This May, I had the chance once again to attend Riviera Dev and even to speak about my hobby. Was that gastronomical? You bet it was! But more on that later. This was the second year that the co...

For each quarter, I define three goals for myself as described in Setting yourself up to success. In the previous quarters, I had personal goals related to the C++ Standard Library. As I was alrea...

What is your process to create a new commit? Is it just git commit -am? Or is it more sophisticated? Mine used to be something like this: for file in files returned by git status: git diff file...

Right after I was returning from a three and a half weeks long road trip with destinations in 5 countries, then attending an advanced presentation skills workshop, I was finally heading to the airp...

MJ DeMarco in his book offers to “crack the code to wealth” so that you can “live rich for a lifetime”. It sounds like a clickbait, doesn’t it? Far too often these books are written by people who ...

In the middle of February, one of my colleagues, Bob told me on chat that he hadn’t had yet his yearly performance review. It was due by the end of January. He was rather surprised, that I actually...

“Nothing is slower than the true birth of a man.” - said Hadrian to his selected successor, the young Marcus Aurelius. At least in the novel called Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. What...

The Obstacle Is The Way is the third book of Ryan Holiday and maybe the one with the biggest impact so far: a stoic life guide. Its title is so evident. I found it an entertaining book to read, b...

Damnjan Jovanovic in his article reacted to five “easy for you announcements” that developers usually receive. I thought that my reply would be too long for a comment, so I turned it into a post. ...

In this next part of the big STL algorithm tutorial, we will discover the different functions of the <algorithm> header that we can use to find an item in a container. Namely, we are going ...