#NorDevCon26 was a bunch of fun! Insightful talks from lots of nor’folk. I enjoyed meeting students and seasoned engineers. Particular highlights were talks from @chrisoldwood.bsky.social and @fbuontempo.bsky.social! Looking forward to next year already 🤩
Glad you enjoyed my talk
.@matt.godbolt.org interviews @fbuontempo.bsky.social about "Learn C++ by Example," exploring practical teaching methods that make modern C++ features accessible through games and self-contained examples.
Hey @manning.com this was fun.
Cc: @matt.godbolt.org
next monday at 10am ET, @fbuontempo.bsky.social will be doing a linkedin live.
she'll walk you through building a small higher/lower card game, so you can go beyond c++11 — a pivotal part of her book, learn c++ by example.
rsvp here: hubs.la/Q043hlBz0
her book: hubs.la/Q03Pdc6S0
Kitten and a daffodil starting to show spring is on the way
Thanks for sharing
Cat sleeping between a box and a hard place [or comfy bed in fact)
Tired
Cursed code:
void* f(void *p) {
return p + 1;
}
Both gcc and clang support void* arithmetic as an extension in C:
gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g...
-pedantic FTW!
Godbolt: godbolt.org/z/rcrqWvMGW
#Programming
I'm not good at this marketing lark, but as it's black friday and I'm inundated with other people's offers...
You can get 10% off CE swag today with code BLACKFRIDAY :)
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Makes a great present too!
@pragprog.com have a sale: 50% off all ebooks at pragprog.com, use code save50 on the checkout page,
sale runs through December 1st
And you can use the discount code for others books. Go have a look *and buy Steve's book)
A great talk at the Meeting C++ conference from @fbuontempo.bsky.social about learning, accompanied by citations from great sci-fi writers William Gibson @williamgallo.bsky.social and Neal Stephenson. A lot to learn and re-read!
#cpp @meetingcpp.bsky.social
@fbuontempo.bsky.social knows the importance of knowing how to teach well (which she does).
& that's on top of knowing c++.
hear her talk about it, her book, & upcoming keynote at @meetingcpp.bsky.social: hubs.la/Q03Pdcbg0
her book is 45% off with code meetingcpp25 thru 11/23: hubs.la/Q03Pdc6S0
The link, github.com/philsquared/..., works for me. I haven't put the slides elsewhere (yet)
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Or for a bit of machine learning from @fbuontempo.bsky.social
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#CppPollOfToday: Do you use POCO?
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#cpp
Or eyelids. It depends
10 weeks until Meeting C++ 2025! Get your tickets now!
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Let’s connect at #GartnerAPPS 2025! We’re heading to London (Sept 8–9) for Gartner’s summit for enterprise app and software engineering leaders. Visit the O’Reilly booth. We’d love to chat about learning strategies to upskill your dev teams, closing AI knowledge gaps in your org, and much more.
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My @cpponsea.bsky.social video "An Introduction to Reinforcement Learning - Snake Your Way out of a Paper Bag" is live: youtu.be/jeoJZ8XGJCg
Give it a go - you pick pick your way through some simpler parts to get started.
Here's a very short blog about the chapters in my new #Cpp book buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2025/08/intr...
