2018 mid-year link clearance
June 29, 2018Jun 29, 201806/29/18Reaching the halfway point.
June 29, 2018Jun 29, 201806/29/18June 29, 2018Jun 29, 201806/29/18How can I detect from the preprocessor what a macro’s definition is?
June 28, 2018Jun 28, 201806/28/18Evil preprocessor tricks.
Lock free many-producer/single-consumer patterns: A work queue of distinct events, order not important, follow-up question
June 27, 2018Jun 27, 201806/27/18We try to minimize spurious wake-ups, but eliminating them is probably not worth the effort.
Taking advantage of the asymmetry of offline compression
June 26, 2018Jun 26, 201806/26/18You can spend a lot of time compressing, but decompression still needs to be fast.
The cost/benefit analysis of comparing before an assignment
June 25, 2018Jun 25, 201806/25/18Factors pull in both directions. The result is a balance.
How I learned to type
June 22, 2018Jun 22, 201806/22/18On an old manual typewriter.
What can influence how much stack is consumed when sending a message?
June 21, 2018Jun 21, 201806/21/18Who wants to know? No really, that’s the answer.
When I intentionally create a stack overflow with SendMessage, why do I sometimes not get a stack overflow?
June 20, 2018Jun 20, 201806/20/18It depends on what overflows first.
Microspeak: knobs
June 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18Configuration settings, basically.
Woodworking, the opposite of software development
June 18, 2018Jun 18, 201806/18/18According to self-reported data from one person who could have just made it up.