Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Meson's New Option Setup ‒ The Largest Refactoring

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The problem Meson has had togglable options from almost the very beginning. These split into two camps. The first one is "common option...
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Saturday, August 10, 2024

Refactoring Python dicts to proper classes

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When doing a major refactoring in Meson, I came up with a interesting refactoring technique, which I have not seen before. Some search engi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2024

Why refactoring is harder than you think, a pictorial representation

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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...
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Friday, June 21, 2024

Advanced text features and PDF

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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 ...
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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Generative non-AI

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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...
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Sunday, April 21, 2024

C is dead, long live C (APIs)

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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

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