#GUI
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Reading ID Cards from the Web with a Localhost Agent
Browsers cannot access smart card readers directly. A workable approach is to write a small agent that opens a port on localhost and let the web page call it. This article covers secure contexts, CORS preflight, port conflicts with other agents, PC/SC in SHARED mode, decoding TIS-620 manually, and the day antivirus flagged the program as a backdoor.
Building a Single-Screen Ping Monitor with C++, ImGui and DirectX 11
A small app that pings every device on the network at once and puts the results on one screen. It sends ICMP directly through iphlpapi without calling ping.exe, runs one thread per host, communicates with the UI through std::atomic, renders with Dear ImGui on DirectX 11, and builds with CMake and a single PowerShell script.