What happened in 2019?
A lot actually. But before I go into all that, let me tell you why I am writing this post. A friend of my partner started sending year-end emails to their friends and encouraged them
Continue reading »I attended cppcon 2019 and why you should too!
If you are a C++ programmer, I encourage you to attend the cppcon, one of the largest gatherings of the C++ community. The sessions range from the cutting edge of C++ to how to do
Continue reading »How to debug long running programs
I recently chased down a crash in a software running on a large test case. The fix surprisingly is a one-liner in an area of code which has been touched only four times in last
Continue reading »Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
I just attended the ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing in Orlando, Florida. I volunteered to help at the Outreachy booth and Outreachy sponsored my conference registration and travel cost. Here’s a list
Continue reading »Weird cscope issue on Mac
I use emacs and xcsope and I’ve faced this weird issue of “no source files found” when trying to use xcsope on a new source code directory. Somehow cscope doesn’t find the source files if
Continue reading »Joining the software industry after a break
In the last few years, I met many women who were either on a break from their career in the software industry or were planning to take one. It’s not unusual to take a break
Continue reading »Week 9 at RC
Monday : Worked on the presentation “Life of a C Program” and presented it in the evening. Tuesday : Paired with May to discuss the steps in “Life of a C Program” and in the
Continue reading »How breakpoints are set
I am fascinated by the debuggers. I love them so much that I wrote a small and very basic debugger as one of my projects recently. In this post I am going to write down
Continue reading »Week 8 at RC
Day 1: Gone for an interview Day 2: Paired with Mike and Dan to write up the IngestorTest unit test. Did the code dojo and an exercism challenge on Go. Day 3: Paired with Mike
Continue reading »Week 7 at Recurse Center
Day 1: First day of the Fall 2 batch. Quite a busy and exhausting day. Started reading the chapter on Linker from “Computer Systems – A Programmer’s Perspective”. Gave a talk from the delightful article
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