The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The continued diary of an experienced C++ programmer. Thoughts on C++ and other languages I play with, Emacs, functional, non functional and sometimes non-functioning programming.

Timo Geusch

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<p>My apologies for the sudden instability of my blog. I’ve managed to make a hash of an update on the main Wordpress site when trying to update to a newer PHP version and had to switch to the Jekyll “backup” site that isn’t quite production ready yet.</p>

Timo Geusch

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<p>Unfortunately, Digg announced that Digg Reader is shutting down tomorrow. While I never used Digg Reader as my main RSS feed reader – I’ve got a paid subscription to <a href="https://feedly.com/">Feedly</a> – I was very happy to use it as a backup reader for those feeds that weren’t always that great at adhering to the RSS feed standard (I’m looking at you, <a href="https://bringatrailer.com/">bringatrailer.com</a>) as it was more forgiving when it parsed feeds.…

Timo Geusch

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<p>I’ve been experimenting with converting this blog to <a href="http://jekyllrb.com/">Jekyll</a> or another static blog generator. I’m sticking with Jekyll at the moment due to its ease of use and its plugin environment. The main idea behind this is to reduce the resource consumption and hopefully also speed up the delivery of the blog. In fact, there is a <a href="http://static.lonecpluspluscoder.com/">static version of the blog</a> available right now, even though it’s kinda…

Timo Geusch

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<p>I switched jobs in October last year and getting up to speed in the new role did take priority over anything else, so I had to put a few other endeavours including this blog on hold for a little while.</p>

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