First game of Feud in a while, a new opponent, let’s see how I do. The Feud community likes to make fun of me for how bad I am at my own game so I am not optimistic.

Modern C++ has a decent amount of stuff in the standard library but there are a few things I was naively surprised it lacks:

• base64
• any cryptography stuff at all really
• HTTP!

Random discovery of the day is that GNU’s linker has different rules to those of MSVC or LLVM - the latter two are happy to resolve linkages at the final executable or library, while ld seems to require that every intermediate object binary be linked up?

Kissing Gate, Dog Race and Ugly at Village Underground

In light of the recent AI news I hereby renounce my 1254-day Duolingo streak. Finally, I am free.

So, two weeks on, got to try and bend my finger and it…doesn’t. At all! Even with force applied. So that’s a bit scary. But I did get to choose the colours on this fetching new splint so that’s something.

Met some new types of guy yesterday

Generative AI has ruined bold text for me. If you put bold text in a paragraph I’m ignoring the whole thing sorry

Taking quad bikes through the Sahara desert to a 2000 year old Roman fort might be the coolest thing I’ve done on a holiday ever

Saw these in the wrong order