This is not the first book of Gergely Orosz, author of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter, but this is the most general one so far. Before this one, he wrote books that targeted much narrower topics...

I want to share with you a recent story. I’ll not reveal the name of the company, because of two reasons. 1) I’m not sure if that would be legal from my part. 2) They were kind, helped, gave back w...

In this post, we continue discovering the changes introduced by C++23. We are going to look into three (and a half) small changes, each affecting constructors of some standard library types. We’re ...

C++23 is going to bring us a few changes regarding move operations. It mostly means extended support in the standard library, but there is also one change directly in the language. Let’s start with...

Keeping track of your time (at work) is essential. If you work remotely, it might become even more important. I’ll give you the reasons why I think so and then I will share the tools I use as well ...

While C++ is getting increasingly expressive with each new standard, we must not forget its origins. It is inherently a low-level language which operates close to the hardware level and allows oper...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...