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AI;DR – This blog post was written mostly by Claude Code, which also implemented the feature it describes.

AI;DR – The first part of this blog post was written by me, implementing the new feature and writing the rest of the post were done mostly by Claude Code.

AI;DR – Implementing this feature and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code.

AI;DR – Implementing this feature, investigating the bookmark problem and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code.

AI;DR – Reproducing this bug and writing this blog post were done mostly by Claude Code.

A feature request that has been open since 2019 (#91 One Key Cut/Copy) asked for something the long dead CodeRush for Delphi (archive.org) used to offer: with nothing selected, Ctrl+C copies the identifier at the cursor and Ctrl+X cuts it.

AI;DR – The investigation described here was done by Claude Code, with the model Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) at the effort setting “medium”, and this blog post was written mostly by it too.

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.

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.

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.

The default way of sharing data between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is mounting Windows directories inside WSL.

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.

GExperts 1.3.29 is available.

AI;DR – This blog post and the debug memory manager it describes were developed with significant help from Claude.

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.

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.

Main Menu Entry 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 OnCli…

GExperts stores its settings in the Windows registry, under a key that is specific to each installed Delphi version.

Recent versions of Delphi (starting with Delphi 10.3 Rio) have a “Tabs” entry in the main menu that lists the files currently open in the editor and lets you jump to any of them.

AI;DR – This blog post and the script it describes were developed with significant help from Claude.

AI;DR – This blog post and the script it describes were developed with significant help from Claude.

At the Pascal Conference 2025 in Sundern Heiko Rompel (kralle) made a presentation about a plugin (or was it a patch?)

The title is taken from a blog post by Softacom that I just read.

AI;DR – This blog post was mostly generated by Claude (via Claude Code), as was the script which is described here.

Embarcadero has broken owner drawing of TStringGrid several times.

I blogged about how and where Delphi stores the desktop settings before.

AI;DR – This blog post was mostly generated by Claude (via Claude Code) as was the scripts which are described here.

Wenn’s dem Esel zu wohl wird … geht er auf’s Eis.