A little while ago I started a project to write a Metal renderer on my iPad in Playgrounds. A brief history is that for various reasons I am often away from my computer but have access to my iPad. I like experimenting …

My first go at animation: a run cycle for a low poly astronaut I made with Blender.

Recently I was reading through the current edition of Effective Modern C++ which covers up to C++14, and I found myself getting bogged down by the huge number of language features and in particular the caveats around …

I love Doom, and by Doom I mean the various classic Dooms - Ultimate Doom, Doom 2: Hell on Earth, and the Final Doom expansions. I only had Ultimate Doom shareware on my 386 as a kid but I played all of them a lot later …

A lot of core APIs in node.js have two forms for each function - synchronous and asynchronous. The synchronous versions block until the function has completed, while the asynchronous versions do not block - instead …

I’ve been using Java 8 in some anger lately, and have encountered one or two tips that are worth sharing. I’ll start with some notes about lambda expressions and the Stream API that helped me thinking about …

Coming from IntelliJ, CLion is my favourite C/C++ IDE. It also has many plugins that extend its functionality beyond C++, and one that I’ve found useful while experimenting with game development is the GLSL plugin …

Today I wanted to draw some graphs. I started out using Wolfram Alpha’s excellent plot() functionality but wanted something that I would be able to use offline too. Mathematica & Matlab are beyond my …

I was tasked with creating a skeleton Java application that ran Camel for a project at work. As documentation was a bit sparse on how to achieve what I wanted, I’ve written this post on how to bootstrap a very …

On the subject of Learning how to build a game Although it’s been slow, there has been progress with my C++ game. I’ve given it a working title of Janus and it’s taken the form of a 2d platformer. This …