Announcing Grain DDL: code generation by and for demanding engine developers. Define your structs and data once. Write custom generators for protocols, save files, language interop, shaders, databases, more. No macros, no metaprogramming. Generate reviewable code on every keystroke. 300kB compiler exe. Windows, Mac, Linux. Closed beta applications are now open - link in replies.

Just found out an active File Pilot community member @thomasklemenc made a task manager inspired by it! Handmade from scratch, C , win32, D3D custom renderer, 1.55 MB. More of this in my feed, less AI slopware.

This Thursday there will be a one of a kind event! @antovsky will walk @its_bvisness and me through the design & implementation process of PS Move - a tracking solution for Playstation. We're gonna walk through the hardcore hardware reality of the solution, grounded in the historical context (market rivals, PS game development) @antovsky has even prepared a software simulator, to accurately showcase the difficulty - simulator can change lighting conditions, bluriness of the image, etc. It's gonna be a long one, 3h of stream, with lots of stories and angles and plot twists! Make sure you're ready on Thursday!

On June 6 we are hosting the first-ever Handmade Network Expo in Vancouver, BC, an in-person event celebrating software made from scratch. Among the lineup: a new game from @antovsky & @nicbarkeragain, a time travel debugger for macOS by @leddoo_dev, a custom metaprogramming language and IDE from @frogtoss, a custom game engine by @gdechichi, and more. More info and tickets below :)

Tomorrow a full version of *first* live coding session with @antovsky goes out! Here's the handcrafted "best of" supercut :)

Anton @antovsky is coming to work through Dreams style of state management AKA large arrays of things! Come to see it LIVE on youtube / twitch / x (That's the episode that was canceled last week) Next Week LIVE Episodes Announced: 1 out of 2