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040coders
C++ Core Guidelines Enforcement in Practice - Paul Jansen (TIOBE)
Why I'm slowly becoming a fan of C++ Contracts - Klass van Gend (Sioux)
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ACCU London
How Engineering Skills Actually Improve in 2026 - Meri Williams
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ACCU York, Co-hosted with Slurp n' Learn
From Writing Code to Making Business-Aligned Decisions: Demystifying Product Sense in Developer Friendly TErms - Oana F. May
Second talk to be announced
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ACCU News

October's Overload Journal has been published.
11 October 2026
The October 2026 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 195 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.
September's C Vu Journal has been published.
16 September 2026
The September 2026 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 38-4 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via the Journals menu (ACCU members only).
August's Overload Journal has been published.
10 August 2026
The August 2026 ACCU Overload journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. Overload 194 and previous issues of Overload can be accessed via the Journals menu.
A Special General Meeting has been scheduled
20 July 2026
The ACCU Committee has scheduled an online Special General Meeting for 19th September, 2026 at 19:00 BST. More information can be found on the AGM page (members only - must be logged in).
July's C Vu Journal has been published.
14 July 2026
The July 2026 ACCU C Vu journal has been published and should arrive at members' addresses in the next few days. C Vu 38-3 and previous issues of C Vu can be accessed via the Journals menu (ACCU members only).

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Comments come in many forms. Frances Buontempo considers when they are helpful and when they can be harmful.
Configuration is the Deployment Nobody Canaries.
Runtime configuration can change production behaviour faster than code. Santhosh Kumar Somarapu presents a four-rung safety model of outcome-based canaries.
Type Algebra and Functional Composition in libfn.
Large application-wide errors can be hard to handle. Bronek Kozicki introduces a C++ library that chains results and errors.
Load-Resilient C++ Servers.
Building predictable servers is hard. Ajay Pandey uses select(), bounded queues, and modern C++ concurrency to solve the problems.
Afterwood.
Testing is, of course, important. Chris Oldwood discusses where the line is drawn between being thorough and being obsessed.