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First of all, I must salute you on the joke; well put haha! --- It is a (contrived) example of usage where a command is required and `:` can fill in the blanks. There are certainly scenarios where neg…

Hey jiveturkey, author here! I agree with you, and for what it's worth the truncation snippet is very much tongue-in-cheek much like `( : >> output ) && echo "is writable"…

Yo, author here. You are very much correct and I 100% agree with you, I have updated the first example to include a snippet where a proper env-var is used to show of the automatic diagnostic. Thanks f…

The comment in question is a joke; it was never intended to be read as actual advice.

perhaps we better add a job to automatically order new IoT devices from amazon too; once a month is probably good enough not to suffer. I think we just invented Upgrades-As-A-Service.. only $50/m…

I remember when you were actually able to keep up with CVEs and you could (at least somewhat) prioritize patches while disregarding those which felt irrelevant. But now.. are we simply supposed to use…

The TLDR is that I back in 2015 published some C++ related posts that got way more traction than I originally anticipated, and given the subscriptions to the RSS-feed I felt like I could not live up t…

For me it boils down to the fact that rss-feeds propagate without any knowledge or control. One left-over subscription somewhere can ping so far, whereas a manually copied link (like if someone reads …

Solid advice for sure, and ignorance is bliss but damn does this nuddle of mine (brain) make it difficult at times; "no logs for an httpd? you cray-cray-crazy? what if something happens!?" P…

Ever since I first started blogging I have struggled with performance anxiety, and I have concluded that much of this boils down to me adding an RSS feed to my site. This article dives into why that i…

I have recently switched to mozilla thunderbird, and one of the <3 moments is definitely the builtin RSS-reader (which I use extensively now that I have it easily accessible on my third monitor).

Sadly I never finished that blog series due to severe suicidal depression (ended up being hospitalized for several months), but I do have a toy implementation of that laying around somewhere. Currentl…

No, but in general, issues like this boils down to grouping too many actions into the same visual category (when they are not acting upon the same entity). As an example, I often see software where mo…

you are correct. (DISCLAIMER: I am the author of what you are referring to)

For those who are looking to understand what is going on, I would recommend the blog series I wrote -almost- more than half a decade ago at https://b.atch.se Compiler intrinstics havet cha…

A detailed post that shows how to implement a stateful meta-container that is usable where a constant-expression is required, effectively making it possible to store away different states during compi…

I just submitted a request to join the reflector where I know this is being discussed; nonetheless, information will be published on http://b.atch.se as soon as I have had time to write th…

I have been trying _very_ hard to get in contact with the folks that are discussing this approach; just preventing ADL constexpr tricks (through "friendly definitions") isn't enough. I …

It is part of both, the technique described is not the only way to reach a solution for the given problem (implementing a counter usable in constant-expressions). In other words; if one sees this as a…

This is the second post in the series regarding "non-constant constant-expressions in C++" - http://b.atch.se/posts/non-constant-constant-expressions/ Feedback is …