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March 2024

Compiler Explorer, LLC: A small update on the status of CE

June 2022

Happy 10th Birthday Compiler Explorer!: Wishing Compiler Explorer a very happy tenth birthday

May 2019

Live streaming on YouTube: Join me on YouTube for some live coding!

April 2019

Life update: Some notes on Compiler Explorer's new storage

July 2018

A European Vacation: Some time away, a talk at Avast, and a new job tomorrow!

May 2018

C++Now - trip report: A last-minute decision to head to C++Now ends up with an even-more last-minute talk

April 2018

All change for me: Big news, I've left DRW, have some spare time, and a new job in the summer

April 2012

Good grief, it's been a while!: In which I note the long passing since the previous post

January 2011

Hello Chicago!: The latest updates from wintry Chicago

December 2010

It's nearly time to say goodbye: In which I take stock of 2010, and get ready to leave the UK

November 2010

Goodbye Google!: Goodbye Google

October 2010

An even bigger move: Yet another post and of course another excuse for the gap

July 2010

A big move: Another post, another excuse for the gap between this and the last

April 2010

Baby Godbolt has a name!: In which we reveal our baby's name: Isaac Benjamin.
Announcing a new Godbolt: The happy news of the latest Godbolt to arrive on planet Earth.

February 2010

Windows fails to mount USB drives when they're inserted - a solution: I finally found out why my laptop had lost the ability to mount USB drives

July 2009

Setting up an Android on a UK O2 iPhone contract SIM for MMS: How to set up an unlocked Android phone to use a SIM from an iPhone on O2

May 2009

Honey and Lime - a mobile bar: Seeding Google with a post about a friend's mobile cocktail bar.
Sunday Lunch at the Fat Duck: In which I blow the family fortune on lunch at the Fat Duck. And love it!

January 2009

DIY Plumbing Fail: A story from my Christmas where I had a run in with my heating system
Lord Winston and centenarian nuns: If you want to live a long and healthy life, become a nun.
A belated Happy New Year: Is it 2009 already? How the heck did that happen?

November 2008

November round-up: A very quick round-up of what happened in November.

October 2008

Two weeks in Mountain View: Two weeks away from the family, but with lots of cool tech.
Goodbye ProFactor...: Goodbye ProFactor, hello Google.
A big change coming up for me: A bit of a change coming up for me.

August 2008

Another weekend and some more data recovery: More fiddling in trying to get NTFS disk data back for my Dad.
NTFS data recovery on Linux: Aargh! A broken NTFS filesystem, and recovering it on Linux.
A good weekend: In which I try to be more twitter-like. And fail miserably at: A rather long summary of my weekend.

June 2008

William Anthony Richard Godbolt: On the birth of our firstborn: William Anthony Richard Godbolt.
The beginning of the end for Windows XP: I've finally had enough of Windows and have moved to Ubuntu Linux.

May 2008

Two weeks of relaxing: The end of a lovely two-week break in Cyprus.

April 2008

Spooky coincidences...: There's more than one "me" out there. Spooky indeed.
So that's what we've been up to...: In which I introduce the Xbox Live Arcade game we've been working on: Slam.
This week, I have mostly been...: The worst kind of blog post - a generic update.

March 2008

Plugging for a friend - New Metal Army: A blatant plug for a friend's heavy metal gig website. And talk about finding the sex of babies.

February 2008

Things I learnt about Google last night: The adhesive in their paper cups dissolves in alcohol. And other things.
Challenges, and bits and bobs: An excellent description of the challenges faced by the Human Genome Project. And some miscellaneous other bits.

January 2008

It's a human!: A new addition to the Godbolt clan is announced. Or at least the release date.
Happy New Year: Happy New Year. And an unexpected birthday present.

December 2007

American in bad maths shocker
Google POP3 certificate problem and Thunderbird: A temporary issue with Google's SSL certificates, and a workaround.

November 2007

Me, a name I call myself: English grammar isn't so different from Latin after all.
Poor man's GPS: Poor man's GPS.
A few days of downtime: Oops, it broke...
Linksys Broadband Router DHCP bug: In which I discover a fun bug in Linksys's DHCP implementation.

October 2007

Parcelforce - Parcelfarce more like
Chiropractic - is there a better choice?
A new blogging system

February 2007

General round up

January 2007

Blatant plug!

November 2006

The Highest Power
New Zealand Pics

October 2006

Debian update and PHP issue
A new fan

September 2006

Happy Birthday StyleManager

August 2006

Cached Credentials in Samba
PKR goes live
Blasts from the past

July 2006

Don't buy an MS wireless desktop
Xania.org attack
Xania.org will be going down for maintainance...

May 2006

Clever Dick

April 2006

Firefox woes - "Firefox is already running" when it's not

March 2006

When is a window not a window?

February 2006

Godbolts of the World
GeekLog 1.4.0

January 2006

Geeklog 1.4.0rc2 and stuff
In the interests of seeding Google's crawler
Me on Radio 4

December 2005

PKR Poker
Lord of the Rings party

November 2005

Wedding Party Pics
Matt and Ness : Wedding Photos

October 2005

Mr & Mrs Godbolt
Cheerio for now

August 2005

Alice in Wonderland
Another Moog down
Tunnelling Remote Desktop
One scam email you won't be getting
Even the Beeb can have bad days

July 2005

Sainsbury's - what's happened?
Why Is That Thing Beeping?
Squaddie's stag do

June 2005

Hawking gag

May 2005

Clever Curry Cooking Considerations
Next Generation Consoles - Part One
Windows Tips
New Web Provider - UKShells
Never, ever, use WebFusion
Bank Holiday Beer

April 2005

Public Whip
Things you never knew about Windows - part 1
Opera 8 goes final
Come fly with me
Jade Empire Saves marriages
Who should you vote for?
Science + Flash = Marketing

March 2005

Chip and Spin?
New arrival at xania.org
The future of communications!
It's fun to litigate with the D....M...CA

February 2005

Peace and quiet at last
SWAT:GST the musical
Site down last night
Forum amusement du jour
Nathan Barley
Death by dying
The end of the transistor?

January 2005

UK DS release date!
GMail problem
Chelsea Tractors - the end?
Xbox 2?
Stag nation
Compiling MPPE support into debian
AskMyNetwork
New company - ProFactor

April 2004

Blast from the past

March 2004

Land of spare disk space

About Matt Godbolt

Matt Godbolt is a C++ developer working in Chicago for Aquatic. Follow him on Mastodon.