adventure

• Dealing with Dragons (2019-06-09) litclub
• Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) litclub math puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) board-games

allocators

• The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) copy-elision coroutines rant wg21
• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal rant wg21
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) customization-points library-design metaprogramming templates wg21
• My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) conferences cppnow relocatability
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) library-design proposal rant standard-library-trivia
• <memory_resource> for libc++ (2018-06-05) library-design llvm
• My C++Now 2018 talks are up (2018-06-04) conferences cppnow relocatability

argument-dependent-lookup

• ADL can interfere even with uglified names (2019-09-26) pitfalls standard-library-trivia
• What is ADL? (2019-04-26) c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics
• How hana::type<T> “disables ADL” (2019-04-09) standard-library-trivia
• ADL insanity (2019-04-08)
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) customization-points pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
• Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) llvm proposal
• Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) llvm pitfalls proposal
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) customization-points hyperrogue pitfalls war-stories
• Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) customization-points library-design memes templates

attributes

• nodiscard philosophies (2019-01-25) library-design
• Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) copy-elision pitfalls
• The Ignorable Attributes Rule (2018-05-15) language-design wg21-folkloristics
• [[trivial_abi]] 101 (2018-05-02) copy-elision llvm sg14

blog-roundup

• Sorrows and So You Want to Be a Wizard (2019-11-30) litclub
• What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) litclub morality old-shit sre
• C++Now video tidbits (2019-07-02) cppnow
• Fork considered harmful; paint splatters considered Perl (2019-04-13) paradigm-shift
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) class-template-argument-deduction llvm pitfalls
• “Counterfactual mugging” a.k.a. “charity” (2018-11-19) litclub morality us-politics
• Quantum Computing for the Determined (2018-08-05) math science
• If English was written like Chinese (2018-07-13) typography
• Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) jokes math puzzles
• Broken Koans (2018-06-30) litclub
• Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) copy-elision move-semantics today-i-learned
• Puzzle: Policing Squaresville (2018-05-10) math puzzles
• Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) knuth typography
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) coroutines exception-handling language-design paradigm-shift

board-games

• The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) constructors language-design rant
• Homeworlds: The Yellowbird Mistake, Part II (2018-09-15)
• Homeworlds: The Yellowbird Mistake (2018-09-10)
• Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) adventure
• Hanabi set-packing puzzle (2018-04-09) math puzzles
• Hat-game strategies in Hanabi (2018-03-29)

c++-learner-track

• A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) slack wg21-folkloristics
• What is ADL? (2019-04-26) argument-dependent-lookup wg21-folkloristics
• What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) library-design metaprogramming type-erasure
• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) library-design metaprogramming parameter-only-types pitfalls slogans
• const is a contract (2019-01-03) c++-style move-semantics slogans

c++-style

• const is a contract (2019-01-03) c++-learner-track move-semantics slogans
• for (auto&& elt : range) Still Always Works (2018-12-27) ranges
• for (auto&& elt : range) Always Works (2018-12-15)
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) class-template-argument-deduction library-design pitfalls slogans
• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018-12-06) llvm
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) constructors library-design metaprogramming pitfalls
• An argument pro liberal use of [[nodiscard]] (2018-11-06) pitfalls
• C++2a idioms for library feature detection (2018-10-26)
• Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) concepts cppcon paradigm-shift
• Data race when catching by non-const reference (2018-09-16) copy-elision exception-handling
• The Auto macro (2018-08-11) memes pearls
• The FORCE_CONSTEXPR macro (2018-08-07) pearls sufficiently-smart-compiler
• The Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering (2018-06-18)
• In praise of make_unique (2018-05-26) standard-library-trivia
• Hiding template parameters from casual users (2018-05-09) templates
• Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) pearls war-stories
• The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) contracts undefined-behavior wg21-folkloristics
• On lifetime extension and decltype(auto) (2018-04-05) move-semantics
• Borrow types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) paradigm-shift parameter-only-types
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) paradigm-shift parameter-only-types pitfalls
• Zoological case naming (2018-03-16) memes naming
• Using future_error for control flow (2018-03-13) exception-handling
• The “unsigned for value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) rant undefined-behavior

class-template-argument-deduction

• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators library-design proposal rant wg21
• Measuring adoption of C++17 and CTAD in real codebases (2019-01-16) llvm science
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style library-design pitfalls slogans
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup llvm pitfalls

classical-polymorphism

• Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) rant slack
• What is the virtual table table? (2019-09-30) constructors
• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) implementation-divergence metaprogramming
• Remember the ifstream (2018-11-26) concepts library-design pitfalls

concepts

• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) conferences cppcon
• Concept definition-checking and its woes (2019-07-22)
• Announcing Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) coroutines ranges web
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) implementation-divergence metaprogramming templates wg21
• This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) customization-points library-design metaprogramming
• Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) kona-2019 library-design rant wg21
• Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) implementation-divergence metaprogramming templates
• requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) language-design rant
• Why do we require requires requires? (2019-01-15)
• Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) library-design move-semantics type-erasure
• Remember the ifstream (2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism library-design pitfalls
• Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) c++-style cppcon paradigm-shift
• A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) metaprogramming rant
• A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) rant
• Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) metaprogramming pitfalls
• The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) metaprogramming rant
• Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) metaprogramming pearls templates
• Comparison categories for narrow-contract comparators (2018-08-07) contracts operator-spaceship undefined-behavior
• Thoughts on “sanely move-assignable” (2018-07-06) relocatability
• Thoughts on Concepts, P0745, and P1079 (2018-05-28) wg21
• A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) constructors rant science
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) constructors naming rant templates wg21

concurrency

• Why doesn’t C++ have networking support? (2019-10-09) library-design wg21
• “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” (2019-06-06) rant science
• Contra locales (2018-04-30) library-design

conferences

• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-21) cppcon
• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) concepts cppcon
• Back to Basics at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-12) cppcon
• My C++Now 2019 talks are captioned (2019-06-25) cppnow relocatability
• “The STL From Scratch” is back! (2019-06-21) cppcon
• Trivially Relocatable versus Destructive Movable (2018-09-28) cppcon relocatability
• CppCon 2018 Early Bird Registration closes on July 7th (2018-07-02) cppcon
• My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) allocators cppnow relocatability
• My C++Now 2018 talks are up (2018-06-04) allocators cppnow relocatability

constructors

• What is the virtual table table? (2019-09-30) classical-polymorphism
• The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) board-games language-design rant
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) c++-style library-design metaprogramming pitfalls
• Is your constructor an object-factory or a type-conversion? (2018-06-21) library-design rant
• A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) concepts rant science
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts naming rant templates wg21

contracts

• Comparison categories for narrow-contract comparators (2018-08-07) concepts operator-spaceship undefined-behavior
• The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) c++-style undefined-behavior wg21-folkloristics

copy-elision

• The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators coroutines rant wg21
• Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) attributes pitfalls
• “Perfect backwarding” (2018-09-25) metaprogramming
• Data race when catching by non-const reference (2018-09-16) c++-style exception-handling
• Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) blog-roundup move-semantics today-i-learned
• [[trivial_abi]] 101 (2018-05-02) attributes llvm sg14
• Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) exception-handling move-semantics sufficiently-smart-compiler
• The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) move-semantics proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler

coroutines

• The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators copy-elision rant wg21
• C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) parameter-only-types pitfalls
• Announcing Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) concepts ranges web
• In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) proposal wg21
• Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) metaprogramming ranges sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup exception-handling language-design paradigm-shift
• On raise versus throw, and the Mandela Effect (2018-03-14) exception-handling

cppcon

• CppCon 2019 talks are up (2019-10-18)
• Thoughts on Herb Sutter’s CppCon keynote (2019-09-24) exception-handling
• A trivially copyable ticket for a unique_ptr (2019-09-21) parameter-only-types relocatability
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-21) conferences
• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) concepts conferences
• Back to Basics at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-12) conferences
• “The STL From Scratch” is back! (2019-06-21) conferences
• Trivially Relocatable versus Destructive Movable (2018-09-28) conferences relocatability
• Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) c++-style concepts paradigm-shift
• CppCon 2018 Early Bird Registration closes on July 7th (2018-07-02) conferences

cppnow

• C++Now video tidbits (2019-07-02) blog-roundup
• My C++Now 2019 talks are captioned (2019-06-25) conferences relocatability
• MapView can be faster than MapRef (2019-05-27) library-design parameter-only-types
• MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) exception-handling pitfalls relocatability
• On function_ref and string_view (2019-05-10) library-design pitfalls
• My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) allocators conferences relocatability
• My C++Now 2018 talks are up (2018-06-04) allocators conferences relocatability
• The C++Now 2018 schedule is out (2018-03-19)

customization-points

• This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts library-design metaprogramming
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
• C++ doesn’t know how to do customization points that aren’t operators (2018-08-23) operator-spaceship rant
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators library-design metaprogramming templates wg21
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup hyperrogue pitfalls war-stories
• Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup library-design memes templates

esolang

• Church booleans in Befunge-98 (2019-08-24)
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) math web
• Befunge and Flobnar (2019-05-02)

exception-handling

• Thoughts on Herb Sutter’s CppCon keynote (2019-09-24) cppcon
• “Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security” (2019-06-17) wg21-folkloristics
• MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow pitfalls relocatability
• Data race when catching by non-const reference (2018-09-16) c++-style copy-elision
• Attribute noexcept_verify (2018-06-12) proposal
• Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) copy-elision move-semantics sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup coroutines language-design paradigm-shift
• On raise versus throw, and the Mandela Effect (2018-03-14) coroutines
• Using future_error for control flow (2018-03-13) c++-style

food

• Booth bits; modern cuisine (2019-03-28) old-shit
• Map of NYC Michelin stars, 2019 (2019-03-26) web

holy-wars

• West const (2018-03-15) memes

how-to

• How to build LLVM from source, monorepo version (2019-11-09) llvm
• Hello World with C++2a modules (2019-11-07) llvm modules
• Making floppy disk images under OS X (2019-07-26) sre
• MathJax in Jekyll (2018-08-05) knuth web
• How to build LLVM from source (2018-04-16) llvm
• First post — Jekyll Now (2018-03-13) slack web

hyperrogue

• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) sg14 type-erasure war-stories
• shields.io (2018-06-26) sre today-i-learned web
• The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) initializer-list pitfalls
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls war-stories

implementation-divergence

• Implementation divergence with const int i; and mutable (2019-12-04)
• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) classical-polymorphism metaprogramming
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts metaprogramming templates wg21
• Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) concepts metaprogramming templates
• operator auto (2018-07-12) metaprogramming proposal rant today-i-learned

initializer-list

• The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) hyperrogue pitfalls

jacksonville-2018

• Namespaces for UDLs (2018-03-21) proposal wg21
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) language-design naming operator-spaceship templates wg21
• Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) language-design modules rant wg21

jokes

• The blow-up problem (2019-01-14) science
• Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) morality movies old-shit
• Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) blog-roundup math puzzles

knuth

• MathJax in Jekyll (2018-08-05) how-to web
• Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) blog-roundup typography

kona-2019

• How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) operator-spaceship relocatability wg21
• Thoughts on P1306 “Expansion Statements” (2019-02-28) language-design metaprogramming
• Fetishizing class invariants (2019-02-24) library-design metaprogramming standard-library-trivia
• Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) metaprogramming pitfalls
• P1144 case study: Moving a fixed_capacity_vector (2019-02-22) relocatability sg14
• What library types are trivially_relocatable in practice? (2019-02-20) relocatability
• Quick and unscientific trivially_relocatable benchmark (2019-02-12) relocatability
• Packs of packs (2019-02-11) language-design metaprogramming
• Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts library-design rant wg21
• Contra P0429R6 flat_map (2019-01-29) library-design sg14 wg21
• Hot takes on flat_map, resize_default_init, and ranges::to (2019-01-28) rant wg21

language-design

• Thoughts on P1306 “Expansion Statements” (2019-02-28) kona-2019 metaprogramming
• The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) board-games constructors rant
• Packs of packs (2019-02-11) kona-2019 metaprogramming
• requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) concepts rant
• Perennial impossibilities of C++ (2018-06-12)
• Contra implicit declarations of struct types (2018-05-16) pitfalls rant
• The Ignorable Attributes Rule (2018-05-15) attributes wg21-folkloristics
• Contra built-in library types (2018-04-15) operator-spaceship rant
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 naming operator-spaceship templates wg21
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup coroutines exception-handling paradigm-shift
• Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) jacksonville-2018 modules rant wg21

library-design

• An unexpected brush with “strong typedefs” (2019-10-10) parameter-only-types standard-library-trivia
• Why doesn’t C++ have networking support? (2019-10-09) concurrency wg21
• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction proposal rant wg21
• MapView can be faster than MapRef (2019-05-27) cppnow parameter-only-types
• On function_ref and string_view (2019-05-10) cppnow pitfalls
• This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts customization-points metaprogramming
• The space of design choices for std::function (2019-03-27) parameter-only-types type-erasure
• What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) c++-learner-track metaprogramming type-erasure
• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track metaprogramming parameter-only-types pitfalls slogans
• Fetishizing class invariants (2019-02-24) kona-2019 metaprogramming standard-library-trivia
• compressed_vector_traits (2019-02-16) metaprogramming
• C++ idiom of the day: arrow_proxy (2019-02-06) metaprogramming pearls
• Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 rant wg21
• Contra P0429R6 flat_map (2019-01-29) kona-2019 sg14 wg21
• nodiscard philosophies (2019-01-25) attributes
• Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) concepts move-semantics type-erasure
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction pitfalls slogans
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) c++-style constructors metaprogramming pitfalls
• Remember the ifstream (2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism concepts pitfalls
• Case study: Making std::any trivially relocatable (2018-08-02) relocatability
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points metaprogramming templates wg21
• SCARY metafunctions (2018-07-09) metaprogramming
• Is your constructor an object-factory or a type-conversion? (2018-06-21) constructors rant
• inplace_foo versus fixed_capacity_foo (2018-06-18) naming sg14
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) allocators proposal rant standard-library-trivia
• <memory_resource> for libc++ (2018-06-05) allocators llvm
• Reference types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) parameter-only-types pitfalls sg14 wg21
• Contra locales (2018-04-30) concurrency
• std::priority_queue is missing an operation (2018-04-27) proposal
• Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points memes templates

litclub

• Sorrows and So You Want to Be a Wizard (2019-11-30) blog-roundup
• Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) movies old-shit
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) morality old-shit
• What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup morality old-shit sre
• Dealing with Dragons (2019-06-09) adventure
• Les Fleurs de Tarbes (2019-01-14) sre
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure math puzzles web
• Booth on Cassio (2019-01-05)
• Against the Grain: Contraception, abortion, and slow death (2018-12-26) morality
• Against the Grain: Pitcher plant (2018-12-25) movies
• Fictional islands that are neither fictional nor islands (2018-12-16) today-i-learned
• “Counterfactual mugging” a.k.a. “charity” (2018-11-19) blog-roundup morality us-politics
• The Mysteries of London (2018-09-05) old-shit us-politics
• The Three Impostors: Four-ale and six-ale (2018-07-26) old-shit today-i-learned
• Renowned author Dan Brown; London’s Gold-Mines (2018-07-10) old-shit
• Broken Koans (2018-06-30) blog-roundup
• Madame Scarron (2018-06-22) old-shit
• “We were defeated by one thing only—” (2018-06-22) sre
• ’Ware Wire (2018-06-20)
• Which in your case you have not got (2018-06-17) today-i-learned
• The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World (2018-04-05) old-shit

llvm

• How to build LLVM from source, monorepo version (2019-11-09) how-to
• Hello World with C++2a modules (2019-11-07) how-to modules
• Measuring adoption of C++17 and CTAD in real codebases (2019-01-16) class-template-argument-deduction science
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction pitfalls
• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018-12-06) c++-style
• Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) argument-dependent-lookup proposal
• Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup pitfalls proposal
• <memory_resource> for libc++ (2018-06-05) allocators library-design
• [[trivial_abi]] 101 (2018-05-02) attributes copy-elision sg14
• How to build LLVM from source (2018-04-16) how-to

math

• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, with tables (2019-10-18) puzzles
• What is 8÷2(2+2)? (2019-08-01)
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) esolang web
• Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) science
• Notes on Prince Rupert’s Problem (2019-07-22) science today-i-learned
• Puzzle: Wolves and sheep (2019-04-17) puzzles
• README for my Peaceful Encampments visualizer (2019-03-18) puzzles web
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-24) puzzles
• Peaceful Encampments, round 2 (2019-01-21) puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure litclub puzzles web
• Meta-sudoku, round 4: A valid meta-puzzle (2018-11-20) puzzles
• Meta-sudoku, round 3: D’oh! (2018-11-19) puzzles
• Meta-sudoku, round 2 (2018-11-18) puzzles
• Puzzle: Sudoku Stories (2018-10-26) puzzles
• Quantum Computing for the Determined (2018-08-05) blog-roundup science
• Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) blog-roundup jokes puzzles
• Puzzle: Policing Squaresville (2018-05-10) blog-roundup puzzles
• Hanabi set-packing puzzle (2018-04-09) board-games puzzles

memes

• Execution-agent-local storage (2018-11-14) rant thread-local-storage
• Pray-Mister-Babbage problems (2018-09-26) old-shit
• The Auto macro (2018-08-11) c++-style pearls
• API design (2018-07-09) slack
• A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) pitfalls this-should-exist
• Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points library-design templates
• Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! (2018-03-17)
• Zoological case naming (2018-03-16) c++-style naming
• West const (2018-03-15) holy-wars

metaprogramming

• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) classical-polymorphism implementation-divergence
• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) operator-spaceship pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics
• Conditional explicit is not the same thing as forwarding explicit (2019-07-05) templates
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts implementation-divergence templates wg21
• This one weird trick for customization by class template (partial) specialization (2019-04-26) concepts customization-points library-design
• What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) c++-learner-track library-design type-erasure
• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls slogans
• Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) coroutines ranges sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Thoughts on P1306 “Expansion Statements” (2019-02-28) kona-2019 language-design
• Fetishizing class invariants (2019-02-24) kona-2019 library-design standard-library-trivia
• Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) kona-2019 pitfalls
• compressed_vector_traits (2019-02-16) library-design
• Packs of packs (2019-02-11) kona-2019 language-design
• C++ idiom of the day: arrow_proxy (2019-02-06) library-design pearls
• Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) concepts implementation-divergence templates
• Pointer comparisons with std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) operator-spaceship rant standard-library-trivia undefined-behavior
• Is this std::vector? (2019-01-17)
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) c++-style constructors library-design pitfalls
• “Perfect backwarding” (2018-09-25) copy-elision
• A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts rant
• Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) concepts pitfalls
• The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) concepts rant
• Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) concepts pearls templates
• Template metaprogramming: Iteration is better than recursion (2018-07-23) templates
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points library-design templates wg21
• operator auto (2018-07-12) implementation-divergence proposal rant today-i-learned
• SCARY metafunctions (2018-07-09) library-design

modules

• Hello World with C++2a modules (2019-11-07) how-to llvm
• Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) jacksonville-2018 language-design rant wg21

morality

• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) litclub old-shit
• What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup litclub old-shit sre
• Against the Grain: Contraception, abortion, and slow death (2018-12-26) litclub
• “Counterfactual mugging” a.k.a. “charity” (2018-11-19) blog-roundup litclub us-politics
• Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes movies old-shit
• Assume a spherical politician (2018-07-04) science us-politics
• Providentissimus Deus (2018-03-13) undefined-behavior

move-semantics

• Self-assignment and the Rule of Zero (2019-08-20) pitfalls
• const is a contract (2019-01-03) c++-learner-track c++-style slogans
• Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) concepts library-design type-erasure
• Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) proposal relocatability
• Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) blog-roundup copy-elision today-i-learned
• Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) copy-elision exception-handling sufficiently-smart-compiler
• On lifetime extension and decltype(auto) (2018-04-05) c++-style
• The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler

movies

• Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) litclub old-shit
• Against the Grain: Pitcher plant (2018-12-25) litclub
• Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes morality old-shit
• The Demagogue in Politics (2018-04-03) old-shit us-politics
• Johnny Eck in Tarzan Escapes (2018-03-24) old-shit today-i-learned

music

• RFM: Request for mashups (2019-03-17) this-should-exist
• This should exist: Markov music for radio lacunae (2018-03-21) this-should-exist

naming

• inplace_foo versus fixed_capacity_foo (2018-06-18) library-design sg14
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors rant templates wg21
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design operator-spaceship templates wg21
• Zoological case naming (2018-03-16) c++-style memes

old-shit

• Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) litclub movies
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) litclub morality
• What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup litclub morality sre
• The wit of Macaulay, who wrote of Frederick II (2019-04-29)
• Booth bits; modern cuisine (2019-03-28) food
• On choosing the exact right terminology (2019-01-15) sre
• The “Red Clause” (2018-10-05) us-politics
• Pray-Mister-Babbage problems (2018-09-26) memes
• The Mysteries of London (2018-09-05) litclub us-politics
• The Three Impostors: Four-ale and six-ale (2018-07-26) litclub today-i-learned
• Godspell and Max Havelaar (2018-07-23) jokes morality movies
• Renowned author Dan Brown; London’s Gold-Mines (2018-07-10) litclub
• Madame Scarron (2018-06-22) litclub
• Great Deploy Plans of History: Time Zones (2018-05-21) sre
• The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World (2018-04-05) litclub
• The Demagogue in Politics (2018-04-03) movies us-politics
• Johnny Eck in Tarzan Escapes (2018-03-24) movies today-i-learned

operator-spaceship

• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) metaprogramming pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics
• Enums break strong structural equality (2019-07-04) templates wg21
• How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) kona-2019 relocatability wg21
• Pointer comparisons with std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) metaprogramming rant standard-library-trivia undefined-behavior
• C++ doesn’t know how to do customization points that aren’t operators (2018-08-23) customization-points rant
• Comparison categories for narrow-contract comparators (2018-08-07) concepts contracts undefined-behavior
• Contra built-in library types (2018-04-15) language-design rant
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming templates wg21

paradigm-shift

• Fork considered harmful; paint splatters considered Perl (2019-04-13) blog-roundup
• Concepts as door-opening robots (2018-09-24) c++-style concepts cppcon
• Borrow types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) c++-style parameter-only-types
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) c++-style parameter-only-types pitfalls
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup coroutines exception-handling language-design

parameter-only-types

• An unexpected brush with “strong typedefs” (2019-10-10) library-design standard-library-trivia
• A trivially copyable ticket for a unique_ptr (2019-09-21) cppcon relocatability
• C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) coroutines pitfalls
• MapView can be faster than MapRef (2019-05-27) cppnow library-design
• The space of design choices for std::function (2019-03-27) library-design type-erasure
• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming pitfalls slogans
• Reference types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design pitfalls sg14 wg21
• Borrow types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) c++-style paradigm-shift
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) c++-style paradigm-shift pitfalls

pearls

• C++ idiom of the day: arrow_proxy (2019-02-06) library-design metaprogramming
• make_range and reversed (2018-08-29) ranges templates
• Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) concepts metaprogramming templates
• Exploring C++ types with puts(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__) (2018-08-22) templates
• The Auto macro (2018-08-11) c++-style memes
• The FORCE_CONSTEXPR macro (2018-08-07) c++-style sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style war-stories

pitfalls

• PSA: <random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) random-numbers rant standard-library-trivia
• ADL can interfere even with uglified names (2019-09-26) argument-dependent-lookup standard-library-trivia
• Self-assignment and the Rule of Zero (2019-08-20) move-semantics
• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship standard-library-trivia templates wg21-folkloristics
• C++2a Coroutines and dangling references (2019-07-10) coroutines parameter-only-types
• MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow exception-handling relocatability
• On function_ref and string_view (2019-05-10) cppnow library-design
• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming parameter-only-types slogans
• PSA: shared_ptr<T>() is not make_shared<T>() (2019-03-06) war-stories
• Not variadic expression templates (2019-02-23) kona-2019 metaprogramming
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction library-design slogans
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction llvm
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) c++-style constructors library-design metaprogramming
• Remember the ifstream (2018-11-26) classical-polymorphism concepts library-design
• Callee-destroy versus caller-destroy parameter lifetimes (2018-11-12) attributes copy-elision
• An argument pro liberal use of [[nodiscard]] (2018-11-06) c++-style
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points proposal san-diego-2018 wg21
• Constrained forwarding references considered sketchy as frick (2018-09-09) concepts metaprogramming
• Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup llvm proposal
• When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) proposal relocatability wg21
• C++ quiz of the day (2018-07-08) relocatability
• Defaulted destructor inhibits move (2018-07-07)
• The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) hyperrogue initializer-list
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points hyperrogue war-stories
• Reference types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design parameter-only-types sg14 wg21
• Contra implicit declarations of struct types (2018-05-16) language-design rant
• Downsides of omitting trivial destructor calls (2018-04-17) standard-library-trivia sufficiently-smart-compiler today-i-learned
• A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) memes this-should-exist
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) c++-style paradigm-shift parameter-only-types

proposal

• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design rant wg21
• In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) coroutines wg21
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls san-diego-2018 wg21
• Fixing ADL, Round 2 (2018-08-14) argument-dependent-lookup llvm
• Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup llvm pitfalls
• Announcing “trivially relocatable” (2018-07-18) relocatability
• When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls relocatability wg21
• operator auto (2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming rant today-i-learned
• Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) move-semantics relocatability
• Attribute noexcept_verify (2018-06-12) exception-handling
• has_no_padding_bits (2018-06-08) rant
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) allocators library-design rant standard-library-trivia
• std::priority_queue is missing an operation (2018-04-27) library-design
• Use-cases for false_v (2018-04-02) templates undefined-behavior
• The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision move-semantics sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Namespaces for UDLs (2018-03-21) jacksonville-2018 wg21

puzzles

• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, with tables (2019-10-18) math
• Puzzle: Wolves and sheep (2019-04-17) math
• README for my Peaceful Encampments visualizer (2019-03-18) math web
• Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) adventure web
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-24) math
• Peaceful Encampments, round 2 (2019-01-21) math web
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure litclub math web
• Meta-sudoku, round 4: A valid meta-puzzle (2018-11-20) math
• Meta-sudoku, round 3: D’oh! (2018-11-19) math
• Meta-sudoku, round 2 (2018-11-18) math
• Puzzle: Sudoku Stories (2018-10-26) math
• Portia’s Caskets, Explained (2018-07-06) blog-roundup jokes math
• Puzzle: Policing Squaresville (2018-05-10) blog-roundup math
• Hanabi set-packing puzzle (2018-04-09) board-games math

random-numbers

• PSA: <random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) pitfalls rant standard-library-trivia

ranges

• Announcing Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) concepts coroutines web
• Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) coroutines metaprogramming sufficiently-smart-compiler
• for (auto&& elt : range) Still Always Works (2018-12-27) c++-style
• make_range and reversed (2018-08-29) pearls templates

rant

• Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) classical-polymorphism slack
• Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible (2019-11-20) slack web
• PSA: <random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) pitfalls random-numbers standard-library-trivia
• The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators copy-elision coroutines wg21
• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal wg21
• “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” (2019-06-06) concurrency science
• The Knightmare of Initialization in C++ (2019-02-18) board-games constructors language-design
• On teaching Unicode in C++ (2019-02-03) typography
• Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 library-design wg21
• Hot takes on flat_map, resize_default_init, and ranges::to (2019-01-28) kona-2019 wg21
• Pointer comparisons with std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) metaprogramming operator-spaceship standard-library-trivia undefined-behavior
• requires-expression grammar trivia (2019-01-17) concepts language-design
• Execution-agent-local storage (2018-11-14) memes thread-local-storage
• A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts metaprogramming
• A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) concepts
• The big problems for C++11 SFINAE (2018-09-08) concepts metaprogramming
• C++ doesn’t know how to do customization points that aren’t operators (2018-08-23) customization-points operator-spaceship
• operator auto (2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming proposal today-i-learned
• Trivially-constructible-from (2018-07-03) relocatability standard-library-trivia
• Is your constructor an object-factory or a type-conversion? (2018-06-21) constructors library-design
• has_no_padding_bits (2018-06-08) proposal
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) allocators library-design proposal standard-library-trivia
• Contra implicit declarations of struct types (2018-05-16) language-design pitfalls
• A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) concepts constructors science
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors naming templates wg21
• Contra built-in library types (2018-04-15) language-design operator-spaceship
• Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) jacksonville-2018 language-design modules wg21
• The “unsigned for value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) c++-style undefined-behavior

relocatability

• A trivially copyable ticket for a unique_ptr (2019-09-21) cppcon parameter-only-types
• My C++Now 2019 talks are captioned (2019-06-25) conferences cppnow
• MSVC can’t handle move-only exception types (2019-05-11) cppnow exception-handling pitfalls
• How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) kona-2019 operator-spaceship wg21
• P1144 case study: Moving a fixed_capacity_vector (2019-02-22) kona-2019 sg14
• What library types are trivially_relocatable in practice? (2019-02-20) kona-2019
• Quick and unscientific trivially_relocatable benchmark (2019-02-12) kona-2019
• [[trivially_relocatable]] in San Diego: call for reader feedback (2018-11-11) san-diego-2018
• Cheaply relocatable, but not trivially relocatable (2018-10-26)
• I won’t be in San Diego (2018-10-20) san-diego-2018
• Trivially Relocatable FAQ (2018-10-04)
• Trivially Relocatable versus Destructive Movable (2018-09-28) conferences cppcon
• mutable and “trivially fooable” (2018-08-19) wg21
• Case study: Making std::any trivially relocatable (2018-08-02) library-design
• Announcing “trivially relocatable” (2018-07-18) proposal
• When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls proposal wg21
• C++ quiz of the day (2018-07-08) pitfalls
• Thoughts on “sanely move-assignable” (2018-07-06) concepts
• Trivially-constructible-from (2018-07-03) rant standard-library-trivia
• Trivially swappable (2018-06-29) move-semantics proposal
• My C++Now 2018 talks are captioned (2018-06-13) allocators conferences cppnow
• My C++Now 2018 talks are up (2018-06-04) allocators conferences cppnow

san-diego-2018

• [[trivially_relocatable]] in San Diego: call for reader feedback (2018-11-11) relocatability
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls proposal wg21
• I won’t be in San Diego (2018-10-20) relocatability

science

• Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) math
• Notes on Prince Rupert’s Problem (2019-07-22) math today-i-learned
• “Understanding Real-World Concurrency Bugs in Go” (2019-06-06) concurrency rant
• Measuring adoption of C++17 and CTAD in real codebases (2019-01-16) class-template-argument-deduction llvm
• The blow-up problem (2019-01-14) jokes
• Quantum Computing for the Determined (2018-08-05) blog-roundup math
• Assume a spherical politician (2018-07-04) morality us-politics
• Rubens tube (2018-05-30) today-i-learned
• A pro-default-constructibility experiment from 2007 (2018-05-10) concepts constructors rant

sg14

• P1144 case study: Moving a fixed_capacity_vector (2019-02-22) kona-2019 relocatability
• Contra P0429R6 flat_map (2019-01-29) kona-2019 library-design wg21
• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) hyperrogue type-erasure war-stories
• inplace_foo versus fixed_capacity_foo (2018-06-18) library-design naming
• Reference types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls wg21
• [[trivial_abi]] 101 (2018-05-02) attributes copy-elision llvm

slack

• Setup and teardown routines in non-flat class hierarchies (2019-12-03) classical-polymorphism rant
• Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible (2019-11-20) rant web
• A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics
• API design (2018-07-09) memes
• First post — Jekyll Now (2018-03-13) how-to web

slogans

• Value category is not lifetime (2019-03-11) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming parameter-only-types pitfalls
• const is a contract (2019-01-03) c++-learner-track c++-style move-semantics
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction library-design pitfalls

sre

• Making floppy disk images under OS X (2019-07-26) how-to
• What I’m reading lately (2019-07-19) blog-roundup litclub morality old-shit
• On choosing the exact right terminology (2019-01-15) old-shit
• Les Fleurs de Tarbes (2019-01-14) litclub
• How DNS got so complicated (2018-11-20) wg21
• shields.io (2018-06-26) hyperrogue today-i-learned web
• “We were defeated by one thing only—” (2018-06-22) litclub
• Great Deploy Plans of History: Time Zones (2018-05-21) old-shit

standard-library-trivia

• PSA: <random>’s distributions are stateful (2019-10-22) pitfalls random-numbers rant
• An unexpected brush with “strong typedefs” (2019-10-10) library-design parameter-only-types
• ADL can interfere even with uglified names (2019-09-26) argument-dependent-lookup pitfalls
• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship pitfalls templates wg21-folkloristics
• How hana::type<T> “disables ADL” (2019-04-09) argument-dependent-lookup
• Is __int128 integral? A survey (2019-02-28)
• Fetishizing class invariants (2019-02-24) kona-2019 library-design metaprogramming
• Pointer comparisons with std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) metaprogramming operator-spaceship rant undefined-behavior
• Trivially-constructible-from (2018-07-03) rant relocatability
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) allocators library-design proposal rant
• In praise of make_unique (2018-05-26) c++-style
• Downsides of omitting trivial destructor calls (2018-04-17) pitfalls sufficiently-smart-compiler today-i-learned

sufficiently-smart-compiler

• Four versions of Eric’s Famous Pythagorean Triples Code (2019-03-06) coroutines metaprogramming ranges
• The FORCE_CONSTEXPR macro (2018-08-07) c++-style pearls
• Downsides of omitting trivial destructor calls (2018-04-17) pitfalls standard-library-trivia today-i-learned
• Copy Elision in Throw Statements (2018-04-09) copy-elision exception-handling move-semantics
• The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision move-semantics proposal

templates

• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship pitfalls standard-library-trivia wg21-folkloristics
• Conditional explicit is not the same thing as forwarding explicit (2019-07-05) metaprogramming
• Enums break strong structural equality (2019-07-04) operator-spaceship wg21
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts implementation-divergence metaprogramming wg21
• Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) concepts implementation-divergence metaprogramming
• make_range and reversed (2018-08-29) pearls ranges
• Stopping the cascade of errors (2018-08-23) concepts metaprogramming pearls
• Exploring C++ types with puts(__PRETTY_FUNCTION__) (2018-08-22) pearls
• Template metaprogramming: Iteration is better than recursion (2018-07-23) metaprogramming
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points library-design metaprogramming wg21
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors naming rant wg21
• Hiding template parameters from casual users (2018-05-09) c++-style
• Use-cases for false_v (2018-04-02) proposal undefined-behavior
• Customization point design for library functions (2018-03-19) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points library-design memes
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming operator-spaceship wg21

this-should-exist

• RFM: Request for mashups (2019-03-17) music
• A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) memes pitfalls
• This should exist: Markov music for radio lacunae (2018-03-21) music

thread-local-storage

• Execution-agent-local storage (2018-11-14) memes rant
• Setting errno in operator T (2018-06-01)

today-i-learned

• Notes on Prince Rupert’s Problem (2019-07-22) math science
• Fictional islands that are neither fictional nor islands (2018-12-16) litclub
• The Three Impostors: Four-ale and six-ale (2018-07-26) litclub old-shit
• operator auto (2018-07-12) implementation-divergence metaprogramming proposal rant
• shields.io (2018-06-26) hyperrogue sre web
• Which in your case you have not got (2018-06-17) litclub
• Rubens tube (2018-05-30) science
• Superconstructing super elider, round 2 (2018-05-17) blog-roundup copy-elision move-semantics
• Downsides of omitting trivial destructor calls (2018-04-17) pitfalls standard-library-trivia sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Johnny Eck in Tarzan Escapes (2018-03-24) movies old-shit

type-erasure

• The space of design choices for std::function (2019-03-27) library-design parameter-only-types
• What is Type Erasure? (2019-03-18) c++-learner-track library-design metaprogramming
• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) hyperrogue sg14 war-stories
• Should foo be move-only? (2019-01-02) concepts library-design move-semantics

typography

• On teaching Unicode in C++ (2019-02-03) rant
• If English was written like Chinese (2018-07-13) blog-roundup
• Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) blog-roundup knuth

undefined-behavior

• Pointer comparisons with std::less<void>: a horror story (2019-01-20) metaprogramming operator-spaceship rant standard-library-trivia
• Comparison categories for narrow-contract comparators (2018-08-07) concepts contracts operator-spaceship
• The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) contracts c++-style wg21-folkloristics
• Use-cases for false_v (2018-04-02) proposal templates
• Providentissimus Deus (2018-03-13) morality
• The “unsigned for value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) c++-style rant

us-politics

• “Counterfactual mugging” a.k.a. “charity” (2018-11-19) blog-roundup litclub morality
• The “Red Clause” (2018-10-05) old-shit
• The Mysteries of London (2018-09-05) litclub old-shit
• Assume a spherical politician (2018-07-04) morality science
• WG21 and the National Popular Vote Compact (2018-04-26) wg21
• The Demagogue in Politics (2018-04-03) movies old-shit

war-stories

• PSA: shared_ptr<T>() is not make_shared<T>() (2019-03-06) pitfalls
• shared_ptr(&w, _1) (2019-02-06)
• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) hyperrogue sg14 type-erasure
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points hyperrogue pitfalls
• Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style pearls

web

• Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is really terrible (2019-11-20) rant slack
• Throwback Saturday: Three variants on 2048 (2019-11-16)
• Dragonflight, and running DosBox in the browser (2019-08-11)
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) esolang math
• Announcing Quuxplusone/coro, single-header C++2a example code (2019-07-03) concepts coroutines ranges
• A faster WG21 CWG issue browser (2019-05-22) wg21
• Map of NYC Michelin stars, 2019 (2019-03-26) food
• README for my Peaceful Encampments visualizer (2019-03-18) math puzzles
• Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) adventure puzzles
• Peaceful Encampments, round 2 (2019-01-21) math puzzles
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure litclub math puzzles
• MathJax in Jekyll (2018-08-05) how-to knuth
• shields.io (2018-06-26) hyperrogue sre today-i-learned
• First post — Jekyll Now (2018-03-13) how-to slack

wg21

• Why doesn’t C++ have networking support? (2019-10-09) concurrency library-design
• The post-Cologne mailing is out (2019-08-18) allocators copy-elision coroutines rant
• Enums break strong structural equality (2019-07-04) operator-spaceship templates
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts implementation-divergence metaprogramming templates
• Contra P0339 “polymorphic_allocator<> as a vocabulary type” (2019-07-02) allocators class-template-argument-deduction library-design proposal rant
• In support of P1485 “Better keywords for coroutines” (2019-06-26) coroutines proposal
• A faster WG21 CWG issue browser (2019-05-22) web
• How my papers did at Kona (2019-03-20) kona-2019 operator-spaceship relocatability
• Hot takes on P1452, P1470, P0408, and P0843 (2019-02-03) concepts kona-2019 library-design rant
• Contra P0429R6 flat_map (2019-01-29) kona-2019 library-design sg14
• Hot takes on flat_map, resize_default_init, and ranges::to (2019-01-28) kona-2019 rant
• How DNS got so complicated (2018-11-20) sre
• WG21: Avoid creating ADL situations on functions with semi-common names (2018-11-04) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls proposal san-diego-2018
• mutable and “trivially fooable” (2018-08-19) relocatability
• What does the Standard mean by “_traits”? (2018-07-14) allocators customization-points library-design metaprogramming templates
• When is a trivially copyable object not trivially copyable? (2018-07-13) pitfalls proposal relocatability
• Stone Soup (2018-06-06)
• Reference types with metadata cause problems (2018-05-30) library-design parameter-only-types pitfalls sg14
• Thoughts on Concepts, P0745, and P1079 (2018-05-28) concepts
• Default-constructibility is overrated (2018-05-10) concepts constructors naming rant templates
• WG21 and the National Popular Vote Compact (2018-04-26) us-politics
• Namespaces for UDLs (2018-03-21) jacksonville-2018 proposal
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming operator-spaceship templates
• Hot take: P0947R0 “Another take on Modules” (2018-03-14) jacksonville-2018 language-design modules rant

wg21-folkloristics

• Mangling dependent parameter types, or, what happened to std::default_order (2019-08-08) metaprogramming operator-spaceship pitfalls standard-library-trivia templates
• A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) c++-learner-track slack
• “Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security” (2019-06-17) exception-handling
• What is ADL? (2019-04-26) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track
• The Ignorable Attributes Rule (2018-05-15) attributes language-design
• The Lakos Rule (2018-04-25) contracts c++-style undefined-behavior