Lesley Lai

Trying to apply for jobs, and one job sent me this LeetCode-style coding challenge that I failed miserably. I am not that kind of person performing well under high pressure.

Choosing C++ was also a mistake. Their platform doesn't support debuggers, and STL index-out-of-bounds errors don't give me any information about where they occur. At the end, I am pretty much stuck in debugging hell with std::cout

I hope generators get more love in the C++ circle.

Unfortunately, I think a C++ coroutine-based generator has a non-trivial overhead compared to a hand-written iterator or state machine. It probably doesn't matter for a lot of use cases (like the example the author showed).

https://mropert.github.io/2026/03/20/unity_cpp_coroutines/

Just set up AdGuard Home on a new Raspberry Pi for the first time. As someone who have never used Raspberry Pi before, this whole process of assembling the case, installing OS, and installing the software took less than 2 hours (I'd expect this would take like a whole weekend). Pleasantly suprised

I don't know. The complexity of this issue (both implementations and the mental overhead of programmers) just to save a few keystrokes makes me feel it's not really worthwhile? It feels more like a fashion when the convinience is debatable?

#pldev

https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/