Don't mind me, I'm just going to go sit and stare at the wall for a few hours while my brain attempts to assimilate this crucial new information

👏 Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych has chosen to defy the decision of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which prohibits him from using a helmet featuring images of Ukrainian athletes killed due to Russia's aggression against Ukraine. 📸: GettyImages

Wheee

Would anyone argue that it'd be fair if a burglar got to keep a certain percentage of their ill-gotten gains? If no, then why is it that Ukraine would have to compromise on anything? It's not like the burglar will be any less likely to do it again if he gets to keep 20%.

Terrific story about community.

If your application uses 40GB of RAM to open a 300MB file, then you need to rethink your data structures a bit.

I once received a physical paper Nigeria scam mail delivered to my home. This was more than 20 years ago. Today I received a more traditional email scam, where the message included my home address. Uncomfortable.

I made a YT playlist with all my talks from conferences, user group meetups, and a few interviews. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Denmark's geopolitical superpower is how even the most powerful leaders turn into happy little kids when they get a cool Lego model

Look at those side burns!

If you're in the UK and have Facebook, a woman is giving away her late father's PDP-8/L based in Bristol. Schematics included. www.facebook.com/share/p/1A95...

Wonder how long it takes for C++ devs to adopt std::optional over surrogates (-1, 0, npos, etc.) or pointers. 🤔 #cpp #cplusplus

My talk "When to give up, and how?" from NDC{TechTown} is out on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-h9... There were numerous problems with the microphone, so the viewing experience is maybe not great.

Early morning visitor

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research set up a wildlife camera near our summer house in the Arctic a couple of years ago. We just realised that it has captured images of lynxes! These are my favourite animals, it makes me so happy to know they are walking around on our land up there.

using AI for code is great to get you 50% of the way there, especially if you were 80% there already

Tony Hoare: Null was my billion dollar mistake. AI Industry: Hold my beer...

Totally lovely story to heal your heart this morning

This whole shop is amazing www.deafmetal.store

I think I nerd sniped myself with a lightning talk and fell down a rabbit hole. github.com/rollbear/com... Lots is missing, and I'm not even sure if this is a good idea, but it is very very cool, IMO.

New post on C++ on a Friday! "A prvalue is not a temporary" blog.knatten.org/2025/10/31/a...

Have never regretted going to Meeting C++. Could be a very rewarding last minute decision if it's feasible for you.

We have zero plans to put AI in LibreOffice, of course. Our focus is privacy and letting you control your data. Some users want AI features and they can get them via optional extensions made by the community – but we won't put it in the app itself.

Anyhow, if you're hiring (and you also understand that AI is not going to fix anyting) and you need a C++ and CMake expert who could move you to Rust or Swift please hit me up.

🆕 on the #Cpp conference video radar: 🎦 from CppOnSea: 📺 Will Your C++ Program Still Be Correct Next Year? - Björn Fahller - C++ on Sea 2025 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L6q0GUgrGs

My presentation "Will Your Program Still Be Correct Next Year", from @cpponsea.bsky.social , was just published on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7L6q...

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. We have proprietary encryption!

@rollbear.bsky.social at our most recent Stockholm #Cpp Meetpu talking about callables and pipes. Enjoy 🎉 youtu.be/DUWXaX4GkOs

Our YouTube channel has a birthday! #Sweden #Cpp www.youtube.com/@swedencpp

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Friends. These are lots of my all-time favorite images. I'm letting them go, frankly out of desperation. You can download them all and make prints or use as backgrounds on your devices. Pay whatever you think they're worth ❤️ buymeacoffee.com/angrytheinch drive.google.com/drive/folder...

This only happens to you once

And that's how you integrate digital elements into an exhibition. Part of the temporary "China's Dinosaur World" at the Shanghai Natural History Museum, China. Closing this November. Video source: Shanghai Let's Meet

Our star is a tiny little dot, just like one of these, in a tiny little galaxy in a vast universe. We're sitting on a tiny spinning pebble circulating around said tiny star, acting like idiots.

We don’t want AI slop. Stop sending us AI slop. Stop wasting our time with AI slop. It doesn’t sound good. It’s antithetical to our core values. You didn’t even make it. Knock it off.

One of the joys of having been around for a while is to suffer the pains of ones previous self. Today was spent in its entirety with undoing mischief I did in 2009. I'm *almost* done. Hopefully tomorrow.

Have a large chunk of my 8-bit cassette tape games that I'm selling up now on eBay. ZX Spectrum, BBC/Electron, Oric, and MSX for now. Tonnes more to go up over next couple of years. Software, hardware, you name it. Give me a follow if you want to see the journey! www.ebay.co.uk/usr/lord_arse

Thomas Deininger uses plastic waste to create sculptures,or should I say,works of Genius!!!!!!

More solid career suggestions from LinkedIn, for your Saturday morning amusement

Have you ever seen the aurora over calm waters? It's an experience for sure. 🌌

Norwegian home invasion.

telling that people who are professionally Very Computer so often want Less Computer in their lives

Engineer here, cloud storage is a rounding error in power consumption compared to AI compute.

Can someone help me with an Asio question? Does an initiating function synchronize (memory model-wise) with the corresponding completion handler? stackoverflow.com/questions/79...

This but for conference talks. If you can’t be bothered to write the abstract, that speaks to your ability to write the talk

I finally wrote up my @cpponsea.bsky.social trip report: buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2025/08/c-on... #Cpp

'Creative Black Magic' ✨ by Jordi Koalitic with Xiaomi Global takes these moments to the next level. Such innovative photography techniques creating the enchanted. #beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #photography #darkart #surrealphotos #photoinspo #art

I spent seven years writing a book on this and she just… said it in three succinct paragraphs to politico.