Thoughts of a Curious Software Engineer

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]

Recently, I was writing a script whose function was to retrieve and parse a list of processes that were running in a docker container. The script was based on another script that did the same by ssh-ing to a remote server. However, my grep/sed/awk command set did not work despite... [Read More]