Nibble Stew

A gathering of development thoughts of Jussi Pakkanen. Some of you may know him as the creator of the Meson build system. jpakkane at gmail dot com

Monday, November 24, 2025

3D models in PDF documents

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PDF can do a lot of things. One them is embedding 3D models in the file and displaying them. The user can orient them freely in 3D space and...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Creating valid PDF/A-4 with CapyPDF

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PDF/A is a specific version of PDF designed for long term archival of electronic data. The idea being that PDF/A files are both self contai...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

CapyPDF 1.8.0 released

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I have just released CapyPDF 1.8. It's mostly minor fixes and tweaks but there are two notable things. The first one is that CapyPDF now...
Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Building Android apps with native code using Meson

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Building code for Android with Meson has long been possible, but a bit hacky and not particularly well documented. Recently some new feature...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

In C++ modules globally unique module names seem to be unavoidable, so let's use that fact for good instead of complexshittification

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Writing out C++ module files and importing them is awfully complicated. The main cause for this complexity is that the C++ standard can not ...
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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Trying out import std

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Since C++ compilers are starting to support import std , I ran a few experiments to see what the status of that is. GCC 15 on latest Ubuntu ...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

We need to seriously think about what to do with C++ modules

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Note: Everything that follows is purely my personal opinion as an individual. It should not be seen as any sort of policy of the Meson buil...
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