy (.NET Framework) WinForms apps (it's surpising but makes sense), as well as a new way to reign in YouTube by treating it as a feed in Inoreader. (life hack!)

winforms vs2022 dev question

Jan 14, 2023

Why doesn't VS 2022 show my WinForms UI at design time?

Someone at work asked about whether we'd be able to use VS 2022 to work on our main WinForms app. It works just fine in VS 2019, so it should work in VS 2022, right? Except it doesn't. What we get is white screens of brokenness whenever we try to open a Form in the designer. But why?

reflection

Jan 11, 2023

One job to delete them all

Automation is wonderful, until you write a script that devours itself and the rest of the neighborhood. Then it's time for lunch, maybe a long walk.. a family emergency or something. 😅

This Week I Learned

Jan 8, 2023

TWIL vol.3

New year, new week, new discoveries... WinForms can be upgraded to .NET; default vs null in C#; Teams has a hidden scheduling feature

reflection

Jan 6, 2023

Looking forward to a new, hopeful year

The start of a new year is a good time to look to the future in hope, but it seems like resolutions rarely stick. Maybe we're doing it wrong. Maybe we need to work on elimination and motivation first...

c# 7.0 surviving winforms

Jan 4, 2023

Using Tuples and deconstruction to return multiple values in C#

A big challenge with any language is trying to group and organize things sensibly, and returning multiple values is no exception. Let's check out Tuples and deconstruction, and see how they can help us out.

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