Should you program like NASA?

Programming is a discipline that requires both speed and integrity. The best developers balance rapid iteration with careful checking, ensuring that their code is robust, maintainable, and adaptable over time. That’s where structured coding principles—like those found in the Power of Ten—may …

Compiled Switch

This example demonstrates how to incorporate a compiled switch construct in an event driven application such as a market data handler or parser.

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std::generate

Many examples of std::generate in C++ involve a static. However using a static introduces issues around thread safety and usability in modern code. Here is a simple example using std::generate with a c++14 style lambda that defines and captures a local variable.

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Should you enable your efficiency cores for use by Docker on Apple Silicon?

If you enable the efficiency cores there are 2 additional cores for the system scheduler to allocate to your workload. However, if you leave them disabled, these 2 cores will remain in reserve for use by supportive …

Building Solidity's compiler solc is nothing short of a bear. It is using complex external dependencies like boost with some optional dependencies. Moreover the build depends on specific versions of these packages. This amount of complexity for a compiler is a topic of another post but it does give me …

C++ programmers should explore functional languages. Experience with modern programming idioms can improve ones ability to write modern C++.