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The most important piece of software I ever released was a Nintendo GameCube debugger over 20 years ago. It was not a financial success, re...

In response to  Goto is Not a Horror , I must implore you witness: func main() { var i = 0 loop: i += 1 if i > 10 { goto done }...

I was dissatisfied with argument parsing crates. There didn't seem to be one that checked all the boxes I cared about: Simple. Don...

I usually write about Rust, but today I want to discuss something broader; flexibility in software, particularly in design and architecture....

In Rust, it is well-known that static mut is dangerous. The docs for the static keyword  have this to say about mutable statics: If a sta...

This might be a bit of an unpopular opinion, so the clickbait title should be appropriate! I've been learning and using Rust for nearly ...

The reason I have been so quiet recently is because I've been working on a very dry subject; testing. Unit tests are probably the most u...

It's shader time! I finished the simple sunbeam, which I think looks quite nice in motion. It could use a little work on the grad...

Oh hey, look at that! I changed the CSS on my blog a smidge. It's worth mentioning, anyway. Say hello to the Blipjoy Invader! You can ju...

If you've been following my blog, you'll know that I've been writing a 3D renderer in Rust. This is my first real  experience us...

Yesterday I finally got around to adding some simple animations. The app was always rendering at 60 fps, but the image was static because th...

I had a long week on vacation, and was able to do a little bit of coding almost every night. There was a lot of time spent doing touristy th...

This weekend I was distracted by a well-intentioned good friend of mine who suggested solving a chess puzzle described as " deceptively...

Today, it's interpolating normals to render smooth lighting. That's right; Gouraud Shading in full effect. Two screenshots to start ...

I was surprised by how easy it was to interpolate over the texture coordinates, given the barycentric coordinate space. I have more boilerpl...