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There's an ImHex WebAssembly build accessible online at: https://web.imhex.werwolv.net/ .

Here's the photo of different soldering handles: https://x.com/lukego/status/1308366430849716226/photo/1

I recommend https://eleshop.eu/jbc-bt-2bqa-soldering-station.html The handle is so light! Active tips! Heats up in 2 seconds. Goes to standby mode when you put away the handle to s…

I'm still using Sourcetrail daily for inspecting C++ codebases. Works great. I paid for the first beta and was very sad that the company was not profitable. It really is a great pr…

https://dannas.name Notes on systems programming. Not that many posts but I've reached the HN frontpage on two occasions. --- * Why should children program? A review of Seymour Pap…

Rico Mariani gives his opinions on the future of system programming languages. His main point is that C++ with EH introduces too much bloat; that the opaque error handling combined…

=== Cut needless words === The article references Covingtons How to Write more Clearly, Think More Clearly [...] Powerpoint presentation [1]. I highly recommend it! A fun part in t…

As for contributions from the gamedev industry, here's a EuroLLVM 2022 presentation from Orlando Cazalet-Hyams working at Sony: https://www.snsystems.com/technology/tech-blog/impro…

[gcc/gdb/LLVM outsider here] If someone is interested in what's being done to improve LLVMs debuginfo, here's a talk by Djordje Todorovic from two years ago: https://www.youtube.co…

Has anyone had a chance to read this yet? Is it a good complement to Brendan Greggs and Denis Bakhvalov books? What more besides the ideas in Richards ACM Queue article are present…

I thought the same thing when I read the blogpost.

Yes, providing good error message is a hard problem. Writing a parser that just bails out when it encounters and error is easy. Writing one that provides error messages that are us…