Saturday, February 14, 2026

What's cooking with Pystd, the experimental C++ standard library?

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Pystd is an experiment on what a C++ standard library without any backwards compatibility requirements would look like. Its design goals ar...
Saturday, February 7, 2026

C and C++ dependencies, don't dream it, be it!

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Bill Hoffman, the original creator of the CMake language held a presentation at CppCon . At approximately 49 minutes in he starts talking ab...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

How to get banned from Facebook in one simple step

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I, too, have (or as you can probably guess from the title of this post, had) a Facebook account. I only ever used it for two purposes. Findi...
Friday, January 9, 2026

AI and money

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If you ask people why they are using AI (or want other people to use it) you get a ton of different answers. Typically none of them contain ...
Sunday, January 4, 2026

Converting Chapterizer from Cairo + Pango to CapyPDF

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Chapterizer (not a great name, I know) is a tool I wrote to generate books. Originally used Cairo and Pango to generate PDF files. It works...
Friday, January 2, 2026

New year, new Pystd epoch, or evolving an API without breaking it

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One of the core design points of Pystd has been that it maintains perfect API and ABI stability while also  making it possible to improve th...
Monday, December 22, 2025

An uncomfortable but necessary discussion about the Debian bug tracker

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Note: this post represents my personal opinions as a Debian maintainer of a single package (Meson). It is not my intention to throw anyone i...
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