cbloom rants

In code design, a frequent pattern is that of singleton state machines. eg. a module like "the log" or "memory allocation...

Of course this is not going to happen. But in the imaginary world in which I rewrite from scratch : I've got a million (actually sev...

I think I've written this before, but a bit more verbosely : It's useful to have at least 3 classes of task in your task system :...

In Oodle, I use my own allocator, and I wish to be able to still construct & destruct classes. (Oodle's public API is C only, but I ...

Code with un-protected multi-threading is bad code just waiting to be a nightmare of a bug. "ad-hoc" multi-threading refers to ...

I'm getting increasingly annoyed with the C-style Oodle threading code. It's just such a nightmare to manually manage things like o...

I've been super annoyed by some inconsistent behavior in the Windows 7 start menu for a while now. Sometimes I hit "Start - program...

Wrapping this up + index post. Previous posts in the series : cbloom rants 09-02-12 - Encoding Values in Bytes Part 1 cbloom rants 0...

Followup to Small Notes on LZNib 1. Because cost ties are common, and ties are not actually ties (due to "last offset"), just...

If you're trying to transmit some data compactly, and you are *not* using any back-end compression, then it's relatively straightfor...