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

89 points by bgthompson 1 year ago | 85 comments

Sidewalk Garden(zachklein.com)

183 points by zdw 3 years ago | 39 comments

Dense Arena Interning: The Engine of Compiler Performance(aikoschurmann.com)

9 points by g0xA52A2A 3 months ago | 3 comments

Beltrunner: Game Design Postmortem(blog.gingerbeardman.com)

18 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 4 comments

Sandboxing JavaScript Code(healeycodes.com)

72 points by antidnan 3 years ago | 19 comments

Typechecker Zoo(sdiehl.github.io)

161 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 24 comments

Writing a good design document(grantslatton.com)

509 points by kiyanwang 1 year ago | 130 comments

An essay by Grant Slatton giving advice on how to write a good software design document, prompted by a question from a friend on Twitter.

I'm just having fun(jyn.dev)

457 points by lemper 10 months ago | 209 comments

A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.

Generating sudokus for fun and no profit(tn1ck.com)

331 points by todsacerdoti 2 years ago | 63 comments

A blog post by Tom Nick on building a sudoku solver and generating sudokus of a specified human-perceived difficulty for his open source sudoku app.

AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42(lantian.pub)

1348 points by xiaoyu2006 4 months ago | 488 comments

Blog post recounting how an AI agent trying to join the DN42 hobbyist network to scan it ran up a $6531.30 AWS bill for its operator.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

City building games have a Soul Problem pt.2(radical-elements.com)

150 points by lexx 23 days ago | 143 comments

Blog post by Alex Lingris, the second part of an essay arguing city-building games like Cities: Skylines 2 lack soul.