Tom Forsyth (@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place) Attached: 1 image Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
1000 SPM base in Factorio: Space Age Let's write about something else for once. Factorio is a game where you build factories.
From Bottleneck to Multiplier TL;DR Engineering leaders can multiply team intelligence instead of bottlenecking it. This series introduces a framework with five interconnected pillars: psychological safety, clear success criteria, intentional delegation, alignment through documentatio...
Building a Minimal Viable Armv7 Emulator from Scratch Emulating armv7 is surprisingly easy, even from scratch AND in Rust
Your Codebase Is Probably Fighting Claude (part 1) - ambient-code.ai I have been trying to keep our genAI workloads “in the pocket” of a maximum effective context window. For performance, accuracy and the second order cost control benefits from those. Things work beautifully, but it’s not at all efficient (wrote about an ...
Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly? A few weeks ago I was minding my own business, peacefully reading a well-written and informative article about artificial intelligence, when I was ambushed by a passage in the article that aroused …
Why I wrote Rmlx I’ll start on a downbeat note: clearly, if there ever was a contest between R and Python for dominance of machine learning, R has lost. Nobody is writing AI in R.
I Let a Brain Organoid Make My Investment Decisions Wall Street is built on speed. High-frequency trading algorithms ping the NYSE servers in nanoseconds. But silicon is dead. The future is wet. Squishy, pink, slightly gross wetware.
Round Two I'm excited to share that I am officially a founder again! This time, I'm building something close to heart: not a healthcare SaaS platform, but a tool th...
50 Things I Learned in the Last 2 Years 1. Be very specific when returning data from the database. Don’t blindly select all fields. Only return what’s needed. 2. Many people get way further ahead in life than you with fewer skills simply because they have the courage to try. 3. Communicati...
Hyperscalers are hard How NFTables Drives Kubernetes Nodes to Memory Exhaustion at 100k Scale OR How Kubernetes optimizations become catastrophic at hyperscale.
I Turned My Idle PC into a Linux Gaming Console When Valve announced the new Steam Machine, I was genuinely excited. I’m not an avid gamer myself. I built a solid PC thinking I would get back into gaming, ...