I’d like to share with you some of the initiatives and projects I’ve had the pleasure of collaborating on over the past few months. Exploring Projects Engaged in detailed exploration of the following projects, diving deep into their codebases and documentation to gain comprehensive insights: Boost Asio Boost Beast Boost URL Boost Requests (not in Boost yet, by Klemens) It was a journey through these projects’ philosophy, design choices, and intricacies. Recent Adventures To...

Development on Unordered has been proceeding smoothly. Now that Boost libraries are permitted to drop C++03 support, Unordered has seen some long-needed cleanup. Unordered was able to drop dependencies on Tuple and TypeTraits which means packagers like vcpkg can now create smaller downloads for users. In addition to this, a long-standing issue in Unordered was also fixed. We had committed the cardinal sin of storing raw pointers in the internals of the open-addressing containers. To this end...

Summary MrDocs Handlebars The DOM Javascript Bindings Unit tests Boost Website Boost Release Tools Boost Libraries C++ Github Actions Gray-box local search MrDocs Over the last quarter, we have been working intensely on MrDocs, a documentation generator for C++ projects. I’ve been overseeing and reviewing all the work done by the other contributors in the project. I’ve also been responsible for: setting up and maintaining CI for the pr...

Here’s an overview of projects I have been working on the last few months. Github Actions self-hosted runners: based on https://github.com/philips-labs/terraform-aws-github-runner/ - Set up a second functional staging environment. Refactor code to work in both environments. Logic improvements. Sent doc updates upstream in PR. Also a PR to fix launching server instances. Added terraform in boostorg/beast, unordered, url. Improve AMI image builds. Rebuild with auth enabled, more disk space, pa...

CppCon 2023 was my first time attending this conference in person (instead of in my dreams), and it was everything I hoped for and more. I have spent many hours watching conference talks on YouTube, and I’m sure most of them have been from CppCon. For a professional C++ developer, it’s an experience like no other. Here I’ll outline my experience throughout the week. Talks I Loved There are many talks happening at CppCon. Most of the time there are 4 simultaneous talks, which I’ve been told ...