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1. Cycles all way down • Core Dumped

   How Emacs detects circular lists while printing them.

   https://coredumped.dev/2024/02/23/cycles-all-way-down

   Tags: emacs, emacs-lisp, profiling, c by Tom Willemse (2024-03-01)
2. Worse Is Better

   An explanation of the "Worse is Better" and "The Right Thing" software development philosophies.

   https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html

   Tags: lisp, c, unix by Tom Willemse (2024-03-01)
3. [C] Implementing smart pointers for the C programming language – The Freaking Manual

   http://snaipe.me/c/c-smart-pointers

   Tags: coding, c, pointers, memory-management by Tom Willemse (2015-04-21)
4. Baby's First Garbage Collector - journal.stuffwithstuff.com

   An awesome explanation of a very simple garbage collection implementation.

   http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/12/08/babys-first-garbage-collector

   Tags: coding, c, garbage-collection by Tom Willemse (2015-03-05)
5. A preprocessor hack to implement "with" blocks in pure C | foreign keys

   https://rickystewart.wordpress.com/201...ack-to-implement-with-blocks-in-pure-c

   Tags: coding, c, macro, python, with, memory-management, error-handling by Tom Willemse (2015-03-05)
6. Don't Follow These 5 Dangerous Coding Standard Rules << Barr Code

   An explanation of 5 bad optimizations and better alternatives. Pretty interesting.

   http://embeddedgurus.com/barr-code/201...hese-5-dangerous-coding-standard-rules

   Tags: coding, c, embedded, guidelines by Tom Willemse (2015-02-24)
7. www.iki.fi/sol - Tutorials - Graphics / Game Programming

   A tutorial on using C(++) and SDL to do graphics programming. Will work towards creating a game.

   http://iki.fi/sol/gp

   Tags: coding, c, c++, graphics, sdl, tutorial, games by Tom Willemse (2015-02-09)
8. Threads and fork(): think twice before mixing them. | Linux Programming Blog

   Warnings about using fork and (p)threads together in a single program. Presents some examples of situations that make using threads and fork together very troublesome.

   http://www.linuxprogrammingblog.com/th...and-fork-think-twice-before-using-them

   Tags: c, warning, fork, threads by Tom Willemse (2015-01-22)
9. Blargh - Moving a process to another terminal

   An explanation of how to detach and re-attach a program in a different TTY/PTY. It has some caveats, but it's very simple to implement. Similar to reptyr and neercs.

   http://blog.habets.pp.se/2009/03/Moving-a-process-to-another-terminal

   Tags: c, linux, terminal, tty, pty by Tom Willemse (2015-01-08)
10. Eli Bendersky’s website » Blog Archive » void* and casts, in C and C++

    An explanation of why pointers to void can be converted to any other pointer in C implicitly, but have to be converted explicitly in C++.

    http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2009/11/16/void-and-casts-in-c-and-c

    Tags: c, c++, pointers by Tom Willemse (2015-01-07)