Introduction The optimism of starting a career in software engineering is grounded in one very specific moment: when a problem gets solved with your own hands, when the solution your brain came up with takes shape in some programming language and a...

I built a game wiki for Heartopia — a cozy life sim that blew up earlier this year — and wanted to share the tech decisions behind it. Not because the stack is groundbreaking, but because building a game wiki has constraints that don't apply to typic...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. If you want to log a filename and line num...

Many years ago, I watched a talk about tech debt. The presenter argued about what counts as a tech debt and included any third-party dependency to the mix. His argument was the following - tech debt is created when we cut corners to deliver faster. I...

Tuesday coding tips are super short posts about various tidbits mainly from C++, but also from other programming languages I use. You can also follow the #TuesdayCodingTips hashtag on Mastodon and Linkedin. Since C++17, we can use “structured bindi...

One of the very few features of the C++ standard library that I unapologetically like, is the std::visit. It reduces the amount of boilerplate code, kills multiple birds with a single stone, and doesn’t sacrifice performance while doing it. So let’s ...