Sunday, October 23, 2022

Making Visual Studio compilers directly runnable from any shell (yes, even plain cmd.exe)

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The Visual Studio compiler toolchain behaves in peculiar ways One of the weirdest is that you can't run the compiler from any shell. Ins...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Using cppfront with Meson

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Recently Herb Sutter published cppfront , which is an attempt to create C++ a new syntax to fix many issues that can't be changed in exi...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

"Why is it that package managers are unnecessarily hard?" — or are they?

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At the moment the top rated post in In the C++ subreddit is Why is it that package managers are unnecessarily hard? . The poster wants to cr...
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Monday, September 19, 2022

Diving deeper into custom PDF and epub generation

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In a previous blog post I looked into converting a custom markup text format into "proper" PDF and epub documents. The format at ...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview

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Question : Do developers in your organization have full admin rights on their own computer? Rationale : While blocking admin rights might ma...
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Friday, September 2, 2022

Looking at LibreOffice's Windows installer

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There has long been a desire to get rid of Cygwin as a build dependency on LibreOffice. In addition to building dependencies it is also used...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Random things on designing a text format for books

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In previous blog posts there was some talk about implementing a simple system that generates books (both PDF and ebook) from plain text inp...
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