The Hacks of Life

...is not evidence of absense! This is definitely true when it comes to bugs. We could spend a year and not prove that X-Plane is bug free...

I have blogged about this before, but it just burned me again. Vector is usually very fast, but it also makes it really easy to write someth...

I was reading about the history of X11 on Wikipedia while trying to fix Linux bugs and I stumbled across the principles of X. There are th...

So what's wrong with this code? The answer is that OpenGL is asynchronous, so traditional threading models tend to blow up with OpenGL...

What's wrong with this code, which uses a second thread to build new nodes in a scene graph while the main thread renders and periodical...

Performance Lore (e.g. "I did X on my app and it got faster so you should do Y") is inherently dangerous in that performance tunin...

I used VTune the other day to look at some performance problems on my PC. (Turns out the performance problem is the PC.) There's one ...