Dear Squeaks, Thank you giving us 2 more days for saying our goodbyes. Thank you for 10 years of your companionship, your affection, and your love. You were such a kind and gentle soul. Know that we loved you every single step of our way together. You will be dearly missed.

Please somebody explain to me what "hand-written" means. Please.

"Hey Stefan Reinalter, noticed you're founder of Molecular Matters and C and low-level programming." Your vibe-coded spambot needs some improvement.

Reading the replies: 99 out of 100 replies are BS from blue checkmark accounts. Checks out every time.

Hitman games were known for having crowds and a large number of animated characters on the screen since the PS2 era.

Local-first & completely transparent, open source, no outstanding legal copyright issues, designed for strict human verification of all artifacts. It needs to produce what I would’ve produced more slowly with no catch.

One reason why I won't spill inner secrets of Live on my public blog.

I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out. I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really). It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely. The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture. We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying. I worry.

Storing undecorated names for private/local/static symbols inside PDBs was a stupid, stupid, stupid idea. Mangled names would be smaller and unambiguous. On top of that, they're already there in the object files.

Today is a beautiful day for updates! On the Stable channel: rolling up a large number of features, perf optimizations, and QoL changes made over the past months On the Insider channel: support for our instrumentation API has been implemented on PS4 & 5! Go check it out!

I’m so absolutely freaking tired of waking up to a freshly rebooted machine because Windows, not me, decided installing updates I absolutely do not care about was more important than preserving my debugging state. Whoever is in charge of this at MS should be fired.

Lerp is used everywhere in games. It’s simple, but combined with a few small tricks it becomes incredibly powerful. This thread is full of visual examples.

Looking for ways to get the word out about our new game, Beyond the Pins 2: The Second Frame. Point-and-click streamers or media types, reach out if you want to check things out! Coming soon to NES, MS-DOS and PC/Mac. #nes #msdos #mt32 #indie #pointandclick #adventure

New blog post! In "Quantizing tangent frames", we look at various established methods to represent tangent frames in the vertex data, squeeze a few variants into 32 bits per vertex and look at the resulting precision. zeux.io/2026/04/30/quantizin… Retweet, like and subscribe!

Why do I work on a game? I currently spend most of my programming day reading and writing assembly code, which can fatigue my brain pretty fast. Compared to that, working on a game seems... easy and relaxing?

Very well said Ryan, fully agree. Still wonder about posts of people using agents to churn out 15kLOC per day, which always makes me think "that's not a good thing" and "what are you doing with so much code?!".

If you also grew up with The Last Ninja on C64 like me, do yourself a favour and grab Matt Gray's latest Reformation 5 release. The Inner Sanctum is bloody *perfect* (wait for the drop at 2:14): mattgray1.bandcamp.com/track…

statemens like this are so dumb I don't even know where to begin. but I'll try. 🧵

Ah it's getting messy. (I'm the first to admit that having __attribute__((init_priority(101))) anywhere is not a good sign)