Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles and Unreal Engine(nilsbakker.nl)

557 points by stijnbakker 3 years ago | 103 comments

A portfolio page about using Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles in Unreal Engine; it failed to load with a resource-limit error.

A change of address led to our Wise accounts being shut down(shaun.nz)

248 points by jemmyw 1 year ago | 165 comments

The Uncomfortable – a collection of deliberately inconvenient objects(theuncomfortable.com)

133 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 53 comments

Unexpected ways memory subsystem interacts with branch prediction(johnnysswlab.com)

69 points by r4um 2 years ago | 21 comments

A story of a large loop with a long instruction dependency chain(johnnysswlab.com)

14 points by signa11 2 years ago | 4 comments

"The Linux Phone You've Been Waiting For"(liberux.net)

5 points by 2-3-7-43-1807 1 year ago | 0 comments

Writing that changed how I think about programming languages(bernsteinbear.com)

388 points by r4um 1 year ago | 48 comments

A blog post listing papers, posts, and videos on programming languages and compilers that changed the author's thinking, with short commentary on each.

Backups Aren't Simple(filipovski.net)

318 points by afilipovski 1 month ago | 190 comments

Personal blog post by Aleksandar Filipovski arguing that backups are more complex than they seem, starting from a family story of losing photos to a reformatted drive.

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail(fabiensanglard.net)

823 points by vinhnx 3 months ago | 213 comments

Fabien Sanglard's blog post cataloguing every computer and piece of software visible in the movie Jurassic Park, starting with an Apple PowerBook 100.

How to copy a file from a 30-year-old laptop(unterminated.com)

551 points by tfvlrue 2 years ago | 257 comments

A personal blog post describing how the author transferred files off a 1994 Apple PowerBook Duo 280c laptop.

A bug saved the company(weblog.rogueamoeba.com)

338 points by ingve 1 year ago | 116 comments

Rogue Amoeba blog post by Paul Kafasis recounting how a software bug ended up saving the Mac software company.

Someone behind the software(karrisaarinen.com)

532 points by tosh 8 days ago | 188 comments

Blog post by Karri Saarinen arguing that good software products carry the experience, values, and perspective of the people who make them.