August 20 marked the 136th anniversary of Howard Phillips Lovecraft's birth, the man who created his own genre, Lovecraftian horror. Plenty of people have tried to copy or build on his ideas. Only...
There's an old joke among programmers that you should never pay them by the line of code, because they'll end up writing long, pointless code and leaning hard on copy-paste. These days that...
No one disputes the value of static or dynamic code analysis. However, some developers see that value as rather abstract and stop at writing unit tests. I recently came across an example from the...
Embedded development comes with a wide variety of custom configurations, compilers, and build systems, which can make standard analysis approaches difficult to apply. To address this...
I stumble upon a C++ function that will be a really illustrative example of how refactoring can both shorten and optimize code. Today, we'll need to dust off our human brains in the era of...
How can you avoid overlooking dangerous code parts during reviews? You can use static analysis tools. Let's take as an example OrcaSlicer, a popular slicing software designed to prepare 3D models...
What is expertise, and what lies at its core? Expertise varies in depth, field, and purpose. But some things never change: it can't exist without theory and experience; it can't emerge in...
To keep PVS-Studio sharp against whatever new patterns of bugs vibe coding introduces, I've been hunting for real open-source C++ projects built this way. Turns out finding them is the hard...
While the industry debates memory safety, the ISO committee and developers continue shaping the future of a much-loved language, we've gathered the most exciting recent events from the C++...
