The Hacks of Life

A thing I have done is attempt to hard shut down my Mac using the shell (e.g. sudo shutdown -r) and accidentally taken down one of our serv...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...