Michael Caisse

It is fascinating to see all these people reverse engineer their home automation or car devices and realize they are being spied in ways more intrusive than they thought. If there are no laws to protect your privacy, you don't have privacy. Contact your lawmakers and insist on better privacy laws.

Dude! We use Arabic Numerals!

Happy Pythagorean Triple Date Day

Swedish Taco Friday youtube.com/shorts/cEzeM...

Vulnerability xkcd.com/3314/

Fusion Device xkcd.com/3313/

If you use DWORD to mean 32-bits I will judge you.

Ms Hamilton coined the term “software engineering”.

What is the difference between a cat and a comma? One has claws at the end of it's paws the other has a pause and the end of it clause 🥁

Dad: What's the lion and witch doing in your wardrobe? Son: It's Narnia business. 🥁

Fermi, Newton and Pascal are playing hide and seek Fermi is it, he counts to 100 and turns around He seeing Newton standing in a 1 square meter chalk box Fermin says "Newton, your out!" Newton says, "No, I am Newton in a square meter, I'm a Pascal, Pascal is out" #physics

Nice post Steve

My talk is public! This is a subject that I'm passionate about and drives all my library designs.

We have just released a new C++Now 2026 Conference Video! Plato, Magritte, Sartre & Carroll - Learning Software Design from the Masters - Ben Deane - C++Now 2026 #coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

Pro-tip travel edition: bring your own companion cube.

Love this talk!

I like it. Now to solder and assemble the other sides.

I'm working on my conference talk for next week. cppcon. So naturally I'm editing with a soldering iron.

Progress! In which Michael finds ever increasing difficult ways to light LEDs to demonstrate simplicity.

The dead potted flower on the sil in the background seems the perfect aesthetic.

cppcon talk is next week.... time to make a demo project

me: We are fundamentally solving problems differently. Our solutions are based in functional/declarative constructs. them: We are also using functions. me: You are just proving my point.

Conjuring a Muse. Perhaps I should be more specific lest my conference talk be performed as verse or song. "Ah, Euterpe.... Well, I guess this will provide Tony a new challenge."

computer end program

The fact that sched doesn't render properly when using proton VPN is a red flag... Maybe we shouldn't be using sched these days.

This month, the NWCPP talk was about CUDA Tile C++, something I worked on, and next month it's about std::execution -- the C++26 async model -- another thing I worked on! Quite a lot, actually. I'm planning to be there. Come say hi. nwcpp.org/Sept-2026.html #cpp

Lake Ontario's name comes from the Wyandot word Ontarí'io, which is typically translated as "beautiful lake". The Kanienʼkéha called it Katarokwi. Samuel de Champlain called it Lac de St. Louis. The name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius.

Picard management tip: It's okay to be gentle and kind.

Watching granddaughter play futbol. Her team is the "Chicken Wings". They are playing the "Seraphim".

I admit that I don't always understand economics... like the multiplier effect and also, whatever this is.

/me making a bunch of measurements to make precise cuts using an imperial tape. Out loud - why do I hate myself!! /me grabs metric tape Ah.... Civilization!

"The sponsors of the language have declared unequivocally, however, that there shall be no subsets. This is the strangest paradox of the whole strange project. If you want a language with no subsets, you must make it *small*.". Tony Hoare, The Emperor's Old Clothes. on ADA design... Hmmmm

Today in tech news: Microsoft’s GitHub was compromised when a Microsoft developer (working on Microsoft GitHub internals) using Microsoft VSCode installed malware via Microsoft’s VSCode extension library, which is moderated and hosted by Microsoft.

I'm unreasonably excited about the title of my conference submission.

If I say, "comforting lies/unpleasant truths meme", do you immediately have a picture?

a poem about going

In response to AI, I've decided to start making #badhumanart join me and exercise some human creativity! (art posted in order, but not in real time) Attempt #5 terrible ball point pen and watercolor portrait a Tim Hortons cup and donut