The Hacks of Life

Makes you write code like this... if ((ent = dynamic_cast (what)) && ent->GetGISClass() == gis_Composite) true; At least C++ isn...

A quick stat on instancing performance. There are a lot of OpenGL posts with developers posting their instancing performance numbers, and o...

I'm debugging X-Plane's autogen engine. In debug mode, with no inlining, optimizations, and a pile of safety checks, the autogen en...

This quote from NVidia's GPU Programming Guide amused me: There are many techniques available. However, the general recommendation is ...

When ATI released their order independent transparency demo , I nearly wet myself. Translucency has been the bane of X-Plane authors for ye...

I must just be late to the party, but: I just realized (approximately a decade later than I should) that C0FFEE can be spelled in hex. How ...

This must exist somewhere in WordPress or as part of a plugin, so if you know what plugin I should have used, feel free to heap on the abuse...