Dec 20 2018 Build Magnum in a Linux Subsystem on Windows

~ 1 minute read.

I re­cent­ly had the plea­sure to fi­nal­ly in­stall an ubun­tu sub­sys­tem on my Win­dows 10 PC to com­pile test some C++ code on GCC.

Nov 08 2018 Vimscript: Run Command in Terminal

~ 2 minute read.

A more re­cent vim fea­ture is :term, the abil­i­ty to have a ter­mi­nal in­side vim. This su­per use­ful fea­ture now al­lows you to switch be­tween your code and asyn­chro­neous­ly run com­pile com­mands very …

Nov 05 2018 Standard and User-Defined Conversions

~ 3 minute read.

I just came across a sur­pris­ing bug in my code which I did not ex­pect to cause any prob­lem at all. The sim­pli­fied code goes like this:

void foo(const std::string& str) { printf("string!"); }

          void foo(const bool b) { printf("bool!"); }

          // ...

          foo("0 …

Nov 01 2018 What’s Up 11/2018

~ 4 Minute Read.

Since the last time I did an over­view of my cur­rent projects is al­most three months ago, I thought it’d be time for an­oth­er one of these.

Oct 31 2018 Don’t Look Up

~ 2 minute read.

In “Look­ing Up” I wrote about how your be­hav­iour changes to­wards peo­ple you look up to that are more suc­cess­ful than you are. The same blog post al­so de­scribes what I do to re­duce this ef­fect in my­self …

Oct 27 2018 Flow in Conversation

< 1 minute read.

Do you know that feel­ing when you’re talk­ing to some­one and just lock in your at­ten­tion com­plete­ly?

Oct 26 2018 Poco 1.9.0: Data to SQL

~ 2 minute read.

Mov­ing from POCO 1.9.0 to 1.9.1, Poco Da­ta to SQL names­pace.

Oct 25 2018 Productivity Through Stake

~ 6 minute read.

A sto­ry of how I fin­ished my bach­e­lor’s the­sis two weeks ear­ly.