The Delphi Geek

From time to time I got error reports about "error 1400" in OTL and my response is always the same: "You are using it wrong....

A month ago I wrote a nice little unit that simplifies working with timestamps received from different sources - GpTimestamp - with help fro...

In my programmer's life I frequently deal with all kinds of timestamps. As the code is relatively, ahem, "mature" those timest...

Remember the good old times when strings were composed of 8-bit characters? Those were simpler times. When we needed a data buffer, we just ...

While I don't miss the Refactor menu in Delphi 13 -- I'm used to MMX -- I do sometimes miss ability to format Delphi code (the in/fa...

I just released a new OmniThreadLibrary. Not many changes, just some fixes and - of course - support for RAD Studio 13. OmniThreadLibrary no...

Next week I'm presenting all that is shiny and new in RAD Studio 13 in Ljubljana. As the presentation will be in Slovenian language, so ...

Some time ago, I tried using AI to write a blog post, but things didn’t go quite as planned . For my second attempt, I aimed to do better. ...

But the real changes happened under the hood. I’ve refactored the codebase to fully separate the AI client logic from both the UI and the ne...

This was supposed to be an article comparing three major AI players in their ability to write technical articles. In preparation, however, I...

Today, I want to talk about a small multithreading kernel (framework, library, or whatever you want to call it) that I've recently helpe...

Next Wednesday I'll be talking about Delphi and TMS Web Core in Ljubljana. As the presentation will be in Slovenian language, so is the ...

Due to potential privacy concerns with DeepSeek servers (we’re unsure if the data sent over the paid API is kept private), I looked into som...

As I’m writing this, a new Chatterbox release is available on GitHub . As with the initial release, you can either download the source and r...

An interesting AI has just appeared on my radar - DeepSeek. It exposes a "normal" chat model deepseek-chat and a "reasoning...

Recently I had to convert a multi-line string into a single-line string value for storage (ignore the 'why' of it; let's just bl...

While working on  Chatterbox  I ran into number of problems, most of them caused by my limited knowledge of device-independent programming w...

It's the time of the year to be merry and have fun, so no code today! I've decided to ask our future AI overlords about the meaning ...

t’s great that Embarcadero has added an AI Chat window to RAD Studio, but let’s be honest—the implementation is lacking. As one participant ...

While preparing for my  Delphi and AI workshop , I decided to keep a log of all my interactions with AI helpers in a file for later analysis...