With BTFS, you can mount any .torrent file or magnet link and then use it as any read-only directory in your file tree. The contents of the files will be downloaded on-demand as they are read by applications. Tools like ls, cat and cp works as expected. Applications like vlc and mplayer can also work without changes.

Any piece of code we write has one of four levels of exception safety: No guarantee, the basic guarantee, the strong guarantee anf the nothrow guarantee. Let’s consider them one by one.

ld -s -r -b binary -o blob.o blob

This tip presents a intrusive custom RTTI class which provides better performance than dynamic_cast.

The image is only 5 MB and has access to a package repository that is much more complete than other minimal base images.

NGINX and NGINX Plus can be used as a valuable part of a DDoS mitigation solution, and NGINX Plus provides additional features for protecting against DDoS attacks and helping to identify when they are occurring.

If you do web development, you’ve probably heard of REST. But if you’re like me, you usually just pretend to know what it is, and nod politely when someone asks you if what you’re making is RESTful. I use HTTP, err, that means it’s RESTful right?

Chlorine is the easiest way to interact with OpenCL compatible devices. It is a header-only C++11 library that allows you to write cross-platform code that runs on GPUs without ever touching the complicated OpenCL API, leaving you free to write code that matters: kernels that process data.