"Coding" was never the source of value(twitter.com)

20 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 2 comments

John Carmack: Be an Open Source Absolutist(twitter.com)

74 points by hardmaru 3 years ago | 34 comments

I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer(twitter.com)

829 points by apitman 4 months ago | 394 comments

A post on X by John Carmack saying he admires Fabrice Bellard, quoting a thread about Bellard's work on FFmpeg, QEMU and other software.

Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice(twitter.com)

1281 points by mjcl 2 years ago | 823 comments

A post on X by NPR reporter Bobby Allyn sharing Scarlett Johansson's statement about OpenAI's ChatGPT "Sky" voice resembling hers.

AI won't replace human devs anytime soon(twitter.com)

64 points by skeptrune 2 years ago | 93 comments

Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill(twitter.com)

23 points by tosh 6 months ago | 8 comments

John Carmack on mutable variables(twitter.com)

447 points by azhenley 1 year ago | 523 comments

A tweet by John Carmack advocating single assignment and avoiding variable reassignment, noting that in C/C++ making variables const by default is good practice.

The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority(twitter.com)

757 points by turrini 1 year ago | 682 comments

A post on X by John Carmack arguing that the world could run on older hardware if software optimization were prioritized.

John Carmack talk at Upper Bound 2025(twitter.com)

492 points by tosh 1 year ago | 325 comments

A post on X by John Carmack about his talk at the Upper Bound 2025 AI conference; the page shows only a loading spinner.

The Goose Programming Language(aardappel.github.io)

561 points by bobbydigitales 2 days ago | 346 comments

An X post by John Carmack praising Wouter van Oortmerssen's Goose programming language for its multiple data stacks, relative references, and binary structure validation.

John Carmack on inlined code (2014)(number-none.com)

528 points by bpierre 2 years ago | 363 comments

Jonathan Blow's blog reposts John Carmack's 2007 email on inlining code and avoiding hidden state mutation, with Carmack's 2014 commentary favoring pure functions.

Microsoft was blindsided by OpenAI's ouster of CEO Sam Altman(axios.com)

659 points by aaronds 2 years ago | 218 comments

Axios news article reporting that Microsoft was caught off guard by OpenAI's board firing CEO Sam Altman in November 2023.