Stranger Things S5 opening scene is a retcon. That doesn't bode well.

I got sent a consultant job ad that basically reads like "I need a guy who can do C++ but really wish he wasn't". That's not very enticing 🤣

I organized a french vs swedish potato dish contest and the neighbours blew the house's fuses rather than face the french dish. I think that tells me everything I need to know...

I give Arc Raiders another month to change the playerbase trajectory, after that it's gonna be Rat Simulator : 2025 and then you might as well go back to Tarkov 🫤

Bonus post: I tried to play with C++26 std::executor with my graphics project. mropert.github.io/2025/11/21/t...

I went back to TBB.

Trying to understand why C++26 `stdexec::bulk` does not in fact do parallel execution seem to require trying to play detective with 2000 character long template types. Don't run in serial if I request `par_unseq`, compile error with a reason, else this thing is dead on arrival.

I left a review on CDON complaining (among other things) about the lack of localization/translation and they wrote back to me telling me they can't publish it unless I write it in Swedish. You can't make that stuff up.

Friends suggested I try Tarkov 1.0 despite Arc Raiders being out.

"Never meet your heroes" vindicated again

The best way to check if Cloudfare is down is to try one of these "is this thing down for everyone or just me" websites. They're all on Cloudfare so none of them will reply.

The Game Awards nominations make as much sense as Eurovision jury voting. I will not elaborate.

I wrote a follow up to last week's post on enum class and error codes. Spoiler warning: there will be a part 3! mropert.github.io/2025/11/17/e...

Buffy S3:E01 is about a system of demons that grinds people's individuality and makes them work until their bodies give up at which point they are discarded. Then she shows up, grabs a hammer, a sickle and beats up everyone. Somehow I'm thinking there's some symbolism involved.

Narrator's voice: "vcpkg install vulkan" does _not_ install the validation layers. And VkBootstrap silently does nothing if you request them and they aren't found.

Are modern graphics APIs lack of input validation a feature to enable job security? I had a simple mismatch in multi sample count between my color and depth targets and the only thing Vulkan would tell me is "error: device lost" on command buffer submit. This is _bad_ API design.

The next StockholmCpp Meetup is now officially announced! www.meetup.com/stockholmcpp...

So someone decided that Swedish Healthcare online services (1177) were bad and should be replaced by another app (AllTid Oppet) and let met tell you, it's going great. For example, you cannot reply to any answer you get to your requests, which gives us amazing stuff like this.

On literally the same day 🤡 www.gamesindustry.biz/sharkmob-con...

Record revenues and you're not gonna say a word about the absurd amount of questionable layoffs and instead cry about potential regulations? Fuck off! dataspelsbranschen.se/nyheter/2025...

Organizing my local gamedev meetup not expecting the surprise @donoteat.bsky.social jump scare in a talk about marketing.

I have written about my most recent pet peeves working with error codes in C++ libraries. mropert.github.io/2025/11/11/e...

The issue of being a gamer but not a trip hop/industrial fan is that one day you'll run into someone who'll play some Massive Attack and you'll ask "wait is just from Bloodlines" and they'll be like "what?!".

C++ enum classes make for terrible return codes cause you can't have an explicit bool convert.

Mia has opinions on EU5

Stop making use an app if I can get stuck being a screen with no localization in a real language that people speak (that does not include Swedish). Just have a website that I can run through google translate if need be.

Day 2 of VulkanHpp: all command structures have been replaced with non-aggregate types that you _must_ use. That means no designated initializers, we're back in constructor overload hell and builders. For that alone I'm considering dropping it and having my own RAII wrappers.

I really wanna give a shot to VulkanHpp now that I've mostly solved my modules issues but I'm not sure I like how viral it is.

I believe all the Labours, Democrats and Parti Socialist staffers of the world are busy today writing memos that read like "we need a young energetic guy who does TikTok and also chases the right wing vote and supports Israel"

I got 3 scary push notifications on 3 different mediums from Norwegian starting with "we're sorry" and turns out it was a worry for nothing, they were just telling me they're out of lunch menus on the flight.

So, I am not allowed to request my ADHD medications "too early", because what it I get more before I am out and start hoarding and selling them But my health provider can take up to a week to approve my request, with no explanation keep being you, Swedish healthcare

I keep forgetting Shakira covered a song by frickin' Francis Cabrel

It took me 2 years to manage to get an EU health insurance card in Sweden but finally today I got to use it and guess what? The pharmacy told me to eat it and pay up! Without a prescription _from the country I was visiting_ there was nothing to be done. Amazing isn't it?

How do people use YouTube with a "smart tv" instead of a PC? You can't AdBlock the billion ads it keeps throwing at you, it's horrible.

I got offered mayo for free with my meal. It's a bit weird because I ordered ramen, but the rule stands, it means the UK is a civilized place by the only metric that matters.

Just as I keep hearing good news about New World finding it's public...

Is Optick dead? There's been no commits in a year and the website DNS slipped away and is now squatted by some parking. Anyone knows how to reach the maintainer/author per chance? github.com/bombomby/opt...

Normal metro: just tap your bank card to get in/out. Paris metro: please download 2 apps, wait a minute for your tickets to load and type your credit card number each time. But at least it's only 2,50€ a ride!

For all those annoyed by GDPR go look at your favourite service and check whether or not you have an opt-out option that will apply to their website and parents/subsidiaries outside the EU and friends. For ex LinkedIn's promise to not feed your data to Copilot only applies to EU.

So is Microsoft gonna send a cease & desist for unapproved use of their IP like Kenny Loggins did? Or are they just happy to get free tax breaks or another nice advantage and look the other way?

DHL receiver auth: 👍 guy at the shop quickly glancing at your ID card. 👎BankID trying to parse "/ROPERT/MATHIEU/" when it says "ROPERT, MATHIEU" in the system.

RER B, I did not miss you

KLM: "selecting seats at check-in with same category now comes extra." Also KLM: "your flight is full would you consider checking your cabin luggage?'. In the words of Socrates: "haha eat shit".

Another great @codedive.bsky.social finishes!

Freelance "companies" will take an undisclosed cut (but usually 15% or more) of the contracts they "find" for you and won't even bother reading your CV before they forward you a job posting they received in the hopes that it matches but by pure coincidence.

I fixed a bug yesterday in my GLTF texture asset loader. Spec mandates that albedo and other color related textures should be sRGB regardless of what the image metadata might say, and likewise normals and metallic/roughness should be linear. Is that well known?

The Diplomat released another season and the last 10 months made it age 10 years. But also that distance might help show how much American liberalism has been bullshit for so long. "We blew up our allies but it was to protect our interests, you are so unreasonably mad at this!"

Artistic picture of Mia

Protip: add "before:2024" to your google/bing queries when searching images to avoid AI garbage.

I went to Solna's cemetery yesterday and I could hear Folke Bernadotte spinning in his grave. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...