08 Jun 2024
2 mins
I recently found myself decoding some binary data and getting results I wasn’t expecting. This caused me to review one of the most basic operations in computer science: bit shifts. My “research” led me to a great article by Lenovo on the subject. After a few experiments, I learned another...
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25 Jul 2023
9 mins
I work a lot with legacy C/C++ code. Much of it is written in a pre-C++11 style,
and even when C++11 features are used, they aren’t used as effectively as they
could be.
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30 Aug 2022
3 mins
CMake is a fantastic build system generator. It provides a usable, maintainable, and portable solution to one of the more complicated aspects of C++ development. That said, it’s not without its history, and it can be easy to get lost in the plethora of commands and variables used to configure...
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