Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

In an earlier post of mine “Let it explode!”, we explored “handling” certain exceptions via premature termination. Now, it is time to solve the mystery of process termination in Docker. [Read More]

The class template std::optional manages an optional contained value, i.e. a value that may or may not be present[1]. It is a great alternative for std::unique_ptr, or raw pointer, when used solely to express that a value is indeed optional. The type of the variable explicitly states that a contained... [Read More]

I was recently investigating a bug and would like to share an unexpected, yet interesting discovery regarding the cause of the issue. In order to provide an idea of what I was working on, consider the following code as a simplified representation: [Read More]

Exceptions are an inherent part of modern C++. Everything is clear with the exceptions that can be handled, but what do we do with the exceptions that have no foreseeable resolution? [Read More]

For the past five years, my go-to text editors have been Vim and gVim/MacVim. Currently, I work on macOS with Ubuntu, as a target OS, running on the local VMware Fusion virtual machine. [Read More]