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janselmanon Common libraries and data structures for C

Shrinking is not that necessary I believe. C++ and Java data structures do not shrink automatically either.

janselmanon Common libraries and data structures for C

Btw I'm not the author, author posted on reddit : https://www.reddit.com/r/C_Programming/comments/lh9irz/commo...

I don't know much about hashmaps but the disadvantage with tombstones is if you add/remove a lot, then you have to rehash your map at some point right?

I really like tiny libs anyway, yours looks good, very readable :)

janselmanon Uncovering a 24-year-old bug in the Linux Kernel

Great write up. It's common to add retry or reconnect mechanism to connections even there is no requirement. It's basically "restart your computer" to see if the issue disappears. So, it actually hides bugs for decades :)

janselmanon The new pricing model for Travis CI

https://github.com/uraimo/run-on-arch-action

It's on qemu, not that fast but it works.

janselmanon What3words: Representing every location on earth with three dictionary words

Looks like easier than coordinates : https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-49319760

janselmanon Does C++ still deserve a bad rap?

Because C++ has almost all the possible features of the programming languages, so you find a subset to like in it. A language shines when it picks the correct subset of the features, not all.