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2025

15 Jan Start learning a new language
08 Jan C++26: a placeholder with no name
01 Jan C++26: user-generated static_assert messages

2024

25 Dec 2024: ready for the next year!
18 Dec C++26: Delete with a reason
11 Dec Let's start exploring C++26
04 Dec Replace CRTP with concepts?
27 Nov How to ensure a class is not copyable or movable
20 Nov Trip report: Meeting C++ 2024
13 Nov Implicit string conversions to booleans
06 Nov Use std::span instead of C-style arrays
30 Oct (When) performance is not about algorithmic complexity
23 Oct Different aspects of software performance
19 Oct Who does what by how much by Josh Seiden and Jeff Gothelf
16 Oct C++ Brain Teasers by Anders Schau Knatten
09 Oct Working in uncertainty?
02 Oct So shall we use static or dynamic linking?
25 Sep Binary size: should we use static or dynamic linking?
18 Sep Do it right or do the right thing: The Alignment Trap
11 Sep The limits of a portfolio job
04 Sep Structs and constructors
28 Aug Wrapping up our Airbnb host experience
21 Aug What is std::ref?
14 Aug Learn C++ by Example by Frances Buontempo
07 Aug The rule of 5 and inheritance
31 Jul Once more about the rule of 5
24 Jul 5 reasons why politics will ruin your career hopes
17 Jul What to do if you don't want a default constructor?
10 Jul Trip report: C++ On Sea 2024
03 Jul C++23: further small changes
26 Jun Member ordering and binary sizes
19 Jun Did you do what I asked for or not?
12 Jun Limit the number of library dependencies
05 Jun The limits of `[[maybe_unused]]`
29 May C++23: chrono related changes
22 May Do engineering teams really resemble sports teams?
15 May Two cases when forward declaring is not enough
08 May Quo vadis this blog?
01 May When and how variables are initialized? - Part 4
24 Apr When and how variables are initialized? - Part 3
17 Apr When and how variables are initialized? - Part 2
10 Apr When and how variables are initialized? - Part 1
03 Apr Upgrading the compiler: undefined behaviour uncovered
27 Mar Should we move from fundamental types?
20 Mar C++23: Encoding related changes
16 Mar Tidy First? by Kent Beck
13 Mar Three key philosophies behind C++
06 Mar My late discovery of std::filesystem - Part II
28 Feb My late discovery of std::filesystem - Part I
21 Feb How to write unit tests in C++ relying on non-code files?
17 Feb The Software Engineer's Guidebook by Orosz Gergely
14 Feb I got hacked recently
07 Feb C++23: More small changes
31 Jan C++23 likes to move it!
24 Jan My time management system in 2024
17 Jan C++23: bitwise operations
10 Jan C++23: Allocator related changes
06 Jan Wiring the Winning Organization by Gene Kim and Steven J. Spear
03 Jan Late discovery of std::filesystem - Part I
03 Jan DR20 - The Equality Operator You Are Looking For

2023

27 Dec 2023: What a tiring year!
20 Dec The 3 best books I read in 2023
16 Dec The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness by Morgan Housel
13 Dec How to use your namespaces to their best
09 Dec Genghis Khan And The Making Of The Modern World by Jack Weatherford
06 Dec C++23: The rise of new streams
29 Nov C++23: Growing unicode support
25 Nov Nonconform by Gergely Böszörményi-Nagy
22 Nov Struct initialization
15 Nov C++: The most important complexities
11 Nov 10x is easier than 2x by Dr. Benjamin Hardy
08 Nov Extern templates to reduce binary size
01 Nov C++23: Removing garbage collection support
25 Oct My battle against signed/unsigned comparison: the worst violations
18 Oct My battle against signed/unsigned comparison: the most usual violations
11 Oct How to compare signed and unsigned integers in C++20?
04 Oct Trip report: Dev Talks Cluj 2023
27 Sep Be a good gardener of your scripts
20 Sep Once more about clean code
13 Sep Constexpr functions for smaller binary size?
06 Sep C++23: some changes related to templates
30 Aug The value of boring tasks
23 Aug C++23: compatibility with C
15 Aug C++23: mdspan
09 Aug C++23: multidimensional operator[]
02 Aug The Power of Tenure: 7 reasons to stay at your job
26 Jul C++23: static operator() and static operator[]
19 Jul Binary sizes and compiler flags
12 Jul C++23: Alias declarations in for loop init-statements
05 Jul Trip report: C++ On Sea 2023
28 Jun My way to get into conferences
21 Jun The 3 best books to level up your C++
14 Jun Fold expressions in C++
07 Jun Recent changes and personal commitments
31 May C++23: two additional noexcept functions
24 May C++23: Even more constexpr
17 May Are we - developers - spoiled or abused?
10 May Is this dynamic_cast needed?
03 May Variadic functions vs variadic templates
26 Apr Without RTTI your code will be cleaner
19 Apr We are always late
12 Apr Vectors and unique pointers
05 Apr Binary sizes and passing functions to functions
29 Mar Binary size and exceptions
22 Mar Can we find a compromise?
15 Mar The observer pattern and binary sizes
11 Mar Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution by Christopher Browning
08 Mar The decorator pattern and binary sizes
01 Mar Binary sizes and RTTI
27 Feb What's the easiest way to add custom code to your WordPress site without breaking it?
22 Feb 4 different ways I've worked remotely
15 Feb The evolution of enums
08 Feb Virtual functions and binary sizes
01 Feb Special functions and binary sizes
25 Jan Deep vs shallow modules
18 Jan Object initialization and binary sizes
11 Jan What's an executable and how is it structured
04 Jan The run-time, compile-time, binary size triangle

2022

31 Dec The 8 best books I read in 2022
28 Dec 2022: Another great year!
21 Dec Class templates versus constructor templates
17 Dec C++ Software Design by Klaus Iglberger
14 Dec C++23: attributes
07 Dec C++23: std::out_ptr and std::inout_ptr
03 Dec Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Caldini
30 Nov C++23: auto(x) and decay copy
23 Nov C++23: How lambdas are going to change?
19 Nov Non-coding roles or something you like?
16 Nov C++23: The <expected> header; expect the unexpected
09 Nov Why to use C++ in 2022
05 Nov 3 Things MongoDB Can Help You With
02 Nov The evolution of statements with initializers in C++ - part 2
28 Oct Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Bancila
26 Oct The evolution of statements with initializers in C++
19 Oct I'm leaving Amadeus after 9 years
12 Oct Should you use static code analyzers as gatekeepers?
08 Oct The Battle Hardened Developer by Fiodar Sazanavets
05 Oct C++23: flat_map, flat_set, et al.
28 Sep 5 tips to find your next job
21 Sep C++23: The stacktrace library
14 Sep Don't feel bad because of failed interviews, just keep learning!
07 Sep C++23: Preprocessing directives
03 Sep Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
31 Aug Should you really memorize algorithm complexities?
24 Aug The Template Method Pattern and the Non-Virtual Idiom
17 Aug 3 ways to stay motivated when you are leaving your job
10 Aug The copy and swap idiom in C++
03 Aug Price's law and 3 things to do if you're underpaid
27 Jul Trip report: C++ On Sea 2022
23 Jul Hands-On Design Patterns with C++ by Fedor Pikus
20 Jul 6 C++23 features improving string and string_view
13 Jul What are string_views and why should we use them?
06 Jul Won't extend it more than once!
29 Jun C++: standardized
22 Jun Bitwise enumerations
15 Jun C++23: Narrowing contextual conversions to bool
11 Jun The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
08 Jun Smart pointers and their deleters
01 Jun C++23: Consteval if to make compile time programming easier
25 May C++23: Literal suffix for (signed) size_t
21 May The Tech Resume Inside Out by Gergely Orosz
18 May C++ basics: scopes, linkage, names
09 May Tipi, a new solution to build C++ projects easier
04 May Make declaration order layout mandated
30 Apr The Goal: A Process Of Ongoing Improvement by Eliyahu M. Goldratt
27 Apr The 4 use of using in C++
20 Apr The infamous bug of range-based for loops
16 Apr Beautiful C++: 30 Core Guidelines for Writing Clean, Safe and Fast Code by J. Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory
13 Apr My first work experience with C++20
06 Apr Use strong types instead of bool parameters
30 Mar Storing references of pointers in containers in C++
26 Mar Beyond Order: 12 more rules for life by Jordan B. Peterson
23 Mar The Employee-Company triangle
16 Mar C++ basics: Pointers vs iterators
09 Mar Mocking non-virtual and free functions with gMock
05 Mar Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets by Svetlana Alexievich
02 Mar Mocking virtual functions with gMock
23 Feb The big STL Algorithms tutorial: wrapping up
19 Feb System Design Interview: An insider's guide by Alex Xu
16 Feb C++23: Deducing this
09 Feb 5 types of communication a senior developer does
05 Feb The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
02 Feb The big STL Algorithms tutorial: the memory header
26 Jan 3 piece of advice for junior developers
22 Jan The Choice: Embrace the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
19 Jan The big STL Algorithms tutorial: *numeric* scans
12 Jan Top 3 reasons to let people change teams within your organization
08 Jan Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
05 Jan The big STL Algorithms tutorial: more numeric algorithms

2021

29 Dec 2021: I feel I got everything I wanted and the next year will be even better
25 Dec The best 8 books I read in 2021
22 Dec What is the most vexing parse?
15 Dec Trip Report: CPPP 2021
11 Dec How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
08 Dec Top 7 reasons to join another team
01 Dec I broke production 3 times in 3 weeks - Part II
27 Nov Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors The Brave by Ryan Holiday
24 Nov I broke production 3 times in 3 weeks - Part I
17 Nov Trip Report: Meeting C++ 2021
10 Nov The big STL Algorithms tutorial: permutation operations
03 Nov 5 sources of success: how not to lose confidence after a promotion?
27 Oct Functions to be called only once in C++
23 Oct The Ape That Understood The Universe by Steve Stewart-Williams
20 Oct The big STL Algorithms tutorial: reduce operations
13 Oct C++ Concepts and the Core Guidelines
09 Oct Science, Strategy and War: The Strategic Theory of John Boyd by Frans Osinga
06 Oct Bring some fresh AIR and write effective code review comments
29 Sep Replace std::find_if in 80% of the cases
25 Sep The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
22 Sep The big STL Algorithms tutorial: comparison operations
15 Sep Top 6+1 responsibilities of a developer
11 Sep The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
08 Sep Do we correctly calculate min and max?
01 Sep The big STL Algorithms tutorial: Minimum/maximum operations
28 Aug The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
25 Aug OODA loop: The blueprint of our decision making
18 Aug const rvalue references
14 Aug Stand up for yourself and for your values
11 Aug Patterns of Conflict: Understand blitzkrieg with 4 German words
04 Aug The big STL Algorithms tutorial: heap operations
31 Jul Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War by Robert Coram
28 Jul How much revenue do you generate?
21 Jul const and smart pointers
17 Jul Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
14 Jul The big STL Algorithms tutorial: set operations
07 Jul 2 ways to use static with functions in C++
03 Jul The Richest Man in Babylon by George S Clason
30 Jun Always the Buyer
23 Jun The big STL Algorithms tutorial: merge and inplace_merge
19 Jun The 4 C's formula by Dan Sullivan
16 Jun Multiple destructors with C++ concepts
09 Jun 3 ways to prevent micro-burnouts
05 Jun C++ Best Practices by Jason Turner
02 Jun Different ways to achieve SFINAE
26 May Live like a monk - the key to success
22 May The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks
19 May The big STL Algorithms tutorial: binary_search et al.
12 May 3 types of people in software development without skin in the game
08 May Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual (Second edition) by John Sonmez
05 May C++ Concepts and logical operators
28 Apr Another 5 great productivity tips for working from home!
25 Apr 5 great productivity tips for working from home!
21 Apr What kind of developer are you?
17 Apr How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen by Joanna Faber and Julie King
14 Apr How to use type traits?
07 Apr What are type traits?
03 Apr C++ 20: Get the details by Rainer Grimm
31 Mar My code is not shipped! Should I care?
24 Mar C++ concepts in real life
20 Mar Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Taleb
17 Mar How to write your own C++ concepts? Part II.
13 Mar You have to ask for it!
10 Mar How to write your own C++ concepts? Part I.
03 Mar Concepts shipped with the C++ standard library
27 Feb Clean Agile: Back to Basics by Robert C. Martin
24 Feb C++ concepts with classes
20 Feb What Does This Button Do?: An Autobiography by Bruce Dickinson
17 Feb 4 ways to use C++ concepts in functions
13 Feb How to turn failures into growth in 5 steps?
10 Feb The concept behind C++ concepts
06 Feb I released my first book: How to use const in C++
03 Feb The big STL Algorithms tutorial: sorting operations
30 Jan Refactoring for Software Design Smells
27 Jan Can virtual functions have default arguments?
23 Jan Passion leads to specialization!
20 Jan The big STL Algorithms tutorial: partitioning operations
13 Jan Awaken the giant within by Tony Robbins
06 Jan Three ways to use the = delete specifier in C++

2020

2019

25 Dec Goodbye 2019, hello 2020!
18 Dec The big STL Algorithms tutorial: transform's undefined behaviour
11 Dec Refocus on the Agile Developer
04 Dec The best 8 books I read this year
27 Nov Does this string declaration compile?
20 Nov My DEV birthday gift for you: DEV.to Analytics!
13 Nov Stillness Is The Key by Ryan Holiday
06 Nov The big STL Algorithms tutorial: transform
30 Oct Keep calm and do less
23 Oct Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow
16 Oct The brand new assignment expression of Python 3.8
09 Oct Going down the road
02 Oct The Legacy Code Programmer's Toolbox by Jonathan Boccara
25 Sep The big STL Algorithms tutorial: modifying sequence operations - move and swap
18 Sep What's wrong with this person?! No! What's wrong with you?
11 Sep Drive: The Surprising Truth What Motivates by Daniel H. Pink
04 Sep The dead singleton and three ways to overcome it
28 Aug Why clean code is not the norm?
21 Aug Never split the difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Christopher Voss
14 Aug The big STL Algorithms tutorial: modifying sequence operations - copy et al.
07 Aug Forty and still a dev?
31 Jul Driving Technical Change by Terrence Ryan
24 Jul The big STL Algorithms tutorial: the rest of non-modifying sequence operations
16 Jul RivieraDev 2019 - the gastronomical dev conference
10 Jul The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference by Nicolai Josuttis
03 Jul How do you prepare your commits?
26 Jun Travel report: CPPP 2019
19 Jun The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco
12 Jun Take the lead!
06 Jun The Slow Birth of a Developer
30 May The Obstacle Is The Way by Ryan Holiday
22 May It's - not - so easy
15 May The big STL Algorithms tutorial: find et al.
08 May Rome's Last Citizen by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Sonni
01 May Be severe only with yourself
24 Apr Parameterized testing with GTest
17 Apr The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
10 Apr Lesson of a booking: Don't trust the system!
03 Apr The big STL Algorithms tutorial: for_each
27 Mar Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers
20 Mar Production code as a playground?
13 Mar The Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)
06 Mar Code Ahead by Yegor Bugayenko
27 Feb Do your job
20 Feb The big STL Algorithms tutorial: all_of, any_of, none_of
13 Feb The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier
06 Feb Virtue always has neighbours
30 Jan The big STL Algorithms tutorial: Introduction
23 Jan Optimized C++ by Kurt Gunteroth
16 Jan Who should be the master?
08 Jan The Three Laws of Objects
03 Jan Ryan Holiday: Perennial Seller

2018

30 Dec Review of 2018
26 Dec Professional learners we are
19 Dec Lambda Expressions in C++
12 Dec The best 13 books I read this year
05 Dec Reconquering my job in 15 steps
25 Nov How to use ampersands in C++
21 Nov Ramit Sethi: I'll teach you how to be rich
14 Nov A few words about team buildings
07 Nov How do you declare a function in C++?
31 Oct Nassim N. Taleb: The Black Swan
24 Oct Live with your results
17 Oct How I set up my Git
12 Oct Ryan Holiday: Ego is The Enemy
03 Oct Are you a fraud?
26 Sep How not to quit
19 Sep Cal Newport: Deep Work
12 Sep My first Flutter app
05 Sep It's not your job!
29 Aug Deliberate practice and memory management
22 Aug Cal Newport: So Good They Can't Ignore You
15 Aug Stop reading!
08 Aug Gilded Rose kata revisited
25 Jul The 4 Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss
25 Jul The cost of CPU operations
18 Jul Pitch Perfect - The Importance Of Personal Branding
11 Jul How to grow antifragile as a developer
05 Jul Why to use the override specifier in C++ 11?
27 Jun Essential Skills for the Agile Developer by Alan Shalloway et al.
19 Jun If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead
13 Jun Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
01 Jun I went to RivieraDEV 2018
30 May How to automatically format your C++ code regardless the IDE you use
23 May Dale Carnegie: How to Win Friends and Influence People
15 May The only one way to educate efficiently
09 May John Sonmez - The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide
04 May The 7 worst things a manager can do to a newcomer
25 Apr Which Is Harder To Find?
18 Apr Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design
13 Apr New design - just keep it simple
11 Apr Class initialization and nasty cores
04 Apr Chris Guillebeau: Born for this - How to find the work you were meant to do
28 Mar Sane office environment with code review guidelines
21 Mar How to choose your first programming language
16 Mar Carl Gustav Jung: Man and His Symbols
14 Mar 8 books every junior developer should read
09 Mar Coders at work: Donald Knuth
06 Mar Design Stamina Hypothesis
28 Feb Setting yourself up to succeed
21 Feb 66-day learning challenge
14 Feb Briefly about Mutation Testing
06 Feb Practice with a timer!
31 Jan Coders at work: Bernie Cosell
25 Jan How Wine-Disco is progressing?
20 Jan Coders at work: Fran Allen
11 Jan Briefly about Mutation Testing
03 Jan New year, a new beginning

2017

29 Dec Coders at work: Ken Thompson
27 Dec Review of 2017
22 Dec Coders at work: L Peter Deutsch
20 Dec Briefly about Chaos Engineering
13 Dec Demistify stars in Python
08 Dec Coders at work: Dan Ingalls
06 Dec Cypher tutorial: Relationships with a varying length
01 Dec Coders at work: Guy Steele
29 Nov My perfect first day at a new job
22 Nov Cypher tutorial: OPTIONAL MATCH
17 Nov Coders at work: Peter Norvig
15 Nov How I got my nicest pair of pens
10 Nov Coders at work: Simon Peyton Jones
08 Nov Cypher tutorial: the RETURN keyword
03 Nov Coders at work: Joe Armstrong
01 Nov Ramping up a new team: let's mob
27 Oct Coders at work: Joshua Bloch
25 Oct Cypher tutorial: the MATCH keyword
20 Oct Coders at work: Brendan Eich
18 Oct Reflections on the dojo I facilitated at Soiree du Test Logiciel
13 Oct Coders at work: Douglas Crockford
11 Oct Cypher tutorial: the CREATE keyword
06 Oct Coders at work: Brad Fitzpatrick
04 Oct Introduction to cypher
29 Sep CodinGame at Amadeus
27 Sep Programming on rails: Railway Oriented Programming!
22 Sep Coders at work: Jamie Zawinski
20 Sep Graphs in everyday life
15 Sep Upcoming coding dojo about graph databases
13 Sep How to contact your colleague sitting next to you (or anywhere else)
06 Sep Introduction to graph databases
03 Sep Failing and getting up in the French Alps
24 Aug What can you use for visualizing a graph?
15 Aug Work for peanuts, but love your job!
10 Aug The blog has moved to a new address
08 Aug How to use rules in JUnit
03 Aug Why I spend lunch time at my desk?
01 Aug The power of the three
27 Jul A manager who wants to help
25 Jul Are you a monogamous or a polygamous developer?
20 Jul Meetings as a waste of money
18 Jul Naming conventions for interfaces in Java
11 Jul Meet Neo4j again
27 Jun I made my first open source contribution
22 Jun Test driven development with Spring
20 Jun Horror with Maven - dependency management vs dependencies
15 Jun Getting familiar with Kafka
12 Jun A new app
09 Jun 4 Hours Work Week by Timothy Ferriss
07 Jun TDD as if you meant it
16 May Attending my first IT conference
25 Apr Joining a new project soon
12 Apr Returned from Japan
12 Mar Looking for challenges in open source
05 Mar Story of a failure
22 Feb My latest user story is about being a consultant
13 Feb How to keep learning during vacations?
24 Jan Tooling is great!
17 Jan Refactor Knuth's Prime Printer
06 Jan The Hashtag Square
02 Jan Ruby is the first one coming

2016

29 Dec Let's rock!

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