Jan 26 2019 Optimize Battery Drain of WebGL Elements

4 minute read.

Back in the days I thought it was re­quired to reren­der 20-60 times per sec­ond on any graph­ics ap­pli­ca­tion. That may be true for most games, but many ap­pli­ca­tions do not!

Vladimír showed me dif­fer­ent­ly: the Mag …

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 …

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 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 20 2018 Construct Arcade

~ 2 minute read.

To­mor­row is a big day, that apart from me not many peo­ple will no­tice un­til fur­ther down in the fu­ture. I will make sure you do, though, don’t wor­ry. There will be a blog post about why it is for me …

Oct 19 2018 I Fixed My Autocomplete

< 2 minute read.

I have been us­ing vim for over two years now. Orig­i­nal­ly start­ed with vrap­per, which helped a lot: when I need­ed my orig­i­nal pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, I was able to go back by switch­ing off vim-mode in Eclipse …