A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom

Last week, I wrote two articles pointing out issues with unofficial porting efforts of LibreSSL . In these articles, I highlighted some is...

Designing C++ functions to write/save to any storage mechanism

Problem A common issue when dealing with a custom object or any kind of data is to create some sort of save functionality with it, perhaps w...

Optimizing your file dialog

Recently, someone asked me why is it that the custom file dialogs in some programs I wrote are able to load a file list so much faster than ...

Directory safety when working with paths

As we discussed in our previous two articles, we run into issues of thread safety when we try changing the path during a running program. ...