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Unfortunately, no :( I was hoping someone would recognize the book and reply...

I think CSS tools like that appeal to people who learned web development in a kind of ad-hoc way. When I first started, I just wanted to make designs I had in my head. I kind of we…

That's a really good way to think about it! (Bonus points for ASCII diagrams.) IIRC, I had some similar visualizations in the article but I cut them. And nice paper, interesting wa…

JavaScript! It's not perfect, but it's the easiest language to run in the browser :)

Haha, I don't know why I didn't think to include a raycast scene, especially since that's what I was using the algorithm for!! Glad you liked it.

Original author here. I've been reading this website for years. Imagine my shock when I saw my own article on the front page! I'm glad people are enjoying it. Quick fact about the …

My argument is that using these non-standard extensions to do important things like memory management in a C library is malpractice—it effectively locks down the library to specifi…

For me, the point of writing something in C is portability. There were C compilers 30 years ago, there are C compilers now, and there will almost certainly be C compilers 30 years …

My understanding is that the only qualifier for something on hackernews is that it has to be "deeply interesting": https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html Deeply interesting …

Maybe I'm wrong and this is new to a lot of people! I have a limited perspective based on my programming journey, which winds mostly through gamedev, graphics programming, and DSP,…

Absolutely, like I said, there's no problem with what this person is doing or the way that they're exploring computers, I'm just confused as to why it's being posted here.

Yeah I found this article super weird. Explaining pointers & dereferencing is reasonable, but doing it in the context of Zig specifically, like Zig is the first language to feature…

What do you mean by "motivational?" Are you talking about how the creator is against adding new features to the language? I actually think that's perfectly fine. One of my favorite…

Bryce Bostwick does super cool & inspiring work on debugging and reverse-engineering apps. I found him on YouTube; His video on modding TikTok to only show cat videos ( https://you…

Fair, though when I say "quality decline" I'm mostly talking about extraneous useless features and overly complicated node-based architectures that require GUIs. There are simpler …

I don't think that the developers of Slay The Spire were taught by complexity loving professors, no. But education does more than influence the people at universities. Education in…

Oh, absolutely. I maintain the engine for my video game and it's ultra-minimal tailored to my needs. That leads to better performance, and a much slimmer build size. (currently sit…

It's all done using the HTML canvas API.

I'm starting to believe there is an external force that drives down the quality of game engines over time. In most tech, the things that catch on are the things that are the easies…

I never fully understood the DDA algorithm for drawing lines on pixel / voxel grids. I like to learn by teaching, so I figured it out, and wrote a blog post explaining it. Also, al…

Personally, I don't care about the library, and just want the pure math implementation for shaders and such. For that, they have the algorithm available here in GLSL, vec3 mixbox_l…

Made this for a university final and figured the HN crowd might appreciate it. All of the visuals are done in pure HTML/CSS (a little JS is used to actually play audio). I wrote a …

Odin has a builtin heap allocator that works the same way you would expect any other high-level language to do memory allocation–it's just that you have to free the memory yourself…