A Random Walk Through Geek-Space

This is a syntax bike-shedding post, where I will try to explain why I think languages should stop using curly brackets for code blocks. I don’t expect anyone to come away completely blown away by this or anything, but I’m a language nerd and often end...

In the last month or two I’ve had basically the same conversation half a dozen times, both online and in real life, so I figured I’d just write up a blog post that I can refer to in the future.
The reason most high level languages are slow is usually because of two reasons:...

So variable refresh rates have a lot of hype surrounding them now, with representatives from GPU and monitor vendors are saying that it will just magically make existing games better with no effort required on the part of the developer. This is bullshit...

In most major code bases, it’s common to have objects with lots of Boolean flags indicating what state they’re in. E.g. is an enemy targeting the player or not? Is it trying to flee or not? If you have a set of mutually exclusive flags an...