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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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  • Hard links, hard times

    Posted on October 7, 2025

    On Windows, you can’t delete a file while someone else is watching you using it. Or so they say. On Mac or Linux, you can totally delete a file while someone else is using it. This difference has been keeping me busy for a few days. In my concrete scenario,... [Read More]

  • What can go wrong in cross compilation

    Posted on September 29, 2025

    I have been unfortunate enough to embark on a journey of C++ cross-compilation, by choice nonetheless. In my case, I use clang to compile on a Linux machine to get binaries for a Windows machine. This is surprisingly approachable nowadays. I do not want to bore you with the details... [Read More]

  • Async, too much

    Posted on September 22, 2025

    Over the past years, I have written async code on Windows with both C++ and C#. Compared to C#, the C++ side is poorly documented, full of landmines, and just generally requires a good bit of experience and caution to handle. For a taste, you can scroll through this piece... [Read More]

  • How I became the control group in an AI experiment

    Posted on September 17, 2025

    At the risk of alienating almost everyone reading this blog, I wanted to report some first hand experience of interacting with AI for programming. I specifically want to talk about how I accidentally served as a control group for an experiment with an AI agent. [Read More]

  • TODO TITLE

    Posted on September 8, 2025

    In the past, I used to work in a codebase that had a lot of // @TODO: comments in it. Those TODOs would rank from obvious, small improvements to calls for features that would require an entire rewrite. The TODOs always caused frustration on my end: Why did they not... [Read More]