I was recently reminded that the variable this is an implicit parameter passed to all methods in OOP such as C++. We can observe this by comparing a regular function vs a method belonging to some class:

I recently found out accidentally at work that vim and view were the same thing when I happened to be editing a file on view instead of my beloved vim editor.

Note: This is a follow up post from my microblog

WARNING: I am no expert in Assembly. The last and only time I ever wrote assembly was computing the Fibbonacci Sequences 8 years ago for the MIPS architecture

Years ago I was once asked by an intern to debug a mysterious crash that seemed so innocent. While I no longer recall what the code was about, we stripped the program to a single line in main. Yet the program still continued to crash.

I previously mentioned in my microblog that I lost my file by accidentally overwriting my file using the cp command. This got me thinking as to why this would be impossible on my work laptop since I would be constantly bombarded with a prompt to confirm my intention to overwrite the file.

Recently on Hackernews, a relations developer from QNX announced that QNX is now free for anything non-commercial. QNX also made an annoncement to the LinkedIn Community as well which was where I learned about it. For those who are not familiar with QNX, QNX is a properiety realtime operating system targetted for embedded systems and is installed in over 255 million vehicles. QNX has a great reputation for being reliable and safe embedded system to build software on top of due to its microarchitecture and compliance to many industrial and engineering design process which gives customers the ability to certify their software in safety critical systems more easily. What makes QNX appealing is a discussion on another time but for me, this is a good opportunity to fiddle around with the system. I was previously denied a license from my university who had an agreement with QNX and my attempts to get an educational license did not go far years ago.