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 :) shop.compiler-explorer.com/promo/BLACKF... Makes a great present too!

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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

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10 weeks until Meeting C++ 2025! Get your tickets now! meetingcpp.com/2025/ #cpp #cplusplus

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

Here's a very short blog about the chapters in my new #Cpp book buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2025/08/intr...

Our August 2025 edition of ‘Overload’ magazine, version 188, is now available to read for FREE! Includes pieces by Lucian Radu Teodorescu, Sean Parent, Andrew Drakeford, Seb Rose & Hassan Farooq & Chris Oldwood. Have a read... accu.org/journals/ove... #Programming #cplusplus #accu

My Introducing C++ book is on the O'Reilly platform and is now up to chapter 11: www.oreilly.com/library/view... #Cpp

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

Manning Publications is running their Summer SALE from July 31 until August 3. This is your chance to get 50% off off all books (MEAP, eBook, and print books) @manning.com www.manning.com

Use RSS. You can't rely on Google. You can't rely on X, on Bsky, and definitely not Facebook. Just use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...

@manning.com have a summer sale on from 31st July to 3rd Aug. Half off all books, $10 liveProjects/ liveVideos and $199.99 Subscriptions Consider my Learn #Cpp by Example book: www.manning.com/books/learn-...

suspect it is possible for models to be much, much smaller than they are. Current models are so big because 1. They partially memorize the internet and 2. it seems to help with optimization. Any other arguments that they must be so big?

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This is pretty fascinating. People using the coding LLMs thought they were building faster with them, but they were actually slower. I’m guessing that people who are excited by these tools would be the most susceptible to this.

I am normal and can be trusted with formal methods

I really want to ask those that espouse the importance of “learning AI” to offer one concrete example of something it can do better than humans (and it can’t be something that it *might* be able to do eventually). Just one.

A great developer conference should include a retro computing talk. @matt.godbolt.org is speaking on ZX Spectrum emulation using ultra-modern C++ at #cpponsea 2025! @cpponsea.bsky.social

@cpponsea.bsky.social was excellent

Deal of the Day May 20: Save 45% on my book Learn #Cpp by Example @ManningBooks: mng.bz/WrEx (my affiliate link)

Question: what do you count as "Modern" C++? (I ask cos I'm plotting a blog post) #Cpp

Sharing an old blog post I wrote about my Learn C++ by Example book: buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2024/08/why-... It's designed to help you catch up with C++ since C++11.

#CppPollOfToday: Which unit test libraries do you use? meetingcpp.com/mcpp/survey/... #cplusplus #cpp

New web app ✨ It’s hard to understand the impact of personal AI usage on water & energy consumption, so I made an interactive + visual conversion tool! 🧮 See how many ChatGPT queries you could make for 1 hamburger. 🤖 🟰 🍔 My goal was to help people make informed decisions. Try it: context.supply

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For no reason, totally irrationally, I'm quite excited about my birth siege engine being a trebuchet.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine Clippy obnoxiously butting into every possible human endeavor—forever.

Here's an old #CppOnSea trip report blog from me: buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2024/07/c-on... (again to remind me this is happening soon)

My book C# Brain Teasers is featured in the @pragprog.com Spring Sale this week. Get 40% OFF with the code 2025POLYGLOT until May 7th. pragprog.com/titles/cshar...

I'm proud to announce that my book C# Brain Teasers has now been released! 21 puzzles for C# programmers of all levels of experience joins the #brainteasers collection from @pragprog.com. pragprog.com/titles/cshar... #dotnet #csharp #brainteasers #exerciseyourmind

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Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’

Book of the Day: Beautiful C++ by J. Guy Davidson and Kate Gregory meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cpp

My blog about this years @accuconf.bsky.social #ACCUConf: buontempoconsulting.blogspot.com/2025/04/accu...

@stevelove.bsky.social talking at the @accuconf.bsky.social #accuconf

#accuconf 2025 @fbuontempo.bsky.social talking about reinforcement learning

ACCU 2025 WORKSHOP PREVIEW! Kevin Carpenter sits down with @lefticus.bsky.social to discuss his upcoming C++ Workshop at ACCU! Learn how to write safer, faster, and more maintainable C++ code in this interactive workshop youtu.be/sWrBq0SP7LU #cpp #programming #coding #cplusplus