Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. C++ and C# have a caveat in their enum typ...

And it is not necessarily AI that ruined it. For the past few years, I feel a strange kind of emptiness when it comes to technology. Sure, I am a software engineer, and I still love to code manually. I play and program games in my spare time, and I ...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. If you choose to add a conversion operat...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Since C++17, one can use nodiscard annotat...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Classic C way of generating random numbe...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Resource Acquisition is Initialization RA...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. C++ allows you to scrap your OS’ memory al...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and LinkedIn. Since C++20, you can include header and u...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Since C# 7, you can use pattern matching t...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Suppose you have a C++ function for openin...

A few weeks back, I decided to ditch Windows and migrate my Microsoft Surface Pro 7 tablet to Linux. It was not an experiment - I don't intend to ever install Windows 11 on that brilliant machine. I left myself no backup - I completely wiped off my W...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. C++23 brings a new feature that I always w...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Some languages, like C# or Javascript, hav...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. CMake can do many things and instrumenting...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. If you want to log a filename and line num...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. While template instantiation can be used t...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. C# has a number of visibility keywords and...

Many years ago, I watched a talk about tech debt. The presenter argued about what counts as a tech debt and included any third-party dependency to the mix. His argument was the following - tech debt is created when we cut corners to deliver faster. I...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Templated code in C++ must be defined in t...