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Big Central Header Files I was thinking about a bit of a design thing I've notice in certain pedagogical and intentionally small codebases have -- often applications and not libraries -- of having a central file of like foo.h, which contains all of the in…

Soft (Director's Cut) by Jane Mei Review 5/5 Book site Soft is a retelling of Carmilla but set in from what I can tell is turn of the 21st century Hong Kong.

CMake: the Good, the Bad, the Weird CMake is one of the most popular build systems in the C/++ ecosystem according to a few recent developer surveys (IsoCPP survey, CLion Survey).

A C++ Mixin System I've had this idea in the back of my head for a while of pervasively using mixins to add code and logic for more high level concepts, although this gets somewhat close to Rust style traits (and C++ concepts).

Thoughts on Logging I read two blog posts recently that made me think about blogging: A footnote in Hillel Wayne's Why Not Comment and another blog post about continious improvement of codebases.

Slayer Shock 3/5 game website itch.io purchase link Slayer Shock is what the video game equivalent of competent fanfiction is for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which it carefully avoids mentioning on any of it sites despite the clear influence.

Author book site I enjoyed the setup for this book, but found the plot twists and changes more confusing and hard to follow as it went on, as the dual perspectives of the characters during the time of the plane crash and the characters in modern day, deal…

What Moves the Dead Amazon Link Rating: 5/5 I bought this book because a bookstore's cafe had this cute "buy a coffee, buy a book for $5", and it was a good use of $5.

Ashes Afterglow review download link Rating: 4/5 Ashes: Afterglow is a sequel to Ashes: 2063, and the pair form a strongly linked duology.

Ashes 2063 download link here Rating: 4/5 Ashes 2063 is described as a doom mod (and, as of the standalone release, no longer technically a mod reliant on the base game either), but really it's just a new game built on the foundation of the GZDoom source…

Baby's second garbage collector.

The garbage collection handbook 4/5 purchase link.

What I wished I knew when learning C This article is a response/take on both Daniel Bachler's article on learning F# and Hillel Wayne's on the hard part of learning a new language.

Horrorstor Rating: 4/5 Purchase link As a warning: Horrorstor has some pretty gnarly gore, but the way its presented in the written form kind of makes it pretty tolerable; any attempt to adapt this would either have to tone it way down or be comfortable w…