From a totally unrelated Hacker News discussion thread, I got a link to a quite enlightening display of how communication can be received in different ways. It reminded me of the German book “Miteinander Reden 1” by Friedemann Schulz von Thun that we’ve read in school many years ago. As such the topic wasn’t completely […]
Category: General
Right Balance Between Simple and Complex
A while ago, Vittorio tweeted the article “In defense of complicated programming languages” and the same way it resonated with him, so did it with me and I wanted to share a few thoughts. Show Don’t Tell The first part the author articulates very well, that it’s important for people and especially new beginners, to […]
Do You Work With Great People?
Just came across this excerpt by Richard Feynman over on the orange site: One of the first interesting experiences I had in this project at Princeton was meeting great men. I had never met very many great men before. But there was an evaluation committee that had to try to help us along, and help […]
Discussions around log4j and FOSS
Unless you’ve been disconnected from any digital or analog media in the past few days, you must have heard of the zero-day remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability detected in log4j, one of the most popular open source logging library for Java. Not running much or developing any Java application, the most interesting part about this […]
Almost Always Auto
For the past four years I’ve been developing mostly in C# at work and gotten used to some of the more generally accepted code styles in the .NET world or at least within my project. One of those styles is the usage of var basically everywhere, which has really grown on me and it’s also […]
Another Year on Twitter
Last year I wrote about my eight year anniversary on Twitter and how I’ve been using it. Since then another year passed and while my usage hasn’t really changed, there are a few small things I want to talk about. The Dissident I don’t remember how I came across the documentary in the first place, […]
TIL: SQL Conversion & Clang
Implicit Conversion and SQL Server Today, I spent most of my worktime analyzing a bug, where for a larger than normal number of input rows an SQL query would take longer than 30 seconds (default timeout duration) and the request would fail. After understanding the data flow and validating that the data itself shouldn’t cause […]
TIL: Ninja & MSYS2 Clang
Ninja Continuing my quest of compiling SFML with all the flavors of Clang on Windows, I tried out the build system Ninja for the first time. It’s well-known, has its own CMake generator for a very long time and compared to a normal Visual Studio build it’s quite fast. There honestly isn’t too much to […]
TIL: CPM, Clang & iOS on Windows
In this Today I Learned (TIL) format, I want to very briefly share things I’ve come across and learned from today. CMake Package Manager Someone on the SFML Discord was trying to get SFML to play nice with their CMake script which uses CMake Package Manager (CPM). CPM is not a built-in functionality or officially […]
Weekly Digest
Here are some links to other articles, videos or podcasts, that I want to preserve as future referenced for myself, but are also worth sharing with others, since they are interesting and might have gotten lost on Slack, Discord or Twitter when I posted them over the last few days or weeks. The title doesn’t […]