Testing
Unit Test Scope (Domain)
By understanding what a function is and is not responsible for we reduce duplication and make our code easier to understand and more resilient to change.
Testing
Smaller, Clearer Tests
Generating test values can better express intent of input values. The examples are written using Typescript, but the same technique can be used elsewhere.
Quick Tricks
Cmake, Conan, and GTest Example
A minimal example of a project that uses cmake, conan, and gtest. I make use of the very handy cmake-conan wrapper. This setup also works seamlessly in CLion
C++20
Concepts in Concept Member Functions
In this article I show a way to use Concepts in the member function parameters of other Concepts using function_traits.
C++
Dependency Injection with C++20 Concepts and the Service Provider Pattern
In this article I explore a system of using C++20 Concepts for Dependency Injection
C++
Jthread, Stop Tokens, and Latches
In this article I use jthread, stop tokens and latches to coordinate a worker pool
Quick Tricks
How to create a broken UTF-8 CSV
Create a broken utf8 CSV for use in your unit tests
Quick Tricks
List GitHub Repositories with Search Term
GitHub provides search functionality, but it returns every mention in code. I just needed the list of repositories. Using the GitHub API we are able to fetch these results.
Terraform
AWS Lambdas with Terraform
This project was used to quickly create some server-less functions with AWS Lambda and make them accessible via HTTP requests.
Quick Tricks
Rotating Password Generation Command
Use Linux Watch to continually generate passwords for you
Quick Tricks
Batch convert video files with grep, xargs, sed and ffmpeg
Explore a combination of tools including pipe, grep, find, xargs, and sed to do some video conversion
Linux
Docker is using all my inodes
We recently had an issue where one of our servers was getting out of disk space errors when trying to pull new Docker images. This caught us by surprise as none of our disk usage alerts had fired. Once we got on the box to investigate we realised that it