cbloom rants

I'd like to import all my old Eudora mail to gmail, to get it all together in one place, and for searchability. (my current mail solu...

I believe that the modern trend of doing some very superficial data analysis to prove a point, or support your argument is extremely harmful...

A little bit fast and loose but trying to summarize some insanity from a practical point of view. Windows has various "namespaces...

There are a lot of posts about this floating around, most not quite right. Trying to sort it out once and for all. Note that in all cases I...

I've been talking about this for a while but maybe haven't written it all clearly in one place. So here goes. My proposal for a cor...

Being pedantic while I'm on the topic. We've covered this before. Any language with lambdas (that can be fired when an async com...

As usual I'm way behind in knowing what's going on in the world. Lo and behold, MS have done a coroutine system very similar to me,...

So, continuing on the theme of a very C++-ish API with "futures" , ref-counted buffers, etc. : cbloom rants 07-19-12 - Experim...

Top two Oodle (potential) customer complaints : 1. The API is too big, it's too complicated. There are too many ways of doing basica...

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