Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

After my post std::shared_ptr is an anti-pattern I was thinking about an example of justified usage of std::shared_ptr. I have mentioned that it can be used to implement caching, and in this post, I am going to use it for implementing reloadable config. [Read More]

After I published Dockerized build environments for C/C++ projects, I was approached on a few occasions, both online and offline, with questions regarding my IDE/text editor setup. [Read More]

In this post, I will share how to create a docker-based build environment for C and C++ projects targeted for Linux. [Read More]

The Rust programming language provides a few ways to terminate a program when it reaches an unrecoverable state by calling the macro std::panic! - a reference to kernel panic that I have found quite amusing. It comes in handy when an assert needs to used within code, such as for... [Read More]

The purpose of this post is to provide general guidance on enabling and collecting core dumps for applications running in a docker container. [Read More]