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

Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Why refactoring is harder than you think, a pictorial representation

Suppose you are working on a legacy code base. It looks like this: Within it you find a piece of functionality that does a single thing, but...

Friday, June 21, 2024

Advanced text features and PDF

The basic text model of PDF is quite nice. On the other hand its basic design was a very late 80s "ASCII is everything everyone really ...

Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Generative non-AI

In last week's episode of the Game Scoop podcast an idea was floated that modern computer game names are uninspiring and that better on...

Sunday, April 21, 2024

C is dead, long live C (APIs)

In the 80s and 90s software development landscape was quite different from today (or so I have been told). Everything that needed performanc...

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

CapyPDF 0.10.0 is out

Perhaps the most interesting feature is that this new version reduces the number of external dependencies by almost 15%. In other words the ...

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Aesthetics matter

When I started working on Meson I had several goals: portability, performance, usability and so on. I particularly liked the last one of the...

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Color management and API design

API design is hard. This is not a smashingly new revelation, but let's look at a sample issue I have been working on for CapyPDF . The m...

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