Blog Archive

40 Posts

2024

• Summary of reading: April - June 2024 — July 7
  • Books
• Representing an Abstract Syntax Tree in C++: Part 1 - Variants — April 22
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Programming Languages Development
• Summary of reading: January - March 2024 — March 28
  • Books
• Online Courses that I Recommend — March 17
  • Learning
  • Personal
• Small Naming Tip: Use "from" Instead of "to" in Function and Variable Names — February 10
  • Coding
  • Opinion

2023

• What happened to Lesley in the last couple of years — December 17
  • Personal
• Use ManuallyDrop in Rust to control drop order of structure fields — February 6
  • Coding
  • Rust

2022

• CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR is probably not what you want — February 17
  • CMake
  • C++
  • Coding
• VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering tutorial — January 16
  • Coding
  • Graphics
  • Vulkan
• How I create bilingual functionality of this blog in plain Typescript — January 1
  • Coding
  • i18n
  • Typescript
  • React

2021

• Little C++ Standard Library Utility: std::align — December 13
  • Coding
  • C++
• Fun with Ternary Search — December 7
  • Algorithms
• Don't automatically use auto parameters in C++ — March 9
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Opinion
• Using default parameters to circumvent the type system is an anti-pattern — February 26
  • Coding
  • Java
  • OOP
  • Opinion
• What is std::function in C++, and why do we need them? — January 18
  • C++
  • Coding
• Resources that help you to delve into C++ — January 15
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Learning

2020

• Summary of reading: October - December 2020 — December 27
  • Books
• Factual errors in "These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer", and why it is a suffer to read — December 8
  • Coding
  • Functional Programming
  • Opinion
• Improve Rust Link Time with lld — November 1
  • Coding
  • Rust
• Recursive Modules in OCaml — October 15
  • Coding
  • OCaml
• Beware passing mutable lambda to STL algorithms. — September 30
  • C++
  • Coding
  • Opinion
• The implication of const or reference member variables in C++ — August 18
  • Coding
  • C++
• Zero is the Devil: Common ways to construct bogus proofs — May 10
  • Mathematics
  • Logic
• Summary of reading: January - March 2020 — March 28
  • Books
• Concepts in Programming Languages, Part II: Statics — March 2
  • Programming Languages
• The surprising codegen impact of noexcept — March 2
  • Coding
  • C++
• Concepts in Programming Languages, Part I: Judgements and Inference Rules — January 26
  • Programming Languages

2019

• Const Correctness Issue of std::function — December 30
  • Coding
  • C++
• Make Impossible State Unrepresentable, in C++ — October 26
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Data-oriented design
  • Functional Programming
• We are defining assignment operators wrong. — October 14
  • Coding
  • C++
• CppCon 2019 Trip Report — September 22
  • C++
  • Event
• ACM Siggraph 2019 Trip Report — August 7
  • Graphics
  • Event
• Intuition Behind X86 "lea" Instruction — June 11
  • C
  • Coding
  • x86
• When does a C++ temporary object die? — March 28
  • C++
  • Coding
• C++ Lambda Tutorial — March 25
  • C++
  • Coding
• Book Review: "Functional Programming in C++" — March 22
  • Books
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Functional Programming
• Tail Recursion Explanation — January 22
  • Functional Programming
  • Coding
  • Elm
• Book Review: "Professional CMake: A Practical Guide" — January 15
  • Books
  • CMake
  • Coding

2016

• Resource management and RAII in C++ — October 26
  • C++
  • Coding
  • Opinion
• Integrate a unit test framework in cmake — May 13
  • CMake
  • Coding
  • C++
  • Testing