AI;DR - The security review described here was done by Claude Code with the Fable model, and the resulting changes and this blog post were developed with significant help from it. If you don't want to read "AI slop", stop reading now. TxtCipher is a small web page that encrypts and decrypts text with a … Continue reading TxtCipher code review: RC4 keystream reuse and a versioned AES format
GORM experimental release 2026-08-19
GORM is an editor for .po files (in case that link is dead, see the Internet Archive) that was originally written by Lars Dybdahl and to which I have been contributing quite a few features in not so recent years. Since Lars is too busy to do a release and currently even the original download … Continue reading GORM experimental release 2026-08-19
mORMot 2 Native i18n Layer
Just so I will hopefully remember to check it out: Arnaud Bouchez has released mormot.core.i18n, a translation layer for Delphi/Freepascal that could replace the more or less abandoned dxgettext.
Sharing data between WSL and Windows
The default way of sharing data between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is mounting Windows directories inside WSL. This works, but is rather slow. There is a different way: Mount a WSL file system under windows. You can even mount a bare drive in WSL, format it with e.g. ext4, remount it as ext4 and … Continue reading Sharing data between WSL and Windows
How Claude Code just helped me to find a problem in a Delphi program in 10 Minutes
Social media and the Blogosphere (what's left of it) and many other media publishing some individual's view is full of people who claim that "AI" (meaning Large Language Models) only produces what they call "slop" that is full of errors. In programming they claim that it only reproduces code that was part of its training … Continue reading How Claude Code just helped me to find a problem in a Delphi program in 10 Minutes
GExperts 1.3.29 released
GExperts 1.3.29 is available. It brings 12 new features, 34 enhancements and 72 bug fixes, including two new experts, a way to move your whole GExperts configuration from one Delphi installation to another, and a set of fixes for a silent data corruption in the Code Librarian library file. For the impatient: head over to … Continue reading GExperts 1.3.29 released
Hunting a GExperts Code Librarian corruption bug with a custom debug memory manager
AI;DR - This blog post and the debug memory manager it describes were developed with significant help from Claude. If you don't want to read "AI slop", stop reading now. I recently added a new import functionality to the GExperts Code Librarian. During the test phase I found a nasty (preexisting) bug: After deleting a … Continue reading Hunting a GExperts Code Librarian corruption bug with a custom debug memory manager
SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips: The Scraper Scripts
Here are the two Python scripts I used to create the SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips archive: download. scrape_tips.py downloads the tip pages from the Wayback Machine. It waits 10 seconds between requests and it is resumable, so you can stop it and continue later. Before you run it, you must put your email address into the … Continue reading SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips: The Scraper Scripts
SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips
The SwissDelphiCenter (archive.org) site closed down a few months ago and I could not find any other way to get at the Delphi Tips database they were hosting. So I vibe coded a scraper script that extracted them from the Internet Archive and converted them to a format that can be imported into the GExperts … Continue reading SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips
GExperts: New Expert “Menu Items to Actions”
Converting an existing form from a plain TMainMenu to a TMainMenu plus a TActionList is one of those jobs that is not difficult, just tedious: For every menu item you create an action, copy the caption and the shortcut over, move the OnClick handler to the action's OnExecute, and then assign the action back to … Continue reading GExperts: New Expert “Menu Items to Actions”