I love reading. I read almost every morning and every night. It sets me for the day and it calms me down before going to sleep. I try to read at least 2 books per month and it’s becoming a traditi...

Fellow C++ developers out there! I have a question for you! Will the following code compile? If not, why not? If it does, why? #include <string> int main() { std::string(foo); } Spen...

I joined DEV.to a bit more than two years ago. I don’t remember at all how I found this website, but it seemed welcoming. I particularly liked its really simple design. As a backend guy, it was ver...

Stillness is the key is the new book of Ryan Holiday that just came out about a month ago and it finishes his trilogy about… I wanted to write that about stoic philosophy, but it’s not really the t...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover only one algorithm, the transform. I find very important, plus it doesn’t have variants like the copy or move algorithms. On th...

The last one of the Five good emperors, Marcus Aurelius had a note in his Meditations: “If you seek tranquillity, do less.” This is one of his thoughts that is the most applicable to software devel...

Smartcuts covers how to stimulate - mostly - professional development. Hence its subtitle is How Hackers, Innovators and Icons Accelerate Success. By example, the author Shane Snow analyzes how ce...

Python 3.8 is coming and not surprisingly it comes with a bag of new features. In this post, I’d like to present only one that I’ve been really waiting for: assignment expressions! The problem Wh...

After years of working hard and understanding how the game works, you got promoted. You are happy. You made a few steps forward. It feels exactly like when you got admission to university more th...

The Legacy Code Programmer’s Toolbox is the quite fresh e-book of Jonathan Boccara, the person behind Fluent C++. Not surprisingly it’s about how to attack legacy code. The author gives practical ...