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2025

• Software Adoption Revolutions Come from Architectural Shifts, Not Performance Bumps September 30
• Human-computer Experiences are Thresholded, Not Linear May 29
• What is Grain DDL? May 9

2024

• A Convention For Fragment Parsers in C August 9
• The Coming Egalitarian Wave of Computing August 2
• Housekeeping: RSS is Improved June 22
• Design For Rigorous Configuration June 9

2023

• Constant Time Memory Allocation From Object Pools May 27
• Ninja Build for Asset Baking January 22
• Clangd With Unity Builds January 14

2021

• Low Overhead Structured Logging in C December 27

2020

• The Most Impactful Developer Changes I Made in the 2010s January 1

2019

• How To Crash With Kubernetes and Go February 23

2018

• Three Traits of Effective Programmers July 5

2017

• Bootstrapping Your Linux and Mac Shells August 7

2016

• Premake for Package Maintainers August 16
• Livecoding Side By Side Content in VR July 6

2015

• Git-Svn Considered Harmful May 31
• 100m People in VR is not the Goal January 7
• How I Still Love Computing January 5

2014

• 2014: The Year the Internet Jumped the Shark December 16
• What I Learned From Sharing Native File Dialogs November 27
• Installing an Air Conditioner in a Window That Barely Opens May 26
• Patterns for Multiplayer Game Variety April 28
• Good Code Doesn’t Tolerate Bad Data April 7

2013

• The PCG Uniqueness Scale September 25

2012

• What You Need for TV Gaming September 10
• Physics Tutorial: Adding Crush Damage With Box2D May 2

2011

• Scripting Languages: They Aren’t ALL Bad December 5
• Procedural Content Generation Wisdom December 1
• Gauging a Game’s Potential December 1
• Nice Writing, But Why Do I Care? August 28
• The Biggest Challenge August 26
• There is No Mother Lode of Eyeballs August 20

2010

• Hardware is the basis of understanding rendering August 9

2009

• The Secret Sauce is Ketchup February 20