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It almost appears as if the code was minified. The variable names are short and formatting looks like it's written to minimize whitespace. Did it write it in this compact format al…

Has anyone tackled this for Windows? WSL isn’t ideal when shipping a consumer app to a non-developer target audience since it requires some setup.

I thought the macOS notarization process was annoying until we started shipping Windows releases. It’s basically pay to play to get in the good graces of Windows Defender. I think …

Exciting work! I’ve often wondered if an LLM with the right harness could restore and optimize an aging C/C++ codebase. It would be quite compelling to get an old game engine runni…

the libs in the bench don’t really have an external deps. will be much more interesting to see the results with ffmpeg, Qt, etc. The original source releases from any repo here wou…

This looks great. I would love something that can just incrementally ingest all of the unread messages across various platforms locally and give a summary about what needs a reply …

I find the Chromium codebase to be one of the best resources for learning large-scale, high quality modern C++ best practices. They stay on a bleeding edge toolchain: near tip of t…

I agree. Topics like “how is the lifetime of a QObject exposed to the QML engine managed?” lack coverage and clarity. On the surface it is simple, but in practice it’s an extremely…

I'll also add that I was never able to get the instability to show up when running the classic stress testing tools: MemBench, Prime95, and Intel's own stability tests could all ru…

I was seeing constant instability when running basically any large C++ build that was saturating all of the cores. I was getting odd clang segfaults indicating an AST was invalid, …

Here’s another great article on the topic. I particularly like the animations in this one. https://www.propublica.org/article/train-derailment-long-tra...

I wrote about a small fraction of this, CFRunLoop: https://blog.meldstudio.co/macos-cfrunloop-internals-schedul... libdispatch source code is an enlightening read for those interes…

There’s a very minimal example using C++ interop in Qt’s test suite: https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/tree/dev/tests/manual/he... I’ve kicked around with the C++ interop a few t…

We build meldstudio.co (a performance oriented desktop app) using Qt/QML and managed to entirely avoid Qt Creator. It’s like traveling back in time coming from a VS Code configured…

This is the first in a series of posts I have planned about working with low-level run loop APIs provided by the CoreFoundation C library. I demonstrate how they can be used in a C…

I just founded a company where we're building a cross-platform native desktop app. Perhaps given we're on HN we can scope this to ask why aren't any _startups_ building native desk…

I just did this in the last few weeks — I’m a first time solo founder, engineer and mostly introverted. We’re pre-product launch and no customers. I just finished our first seed ro…

I've created a few projects with Dash in the past and it's amazing how quick it is to get something interactive up in about 20 minutes. It definitely has a narrow set of use cases,…

It's sad to see Sourcetrail didn't make it as a commercial product. I really enjoyed it when I tried it out a year or so ago. I appreciate the retrospective on the hurdles you face…

I’ve used Anki pretty consistently throughout my university studies for just about every course. I plan to continue using it to keep a high level overview of some of the important …

The rep told me that they had intentionally avoided cities with a heavy presence of tech workers. Based on the survey I completed, they are looking for a diversity in eye color and…

This is absolutely legitimate. I was approached by a Google Rep and completed the series of tests for the $5 gift card. Mostly out of curiosity to see what they’re up to. It’s usin…

This happened to me in Central Park a few months ago. It certainly is Google and they offered me a $5 Starbucks gift card for completing the process. I discussed in length with the…