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learntToCode

@learntToCode

Programming memes from a multi-decade ✝️ dev on a relaxing side quest before the final boss.

Go to lunch Check Twitter See garbage take on C++ syntax Choose to not reply I must be getting old


Cache locality and pointers were significantly less of a performance concern in olden times. Of course everything else sucked so there isn’t anything to reminisce over.

learntToCode's tweet image. Cache locality and pointers were significantly less of a performance concern in olden times. Of course everything else sucked so there isn’t anything to reminisce over.

Could be worse I suppose

learntToCode's tweet image. Could be worse I suppose

When you review your own code

learntToCode's tweet image. When you review your own code

management’s take on vibe coding

learntToCode's tweet image. management’s take on vibe coding

The lion only declares unsigned machine word variables because the lion knows everything else is an illusion.


The lion populates his structs and unions using memcpy


“I don’t want to even look at this diff” Looks at the diff


Me: “How in the world could this code ever be needed??” Also me: reads my 10 year old comment specifically outlining the scenario where this code is needed Me: “Ah”


800x600 was such an intermediate resolution, it is hard to accept that it was a thing people used.

learntToCode's tweet image. 800x600 was such an intermediate resolution, it is hard to accept that it was a thing people used.

Maybe I could have used AI to refactor that but it’s irrelevant because 90% of the total time was spent looking at the diffs to make sure everything was right.


SpaceX knows they are not recovering Starship so they are intentionally testing to destruction. The entire point is to see if the intentional removal of heat tiles in critical areas produces catastrophic failure. It didn’t and that means losing tiles doesn’t mean loss of crew.

learntToCode's tweet image. SpaceX knows they are not recovering Starship so they are intentionally testing to destruction. The entire point is to see if the intentional removal of heat tiles in critical areas produces catastrophic failure. It didn’t and that means losing tiles doesn’t mean loss of crew.

Brief status, no life stories please

learntToCode's tweet image. Brief status, no life stories please

Today’s scrum status is sponsored by aspirational hopes and dreams

learntToCode's tweet image. Today’s scrum status is sponsored by aspirational hopes and dreams

My goal at work today is to remove one variable. This is what peak performance looks like.


Touch grass? I recently got to touch Mars.

learntToCode's tweet image. Touch grass? I recently got to touch Mars.

The year is 2025. I am searching for idiomatic C++.

learntToCode's tweet image. The year is 2025. I am searching for idiomatic C++.

I’m not a fan of boasting but if you are in to it you should at least have done something to boast about.


There’s only one, it is old, even worse future Intel CPUs add a third kind of core so performance can be even less deterministic.

learntToCode's tweet image. There’s only one, it is old, even worse future Intel CPUs add a third kind of core so performance can be even less deterministic.

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