J.S. Cruz

Just because a type is complex, doesn’t mean it is expensive to copy.

I hate “bug”. Not “bug” as in “terrestrial arthropod”, but “bug” as in the term used to describe software problems.

Taking my first steps in Rust after looking at it for a long time.

Feeling melancholic about brushes and dot products.

One misconception that floats around the C++ world is that the language has three parameter passing styles: call-by-value, call-by-pointer, and call-by-reference. This isn’t quite right though…

Writing some quality-of-life improvements to C++’s algorithm library.

This post is more of a reference for myself regarding C++ value categories.

We should thank the mathematicians for their work in functional programming.

As of the last post, we have a working web radio player, where we can add stations by URL, but without persistence. In this post, we’re going to add the ability to load stations from, and store station in a database, using Qt’s SQL capability.

Something that seems to have flown under the radar of the mainstream tech news sites was OpenAI’s announcement of plugins for GPT.

Or, models for machines shouldn’t be prima facie applicable to humans.

Let’s add some UI elements that are expected to be present in any respectable program, i.e., menus and toolbars. We’ll also give the user the ability to add new audio files to the list, and import/export the playlist.

Artificial “intelligence” and very human errors.

As of the last post, we have a very basic, two-column window that displays text read from a file. In this post, we’re going to add the ability to play audio files.

This is a collection/index of main Qt classes and their KDE refinements, where they exist.

As per my last post, I’m writing a program to listen to internet radio. This will be called Kadio.

Fixing UX annoyances in Kate’s Plasma widget.

Chrome doesn’t have a native way of finding RSS feeds in the current page, so I wrote my own.

I like listening to internet radio.

I’ve been meaning to start a blog for some time.