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Site Update (April 2025)

Representing an Abstract Syntax Tree in C++: Variants

Online Courses that I Recommend

Small Naming Tip: Use "from" Instead of "to" in Function and Variable Names

What happened to Lesley in the last couple of years

Use ManuallyDrop in Rust to control drop order of structure fields

CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR is probably not what you want

VK_KHR_dynamic_rendering tutorial

How I create bilingual functionality of this blog in plain Typescript

Little C++ Standard Library Utility: std::align

Fun with Ternary Search

Don't automatically use auto parameters in C++

Using default parameters to circumvent the type system is an anti-pattern

What is std::function in C++, and why do we need them?

Resources that help you to delve into C++

Factual errors in "These Modern Programming Languages Will Make You Suffer", and why it is a suffer to read

Improve Rust Link Time with lld

Recursive Modules in OCaml

Beware passing mutable lambda to STL algorithms

The implication of const or reference member variables in C++

Zero is the Devil: Common ways to construct bogus proofs

The surprising codegen impact of noexcept

Concepts in Programming Languages, Part II: Statics

Concepts in Programming Languages, Part I: Judgements and Inference Rules

Const Correctness Issue of std::function

Make Impossible State Unrepresentable, in C++

We are defining assignment operators wrong.

CppCon 2019 Trip Report

ACM Siggraph 2019 Trip Report

Intuition Behind X86 "lea" Instruction

When does a C++ temporary object die?

C++ Lambda Tutorial

Book Review: "Functional Programming in C++"

Tail Recursion Explanation

Book Review: "Professional CMake: A Practical Guide"

Resource management and RAII in C++

Integrate a unit test framework in cmake