Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Klingons Do Not Release Software

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Brent Simmons on ETAs for software releases : This is all just to say that app-making is nothing like building a house. It’s more like bu...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Hardware Performance: Old and New iPhones and PCs

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I am looking at performance on our latest revision of X-Plane Mobile, and I've noticed that the performance bottlenecks have changed fr...
Saturday, April 06, 2019

Keeping the Blue Side Up: Coordinate Conventions for OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan

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OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan all have different ideas about which way is up - that is, where the origin is located and which way the Y axis goe...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Code like You

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Fantastic lightning talk from this year's cppcon : This was what I was trying to get at in advocating for not going to the Nth d...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Solve Less General Problems

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Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - th...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2018

When Not To Serialize

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Over a decade ago, I wrote a blog post about WorldEditor's file format design and, in particular, why I didn't reuse the serializa...
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Hats Off for a Fast Turn-Around

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Normally I use this blog to complain about things that are broken, but I want to give credit here to Apple, for their WWDC 2018 video turn-...