The idea that one can give up privacy in exchange for security is misguided and dangerous. It’s a cliché peddled by politicians who either just
Floating point numbers are everywhere. It’s hard to find software that doesn’t use any. For something so essential to writing software you’d think we take
I’ve worked with a lot of people of varying skill levels, from superstar programmers to not-sure-how-they-got-the-job types. Integrating and working with new people is always
When drawing basic primitives we want nice smooth edges. This means both pixel correctness and antialiasing. In my previous article about drawing a rectangle I
I need to make a quick variation of a function. The calculation, or behaviour, differs slightly on the needs of the caller. I throw in
My previous article explains how I draw a rounded rectangle using a shader instead of tesselation. The biggest remaining issue is using eight calls to
Rectangles appear everywhere in user interfaces, from the backgrounds of elements to rounded border decorations. It’s helpful to be able to draw these fast. I
Sometimes I just like to sit back and code something. Free from deadlines. Free from requirements. Free from issue systems and planning teams. It’s so
Any time we are waiting for something to happen, from reading the disk to locking a mutex, we need to have a timeout. Without a
What do you do when all normal debugging means fail? You can reproduce a bug, but the debugger just doesn’t seem to pinpoint it. Print
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