https://ryanjk5.github.io/ 2026-07-14T18:19:25+00:00 Ryan Keane https://ryanjk5.github.io/ Jekyll © 2026 Ryan Keane /assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico /assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 2026-07-14T18:18:59+00:00 https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/rjk-duck/ Ryan Keane

If you’ve ever tried using type erasure for something more complicated than std::any or std::function, you’ve either written 100+ lines of easy-to-mess-up code or reached for a boilerplate-heavy library like Boost.TypeErasure or Folly.Poly. rjk::duck uses the magic that is C++26 reflection to remove these pain points while preserving all of the customization and performance. Consider the follo...

2026-05-14T00:00:00+00:00 2026-05-16T07:49:29+00:00 https://ryanjk5.github.io/posts/GOLDE/ Ryan Keane

Conway’s Game of Life, simulating Conway’s Game of Life. GOLDE is an editor and simulator for cellular automata capable of simulating trillions of generations instantly. I started building it eight months ago with no C++ experience. I had heard the rumors that C++ was a scary language filled with footguns and segmentation faults, but I had never given it a fair chance myself. This project sta...