Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa Mega Review – A complex look at the state of Ubuntu
As somebody who’s always had Ubuntu in his daily life for the past 13 years, I sometimes find it hard…
Using vectors in place of hashtables – not as dumb as it seems
Vector can find elements in linear time, hashtable in constant time. That’s a pretty elementary part of computer science. However, better complexity does not always mean it’s faster.
Development for Oculus Quest is totally doable on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
So I was told that Oculus SDK is Windows only and Linux gets no love. Bullshit.
Super compact serialisation of C++ classes
How about defining the variable, initialising it and writing code for serialisation and deserialisation on a single line of code?
Generic self-registering factory – no more need to write factories
It’s somewhat annoying that a factory needs to depend on all classes that inherit from the common interface. This issue can be avoided using a self-registering factory.
Writing a JSON library in 2 hours in C++
C++ has a bad reputation for long times needed for development. However, as this task has shown, it does not deserve this reputation.
Serialisation of C++ classes with very little code
Serialisation into human readable formats tends to be a tedious task in programming languages without a lot of reflection. Here is a trick to make it far less repetitive in C++.
Embedded World Conference 2020
Embedded World is a conference and exposition held annually in Nuremberg, Germany in late February or early March. As its…
Copy-paste drive development and other innovative techniques for speedy programming
An ironic advice about programming… or better to say, an advice how to get fired from your job and then assaulted by me
How not to get a VPS
A story how I got the least suitable VPS possible without warning