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Fabio BaenschAug 22, 2026 • 3 min read
I Built a Windows Debugger From Scratch to Actually See a Stack Smash Happen -
Why I Built a Windows Debugger From Scratch (Because I Wanted to Understand Crashes, Not...
#cybersecurity#cpp#ai#computerscience
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Shubhanshu Shrimali3d ago • 4 min read
Building Eisen Engine: Architecture of a Custom C++20 Game Engine from Scratch (Vulkan, ECS & AI Subsystems)
An exhaustive architectural breakdown of building Eisen Engine in modern C++20: explicit Vulkan 1.3 ...
#gamedev#cpp#vulkan#programming
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Plexescor (Abhijot Singh)Aug 24, 2026 • 7 min read
C++ Tool That Extracts Text From Scrolling Screen Recordings
Palimpsest: I Built a C++ Tool That Extracts Text From Scrolling Screen Recordings (94%...
#ai#cpp#performance#showdev
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Phúc PhùngAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read
When Your MFC Application Just Disappears: Debugging on a Windows CE 5.0 Device
Back in 2012, I got a rather unusual task. I had to build a small application for a specialized...
#programming#cpp#embedde#debugging
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Görkem TUNA6d ago • 3 min read
How I Found an IEEE 754 Violation in an AI Chip Company's Math Kernel
ttnn.atan2(inf, 0) returned 0 instead of pi/2. A field report on finding IEEE 754 special-case viola...
#python#cpp#hardware#machinelearning
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Padmaja Kotoky6d ago • 3 min read
How I built a kernel-enforced sandbox for LLM agent tool calls
Every team running LLM agents with shell access has the same problem: the agent calls a tool, the...
#linux#security#cpp#agents
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ISNDEV5d ago • 11 min read
Four Bugs in Fourteen Lines
Lock contention, starvation, false sharing, cache misses. They're not four bugs. They're one...
#cpp#programming#performance#architecture
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ISNDEV5d ago • 11 min read
One Runtime, Two Programs That Have Nothing in Common
A C++20 actor framework where a REST API and a market-data pipeline run on the same...
#cpp#programming#architecture#performance
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AMZY314d ago • 1 min read
Pck3r is a modern package manager for Windows 10 x64
GitHub Pck3r: C++ Package Manager for Windows Pck3r is a modern package manager for...
#c#cpp#microsoft#windows10
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nasir shahbazAug 23, 2026 • 1 min read
I built a free open-source app that adds mechanical keyboard sounds system-wide on Windows
Hey DEV community! 👋 I just released MonkeySounds a free, open-source Windows app that...
#windows#opensource#cpp#showdev
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Ahmed FarhanAug 24, 2026 • 3 min read
Building a Modular C++ Static Library: Clean Architecture, Encapsulation, and Safe Input Handling
As C++ codebases scale, housing utility routines, state management, and primary execution logic...
#cpp#programming#softwareengineering#architecture
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Morgan Ma3d ago • 4 min read
The 3% Drop That Only Showed Up on a Clean Server: A Debugging Retrospective
My forwarder lost 3% of its messages. My laptop reported zero. CI reported zero. Staging lost...
#cpp#debugging#tcp#ai
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yyzToolsAug 23, 2026 • 4 min read
Shipping Stock CLIs as Subprocess Instead of Static-Linking SDKs
I'm building yyzTools, which bundles 9 third-party engines (OpenSSL, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, pdfcpu,...
#architecture#cli#cpp#softwareengineering
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Finley Li3d ago • 6 min read
Golden Cases Catch Silent Regressions: A Minimal Eval Harness for AI C++ Patches
AI coding models have changed the default workflow. The model writes the first draft; the human...
#cpp#ai#testing#llm
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Morgan MaAug 23, 2026 • 3 min read
The Coverage Loop: Turning Free AI Tokens into Verified C++ Tests
Unit tests are boring. Coverage is not optional. I asked a free AI model to write my tests. It...
#cpp#testing#ai#opensource
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Finley Li5d ago • 4 min read
CI Is Green. The Behavior Is Gone. A Receipt Gate for AI-Generated C++ Patches.
Your CI pipeline just turned green, and the AI-generated patch looks clean. Why does that combinatio...
#cpp#ai#testing#devtools
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Harsh YadavAug 23, 2026 • 2 min read
Inorder Traversal of Binary Tree
Sure. Your tree is: 1 / \ 2 3 / \ \ 4 5 6 Enter...
#algorithms#coding#cpp#datastructures
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Morgan MaAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read
Twenty Prompts, One Compiler: A Free AI Server's Failure Matrix
Liquid syntax error: Unknown tag 'endraw'
#ai#cpp#testing#benchmark
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Morgan Ma5d ago • 3 min read
The Fix That Passed Review and Crashed in Release
The fix passed review. It still crashed in release. The reviewer was never tested. The reviewer was...
#cpp#debugging#ai#testing
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Finley LiAug 22, 2026 • 5 min read
Stop Comparing Token Prices. Compare Cost Per Passing Patch.
A team evaluated two AI coding assistants last month. They compared token prices, picked the cheaper...
#ai#cpp#testing#opensource
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SmershAug 24, 2026 • 8 min read
ZeroTier Without Native. Managed ZtSharp and native VL1-only ZtLite for ESP32
Hello everyone. I temporarily put the ESPB interpreter project on hold because interest in it turne...
#esp32#zerotier#csharp#cpp
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Finley Zhou5d ago • 5 min read
Mutation Testing as a Merge Gate for Agent-Written Tests
An agent patch that passes its own tests is a baseline, not a verdict. The same model wrote the code...
#testing#cpp#ai#agents
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Finley Zhou5d ago • 5 min read
The Agent's Tests Passed. Mutation Testing Showed 2 of 4 Faults Survived.
The agent patch passed the gates I ran on it. Its unit tests were green, fixtures matched, nothing.....
#cpp#testing#ai#agents
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Finley Zhou5d ago • 5 min read
Case Study: The Thread Pool Passed 64/64 Tasks. ThreadSanitizer Found the Race in the Destructor
Case Study: The Thread Pool Passed 64/64 Tasks. ThreadSanitizer Found the Race in the...
#cpp#ai#testing#concurrency
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