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With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

Modified from the Windows NT 5.2 source, with additions from NotePadEx, and compiler optimizations. Requires MSVS 2017 or 2019 and the v141_xp Windows XP toolchain ...

Microsoft continues to move Notepad away from its text-editing roots with planned support for images. Although not officially announced, an image icon has appeared on the Notepad toolbar for Windows ...

Maybe it’s just me , but the publication of John Updike’s selected letters, masterfully assembled and presented by James Schiff, doesn’t appear to have been the parade event that might have been ...

Notepad++ has released a security fix to plug gaps that were exploited by an advanced threat actor from China to hijack the software update mechanism to selectively deliver malware to targets of ...

The Signals pattern was first introduced in JavaScript’s Knockout framework. The basic idea is that a value alerts the rest of the application when it changes. Instead of a component checking its data ...

Microsoft patches Windows 11 Notepad RCE flaw CVE-2026-20841 Vulnerability exploited Markdown links to execute malicious code with user permissions Patch Tuesday update fixes issue; versions 11.2510 ...

PCWorld reports that Windows Notepad’s new Markdown support feature has introduced a serious remote code execution vulnerability with a high CVSS score of 8.8/7.7. The security flaw allows malicious ...

Just months after Microsoft added Markdown support to Notepad, researchers have found the feature can be abused to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Tracked as CVE-2026-20841 (8.8), the ...