Experiences in the digital world and sometimes the real world, too
I was recently reminded of why I think it’s a bad idea to teach beginners C++. It’s a bad idea because it is an objective mess—albeit a beautiful, twisted, tragic, wondrous mess. Despite the current state of the community, this post is not a polemic against modern C++. This post is partly a follow-up on Simon Brand’s article, Initialization in C++ is bonkers, and partly a message to every student…
Let’s start this blog off with some straight-forward informative posts. As I’m still updating the look of this site, which uses the popular Jekyll static site generation framework, I thought it would be nice to share some useful tidbits I’ve learned. This is the first real post so I apologize in advance for any dissociative identity disorder exhibited in the tone and writing.
I tried starting this site a couple years ago, and then I realized I didn’t have the patience to collect my thoughts. Let’s try again.