About

Arthur O’Dwyer lives and works in Westchester, New York, with his lovely wife Sam and their ball python, cat, and Welsh terrier.

I started this blog in March 2018 so that I’d have a place to dump short essays on C++ topics. I might occasionally say things that aren’t about C++, too.

Things I’ve Done

  • 2012: Designed Colossal Cave: The Board Game (Game Salute)
  • 2014–2018: Organized the ACCU Bay Area meetup, along with Jon Kalb and Bryce Lelbach
  • 2014–2020: Speaker at CppCon (playlist)
  • 2015, 2018–2019, 2021: Speaker at C++Now
  • 2017–present: Married Sam
  • 2017: Wrote Mastering the C++17 STL (Packt)
  • 2018: Moved to New York
  • 2018–2019: Co-organized the NYC C++ meetup, along with Andrew Morrow
  • 2019–2020: Chaired CppCon’s “Back to Basics” Track
  • 2021: Exhumed Castlequest (1980)

Contact Me

arthur.j.odwyer@gmail.com