Steve Downey@sdowney

Software engineer at Bloomberg LP Views are my own he/him Parody of a real software engineer and grown up. @sdowney@mastodon.social

 New York, NY
sdowney.org
Joined July 2007
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It's my fault you can't `throw 💩;` anymore.
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Vittorio Romeo@supahvee1234
17 Aug 2025
🤔 What if writing faster C++ code actually meant writing *simpler* code? Incredibly excited to share that I'll be giving my first-ever keynote at @CppCon 2025: ➡️ “More Speed & Simplicity: Practical Data-Oriented Design in C++” cppcon.org/2025-keynote-vitt… #cpp #cplusplus #gamedev
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Barry Revzin@BarryRevzin
26 Jun 2025
C++26 is going to have Reflection! I am very excited about that fact, so I wrote a new #cpp post with a very cool example. We're taking a JSON string and turning it directly into a C++ object: brevzin.github.io/c++/2025/0…
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Preprocessor embed is in C++26. You can go bother your vendors to put it in. The offset parameter may make it through as well, meaning it will go in fully complete and not need a second standards revision to patch the offset(3) parameter in. It's finally, truly, over.
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Are you using C++ 20 Modules in production yet?
3% Yeah
11% Being Considered
29% Considered and, No
57% [show answers]
754 votes • Final results
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Cool to see Intel taking senders to the embedded space. Looks like @ben_deane in involved, too. I'm curious how I could make stdexec more bare-metal friendly. Ben? github.com/intel/cpp-baremet…

GitHub - intel/cpp-baremetal-senders-and-receivers: An implementation of C++ "senders and receive...

An implementation of C++ "senders and receivers" async framework suitable for embedded platforms. - intel/cpp-baremetal-senders-and-receivers

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stacksmashing
@ghidraninja
10 Dec 2023
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as USB-C, is in fact, USB-C/USB3.2, or as I've recently taken to calling it, USB-C plus USB3.2. USB-C is not a protocol unto itself, but rather a connector specification.
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Cliff Pickover
@pickover
2 Dec 2023
I've always enjoyed looking at ligers. You too? The liger is a hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. It's the largest of all known extant felines. Notably, ligers typically grow larger than either parent species. This one is 922 pounds (418.2 kg)! Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
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Reminder that if you're out there looking for a male-to-male extension cord - don't do that.
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Editing TheGrayLady
@nyt_diff
30 Nov 2023
nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/…

Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65 (Published 2023)

As frontman for the Pogues, he romanticized whiskey-soaked rambles and hard-luck stories of emigration, while providing a musical touchstone for members of the Irish diaspora.

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RIP Shane MacGowan, 65. bbc.com/news/entertainment-a…

Shane MacGowan: Pogues singer dies aged 65

The Irish singer-songwriter, whose hits include Fairytale of New York, was unwell for some time.

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pourmecoffee
@pourmecoffee
28 Nov 2023
We must return fire. "NASA’s Psyche spaceship has fired a laser beam at Earth from 16 million kilometres away" cosmosmagazine.com/space/exp…

News

News

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Mickey Petersen
@mickeynp
24 Nov 2023
As it's Black Friday, you can snag a copy of Mastering Emacs with a 20% discount! masteringemacs.org/book

The Mastering Emacs book

Learn Emacs from the ground up

masteringemacs.org
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Dust-to-Digital
@dusttodigital
23 Nov 2023
Remembering R.L. Burnside, born on this day in 1926 in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Here he is playing "See My Jumper Hanging on the Line" at his home in Independence, Mississippi in 1978. Filmed by Alan Lomax and preserved by @LomaxArchive
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just use magit 🧙
🔎Julia Evans🔍
@b0rk
23 Nov 2023
git discussion bingo card
a bingo card with * WTF is detached HEAD state * I hate git * git's design is so elegant * I've used git for 10 years and I have no idea how it works * commits are immutable snapshots * just use magit * git is a directed acyclic graph * you have to understand the linux kernel dev workflow * mercurial is better * git is not github * subversion was so much worse * I only know 5 commands * a branch is just a pointer to a commit * the CLI is badly designed * you should just read Pro Git * rewriting history is bad * just spend 15 minutes learning git's internals * something about "porcelain" * merge sucks, only use rebase * rebase sucks, only use merge * I just do not care how git works * content addressed storage * subversion was better * something about Linus Torvalds * I just delete my git repo if I mess it up

ALT a bingo card with * WTF is detached HEAD state * I hate git * git's design is so elegant * I've used git for 10 years and I have no idea how it works * commits are immutable snapshots * just use magit * git is a directed acyclic graph * you have to understand the linux kernel dev workflow * mercurial is better * git is not github * subversion was so much worse * I only know 5 commands * a branch is just a pointer to a commit * the CLI is badly designed * you should just read Pro Git * rewriting history is bad * just spend 15 minutes learning git's internals * something about "porcelain" * merge sucks, only use rebase * rebase sucks, only use merge * I just do not care how git works * content addressed storage * subversion was better * something about Linus Torvalds * I just delete my git repo if I mess it up

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Tycho Brahe@TychoBrahe
23 Nov 2023
I dislike it because I've parsed it holistically and found it wanting intellectually, morally, and aesthetically. If you like something, it's because you're actually a bad person and there's something disgusting and vile in there that slakes your mutant bloodlust
Kurtis MacDonald@koitiz
23 Nov 2023
Replying to @TychoBrahe
What if you dislike something I happen to like?
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The king of England was a vampire at the time
Orin Kerr
@OrinKerr
21 Nov 2023
"The poorest man may, in his cottage, bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England may not enter." — William Pitt, 1763.
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