Volker Hilsheimer
@vohi.bsky.social
Herder of cats, beater of drums. Chief maintainer of the Qt Project.
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Material from my Meeting C++ talk "Embedded-Friendly C++: Features That Make a Difference" is available!
👉 Slides: https://fertig.to/slides
#cpp #meetingcpp
👉 Slides: https://fertig.to/slides
#cpp #meetingcpp
Here are the slides to a talk I recently gave.
fertig.to
November 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Material from my Meeting C++ talk "Embedded-Friendly C++: Features That Make a Difference" is available!
👉 Slides: https://fertig.to/slides
#cpp #meetingcpp
👉 Slides: https://fertig.to/slides
#cpp #meetingcpp
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Anyhow, if you're hiring (and you also understand that AI is not going to fix anyting) and you need a C++ and CMake expert who could move you to Rust or Swift please hit me up.
October 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Anyhow, if you're hiring (and you also understand that AI is not going to fix anyting) and you need a C++ and CMake expert who could move you to Rust or Swift please hit me up.
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Pease watch what R. Reagan said and share widely!
Truth matters!
Truth matters!
Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:
October 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Pease watch what R. Reagan said and share widely!
Truth matters!
Truth matters!
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20 October 1937 | Norwegian Jewish boy, Arne Willy Steinsapir, was born in Oslo.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
October 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
20 October 1937 | Norwegian Jewish boy, Arne Willy Steinsapir, was born in Oslo.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 1 December 1942 and was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.
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A short video about the first two gas chambers near Auschwitz II-Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU
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Very sad news about Rainer, who passed away earlier this week. If you can help support #ALS research please consider donating.
My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.
My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.
The C++ programmer and educator Rainer Grimm has passed away https://www.modernescpp.com/index.php/my-als-journey-31-31-the-end/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527156)
The C++ programmer and educator Rainer Grimm has passed away
www.modernescpp.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Very sad news about Rainer, who passed away earlier this week. If you can help support #ALS research please consider donating.
My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.
My thoughts are with his family. We as a C++ community were lucky to have him.
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Oleksandr Kunichik - Bridging C++ and Java with Qt JNI
YouTube video by CppNorth
www.youtube.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
September 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most
A bunch of us from the #Qt team will be at the KDE Akademy in Berlin, with a few hot topics both on the weekend and during the BoF's on Tuesday.
#a11y, design systems, and of course an update on our work on making Qt Quick available to more languages!
community.kde.org/Akademy/2025...
#a11y, design systems, and of course an update on our work on making Qt Quick available to more languages!
community.kde.org/Akademy/2025...
September 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
A bunch of us from the #Qt team will be at the KDE Akademy in Berlin, with a few hot topics both on the weekend and during the BoF's on Tuesday.
#a11y, design systems, and of course an update on our work on making Qt Quick available to more languages!
community.kde.org/Akademy/2025...
#a11y, design systems, and of course an update on our work on making Qt Quick available to more languages!
community.kde.org/Akademy/2025...
New from the @qt-project.org in #Qt 6.10: let the compiler implement a QAbstractItemModel for you, for any (well, almost any) C++ range.
www.qt.io/blog/a-model...
Very much looking forward to hear about the interesting ways you come up with to break, err, use this!
www.qt.io/blog/a-model...
Very much looking forward to hear about the interesting ways you come up with to break, err, use this!
A Model for all Ranges
Qt 6.10 introduces a generic implementation of QAbstractItemModel that can many any C++ range available to Qt's UI frameworks.
www.qt.io
August 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
New from the @qt-project.org in #Qt 6.10: let the compiler implement a QAbstractItemModel for you, for any (well, almost any) C++ range.
www.qt.io/blog/a-model...
Very much looking forward to hear about the interesting ways you come up with to break, err, use this!
www.qt.io/blog/a-model...
Very much looking forward to hear about the interesting ways you come up with to break, err, use this!
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Come to one of my highly interactive and dynamic C++ Best Practices conference workshops this year at CppCon (Sept 13-14) or NDC TechTown (Sept 22-23)
Only about 4 weeks left!
ndctechtown.com/workshops/c-...
cppcon.org/class-2025-b...
Only about 4 weeks left!
ndctechtown.com/workshops/c-...
cppcon.org/class-2025-b...
C++ Best Practices | NDC TechTown 2025
This is a 2-day workshop that explores Best Practices as they apply to C++.
ndctechtown.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Come to one of my highly interactive and dynamic C++ Best Practices conference workshops this year at CppCon (Sept 13-14) or NDC TechTown (Sept 22-23)
Only about 4 weeks left!
ndctechtown.com/workshops/c-...
cppcon.org/class-2025-b...
Only about 4 weeks left!
ndctechtown.com/workshops/c-...
cppcon.org/class-2025-b...
#Qt 6.10 is currently in beta, and we at the @qt-project.org are looking to your feedback on the new goodies in the bag! Here’s a tasty one from @eskilblomfeldt.bsky.social and the graphics team.
www.qt.io/blog/animate...
www.qt.io/blog/animate...
Animated Vector Graphics in Qt 6.10
Discover the animated vector graphics enhancements in Qt 6.10, including SVG and Lottie support, and more efficient rendering for stunning UI design.
www.qt.io
August 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#Qt 6.10 is currently in beta, and we at the @qt-project.org are looking to your feedback on the new goodies in the bag! Here’s a tasty one from @eskilblomfeldt.bsky.social and the graphics team.
www.qt.io/blog/animate...
www.qt.io/blog/animate...
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Huge news! AWS has approved Compiler Explorer for their Open Source Credits program, covering our infrastructure costs for the next year!
Thank you AWS for supporting open source! This means faster compiles, better queuing & more improvements coming. Exciting times ahead!
Thank you AWS for supporting open source! This means faster compiles, better queuing & more improvements coming. Exciting times ahead!
June 30, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Huge news! AWS has approved Compiler Explorer for their Open Source Credits program, covering our infrastructure costs for the next year!
Thank you AWS for supporting open source! This means faster compiles, better queuing & more improvements coming. Exciting times ahead!
Thank you AWS for supporting open source! This means faster compiles, better queuing & more improvements coming. Exciting times ahead!
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Now, we’ve set a goal: We aim to reach 20,000 members to prove that independent journalism can survive without billionaires, without outside influence, and without compromise.
Can we count on you? Become a member of our community: kyivindependent.com/membership/?...
Can we count on you? Become a member of our community: kyivindependent.com/membership/?...
The Kyiv Independent
Your support allows us to bring independent, locally-sourced news about Ukraine to the world
kyivindependent.com
May 26, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now, we’ve set a goal: We aim to reach 20,000 members to prove that independent journalism can survive without billionaires, without outside influence, and without compromise.
Can we count on you? Become a member of our community: kyivindependent.com/membership/?...
Can we count on you? Become a member of our community: kyivindependent.com/membership/?...
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Big announcement at the end of the keynote, Qt is going beyond C++ by enabling Python, Rust, Swift, Java, and C#.Net to be the backend of Qt Quick applications 🥳 #QtWS25 #QtBridges
May 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Big announcement at the end of the keynote, Qt is going beyond C++ by enabling Python, Rust, Swift, Java, and C#.Net to be the backend of Qt Quick applications 🥳 #QtWS25 #QtBridges
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It would be really nice to get a tech survey result with more than single-digit female representation for once, so please fill this out if you're a fellow #WomenInTech
survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
State of Devs 2025
Take the State of Devs survey
survey.devographics.com
April 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
It would be really nice to get a tech survey result with more than single-digit female representation for once, so please fill this out if you're a fellow #WomenInTech
survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
survey.devographics.com/survey/state...
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NDC TechTown CFP closes in a few days, get your submission in now! We're especially looking for stuff like Rust, C, C++, embedded, OS, sensors, testing, security and product development. ndctechtown.com
NDC TechTown 2025 | Software Conference for Embedded and Systems Programming
NDC TechTown 22-25 September 2025. Software Conference for Embedded and Systems Programming. NDC TechTown 2025 is a 4 day event in Kongsberg, Norway.
ndctechtown.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NDC TechTown CFP closes in a few days, get your submission in now! We're especially looking for stuff like Rust, C, C++, embedded, OS, sensors, testing, security and product development. ndctechtown.com
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Any senior C++ devs looking for an interesting job?
A speech recognition research company I've been contracting with is looking for a full-time developer.
I've been working with them on Web Audio and WebAssembly, but the scope goes quite beyond that too: keenresearch.com/careers.html...
A speech recognition research company I've been contracting with is looking for a full-time developer.
I've been working with them on Web Audio and WebAssembly, but the scope goes quite beyond that too: keenresearch.com/careers.html...
Keen Research: Careers at Keen Research
keenresearch.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Any senior C++ devs looking for an interesting job?
A speech recognition research company I've been contracting with is looking for a full-time developer.
I've been working with them on Web Audio and WebAssembly, but the scope goes quite beyond that too: keenresearch.com/careers.html...
A speech recognition research company I've been contracting with is looking for a full-time developer.
I've been working with them on Web Audio and WebAssembly, but the scope goes quite beyond that too: keenresearch.com/careers.html...
Quo Vadis, Qt Location? Great write-up by @igtmatti.bsky.social about our recent experiments with bringing support for vector maps to the @qt-project.org.
www.qt.io/blog/an-expe...
www.qt.io/blog/an-expe...
An Experiment with Vector Maps
Map Vectormap Graphics Location
www.qt.io
April 23, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Quo Vadis, Qt Location? Great write-up by @igtmatti.bsky.social about our recent experiments with bringing support for vector maps to the @qt-project.org.
www.qt.io/blog/an-expe...
www.qt.io/blog/an-expe...
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Why isn’t Norway picking up the tab for this? Or the AIDS treatment for women and children who are left without treatment after USAID abandoned them? We have the money. Why are we not using it to save these lives? The infrastructure is there. Just do it.
WFP warns of rising hunger and malnutrition in Ethiopia as humanitarian needs outpace resources | World Food Programme
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Hunger and malnutrition are on the rise in Ethiopia as ongoing conflict, regional instability, displacement, drought and economic shocks, leave millions without sufficient nutr...
www.wfp.org
April 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Why isn’t Norway picking up the tab for this? Or the AIDS treatment for women and children who are left without treatment after USAID abandoned them? We have the money. Why are we not using it to save these lives? The infrastructure is there. Just do it.
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We hope you noticed about the big release we had in the past days 👀
In case you didn't 🤔... Qt 6.9 is OUT!
You can read the updates on the official blog post: www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-... and if you want to know what happened on the Python front, we got you cover as well: www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-...
In case you didn't 🤔... Qt 6.9 is OUT!
You can read the updates on the official blog post: www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-... and if you want to know what happened on the Python front, we got you cover as well: www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-...
Qt 6.9 Released
Qt 6.9 is now available, highlighting emojis, Graphs, OIT, better OAuth2, and many more new improvements for application developers and device creators!
www.qt.io
April 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
We hope you noticed about the big release we had in the past days 👀
In case you didn't 🤔... Qt 6.9 is OUT!
You can read the updates on the official blog post: www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-... and if you want to know what happened on the Python front, we got you cover as well: www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-...
In case you didn't 🤔... Qt 6.9 is OUT!
You can read the updates on the official blog post: www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-... and if you want to know what happened on the Python front, we got you cover as well: www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-...