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

20 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 2 comments

John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta(twitter.com)

506 points by OlympicMarmoto 1 year ago | 591 comments

An X post by John Carmack responding to Jonathan Blow's question about writing new operating systems, explaining why he argued against a custom XR OS at Meta.

Notes on DeepSeek

167 points by vinhnx 4 months ago | 102 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.

Fired by Google for creating the Google workspace CLI(twitter.com)

575 points by justinwp 4 months ago | 339 comments

An X post by Justin Poehnelt saying Google fired him after he created the viral Google Workspace CLI, and describing internal reactions and legal concerns.

The way that Jensen Huang runs Nvidia: 40 direct reports, no 1:1s(twitter.com)

143 points by vinnyglennon 3 years ago | 105 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.

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.

Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware(lenowo.org)

426 points by minki_the_avali 1 year ago | 184 comments

A forum post on LenOwO describing how the original DOOM engine crashed after running for 2.5 years on real hardware due to an ever-incrementing demo variable.

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.

We ported the original Doom to SQL(cedardb.com)

293 points by Vaslo 22 days ago | 45 comments

CedarDB blog post describing a port of the original 1993 Doom game logic and renderer to SQL, running inside the database with Python only handling timing and display.

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.