https://tamir.dev/blogvent/ Recent content in Blogvent🎄 on Tamir Bahar https://tamir.dev/images/profilepic.jpg https://tamir.dev/images/profilepic.jpg Hugo -- gohugo.io Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-08/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-08/ This Sunday, during the monthly meeting of the Israeli WG21 National Body discussion forum1, we discussed a paper by Yehezkel Bernat. The paper discusses a specific issue with C++ ranges and iterators. It demonstrates it with the following code sample: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 #include <ranges> #include <iostream> namespace rv = std::views; int main() { for (auto i : rv::iota(0) | rv::filter([](auto i) { return i < 11; }) | rv::take(11)) std::cout << i << '\n'; } The code in the example does the following: https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-02/ Fri, 02 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-02/ I always knew image alt-text existed. I knew about it from learning HTML - it’s the text that shows when the image doesn’t load. And it’s also on XKCD as the extra pun (TIL that’s actually title= and not alt=). It’s only recently, when Twitter added image descriptions1 and my feed started talking about them, that I realized how important they are for accessibility. Since then, I’ve been making an effort to describe the images in all my tweets to the best of my ability. https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-01/ Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://tamir.dev/blogvent/2022-12-01/ When I started my professional career I was not doing software engineering, but rather reverse-engineering. Taking a compiled binary, disassembling it, and trying to understand what it does. My job was essentially reading code, with the stated goal in my job description was “vulnerability research”. Since then, I moved to the other side, and am now doing “forward engineering”. While it is very tempting to say that as programmers (or developers, or software engineers, or whichever term you’re comfortable with) we only write code, we know that this is not true.