Most of my work during the first quarter of this year involved experimenting with things which haven’t yet reached the state where it would be interesting to discuss them. But there was a project that at this point is reaching its finish, and thus let’s focus on it. That project is AsciiDoc-based documentation for Boost.JSON. Previously the project used a setup that was not too dissimilar to that of many Boost libraries. Doxygen collected API reference docs from Javadocs comments in the proj...

Boost.Unordered When I’m not busy eternally grinding on implementing hashing algorithms, I’ll sometimes take a moment and help other Boost libraries. I enjoy being a kind of soldier of Boost. Deploy me to any library in the project and I’ll dive in and get results. This is actually how my involvement with Regex started and I’ve done this a couple of other times to fix some bugs in both Serialization and Optional. This time around, it was a library I’ve worked on previously: Unordered. Becau...

We continue to make exciting progress developing new libraries for inclusion in Boost. New Libraries Decimal Decimal (https://github.com/cppalliance/decimal) is a ground-up implementation of IEEE 754 Decimal Floating Point types in C++14, co-authored with Chris Kormanyos. In January we had our formal review for inclusion in Boost. Unfortunately, we were not accepted, but we were also not rejected. There were a lot of comments that we have addressed in the past few months, and many other op...

It’s been an exciting quarter over here. Both old-but-refreshed and brand new projects are flourishing in the Boost ecosystem, making today a really exciting moment to contribute to it. using std::cpp 2025: a tale of coroutines, timeouts and cancellation in Asio I had the pleasure of speaking at using std::cpp 2025, the biggest C++ conference in Spain. I even had Bjarne Stroustrup himself among the audience! The talk was focused on how to write simple but effective asynchronous Asio code. ...

Here’s an overview of some projects I have been working on the last few months. Server Upgrades The Ubuntu LTS ‘Long Term Support’ release 24.04 was officially available in April 2024, however it’s not advisable to upgrade existing servers until the release has a chance to be field-tested and validated. Among other issues, the Ubuntu 24.04 zip package “fails when filenames contain unicode characters”, which was a serious bug that affected release-tools. By April 2025 though, it seems reason...