Taras’ Blog

Someone else is developing their own app-specific rewrite tools. In this case app-specific refers to automating porting code from gtk2 to gtk3. The approach is similar in that patches are produced, but it doesn’t look like a patch aggregating tool is written yet. Instead of the elsa/mcpp magic sauce, clang is being used, so this [...]

New Static Analysis Toys I have been catching up on my backlog of little bugs, here are some of the most notable ones. Benjamin has been pushing the limits of what Dehydra can do for his DXR prototype which resulted in a couple of cool new features with one new feature breaking backwards compatibility. Sorry [...]

I have never enjoyed the theory behind software engineering. It seems particularly depressing as it can be summarized as: “What can we learn from past software development experience in order to not repeat old mistakes such that we can come up with newer and shinier mistakes?”. For that reason I haven’t been able to stick [...]

The past week rocked. I was especially impressed with the localizers. The guys who bear through translating an entire browser with associated websites to expose their country to an awesome browsing experience are simply electrifying. It was great to see the South American guys again and to meet hordes of Europeans. The most exciting outcome [...]