23rd October 2025
5th November 2025
The October 2025 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 189 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.
October is here with some great events lined up. Also, a special announcement - we're delighted to welcome Tyneside Linux User Group as our newest affiliated group!
A list of all ACCU Local Groups and Affiliate Groups can be found here.
If you know of local speakers and/or companies that would be interesting in giving talks or helping out with event organisation, then get in touch: localgroups@accu.org.
23 September 2025
· C++ London - RPC, OSS and Testing
https://www.meetup.com/cpplondon/events/310732158/
25 September 2025
· ACCU Bristol - Check Before You Wreck: Enforcing Safety in Monadic Types, Nick Deguillaume
https://www.meetup.com/accu-bristol/events/310954120
1 October 2025
· ACCU York - Time Travel Debugging, Greg Law
https://www.meetup.com/accu-york/events/308549105
5 November 2025
· ACCU York - From Zero to Deployed, Paul Grenyer
https://www.meetup.com/accu-york/events/308548806
The September 2025 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 37-4 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via the Journals menu (ACCU members only).
The August 2025 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 188 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.
Overload 189 · October 2025 (PDF)
Ignore Rants.
Programmers often argue, sometimes based on a lack of knowledge. Frances Buontempo explores why people rant, and when it’s OK.
Vibe Coding in Rust.
Many people are learning how to herd LLMs right now. Amy Thomason discusses lessons learnt from using GenAI to code in Rust.
UDB: The undo.io Time Travel Debugger.
Finding problems in code can be difficult and time consuming. Paul Floyd explains how to use UndoDB to debug code.
Filters and Wildcards (Shell Globbing).
If you have documentation in html but want to provide markdown too, what can you do? Ian Bruntlett describes how he used a shell script to automate the translation and what he learnt.
User-Defined Formatting in std::format.
std::format allows us to format values quickly and safely. Spencer Collyer demonstrates how to provide formatting for a simple user-defined class.
Afterwood.
The plethora of names for our profession is an occupational hazard. Chris Oldwood considers those he’s encountered.
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