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

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

How about not stabbing ourselves in the leg with a rusty fork?

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Corporations are funny things. Many things no reasonable person would do on their own are done every day in thousands of business conglomera...
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Saturday, December 28, 2019

What can clang-format teach us about the human condition?

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Most people who do programming have taken part in at least one code formatting war. Usually these come about when companies want to standard...
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Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Notes on tax issues on selling digital goods internationally

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Note : This blog post should not be considered tax, legal or any other sort of advice. There are no guarantees of any kind, even that any o...
Sunday, December 8, 2019

There are (at least) three distinct dependency types

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Using dependencies is one of the main problems in software development today. It has become even more complicated with the recent emergence ...
Monday, November 25, 2019

Process invocation will forever be broken

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Invoking new processes is, at its core, a straightforward operation. Pretty much everything you need to know to understand it can be seen in...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Some intricacies of ABI stability

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There is a big discussion ongoing in the C++ world about ABI stability. People want to make a release of the standard that does a big ABI br...
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Monday, November 18, 2019

What is -pipe and should you use it?

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Every now and then you see people using the -pipe compiler argument. This is particularly common on vintage handwritten makefiles. Meson ev...
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