C experience report
Impressions after adjusting to C from higher-level languages; tips and tricks for using C.
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Forkable open story settings
The world of fiction storytelling could learn a few lessons from open source software.
Rant on Tree-Sitter (and Zed)
Impressions after dabbling into Tree-Sitter syntaxes and trying the Zed editor.
Hogwarts Legacy: mod recommendations
Suggestions for modding Hogwarts Legacy to make it more enjoyable.
Hades: tweak recommendations
Suggestions for how to play Hades, an excellent single-player roguelike game.
Using speedhacks in single player games
Explanation and instructions on speedhacking, a surprisingly handy tool in gaming.
Witcher franchise: how to enjoy
Essential tips and tricks for Witcher games. Spoiler-free!
Divinity Original Sin 2: how to play and enjoy
Mod recommendations and gameplay suggestions. Spoiler-free!
Anime impressions: Parasyte
Thoughts and analysis on this surprisingly deep anime. Spoilers!
Anime impressions: Evangelion
How to watch: Neon Genesis Evangelion, End of Evangelion.
Anime impressions and recommendations
Periodically-updated gist. Check later for more.
Game impressions: Mass Effect Andromeda
Enjoyed, highly recommended.
Shorten your Go code by using exceptions
Go secretly favors exceptions. Use them.
Always spaces, never tabs
Objective arguments that decided my personal preference.
Hacks around S-expressions in Lisps
How far people are willing to go to get prefix and infix in a Lisp syntax.
Language design: gotchas with variadic minus
Treating the minus operator as a function can be tricky and dangerous.
Language design: case conventions
Objective arguments to solve case conventions and move on.
Language design: homoiconicity
Thoughts on homoiconicity, an interesting language quality seen in Lisps.
Warframe headcanon (spoilers)
Collection of Warframe headcanon co-authored with friends.
Thoughts on The Egg: a short story by Andy Weir, animated by Kurzgesagt
Text link Youtube link I like the story. It seems to place value on growth and maturity. It implies that power should be wielded by responsible grown-ups, and seems to associate maturity with kindness. (Thought we can debate the kindness of a world full of suffering.) It plants the idea that we should be kinder, just in case something like this is true. If this was the basis of a worldwide…
Tips and tricks: Doom 2016
General tips, notes on difficulty, enemies, runes, weapons.
Game impressions: Doom 2016
I really like Doom 2016, here's why.
Announcing Astrotips: video guides on Astroneer
A series of video guides, tips and tricks on Astroneer, an amazing space exploration and building game.
Don't abbreviate in camelCase
CamelCase identifiers should avoid abbreviations, e.g. `JsonText` rather than `JSONText`.
Things I would remove from Go
If less is more, Go could gain by losing weight.
Back from hiatus (2019)
Back to blogging after three and a half years.
Cheating for performance with pjax
Faster page transitions, for free.
Cheating for website performance
Frontend tips for speeding up websites.
Keeping things simple
Musings on simplicity in programming.
Old posts
Some old stuff from around the net.