How to Change the Width of the Solution Configuration Combo Box in Visual Studio
The Solution Configuration combo box in Visual Studio can sometimes be too narrow, making it difficult to distinguish between similarly named configurations. For example, you might not be able to tell whether you’ve selected ReleaseAssert or ReleaseAntiChat, as it may be truncated to ReleaseA.... Similarly, DeveloperEditor and DeveloperEngine might both appear as DeveloperE....
Fortunately, Visual Studio allows you to explicitly set the width of this combo box:
- Right-click anywhere on the toolbar and choose Customize….
- In the Customize dialog, go to the Commands tab.
- Select the Toolbar radio button, and choose Standard from the drop-down list.
- In the Controls list, scroll to Solution Configurations, select it, then click Modify Selection….
- In the properties dialog that appears, increase the Width value to something more appropriate (e.g., 150 or 200).
- Close both dialogs.
Your “Solution Configurations” combo box will now be wider, making it easier to read the full names of your configurations.
In Blender, to snap the camera to the current view, press Ctrl + Alt + Numpad 0.
I am wondering if it would be easier to build a mecha first and then the robot. We have had a car for a while, and we are just getting self-driving cars; I think building a mecha would be easier based on that premise. Also, I think a mecha is cooler than a robot.
Game Idea: Prompt Engineer Simulator A simulation game where you play as a prompt engineer. Your goal is to craft effective prompts for a large language model to carry out simulated scenarios—such as running a shop, managing a business, or solving various complex tasks. Success depends on how well you can guide the AI to perform through carefully designed prompts.
I feel that if you’re going to make a game using assets from the marketplace, it’s better to aim for a realistic style. I’ve noticed that there are a lot of stylized asset packs available, but they often differ significantly in style. This means you either need to buy all your assets from the same studio or risk having clashing styles in your game. With a realistic style, assets from different sources tend to blend together more easily.
🌸 Sat, Jun 7, 2025 🌸
I thought GTA 6 is coming next year, 2026, not now.
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Something just exploded nearby; my neighbors' dogs went crazy. I hope everyone is okay.
🌸 Fri, Jun 6, 2025 🌸
We were using duck typing for a long time. Duck typing is a system where we do not care about internal implementation details and instead focus on external behavior. If it swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck—then it’s a duck.
But with AI, for some reason, it becomes different. It talks like a human, reasons like a human, holds opinions like a human, makes mistakes like a human, and is even capable of lying like a human. But no—it is not a human, because it is made of silicon and operates on a completely different architecture than a human. 🤷♀️
🌸 Fri, Jun 6, 2025 🌸
6/6 Friday; is this a better version of Friday the 13th?
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Today, I woke up with the idea of storing energy in liquid nitrogen—and behold, the technology already exists! You can actually store energy in liquid nitrogen or liquid air. I’m surprised I’ve never heard about it before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic_energy_storage
Fortnite is back on the App Store! 🔥
Sometimes cucumbers can have a bitter taste. This bitterness is caused by chemical compounds called cucurbitacins. No joke—seriously.
Black holes are memory leaks of the Universe 😯
Tunnel Beast Modeling Timelapse
I modeled a Tunnel Beast, the creature from my game in progress, Ordy. From the concept art generated with ChatGPT to polygon modeling, UV unwrapping, texturing, animation, and integrating it in the Unreal Engine.
When Nature Called and Tech Ghosted
Picture this: I’m on the porcelain throne, phone in hand, ready for my daily “math-and-methane” ritual. My trusty multiplication app suddenly dies—ad network gone, paywall up. Pay to poop? Nope.
Enter ChatGPT
“Need a free web game: 20 problems, big buttons, timer, records. Still… occupied.” “On it,” said the AI.
What we built:
- Difficulty: Easy 1-10, Medium 1-20, Hard 1-50
- Huge numpad + backspace for clumsy thumbs
- Live timer & remaining counter
- Records (newest first)
- Tab-style Game | Records
- Inline problem: “7 × 8 = …”
After a few fiber-fueled test runs, Multiplication Throne Edition was born—no ads, no downloads. Play it now: mika.global/games/math.html.
Add it to your iPhone
- Open the link in Safari.
- Tap Share → Add to Home Screen.
- Name it (e.g., “Toilet Times”).
- Tap Add—done.
Each run is timestamped locally.
Moral
When an app bails mid-dump, don’t subscribe—DIY with AI. ChatGPT turned toilet downtime into brain-training uptime. Now, if you’ll pardon me, the timer’s ticking. �⏱️
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I’m wondering what would happen if we trained LLMs on LeetCode challenges—not using pre-written solutions, but allowing the model to come up with its own. The feedback signal would be whether the code passes the challenge or not, ignoring other aspects like formatting or variable naming, which might be terrible. Starting with a base model and fine-tuning it on LeetCode challenges, I’m curious what the resulting code would look like: an unreadable mess, clean and maintainable, or something in between.
🌸 Mon, May 5, 2025 🌸
Yesterday, I asked ChatGPT to help me with the following:
- How to select all non-quad polygons in Blender
- How to implement a combo box using ImGui
- Translate a forum thread from Chinese
- Generate concept art
🌸 Mon, May 5, 2025 🌸
In this video, I 3D model in Blender the character for my game. The former NeatAid corp scientist who is hiding underground. The concept art was generated by ChatGPT. The hair asset I have obtained from one of the free assets from the Epic marketplace.
🌸 Sun, May 4, 2025 🌸
Have you used Blender so much that when you brush your teeth, you think, ‘I only need to brush the right side— the mirror modifier will handle the left’?
Yesterday, I used AI in the following ways:
- I asked it to reset my GIMP layout.
- I asked it to generate UI/UX mockups.
- I tried to figure out how to split my 4K screen into four virtual smaller screens (but failed).
Everything is going to be fine from now on, PewDiePie installed Linux.
Naming is hard. Prefer DEBUG_ENABLED over NODEBUG, and use Feature.Enabled instead of Feature.Disabled. Otherwise, you’ll end up with something like #define NODEBUG 0 and find yourself wondering what it even means.
YouTube Premium has this annoying feature: when you press the side button on your phone, the video keeps playing.
It was nighttime at the camp. I opened some movie on YouTube—something about Jesus in the desert. I watched for about 10 seconds, got bored, and put the phone away.
About 10 minutes later, I heard a faint, desperate scream. It scared the shit out of me.
Turns out, the movie had been silent for 10 minutes… until Jesus suddenly screamed in the desert.
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