This post is about work, but not about software engineering. It’s about another type of work, we’ve been doing with my wife over the last 5 years. We’ve been hosts on Airbnb. A few years ago, we d...

Have you heard about std::ref and std::cref? The helper functions that generate objects of type std::reference_wrapper? The answer is probably yes. In that case, this article is probably not for yo...

I know Fran from C++ On Sea where she hosted lightning talk nights for the last two years. She recently asked me if I would be interested in reading her book, Learn C++ by Example. It was on my rad...

Last week, we talked about the rule of five and we discovered what it means for move operations if we only declare a destructor and not the rest of the special member functions. In that case, move ...

Arne Mertz talked about misused guidelines at C++OnSea. Among those, there was the rule of 5. Which made me think about a pattern I’ve seen. Let’s first repeat what the rule of 5 says. The Rule...

I’m not apolitical, I do have my opinion and quite a strong one. Yet, I don’t let it interfere with my job. I don’t think that one should talk about his or her political agenda at work or that one ...

Do we need a default constructor? What does it mean to have a default constructor? What happens if we don’t have one? Those are the questions we are going after in this article. A default construc...

Last week, between the 3rd and 5th of July, I had the privilege to attend and present at C++ on Sea 2024 for the 5th time in a row! I’m grateful that the organizers accepted me not simply as a spe...

In this article, let’s get back to exploring C++23. We are going to have a look at some unrelated small changes in the standard, including the rarest species of changes. Deprecations! Printing vol...

While I have been preparing my presentation for C++ On Sea, I realized that something is missing from How to keep your binaries small. The importance of member ordering! I remember learning at a p...