Posts — Table Of Contents

Demystifying Debuggers Series

• Part 1: A Busy Intersection

• Part 2: The Anatomy Of A Running Program

• Part 3: Kernel Support For Debuggers

UI Programming Series

• Part 1: The Interaction Medium

• Part 2: Every Single Frame

• Part 3: The Widget Building Language

• Part 4: The Widget Is A Lie (Node Composition)

• Part 5: Visual Content

• Part 6: Rendering

• Part 7: Where IMGUI Ends

• Part 8: State Mutation, Jank, and Hotkeys

• Part 9: Keyboard and Gamepad Navigation

• Part 10: Simple Single-Line Text Input

General Programming

• Programmers Are Users (Bad Performance Makes Everyone Less Efficient) (December 2024)

• Upstream & Downstream (May 2024)

• Multithreading & Mutation (March 2024)

• The Easiest Way To Handle Errors Is To Not Have Them (December 2023)

• Factorio, Mutation, & Lossiness (July 2023)

• The Digital Grove Project (June 2023)

• The Function Is A Lie (May 2023)

• The Codepath Combinatoric Explosion (April 2023)

• Main Loops, Refresh Rates, and Determinism (March 2023)

• A Taxonomy Of Computation Shapes (February 2023)

• Emergence and Composition (December 2022)

• In Defense Of Linked Lists (November 2022)

• You Get What You Measure (October 2022)

• Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator (September 2022)

• Table-Driven Code Generation (July 2022)

Thoughts, Opinions, Commentary

• The Marketplace Of Ideals (July 2023)

• Software Kingdoms (June 2023)

• Regulation Cannot Save A Defeated Culture (January 2023)

• More Languages Won't Fix The Computing World (August 2022)

• Ships, Icebergs, Game Engines (August 2022)

• The Gullible Software Altruist (July 2022)

• Computers, Ownership, Agency (July 2022)