Posts

I have a small server running in my flat that serves files locally via NFS and remotely via Nextcloud. This post documents the slightly overpowered upgrade of the hardware and subsequent performance / efficiency optimisations.

This post documents how to toggle your entire desktop between light and dark themes, including your apps and the websites in your browser.

When designing library code, one often wonders: “Are these all the parameters this function will ever need?” and “How can a user conveniently change one parameter without specifying the rest?” This post introduces some Modern C++ techniques you can use to make passing configuration options easy for your users while allowing you to add more options later on.

With increasing bandwidths, live-streaming of video games is becoming more and more popular – and might further accelerate the demise of the desktop computer. Most options are “cloud-gaming” services based on subscriptions where you don’t own the games and are likely to be tracked and monetised for your data. In this blog post I present the solution I built at home to replace my “living room computer”.

C++ Ranges are one of the major new things in C++20 and “views” are a big part of ranges. This article is a short introduction for programmers that are new to C++ Ranges.