access-control

• How to use a private member from outside the class (2020-12-03) metaprogramming templates
• How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) compiler-diagnostics implementation-divergence llvm proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Ways C++ prevents you from doing X (2020-03-17) c++-learner-track pitfalls
• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) classical-polymorphism implementation-divergence metaprogramming

adventure

• Play The Search for Almazar online (2021-05-16) digital-antiquaria web
• Nifty notebooks, and Almazar (2021-05-13) castlequest digital-antiquaria
• An interview with Arthur O’Dwyer (2021-05-11) castlequest digital-antiquaria
• Observations on Castlequest’s code (2021-03-21) castlequest digital-antiquaria
• Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 1 (2021-03-19) castlequest digital-antiquaria
• Castlequest exhumed! (2021-03-09) castlequest digital-antiquaria
• Adventure 448 (SWEN0448): All the easter eggs (2021-02-27) digital-antiquaria
• What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) c++-learner-track hyperrogue preprocessor
• Solo-player rules for Colossal Cave: The Board Game (2020-10-02) board-games
• Decompiling GOET0580 (2020-06-30) digital-antiquaria esolang
• A bug in Adventure’s endgame (2020-02-06) digital-antiquaria knuth war-stories
• Dealing with Dragons (2019-06-09) litclub
• Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) digital-antiquaria puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) celebration-of-mind knuth litclub math puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) board-games digital-antiquaria knuth

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) c++-style library-design 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

antipatterns

• An iterator IS-NOT-A const_iterator (2021-07-14) implementation-divergence library-design stl-classic
• The “array size constant” antipattern (2020-08-06) c++-style
• The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) blog-roundup c++-learner-track c++-style slogans war-stories
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) c++-style constructors library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic
• The “unsigned for value range” antipattern (2018-03-13) c++-style rant undefined-behavior

argument-dependent-lookup

• Implementation divergence on swapping bools within vectors (2021-06-27) implementation-divergence stl-classic templates
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) library-design metaprogramming slack
• How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) c++-learner-track name-lookup namespaces
• An example of the Barton–Nackman trick (2020-12-09) slack stl-classic templates
• What is the std::swap two-step? (2020-07-11) c++-learner-track library-design wg21-folkloristics
• 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) compiler-diagnostics 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) compiler-diagnostics 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

• Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) concepts etymology jokes templates
• Thoughts on “Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?” (2020-12-27) morality science
• The Box of Delights (2020-12-27) litclub weird-fiction
• Site reliability engineering at Ardeer; eyewitnesses to Hiroshima (2020-10-17) old-shit sre
• Conway’s Soldiers (2020-10-17) puzzles
• Grab bag (2020-10-12) slack us-politics
• September blog roundup (2020-09-26)
• What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) litclub morality movies us-politics
• The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns c++-learner-track c++-style slogans war-stories
• Folding over operator= (2020-05-07) order-of-evaluation variadic-templates
• The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) math paradigm-shift
• “Myths about /dev/urandom” and “What Is JavaScript Made Of?” (2020-02-09)
• De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) etymology litclub memes old-shit
• 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 compiler-diagnostics 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) esolang knuth typography
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) coroutines exception-handling language-design paradigm-shift

board-games

• Antisocial Homeworlds, and a solitaire challenge (2021-04-04) puzzles
• Homeworlds: Analysis of an Opening Gambit (2021-02-21)
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Mercury in Retrograde (2020-10-28) puzzles
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Burnt Umber (2020-10-25) puzzles
• Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind math puzzles web
• Solo-player rules for Colossal Cave: The Board Game (2020-10-02) adventure
• Phantoms vs Phantoms (Geister) (2020-08-22) web
• Homeworlds Puzzle: The Prestige (2020-06-16) puzzles
• Homeworlds Puzzle: War Games (2020-05-30) puzzles
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Mini Doomsday Machine (2020-05-29) puzzles web
• Connect Fifteen (2020-05-03)
• 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 digital-antiquaria knuth
• Hanabi set-packing puzzle (2018-04-09) math puzzles
• Hat-game strategies in Hanabi (2018-03-29)

c++-learner-track

• static constexpr unsigned long is C++’s “lovely little old French whittling knife” (2021-04-03) c++-style
• Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back (2021-03-03) compile-time-performance move-semantics pitfalls
• What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) adventure hyperrogue preprocessor
• It’s not always obvious when tail-call optimization is allowed (2021-01-09) implementation-divergence
• How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup name-lookup namespaces
• Arrays aren’t pointers (2020-11-25) memes typography
• Why do I get a linker error with static const and value_or? (2020-09-19) cppcon pitfalls war-stories
• What is the std::swap two-step? (2020-07-11) argument-dependent-lookup library-design wg21-folkloristics
• How to erase from an STL container (2020-07-08) library-design rant standard-library-trivia stl-classic
• The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns blog-roundup c++-style slogans war-stories
• Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-style language-design library-design rant slogans
• When is *x also &x? (2020-03-31) slogans
• Ways C++ prevents you from doing X (2020-03-17) access-control pitfalls
• Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-style modules slogans
• 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

• static constexpr unsigned long is C++’s “lovely little old French whittling knife” (2021-04-03) c++-learner-track
• Tips re operator() (2020-12-12) lambdas metaprogramming rant
• A very short war story on too much overloading (2020-10-11) war-stories
• Inheritance is for sharing an interface (and so is overloading) (2020-10-09) classical-polymorphism metaprogramming templates
• Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) compiler-diagnostics language-design rant
• -Wrange-loop-bind-reference and auto&& (2020-08-26) compiler-diagnostics lifetime-extension llvm
• The “array size constant” antipattern (2020-08-06) antipatterns
• An obvious guideline on function-call style (2020-07-23)
• The “OO” Antipattern (2020-05-28) antipatterns blog-roundup c++-learner-track slogans war-stories
• Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track language-design library-design rant slogans
• c_str-correctness (2020-03-20) parameter-only-types
• How to replace __FILE__ with source_location in a logging macro (2020-02-12) pearls preprocessor
• Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-learner-track modules slogans
• 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 sd-8-adjacent slogans
• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018-12-06) compiler-diagnostics llvm
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) antipatterns constructors library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic
• 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 preprocessor
• The FORCE_CONSTEXPR macro (2018-08-07) preprocessor sufficiently-smart-compiler
• The Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering (2018-06-18) memes
• Pointer to raw memory? T*. (2018-06-08) allocators library-design rant standard-library-trivia
• 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) lifetime-extension move-semantics
• Borrow types, Round 2 (2018-03-28) paradigm-shift parameter-only-types
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) lifetime-extension 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) antipatterns rant undefined-behavior

castlequest

• Nifty notebooks, and Almazar (2021-05-13) adventure digital-antiquaria
• An interview with Arthur O’Dwyer (2021-05-11) adventure digital-antiquaria
• Observations on Castlequest’s code (2021-03-21) adventure digital-antiquaria
• Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 2 (2021-03-20) digital-antiquaria
• Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 1 (2021-03-19) adventure digital-antiquaria
• Making Castlequest compilable (2021-03-11) digital-antiquaria
• Castlequest exhumed! (2021-03-09) adventure digital-antiquaria

celebration-of-mind

• Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-04-15) conferences math
• Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games math puzzles web
• Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) math pretty-pictures typography web
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure knuth litclub math puzzles web

cellular-automata

• The Star Wars cellular automaton (2020-06-29) esolang pretty-pictures web
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) digital-antiquaria esolang math pretty-pictures web

class-template-argument-deduction

• Holiday fun with template<class> and template<typename> (2019-12-27) implementation-divergence rant templates
• 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 sd-8-adjacent slogans
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup compiler-diagnostics llvm pitfalls

classical-polymorphism

• A hole in Clang’s -Wsuggest-override (2021-02-19) compiler-diagnostics llvm
• When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (2021-02-15) implementation-divergence sufficiently-smart-compiler
• “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) concurrency pitfalls war-stories
• A case study in implementation inheritance (2020-10-15) war-stories
• Inheritance is for sharing an interface (and so is overloading) (2020-10-09) c++-style metaprogramming templates
• Classically polymorphic visit replaces some uses of dynamic_cast (2020-09-29) metaprogramming templates variadic-templates war-stories
• 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) access-control implementation-divergence metaprogramming
• Remember the ifstream (2018-11-26) concepts library-design pitfalls

compile-time-performance

• Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back (2021-03-03) c++-learner-track move-semantics pitfalls
• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) hyperrogue sg14 type-erasure war-stories
• Template metaprogramming: Iteration is better than recursion (2018-07-23) metaprogramming templates variadic-templates
• SCARY metafunctions (2018-07-09) library-design metaprogramming
• The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) hyperrogue initializer-list pitfalls war-stories

compiler-diagnostics

• Another requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) concepts implementation-divergence pitfalls slack
• C’s removal of gets could have been done better (2021-03-12) war-stories
• A hole in Clang’s -Wsuggest-override (2021-02-19) classical-polymorphism llvm
• How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control implementation-divergence llvm proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style language-design rant
• -Wrange-loop-bind-reference and auto&& (2020-08-26) c++-style lifetime-extension llvm
• nodiscard philosophies (2019-01-25) attributes library-design
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction llvm pitfalls
• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018-12-06) c++-style llvm
• Field-testing Herb Sutter’s Modest Proposal to Fix ADL (2018-08-13) argument-dependent-lookup llvm pitfalls proposal
• Attribute noexcept_verify (2018-06-12) exception-handling proposal
• A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) memes pitfalls this-should-exist

concepts

• A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) implementation-divergence implicit-move slack
• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires, part 2 (2021-09-14) llvm metaprogramming
• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires (2021-09-04) llvm metaprogramming
• Another requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics implementation-divergence pitfalls slack
• Tag dispatch versus concept overloading (2021-06-07) metaprogramming templates
• A Night of Serious Drinking and operationalism (2021-06-04) litclub science
• Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) blog-roundup etymology jokes templates
• decltype of a non-static member (2021-02-10) implementation-divergence name-lookup
• SFINAE and E1.E2 (2020-11-01) implementation-divergence templates
• Concepts can’t do quantifiers (2020-08-10)
• SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) implementation-divergence library-design metaprogramming standard-library-trivia templates
• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) conferences cppcon slack
• 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 variadic-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 preprocessor rant
• A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) preprocessor 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

• “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) classical-polymorphism pitfalls war-stories
• std::once_flag is a glass hill (2020-10-23) cppcon litclub standard-library-trivia
• 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++ On Sea 2021 schedule announced (2021-05-27) cpp-on-sea training
• “Modern STL Programming” at C++ On Sea 2021 (2021-05-17) cpp-on-sea stl-classic training
• Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-04-15) celebration-of-mind math
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020, Game Two (2020-09-18) cppcon
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020 (2020-09-16) cppcon
• “Classic STL” at CppCon 2020 (2020-09-12) cppcon stl-classic training
• Back to Basics at CppCon 2020 (2020-08-11) cppcon
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2019 (2019-09-21) cppcon
• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) concepts cppcon slack
• 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) antipatterns c++-style library-design metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic
• 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

• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) implicit-move pitfalls proposal slack
• Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) initializer-list lifetime-extension llvm proposal
• Thoughts on “The C++ Rvalue Lifetime Disaster” (2020-03-04) move-semantics paradigm-shift
• 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

• Precedence of a proposed |> operator (2020-04-10) language-design proposal ranges wg21
• 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

cpp-on-sea

• C++ On Sea 2021 schedule announced (2021-05-27) conferences training
• “Modern STL Programming” at C++ On Sea 2021 (2021-05-17) conferences stl-classic training

cppcon

• The STL is more than std::accumulate (2020-12-14) memes ranges rant stl-classic
• std::once_flag is a glass hill (2020-10-23) concurrency litclub standard-library-trivia
• Why do I get a linker error with static const and value_or? (2020-09-19) c++-learner-track pitfalls war-stories
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020, Game Two (2020-09-18) conferences
• C++ Pub Quiz at CppCon 2020 (2020-09-16) conferences
• “Classic STL” at CppCon 2020 (2020-09-12) conferences stl-classic training
• Back to Basics at CppCon 2020 (2020-08-11) conferences
• The Design of Everyday Things (2020-03-07) litclub sre
• CppCon 2019 talks are up (2019-10-18) slogans
• 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 slack
• 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

• Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) etymology library-design litclub old-shit
• Removing an empty base class can break ABI (2021-05-07) llvm standard-library-trivia
• Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too (2021-05-05) library-design rant standard-library-trivia
• P2266’s interaction with decltype(auto) (2021-05-04) implicit-move proposal
• C++Now 2020: A C++ Magic Trick (2020-05-04) parameter-only-types web
• 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

data-structures

• The Fishspear priority queue algorithm (2021-05-23) knuth stl-classic

digital-antiquaria

• Play The Search for Almazar online (2021-05-16) adventure web
• Nifty notebooks, and Almazar (2021-05-13) adventure castlequest
• An interview with Arthur O’Dwyer (2021-05-11) adventure castlequest
• Observations on Castlequest’s code (2021-03-21) adventure castlequest
• Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 2 (2021-03-20) castlequest
• Playing Castlequest (1980), Part 1 (2021-03-19) adventure castlequest
• Making Castlequest compilable (2021-03-11) castlequest
• Castlequest exhumed! (2021-03-09) adventure castlequest
• Adventure 448 (SWEN0448): All the easter eggs (2021-02-27) adventure
• Decompiling GOET0580 (2020-06-30) adventure esolang
• A bug in Adventure’s endgame (2020-02-06) adventure knuth war-stories
• Dragonflight, and running DosBox in the browser (2019-08-11) web
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) cellular-automata esolang math pretty-pictures web
• Making floppy disk images under OS X (2019-07-26) how-to sre
• Colossal Cave Adventure: open world challenge (2019-01-28) adventure puzzles web
• Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) adventure board-games knuth

esolang

• A better 404 polyglot (2020-12-23)
• Decompiling GOET0580 (2020-06-30) adventure digital-antiquaria
• The Star Wars cellular automaton (2020-06-29) cellular-automata pretty-pictures web
• Two approaches to secret sharing: math vs. blockchain (2020-02-12) math pearls
• The Story of Mel (2020-01-05) litclub war-stories
• Church booleans in Befunge-98 (2019-08-24)
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) cellular-automata digital-antiquaria math pretty-pictures web
• Befunge and Flobnar (2019-05-02)
• Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) blog-roundup knuth typography

etymology

• Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow library-design litclub old-shit
• Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) blog-roundup concepts jokes templates
• What I’m reading lately: The Ring of Words (2020-08-05) litclub old-shit today-i-learned
• De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup litclub memes old-shit
• Fictional islands that are neither fictional nor islands (2018-12-16) gilbert-and-sullivan litclub today-i-learned

exception-handling

• Optimizing string::append is harder than it looks (2021-04-17) llvm rant standard-library-trivia war-stories
• 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) compiler-diagnostics 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

gilbert-and-sullivan

• A Parody on Iolanthe (2020-07-20) litclub old-shit today-i-learned
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) litclub morality old-shit
• Fictional islands that are neither fictional nor islands (2018-12-16) etymology litclub today-i-learned

holy-wars

• West const (2018-03-15) memes

how-to

• Bit patterns of float (2021-09-05) math operator-spaceship pretty-pictures
• Flavors of Base64 encoding (2020-11-17) web
• MathJax v3 in Jekyll (2020-08-19) knuth web
• 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) digital-antiquaria 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

• What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) adventure c++-learner-track preprocessor
• 37 percent of HyperRogue’s compilation time is due to std::function (2019-01-06) compile-time-performance 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) compile-time-performance initializer-list pitfalls war-stories
• Avoid ADL calls to functions with common names (2018-06-17) argument-dependent-lookup customization-points pitfalls war-stories

implementation-divergence

• A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) concepts implicit-move slack
• An iterator IS-NOT-A const_iterator (2021-07-14) antipatterns library-design stl-classic
• Implementation divergence on swapping bools within vectors (2021-06-27) argument-dependent-lookup stl-classic templates
• Another requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics concepts pitfalls slack
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 2 (2021-05-22) metaprogramming slack
• Does throw x implicit-move? Let’s ask SFINAE (2021-03-18) implicit-move
• When can the C++ compiler devirtualize a call? (2021-02-15) classical-polymorphism sufficiently-smart-compiler
• decltype of a non-static member (2021-02-10) concepts name-lookup
• Fun with conversion-operator name lookup (2021-01-13) name-lookup
• It’s not always obvious when tail-call optimization is allowed (2021-01-09) c++-learner-track
• How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control compiler-diagnostics llvm proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Lifetime extension applies to whole objects (2020-11-16) lifetime-extension parameter-only-types
• SFINAE and E1.E2 (2020-11-01) concepts templates
• SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) concepts library-design metaprogramming standard-library-trivia templates
• A quirk of qualified member lookup (2020-01-11) language-design name-lookup slack templates today-i-learned
• Holiday fun with template<class> and template<typename> (2019-12-27) class-template-argument-deduction rant templates
• Implementation divergence with const int i; and mutable (2019-12-04)
• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) access-control classical-polymorphism metaprogramming
• P1616R0 and health insurance (2019-07-03) concepts metaprogramming templates wg21
• Is __int128 integral? A survey (2019-02-28) standard-library-trivia
• What library types are trivially_relocatable in practice? (2019-02-20) kona-2019 relocatability
• Covariance and contravariance in C++ (2019-01-20) concepts metaprogramming templates variadic-templates
• operator auto (2018-07-12) metaprogramming proposal rant today-i-learned
• Contra built-in library types (2018-04-15) language-design operator-spaceship rant

implicit-move

• A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) concepts implementation-divergence slack
• Field-testing P2266 “Simpler Implicit Move” (2021-08-07) llvm proposal
• P2266’s interaction with decltype(auto) (2021-05-04) cppnow proposal
• Does throw x implicit-move? Let’s ask SFINAE (2021-03-18) implementation-divergence
• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision pitfalls proposal slack

initializer-list

• Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision lifetime-extension llvm proposal
• The surprisingly high cost of static-lifetime constructors (2018-06-26) compile-time-performance hyperrogue pitfalls war-stories

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

• Blog roundup: Auftragstaktik, files, lesser-known cryptocurrencies (2021-02-13) blog-roundup concepts etymology templates
• The Case of Willie the Wisp (2020-05-29) litclub
• Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Coronavirus Version) (2020-04-08) memes music
• 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

• Two old crosswords of mine (2021-08-24) puzzles typography
• The Fishspear priority queue algorithm (2021-05-23) data-structures stl-classic
• Bubblesort, rocksort, and cocktail-shaker sort (2020-12-13) math
• MathJax v3 in Jekyll (2020-08-19) how-to web
• A bug in Adventure’s endgame (2020-02-06) adventure digital-antiquaria war-stories
• Happy birthday, Donald Knuth! and Peaceful Encampments (2019-01-10) adventure celebration-of-mind litclub math puzzles web
• MathJax in Jekyll (2018-08-05) how-to web
• Happy birthday, Don Woods (2018-04-30) adventure board-games digital-antiquaria
• Chinese fonts, and METAFONT (2018-04-15) blog-roundup esolang 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 variadic-templates
• P1144 case study: Moving a fixed_capacity_vector (2019-02-22) relocatability sg14
• What library types are trivially_relocatable in practice? (2019-02-20) implementation-divergence 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

lambdas

• Tips re operator() (2020-12-12) c++-style metaprogramming rant

language-design

• while (auto x=y; z) (2020-10-28) slack
• Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style compiler-diagnostics rant
• Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track c++-style library-design rant slogans
• Precedence of a proposed |> operator (2020-04-10) coroutines proposal ranges wg21
• A quirk of qualified member lookup (2020-01-11) implementation-divergence name-lookup slack templates today-i-learned
• 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) implementation-divergence 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

• Don’t explicitly instantiate std templates (2021-08-06) pitfalls sd-8-adjacent
• Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology litclub old-shit
• An iterator IS-NOT-A const_iterator (2021-07-14) antipatterns implementation-divergence stl-classic
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup metaprogramming slack
• Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too (2021-05-05) cppnow rant standard-library-trivia
• What is the std::swap two-step? (2020-07-11) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics
• How to erase from an STL container (2020-07-08) c++-learner-track rant standard-library-trivia stl-classic
• Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track c++-style language-design rant slogans
• SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) concepts implementation-divergence metaprogramming standard-library-trivia templates
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 5 (2020-01-28) networking web
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 4 (2020-01-27) networking
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 3 (2020-01-26) networking
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 2 (2020-01-25) networking
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 1 (2020-01-24) networking
• 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 compiler-diagnostics
• 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 sd-8-adjacent slogans
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) antipatterns c++-style constructors metaprogramming pitfalls stl-classic
• 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) compile-time-performance 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 c++-style 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

lifetime-extension

• Lifetime extension applies to whole objects (2020-11-16) implementation-divergence parameter-only-types
• -Wrange-loop-bind-reference and auto&& (2020-08-26) c++-style compiler-diagnostics llvm
• Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision initializer-list llvm proposal
• On lifetime extension and decltype(auto) (2018-04-05) c++-style move-semantics
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) c++-style paradigm-shift parameter-only-types pitfalls

litclub

• Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology library-design old-shit
• A Night of Serious Drinking and operationalism (2021-06-04) concepts science
• The Box of Delights (2020-12-27) blog-roundup weird-fiction
• Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) morality movies old-shit
• std::once_flag is a glass hill (2020-10-23) concurrency cppcon standard-library-trivia
• What I’m reading lately: New York, The Atlantic, The Three-Body Problem (2020-08-15) morality us-politics
• What I’m reading lately: The Ring of Words (2020-08-05) etymology old-shit today-i-learned
• A Parody on Iolanthe (2020-07-20) gilbert-and-sullivan old-shit today-i-learned
• What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) blog-roundup morality movies us-politics
• Lovecraft on Hitler (2020-06-09) us-politics weird-fiction
• The Case of Willie the Wisp (2020-05-29) jokes
• What I’m reading lately: The Compleat Boucher (2020-04-05) morality old-shit sre
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) math morality puzzles us-politics
• The Design of Everyday Things (2020-03-07) cppcon sre
• The Story of Mel (2020-01-05) esolang war-stories
• De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup etymology memes old-shit
• 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) gilbert-and-sullivan 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 celebration-of-mind knuth 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) etymology gilbert-and-sullivan 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 weird-fiction
• 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

• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires, part 2 (2021-09-14) concepts metaprogramming
• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires (2021-09-04) concepts metaprogramming
• Field-testing P2266 “Simpler Implicit Move” (2021-08-07) implicit-move proposal
• Removing an empty base class can break ABI (2021-05-07) cppnow standard-library-trivia
• Optimizing string::append is harder than it looks (2021-04-17) exception-handling rant standard-library-trivia war-stories
• A hole in Clang’s -Wsuggest-override (2021-02-19) classical-polymorphism compiler-diagnostics
• How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control compiler-diagnostics implementation-divergence proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler
• -Wrange-loop-bind-reference and auto&& (2020-08-26) c++-style compiler-diagnostics lifetime-extension
• Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision initializer-list lifetime-extension proposal
• The abstraction penalty for wide integer math on x86-64 (2020-02-13) sufficiently-smart-compiler
• 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 compiler-diagnostics pitfalls
• Don’t put -Weverything in your build flags (2018-12-06) c++-style compiler-diagnostics
• 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 compiler-diagnostics 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

• Bit patterns of float (2021-09-05) how-to operator-spaceship pretty-pictures
• Two counterintuitive results (2021-08-12) puzzles science
• Buddhabrot (2021-07-27) pretty-pictures
• Lineup for next week’s Celebration of Mind (2021-04-15) celebration-of-mind conferences
• Bubblesort, rocksort, and cocktail-shaker sort (2020-12-13) knuth
• Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games celebration-of-mind puzzles web
• Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind pretty-pictures typography web
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub morality puzzles us-politics
• The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) blog-roundup paradigm-shift
• Two approaches to secret sharing: math vs. blockchain (2020-02-12) esolang pearls
• Canonicalizing {0,1}-matrices with Nauty (2020-01-11)
• Wolves and Sheep, with tables (2020-01-10) puzzles
• 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) cellular-automata digital-antiquaria esolang pretty-pictures web
• Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) pretty-pictures 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 celebration-of-mind knuth 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

• When your loop unroller works harder than your infinite loop detector (2021-02-26) slack
• The STL is more than std::accumulate (2020-12-14) cppcon ranges rant stl-classic
• Loop variable may not be declared static (2020-12-03) slack thread-local-storage
• Arrays aren’t pointers (2020-11-25) c++-learner-track typography
• Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Coronavirus Version) (2020-04-08) jokes music
• De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup etymology litclub old-shit
• 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 preprocessor
• API design (2018-07-09) slack
• The Fundamental Theorem of Software Engineering (2018-06-18) c++-style
• A modest proposal for a GCC diagnostic (2018-04-09) compiler-diagnostics 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

• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires, part 2 (2021-09-14) concepts llvm
• A compile-time benchmark for enable_if and requires (2021-09-04) concepts llvm
• priority_tag for ad-hoc tag dispatch (2021-07-09) pearls templates
• Tag dispatch versus concept overloading (2021-06-07) concepts templates
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup library-design slack
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 2 (2021-05-22) implementation-divergence slack
• A metaprogramming puzzle: Overly interoperable libraries (2021-05-19) slack
• Tips re operator() (2020-12-12) c++-style lambdas rant
• How to use a private member from outside the class (2020-12-03) access-control templates
• Left-folding and right-folding an arbitrary callable (2020-10-12) slack variadic-templates
• Inheritance is for sharing an interface (and so is overloading) (2020-10-09) c++-style classical-polymorphism templates
• Classically polymorphic visit replaces some uses of dynamic_cast (2020-09-29) classical-polymorphism templates variadic-templates war-stories
• SFINAE special members or support incomplete types: Pick at most one (2020-02-05) concepts implementation-divergence library-design standard-library-trivia templates
• Comparative TMP #1: MPL, Mp11, Kvasir, Hana, Metal (2019-12-28) templates
• Implementation divergence with friend (2019-09-10) access-control 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 variadic-templates
• 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 variadic-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) antipatterns c++-style constructors library-design pitfalls stl-classic
• “Perfect backwarding” (2018-09-25) copy-elision
• A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts preprocessor 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) compile-time-performance templates variadic-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) compile-time-performance library-design

modules

• Namespaces are for preventing name collisions (2020-01-07) c++-learner-track c++-style slogans
• 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

• Thoughts on “Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?” (2020-12-27) blog-roundup science
• Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub movies old-shit
• What I’m reading lately: New York, The Atlantic, The Three-Body Problem (2020-08-15) litclub us-politics
• What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) blog-roundup litclub movies us-politics
• What I’m reading lately: The Compleat Boucher (2020-04-05) litclub old-shit sre
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub math puzzles us-politics
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) gilbert-and-sullivan 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

• Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back (2021-03-03) c++-learner-track compile-time-performance pitfalls
• Thoughts on “The C++ Rvalue Lifetime Disaster” (2020-03-04) copy-elision paradigm-shift
• 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 lifetime-extension
• The Superconstructing Super Elider (2018-03-29) copy-elision proposal sufficiently-smart-compiler

movies

• Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub morality old-shit
• What I’m reading lately: ACOUP, Kitbashed, the Atlantic (2020-07-06) blog-roundup litclub morality us-politics
• 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

• Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Coronavirus Version) (2020-04-08) jokes memes
• RFM: Request for mashups (2019-03-17) this-should-exist
• This should exist: Markov music for radio lacunae (2018-03-21) this-should-exist

name-lookup

• decltype of a non-static member (2021-02-10) concepts implementation-divergence
• Fun with conversion-operator name lookup (2021-01-13) implementation-divergence
• How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track namespaces
• A quirk of qualified member lookup (2020-01-11) implementation-divergence language-design slack templates today-i-learned

namespaces

• How do C++ using-directives work? (2020-12-21) argument-dependent-lookup c++-learner-track name-lookup

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

networking

• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 5 (2020-01-28) library-design web
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 4 (2020-01-27) library-design
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 3 (2020-01-26) library-design
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 2 (2020-01-25) library-design
• OpenSSL client and server from scratch, part 1 (2020-01-24) library-design
• How DNS got so complicated (2018-11-20) sre wg21

old-shit

• Cratylus on choosing good names (2021-07-15) cppnow etymology library-design litclub
• Colonel Blimp and An Inspector Calls (2020-11-01) litclub morality movies
• Site reliability engineering at Ardeer; eyewitnesses to Hiroshima (2020-10-17) blog-roundup sre
• What I’m reading lately: The Ring of Words (2020-08-05) etymology litclub today-i-learned
• A Parody on Iolanthe (2020-07-20) gilbert-and-sullivan litclub today-i-learned
• What I’m reading lately: The Compleat Boucher (2020-04-05) litclub morality sre
• De Canibus Britannicis (2019-12-17) blog-roundup etymology litclub memes
• Transcription of All Of Them Witches (2019-08-26) litclub movies
• Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2019-08-06) gilbert-and-sullivan 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 weird-fiction
• 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

• Bit patterns of float (2021-09-05) how-to math pretty-pictures
• 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) implementation-divergence language-design rant
• P0732R0 and “trivially comparable” (2018-03-19) jacksonville-2018 language-design naming templates wg21

order-of-evaluation

• Folding over operator= (2020-05-07) blog-roundup variadic-templates

paradigm-shift

• The Tau Manifesto (2020-03-14) blog-roundup math
• Thoughts on “The C++ Rvalue Lifetime Disaster” (2020-03-04) copy-elision move-semantics
• 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 lifetime-extension parameter-only-types pitfalls
• Async/await, and coloring schemes in general (2018-03-16) blog-roundup coroutines exception-handling language-design

parameter-only-types

• Lifetime extension applies to whole objects (2020-11-16) implementation-divergence lifetime-extension
• C++Now 2020: A C++ Magic Trick (2020-05-04) cppnow web
• c_str-correctness (2020-03-20) c++-style
• 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 lifetime-extension paradigm-shift pitfalls

pearls

• priority_tag for ad-hoc tag dispatch (2021-07-09) metaprogramming templates
• Type-erased UniquePrintable and PrintableRef (2020-11-24) slack type-erasure
• Two approaches to secret sharing: math vs. blockchain (2020-02-12) esolang math
• How to replace __FILE__ with source_location in a logging macro (2020-02-12) c++-style preprocessor
• 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 preprocessor
• Embedding quotes in strings (2018-04-27) c++-style war-stories

pitfalls

• Don’t explicitly instantiate std templates (2021-08-06) library-design sd-8-adjacent
• Perfect forwarding call wrappers need =delete (2021-07-30) template-metaprogramming
• Another requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics concepts implementation-divergence slack
• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision implicit-move proposal slack
• Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back (2021-03-03) c++-learner-track compile-time-performance move-semantics
• “Flash of unstyled base class” (2020-12-09) classical-polymorphism concurrency war-stories
• Why do I get a linker error with static const and value_or? (2020-09-19) c++-learner-track cppcon war-stories
• Ways C++ prevents you from doing X (2020-03-17) access-control c++-learner-track
• Contra char *argv[] (2020-03-12) rant
• Hidden reinterpret_casts (2020-01-22) slack templates
• 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 variadic-templates
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction library-design sd-8-adjacent slogans
• Contra CTAD (2018-12-09) blog-roundup class-template-argument-deduction compiler-diagnostics llvm
• Pitfalls and decision points in implementing const_iterator (2018-12-01) antipatterns c++-style constructors library-design metaprogramming stl-classic
• 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 compiler-diagnostics 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) compile-time-performance hyperrogue initializer-list war-stories
• 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) compiler-diagnostics memes this-should-exist
• std::string_view is a borrow type (2018-03-27) c++-style lifetime-extension paradigm-shift parameter-only-types

preprocessor

• What are X-macros? (2021-02-01) adventure c++-learner-track hyperrogue
• How to replace __FILE__ with source_location in a logging macro (2020-02-12) c++-style pearls
• A simpler SUBSUMES() macro (2018-09-23) concepts metaprogramming rant
• A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) concepts rant
• The Auto macro (2018-08-11) c++-style memes pearls
• The FORCE_CONSTEXPR macro (2018-08-07) c++-style sufficiently-smart-compiler

pretty-pictures

• Bit patterns of float (2021-09-05) how-to math operator-spaceship
• Buddhabrot (2021-07-27) math
• Scott Kim’s rotational ambigrams for the Celebration of Mind (2020-10-18) celebration-of-mind math typography web
• The Star Wars cellular automaton (2020-06-29) cellular-automata esolang web
• A cellular automaton that makes beautiful little patterns (2019-07-27) cellular-automata digital-antiquaria esolang math web
• Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) math science

proposal

• Field-testing P2266 “Simpler Implicit Move” (2021-08-07) implicit-move llvm
• P2266’s interaction with decltype(auto) (2021-05-04) cppnow implicit-move
• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision implicit-move pitfalls slack
• How different compilers deal with provably unused entities (2020-12-02) access-control compiler-diagnostics implementation-divergence llvm sufficiently-smart-compiler
• Precedence of a proposed |> operator (2020-04-10) coroutines language-design ranges wg21
• Field-testing “Down with lifetime extension!” (2020-03-04) copy-elision initializer-list lifetime-extension llvm
• 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 compiler-diagnostics 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) compiler-diagnostics exception-handling
• has_no_padding_bits (2018-06-08) rant
• 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

• Two old crosswords of mine (2021-08-24) knuth typography
• Two counterintuitive results (2021-08-12) math science
• Antisocial Homeworlds, and a solitaire challenge (2021-04-04) board-games
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Mercury in Retrograde (2020-10-28) board-games
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Burnt Umber (2020-10-25) board-games
• Thoughts on OEIS A125508 (2020-10-18) board-games celebration-of-mind math web
• Conway’s Soldiers (2020-10-17) blog-roundup
• Homeworlds Puzzle: The Prestige (2020-06-16) board-games
• Homeworlds Puzzle: War Games (2020-05-30) board-games
• Homeworlds Puzzle: Mini Doomsday Machine (2020-05-29) board-games web
• Discrete Peaceful Encampments, Bernie Sanders version (2020-03-21) litclub math morality us-politics
• Wolves and Sheep, with tables (2020-01-10) math
• 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 digital-antiquaria 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 celebration-of-mind knuth 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

• The STL is more than std::accumulate (2020-12-14) cppcon memes rant stl-classic
• Precedence of a proposed |> operator (2020-04-10) coroutines language-design proposal wg21
• 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

• Semantically ordered arguments should be lexically ordered too (2021-05-05) cppnow library-design standard-library-trivia
• Optimizing string::append is harder than it looks (2021-04-17) exception-handling llvm standard-library-trivia war-stories
• The STL is more than std::accumulate (2020-12-14) cppcon memes ranges stl-classic
• Tips re operator() (2020-12-12) c++-style lambdas metaprogramming
• Two musings on the design of compiler warnings (2020-09-02) c++-style compiler-diagnostics language-design
• How to erase from an STL container (2020-07-08) c++-learner-track library-design standard-library-trivia stl-classic
• Default function arguments are the devil (2020-04-18) c++-learner-track c++-style language-design library-design slogans
• A seasonal followup to “When is *x also &x?” (2020-04-01)
• Contra char *argv[] (2020-03-12) pitfalls
• Holiday fun with template<class> and template<typename> (2019-12-27) class-template-argument-deduction implementation-divergence templates
• 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 preprocessor
• A use-case for member concepts and/or template concept parameters (2018-09-17) concepts preprocessor
• 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 c++-style library-design 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) implementation-divergence 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) antipatterns 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) implementation-divergence 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

• Two counterintuitive results (2021-08-12) math puzzles
• A Night of Serious Drinking and operationalism (2021-06-04) concepts litclub
• Thoughts on “Does GPT-2 Know Your Phone Number?” (2020-12-27) blog-roundup morality
• Prince Rupert’s Lego Cube (2019-07-23) math pretty-pictures
• 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

sd-8-adjacent

• Don’t explicitly instantiate std templates (2021-08-06) library-design pitfalls
• Don’t inherit from standard types (2018-12-11) c++-style class-template-argument-deduction library-design pitfalls slogans

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) compile-time-performance 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

• A class without a copy constructor (2021-09-17) concepts implementation-divergence implicit-move
• Another requires-clause syntax pitfall (2021-06-09) compiler-diagnostics concepts implementation-divergence pitfalls
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 3 (2021-05-26) argument-dependent-lookup library-design metaprogramming
• Overly interoperable libraries, part 2 (2021-05-22) implementation-divergence metaprogramming
• A metaprogramming puzzle: Overly interoperable libraries (2021-05-19) metaprogramming
• Escape analysis hates copy elision (2021-03-07) copy-elision implicit-move pitfalls proposal
• When your loop unroller works harder than your infinite loop detector (2021-02-26) memes
• An example of the Barton–Nackman trick (2020-12-09) argument-dependent-lookup stl-classic templates
• Loop variable may not be declared static (2020-12-03) memes thread-local-storage
• Type-erased UniquePrintable and PrintableRef (2020-11-24) pearls type-erasure
• while (auto x=y; z) (2020-10-28) language-design
• Grab bag (2020-10-12) blog-roundup us-politics
• Left-folding and right-folding an arbitrary callable (2020-10-12) metaprogramming variadic-templates
• Hidden reinterpret_casts (2020-01-22) pitfalls templates
• A quirk of qualified member lookup (2020-01-11) implementation-divergence language-design name-lookup templates today-i-learned
• 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
• Seen on the CppCon whiteboard (2019-09-18) concepts conferences cppcon
• A C++ acronym glossary (2019-08-02) c++-learner-track wg21-folkloristics