In the previous two parts we used a SAT solver as a black box that we feed input into, and it will (usually quickly) spit out an answer. In this part, we will look at how SAT solvers work and what heuristics and other tricks they employ in their quest for performance. … »
I am planning to create a branch for the next major version of Catch2 soon, and doing so brings some questions about Catch2's future. … »
I just spent a week investigating the use of YubiKey and GPG (Gnu Privacy Guard) in our company for security purposes. During that week I've read many tutorials on GPG, some obsolete, some not, and had to piece how to get GPG + YubiKey working from WSL. Then I wrote everything down in this post. … »
The previous post in this series was a quick introduction to the world of SAT and SAT solvers. In this post, we will convert a harder real-world problem, namely _master-key system_, into SAT and explore some of the more advanced techniques used to efficiently convert problems to SAT. … »
Before I started doing research, I saw SAT solvers as academically interesting but without practical uses ouside of other academic applications. I've since then changed my mind, and I want to change yours, because modern SAT solvers are neat, fast and almost criminally underused by the industry. … »
After having to deal with low-quality bug reports in our issue tracker, I've decided to write down some rules for writing a good bug report, and why the quality of bug reports is important for the person opening them as well as for the maintainer. … »
My previous post about CMake provided a simple CMakeLists.txt for a small, self-contained, project. In practice, very few project are fully self-contained, as they either depend on external libraries, or are themselves libraries that other projects depend on. … »
The end of semester is here and, as I grade our students semestral works, I get to use CMakeLists of dubious quality. After seeing the same errors repeat over and over again, I decided to write a short tutorial towards writing simple CMakeLists. … »