Although a little intimidating for the beginner, the command line on Linux brings at your fingertips a cornucopia of powerful tools allowing operators endless ways to deal with computing related problems.

I've been meaning to create a "short" reference guide that collates what I would consider basic fundamentals and know-how for the linux command line and, finally, here it is!

Some notes about RAII and how to leverage it in C++ for effective resource management.

This post highlights some of the aspects which I either found interesting, could be improved upon, or turned out to be a problem during development of the first version of the Blogator static site generator.

Blogator is a static site generator written in C++ with the least amount of dependencies possible outside of the standard template library (STL). The the project stemmed from the idea of having a blog on a static site host (Bitbucket/GitHub) that can be viewed without any degradation with scripts disabled in the browser.

Overview on how to use braille characters as bitmaps to create graphics in the terminal.

Algorithm to find maximum number in a sliding window.

Overview on how to use both raw C-like pointers and C++ smart pointers.