A few days ago, representatives from across the world voted to eventually abolish leap seconds from coordinated universal time, the world’s most popular time standard. In this article, I argue that the definition of Unix time should be changed, regardless of whatever might happen to UTC in the future.
When discussing various programming languages, I’ve regularly heard people say that C++ is a rather ugly language. In this article I’ll be discussing a C++ code style that doesn’t resemble typical C++. Mainly, I’ll be talking about the macros and other technical aspects that contribute to this code style.