Stories by HeliumHydride

Embracing the power of the empty set in API design

Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated (2023) [video]

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004)

Promoting a 32-bit value to a 64-bit value when you don't care about garbage

Blinkenlights: PC Binary Emulating Visualizer (2022)

What's with the weird wReserved value at the start of the DECIMAL structure?

The Slow Winter (2013) [pdf]

You Can Just Make Your Own HTML Elements

For better or for worse, the overload (2024)

Fallthrough Sort (2013)

Protecting Windows users from Janet Jackson's "Rhythm Nation"

Boost 1.88.0

Square Root of Minus Garfield

It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006)

Using Token Sequences to Iterate Ranges

Philosophy of Coroutines (2023)

Fallthrough Sort (2013)

Generalizing std::midpoint

How different Windows ABIs choose how to pass 32-bit values in 64-bit registers

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