The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The Lone C++ Coder's Blog

The continued diary of an experienced C++ programmer. Thoughts on C++ and other languages I play with, Emacs, functional, non functional and sometimes non-functioning programming.

Timo Geusch

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<p>I’m currently rebuilding my main Windows machine after it had become close to unusable. Given that I upgraded it multiple times from Windows 7 all the way to Windows 11 without ever reinstalling the OS, this shouldn’t have come as a major surprise. Either way, this is the reason for the sudden outburst of Windows related posts so I can go and refer to my blog as my Internet Notes repository.</p>

Timo Geusch

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<p>Version control system migrations are a fact of life for developers in any longer lived codebase. In fact, I’ve had a hand in quite a few migrations as newer, more workable version control systems became available. Also, like a lot of developers, I’ve got fragments of source code dating back quite some years floating around on various servers and development machines of mine. Not necessarily code that is still being used, but still code that I don’t want to just delete…

Timo Geusch

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<p>I’ve been trying to up my <code>use-package</code> game recently and converted my hand rolled package check and installer to <code>use-package</code>. I usually prefer to use packages from <code>melpa-stable</code> so I pin the default package source used by <code>use-package</code> to <code>melpa-stable</code> and override it where necessary That’s working well in general and looks something like this:</p>

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