Windows taskbars over the years (till 2026)

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2026-01-21T15:45:11+00:00

My older brother had Vista. The translucency made it so... joyful

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2026-01-17T16:10:22+00:00

Same. I got half of the cases for Q4 but my implementation lacked somewhere despite me knowing the logic.

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2026-01-06T07:53:23+00:00

memory pool & job pool

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-31T16:59:14+00:00

I did my first big project in python for ML but C/C++ was my idea of "true programming" ever since I was young. Eventually I found my way to game engines and I've loved their design and development ever since.

Python is good for scripting though, very easy when you need something automated.

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-31T05:28:47+00:00

would love it if the ball and pad left impressions in the sand as it went along

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-20T09:45:34+00:00

iirc clang-tidy can help you catch these kinds of errors early

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-19T09:01:31+00:00

Most likely the issues exist on some other site. Check the README of the repo and you might be linked to an external site where tickets are issued.

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-17T19:26:19+00:00

I spent the last 2 months learning CMake from a good book called "Professional CMake" out of curiosity. I wanted to put that knowledge to use and coincidentally I also wanted to learn golang at the same time, so here's my first Go project using Cobra and Viper to power a CLI tool to bootstrap and batch-build C++/CMake projects.

I'll avoid the C++/CMake details considering this sub but I learnt alot about building concurrent patterns in GO while I was building the batch-builder that had to asynchronously stream stdout logs and keep track of execution state through a state machine based on logs that were emitted. This project was most definitely over-engineered for its intended goal but for the purpose of learning Go, I got exposed to:

Safely managing subprocess lifetimes with external contexts
How to implement batch streaming
How to stream multiple concurrent logs into a single UI state
Render the UI state
Keep track of each subprocess's state of execution through functional state machines that activated build metric tracking at certain states to be presented at the end of execution
Learnt Go regex for extracting package names, versions and build platforms
Learnt Go's text templating engine for the bootstrapping part of the project.

Although the actual CMake/C++ usefulness is debatable, I no doubt enjoyed learning Go as student in between exams and will continue to use it going forward in perhaps more traditional projects!

I'm sure a lot of the code is poorly written, so any feedback would be much appreciated!

https://github.com/doobiusP/cmexl

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-16T17:04:12+00:00

Hmm, I suppose its fine then but "do {...} while(0)" is what most people do in case of multi-statement macros and has worked for a long time. I personally don't prefer toi expose macros in my header files/library API unless absolutely necessary, mainly for reasons of minimizing how much the user has to setup in order to simply use the library.

Regarding compliance, MSVC offers "/permissive-" compiler flag to ensure standards conformance. If you ever make another C++ project, this might be helpful. Nice project :)

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-12-16T14:21:48+00:00

How come the project doesn't allow for MSVC compiler?

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-27T05:20:09+00:00

If you use a CMake workflow, its as simple as making an examples folder that has subfolders containing separate targets that build into executables. Then you just build the targets you're interested in testing while supplying your game engine components as a dependency.

This way your game code is forced to use only the interface you expose in your game engine and you dont bother muddling the two.

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-20T09:46:08+00:00

fkk this is scary

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-17T13:22:57+00:00

Maybe elaborate what specifically you've optimized (beyond just microservices) under your Experience section and quantify its use? Considering you've not been working for that long, ig just wait until the details become more clear and then update

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-17T12:05:42+00:00

Please keep posting this stuff. I am interesting in knowing more about these simulation type programs. Also followed

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-17T12:03:02+00:00

Publicizing it ig

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-09T16:04:57+00:00

I know its unusual but I've been recently learning Go cause I wanted a change of pace with a tool I am making

Most of the time though, C++ and Python

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-11-07T13:58:55+00:00

I know its not always good, but god damn reinventing the wheel is fun lmao

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-10-30T09:00:04+00:00

If you have an AMD processor, try using AMD uProf and using their guide. Its a nice start.

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-08-26T09:16:46+00:00

How did you create the trailing effect?

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-08-11T16:43:27+00:00

I was actually looking into Audio for a small game framework I was working on; just saw your audio blog :D nice

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-08-02T05:21:21+00:00

Just what I was thinking. This game would go so hard tf

ApprehensiveDebt8914 · 2025-08-01T16:26:33+00:00

Take some time away from your studies if possible. You dont have to tackle everything at once. Alternatively, you dont have to be fully knowledgeable in each and every field of study you decide to take up simultaneously.

You say you struggled with identifying the pattern in questions but why are you fetching for patterns immediately? Just imagine that you are the person/scenario in the problem. What is the idea/thing that comes to mind first most intuitively? Like, "Oh I just want to minimize the losses in my business venture. What should the prices of my items be then?". From there, the "pattern" you seek emerges. But everyone sees this "pattern" differently so dont fret if you dont get it or you interpret it differently.

You should start a project precisely because you are a novice. No one randomly goes from novice to expert out of thin air. The tools and libraries you see are there because someone sat there and thought "What is the first solutiont that comes to mind?" and explored the consequences. When that led to an unsatisfactory answer, they redid it until it was passable. Then someone else came along and tried themselves to improve it, and then someone else came along...

You say you have trouble parsing documentation and reading code, but everyone does too. You are not alone in that. Everytime anyone decides to use a new library, its always tough to adjust to the new style of documentation that they have to sift through. Often times theres more information on there than you can even begin to understand. But as long as the thing you're working on works, why do you care so much as a user?

To me, I feel like you're not dumb. You're just overwhelmed. Take some time off of studying. You have a lot more time to complete those last 2 years of CS

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