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List a Folder in One Call: The IOUtils Cookbook (2/2)
In Part 1 we met System.IOUtils and its central surprise — that TFile, TDirectory, and TPath are records, not classes, so you call them through the type name and never Create or Free a thing. We put TFile through its paces: reading a whole file in one line,…
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- IOUtils
- Object Pascal
- Directories
- Cross-Platform
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Here's a line of Delphi almost every one of us has typed: It works. It has worked since the last century. There is nothing wrong with it. But somewhere along the way — quietly, without a fanfare that reached most of us — the RTL grew a…
- Delphi
- IOUtils
- Object Pascal
- Files
- Cross-Platform
Qwen vs. Ornith: Two Local AI Models, One CD Calculator
Last time, a 27-billion-parameter model on my laptop wrote a slick, charted CD calculator from a single sentence — correct math, wrong tool — and a cloud referee caught the domain error. This time I ran the exact same experiment with a…
- LLM
- Qwen
- Ornith
- Local AI
- MLX
A Local AI Wrote a CD Calculator — and Why I Still Had Claude Check the Math
A model small enough to live entirely on my laptop built a working, charted CD calculator from a one-line prompt. It was fast, it looked great, and the arithmetic was correct. It was also, quietly, the wrong tool — and spotting that took a…
- LLM
- Qwen
- Local AI
- Claude
- JavaScript
Web Services Are Just Endpoints: REST and JSON in Delphi (5/5)
Part 4 ended on a quiet little bombshell. We built a web server with WebBroker, watched a browser send GET / down a TCP connection, and sent back HTML — and then I pointed out that nothing in HTTP says the response has to be HTML. A…
- Delphi
- Networking
- REST
- Web Services
- TMS XData
TypeScript 7 Is Here: What's 10x Faster Today, and What Still Needs Manual Wiring
A few weeks ago I wrote about Anders Hejlsberg — the man who gave us Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C, and then bolted a real type system onto JavaScript with TypeScript — and I noted, almost in passing, that his team had "been rewriting their…
- TypeScript
- Next.js
- Go
- Performance
How a Web Server Actually Works: HTTP for Delphi Developers (4/5)
At the end of Part 3 we did something slightly ridiculous: we opened a raw TCP connection to a web server and typed GET / HTTP/1.1 into it by hand — and the server answered us with a page. No browser, no framework, no components. Just text…
- Delphi
- Networking
- HTTP
- WebBroker
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