Reflecting on a Year of Gamedev in Zig(bgthompson.codeberg.page)

89 points by bgthompson 1 year ago | 85 comments

A decade of developing a programming language(yorickpeterse.com)

250 points by YorickPeterse 2 years ago | 127 comments

Blogging Through the Decades(bcantrill.dtrace.org)

54 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 14 comments

Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes(jgarby.uk)

32 points by j4cobgarby 11 months ago | 35 comments

WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics(dthompson.us)

128 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 71 comments

The story of ispc: origins (part 1) (2018)(pharr.org)

65 points by pavlov 3 years ago | 11 comments

That's not an abstraction, that's a layer of indirection(fhur.me)

546 points by fagnerbrack 1 year ago | 213 comments

A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.

JavaScript Demos in 140 Characters(beta.dwitter.net)

325 points by themanmaran 9 months ago | 59 comments

Dwitter, a community site for sharing and remixing JavaScript canvas demos written in 140 characters or less.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight(karpathy.bearblog.dev)

637 points by __rito__ 10 months ago | 261 comments

Andrej Karpathy blog post about using LLMs to grade decade-old Hacker News discussions and commenters' predictions with hindsight, presented as an "HN Time Capsule" site.

I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)

399 points by MinimalAction 1 year ago | 164 comments

A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.