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C++23: Allocator related changes

In this post, we are going to review two changes related to allocators in C++. One is about providing size information about the allocated memory and the other is about how CTAD should happen for c...

Wiring the Winning Organization by Gene Kim and Steven J. Spear

When I was asked whether I’d like to read Wiring the Winning Organization, I immediately said yes. The reason behind this was that I noticed one of the authors’ names; Gene Kim. Hw wrote The Phoeni...

Late discovery of std::filesystem - Part I

I know that this is not a new topic at all. But this blog in its roots is to document what I learn, and I haven’t used the filesystem library up until a few weeks ago. After the initial encounter, ...

DR20 - The Equality Operator You Are Looking For

When I see DR, I immediately think about Disaster Recovery. That’s due to my first corporate job where I worked as a Database Administrator and we had regular exercises to simulate events when data...

2023: What a tiring year!

It’s that time of the year once again. It’s time to look back, draw some conclusions and get ready for the next year. First of all, I’m tired. Somehow I feel more tired than in previous years. Bot...

The 3 best books I read in 2023

Though I haven’t published a lot of book reviews this year and I didn’t even finish reading as many books as in other years, I didn’t spend less time on reading. How is that possible then? There ...

The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel

As the title suggests, The Psychology of Money approaches our financial matters from a bit different angle. If you consider personal finances and saving money from a purely mathematical standpoint,...

How to use your namespaces to their best

Today, we are not going to discuss any novelty of the language. Instead, we are going to discuss something old, something that we take for granted and probably something we don’t even think about a...

Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford

If you follow my blog, you know that I like history. I’m both fascinated by stories and I also think history is a good way to learn about what is happening around us in the world. I met recommendat...

C++23: The rise of new streams

The main goal of this article is to share with you the new <spanstream> header, but we are going a bit beyond it. We won’t only discuss the motivations behind the proposal introducing this he...