Linkblog
Blog of links I have collected while adventuring the interwebs.
2025
04
- 11 Bickle - Gut Feeling, Python Template Strings, Tofu Engine, a love letter to level editor icons, the armchair of great blogging, Jane Remover Interview, twilight of creativity, Xbox 360 BadUpdate.
- 10 Flipper Zero Busy Bar.
- 09 Tailscale Series C, Backported Portal 2 maps to Portal's Prototype (Narbacular Drop deep dive from me), Firebase Studio, Blender Vulkan Backend Maturing, Tyler McVicker HL3 documentary, Crypto crime is legal, Anthropic $$$ plan, Quake + Peggle = Queggle.
- 08 Quake 1 Web Tools.
- 07 Minecraft Movie, Best Programmers I Know, Docker AI, Jane Remover 'Revengeseekerz', How does u128 work on a 64-bit processor?, Next.js Deployment Adapters API, Odin area allocators gotchas, leibovitz dithering tool, Integrating Zig & SwiftUI, Thinking Time for game design, AI and the creator's funnel, THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME by Wes Anderson trailer, Tobi on AI at Shopify, Apple replaces rsync with openrsync.
- 06 Eddy Burback hates his phone, Switch pre-orders paused for US, VSCode LLM pricing, Gemini Pro Preview good pricing, Casey on Switch 2, Open AI o3 / o4-mini planned, Meta Llama 4 herd, AI Quake II, `Bun.redis`, VSCode C/C++ Extension blocked on Cursor & others, Unix Magic Poster, SM64 shader analysis, Ludwig & Micheal travel japan, Noclip Dwarf Fortress, Hopper RSS feed reader Discord bot, Gumroad Open Source but DOGE?, IRS 'hackathon'.
- 04 Anime.js v4, Xash3D FWGS, Tom's Personal Tools, Why so many camera RAW formats?
- 03 MCP Streaming HTTP transport, Convert OSM data to GeoParquet, Generate Odin bindings for C libs, US Gov is vibe tariffing, Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish, ucupaint Blender texturing, Bill Gates on Altair BASIC, Obsidian level maker.
- 02 Linux Kernel 'Disgusting Turds', Just `make` use of `just`, Lua, a misunderstood language, Vibe Management, Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support, Deltarune release date.
- 01 SDL bindings for Node.js, RSS blogrolls are a federated social network, NPM camel gate, Guido back as BDFL, Game Engines with Source.
03
- 31 raylib4PlayStation2, Skin Deep on Steam Deck, Dennis's Thoughts on ECS, Self-contained Python scripts with `uv`, PostgreSQL MCP Server, There is no Vibe Engineering, Armin leaving Sentry.
- 29 Typed Japanese, Bunnyhopping from Programmer's Perspective (Quake / Source Engine movement dive).
- 28 PostgreSQL IO_uring, Design Needs More Brutalism.
- 27 AOSP development goes private, Lumon Terminal Pro, MCP 🤝 OpenAI Agents SDK, Operationalizing Macaroons.
- 26 DDA Algorithm, Golang on the PS2, Astro Bot director: "It's okay to make a small game", Next.js horrible middleware vulnerability, Chatbots spark the next mental health crsis, You should know this before choosing Next.js.
- 23 Haiku ❤️ Nvidia (porting Nvidia GPU driver), (Critical) Notes on MCP.
- 21 Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding (but vibe coding rocks), N64 High-Res Textures Homebrew Demo, Why Windows 95 setup wasn't miniature version of Win 95?, o1-pro $$$, Google Live Kernal Updates, CMake 4.0, Lua Bytecode, Godot GLTF import scripting, Every Font is Free.
- 20 Google Chrome Speed Tests
- 19 For-Profit (Creative) Software, Apple restricts Pebble, Biomass out of the box, Chrome replacing FreeType with Skrifa, FFmpeg lands Vulkan Decoder, Slack: The Art of Being Busy, Roblox 3D slop, x.company - The Light Generation, Matrix producer files for bankruptcy, Nginx almost got a dark mode.
- 18 Proofs with Lean, PlayStation Boot Logo is 3D, SM64 without the Z-Buffer.
- 17 FUSE over io_uring, Rippling Deel Bathroom Spy, C might get `defer`, 6502 emulator written in busybox ash, Quake Family Tree, FTEQW.
- 16 OnePlus 6T becomes K8s node, Jepi - Life after a tech layoff, tj-actions/changedfiles compromised, Andrew Ng on code still valid, CloudFlares affects Palemoon, Hack Quake 2, Quake 2 Source Code Review, SDL3 GPU WebGPU backend canned for now.
- 15 Google Forced To Sell Chrome Not Good For Web, Blender MCP Server, Interactive Guide to Flexbox, RSS bot in a group chat.
- 14 Dithering in Colour, Distant Horizons Multiplayer Update, Astro 5.5, Google is dumping Assistant for Gemini.
- 13 Floats to RGBA, Future is Niri, C Plus Prolog.
- 12 How Simon uses LLMs, `typescript-go` Why Go?, Multiplayer Haskell game, Factorio for LLM learning, Andrew Kelley Practical DOD, DuckDB local UI, ISBN visualization competition, Pneumatic 'Unix Philosophy' Game Engine, Tiny CSG, Crocotile 3D room.
- 11 Smile Like Zuck, Python 3.14 tail-call LLVM regression weirdness, Bun v1.2.5, Wanderstop by Davey & C418, TypeScript Go rewrite, New Katamari Apple Arcade Only, Dot-E assets.
- 10 Theory of Elons, El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Old Cars.
- 09 Tom's Blogroll, LocalThunk's Balatro Timeline, Make Good Small Games, What is MCP?, Lynx: Bytedance's React Native, Claude Code good?
- 06 sokol-gfx compute shader update, Xbox One emulation progress.
- 05 Why FastDoom is fast, Google expands AI slop into search, s&box update, Maggie's Antilibrary, Basecamp's Local CI, Gardener wins £1m prize due to website bug.
- 04 Real-Time Atlases, Nikki Shadow Drop, Nightmare Bicycle, Eval > Model, IMG_0416, PlantStudio, Lo-Fi Art and Human Tools, Skin Deep - Blendo Wav Tool, Exploiting Cursor to write better code, SpacetimeDB, Trippy.
- 03 k8s Yoke, Bloat Aware Filesystem, Flow wins Oscar, FOIA for schema, C++ creator calls for defence on attacks, Bitcoin bailout, Linux laptop maker called me a zombie, Crysis on a phone, Godot 4.4, TanStack Form, How Flash shaped the industry, Lumon WoeMeter.
- 02 Handmade pathfinding, AWS keys from bed, Security banter, DigiCert legal Bugzilla, Leaked Windsurf Prompt, SQL Injection Court, Creativity, Y Combinator Sweatshop Post, WebGPU Ocean, AWS EC2 or US Visa?, How Anrej uses LLMs, Building real-time GI, Katamari Creator new game, Mike Okay Inside North Korea, Balatro touch controls mod, 'Melting GPU' Glitch Artifacts in Unreal.
- 01 Odin Game Jam, Karl on Wookash, eva hacks todesktop, Font in Manhattan, ShaderGlass, Roadtrip AI, FNA SDL3 GPU, Websites as Archives, Reflections on 25 years, GPT 4.5 $$$, Fish 4.0, Starpath MSDOS, Cafe Maria, Building S3, Gleam from Erlang, Valve uses Godot code, Typst 0.13, Technicolor winding down, Humanity’s Last Exam, effective LLM, Vertex Pulling, LLM codegen workflow.
02
- 28 Animal Well Doc, Undo/Redo Odin, Minecraft was third-person, Minecraft isometric level preview, What physics engine?, Japanese engineers talk Switch specs, Andrej on Grok 3, Rockstar wants GTA VI 'Roblox'.
- 27 Odin Sokol Hot Reload Template, LocalThunk on Solitare & Balatro, backwards compatibility with React, Astro 5.4, EA open sourced C&C, GPT 4.5.
- 26 Acerola Shaders, DOOM on TypeScript, Claude credit for Three.js 3D, Multi-channel SDF text.
- 25 Odin `using`, WebGPU Text, Skin Deep Demo on Linux, Build browser engine, Atlas for Odin games, Solar Storm Rendeirng, Firefox TOS.
- 24 Spear Fish Box2D, ericw-tools, Raw WebGPU, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, TTF File Parsing, Skin Deep, Sokol Odin, Three.js Shading Language.
- 20 Dungeon of Quake, Why Odin for Games, britpop.online, Elon asks to deorbit ISS, reactbits.dev, Bluesky Lossy Timelines, OverSSH, Svelte 5 is not Javascript, Deno in 2024, Randy banger SFX, Tiny Minecraft in SDL3 GPU.
- 19 SDL3 WebGPU, Wireshark for Docker, GameStop CEO decries woke, glibc bricks games, silly apps sans app store.
- 18 Slang, Dither on Playdate, LLM use Ethical?, x86 on NES, Terry Games, TF2 Open Source.
- 17 No 1875 epoch, David Lynch, `uv`, merits of LLMs, ai agents are local first clients, game idea, meetup.com ical, Super Storage, Asahi Linux, Codin' Dirty, patterns, shop cats, `oklch()`, Juniors Can't Code, Randy Odin Game, X blocks Signal, Tynan Gear, Vercel AI SDK, Open Source SBOM, Meta Horizon Horrible Ad, neobrutalism components, React missing the point.
- 15 Hot Reload Odin, Crypto Casino Gambler, Humpback Swallow, Floor796, Utah Flag Choice, Reddit paywalls, Mastodon quote posts, Why Blog?, PoreFX, Backgrounds with LLMs, do what LLMs can't.
- 14 Dioramas, No Cowboy, Webmentions, Technomancy Search, On Bloat, Strange Maneuver.
- 13 CLI tools, Linux `ip`, Data in Unicode, Reasoning just LLMs, DOGE & Red Tape, `bun init react`, Dark Thicket, YouTube Shorts AI Slop, Odin SDL3 Red Triangle, Zed local predictions, Don't Be Frupid.
- 12 Prisma using just TS, banning bots, DOGE's Crypto Bros, Blender Project DogWalk, Tumblr Fediverse, Leaking Gmail from any YouTube account.
- 07 Melonland, Placemark Podcast, Chat bad UI for AI, 'vibe coding', Project 2025 Dox, not an optimization problem, `sqlite-page-explorer`, Meta torrents.
- 06 Global Capslock, GovWayback, ISS on Twitch, lychee dead link finder, asdf -> go, last.fm API.
- 05 wiper TUI, ESM-only, Level Design Book, KLETKA, ambient.garden.
- 04 Textmode, Oracle v. Deno, Dev philosophy, Retake the Browser, More billions being spent on AI, creative shaders.
- 03 Cursor, Build own tools, hollywood.computer, Billy on Animal Well tech, Webmentions on Astro, `bun ./index.html`, Odin Sokol.
- 02 hyperkidmorph2roper, AI Slop, Goat Counter, gamedev.city, 10x eng, comic strip rss, brainbaking favs.