To me that looks like a fine advice even outside of C++. If conditions get at least a bit complex moving them out of the if to assign them to const booleans is always a good idea.

Interesting set of tools for displaying maps and managing their tiles.

Indeed people still seem to assume Mastodon is just a Twitter clone. This is a good reminder that it's not, it's just one front to the Fediverse and that's much more interesting than a Twitter clone.

Interesting move. Looks like Java will get value types at last. Coming from C++ this feels long overdue.