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We can admit our knowledge gaps without devaluing our expertise.

How the playstation and Nintendo 64 version of DOOM implemented fire.

Here’s my recipe for a good talk idea.

How Andrew Kensler did it again and authored a breathtaking path tracer fitting on a postcard.

Lessons learned from mixins, render props, HOCs, and classes.

What makes a great API?

How the Dreamcast copy protection was defeated!

The Game Engine Black Book: DOOM is out!

Dependency injection is nice if you don’t have to think about it.

I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing I need.

The second edition of the Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D is out.

It has something to do with security.

We talk about classes, new, instanceof, prototype chains, and API design.

There’s a twist at the end.

Yesterday, NASA landed its InSight mission on Mars, and it all worked! The landing happened between 8 and 9PM local time, but I wanted to share the excitement with my kids’ classmates from school (aged between around 9 and 10), so I needed something that worked remotely. NASA provided a wonderful webcast in English, and although many children here in The Netherlands can follow that, I expected the stream to need more narration for the kids to truly experience the excitement of landing on another planet.

[EDIT! I'm reconsidering all this because Marc Gravell from Stack Overflow suggested that we could just switch protocol for backward compatibility per-connection, sending a command to enable RESP3. That means no longer need for a global configuration that switches the behavi...

Agile tells us that the most critical thing for getting software right is not up front design, but getting something out there and used, and then incorporating feedback. By getting feedback early, you are able to respond faster, changing your (initially incorrect) design in ...

John Ousterhout, of TCL fame, has written a book that is as small (literally) as it is important. Weighing in at 178 none too big pages, it takes us on an inspired trip through what John has learned over the decades. There is no shortage of thought on programming. There is also no shortage of people doing programming. What is rare however is a compendium of mature insights from someone that clearly still is into programming.

2025 Note - good convo with Adora for Startup School

For quite some time I’ve wanted to record a new video talking about code comments for my "writing system software" series on YouTube. However, after giving it some thought, I realized that the topic was better suited for a blog post, so here we are. In this post I analyze Red...