With the Code Insights plugin of Bitbucket, we have the possibility to make static code analyzers (from on SCAs) a gatekeeper for pull requests. Meaning that if a code analyzer reports certain kind...

The Battle Hardened Developer is a very useful book - in my opinion - not only for developers. The author, Fiodar Sazanavets, covers topics that are important for everyone who has an office job (ev...

C++23 is introducing some more data structures, some more associative containers. We are going to get the flat versions of map/set/multimap/multiset: flat_map flat_set flat_multimap flat_...

A few months ago, I decided that it was time for me to look for a new job. I must tell you, it’s a very competitive and requiring process. I’ve already written about it here and here focusing on di...

So far, there was no way in C++ to get runtime information on the current call sequence. Other popular programming languages such as Java, C# or Python provide this possibility. Thanks to P0881R7 a...

I was thinking about switching jobs since about the beginning of the year. But as we had our dream vacation planned for 3 weeks in April, I didn’t really want to look for a new job before coming ba...

The ISO Committee accepted two proposals for C++23 related to preprocessing directives. P2334R1 is about introducing #elifdef and #elifndef and P2437R1 is introducing #warning. What is a preproces...

Would I recommend Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman? It’s a very interesting book on how our thinking works and it can open up your mind about your own behaviour. But I mind you, only star...

A few years ago I read one of Yegor Bugayenko’s articles about his feelings about applying to a BigTech company. He wrote something like he would never be accepted and could never pass such intervi...

The above title is also one of the chapter titles from Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ by Fedor Pikus. I liked the idea so much that I quickly started to use it and I wanted to share some more de...