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Why I run my own vcpkg registry

A personal vcpkg registry where I publish preview builds of my own C++ libraries on my own schedule, instead of waiting on the official registry's review process.

Docraft can finally draw a chart

RC3 adds Canvas, a free-form drawing surface, and Chart, five chart styles built on top of it — the two pieces every one of Docraft's example documents was quietly missing.

Five templates that show what Docraft is actually for

A walkthrough of Docraft's example gallery — invoice, shipping label, medical report, industrial QC report, and a chart-driven sales report — with the real rendered output for each.

Docraft's rendering engine finally has a name: Loom

How several months of refactoring turned Docraft's parse-to-PDF pipeline into a named, staged architecture — and why that mattered more than any single feature.

Introducing Docraft: declarative PDF generation for C++ applications

Why I built a C++23 library to generate PDF documents from XML templates — and why none of the existing solutions were good enough.

Hello, World!

First post. Who I am, what this site is, and what I plan to write about.