Andre Weissflog

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https://github.com/floooh/

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2026-05-11 13:13:18 GMT

Interesting... a signed 64-bit integer is a pretty close match for a 1-light-year-sized coordinate system (1ly in each direction) with a resolution of 1 millimeter.
E.g.
1<<63 = 9.223.372.036.854.775.808 mm
(300000 * 1000 * 1000) * (365 * 24 * 3600) = 9.460.800.000.000.000.000 mm
Coincidence? I THINK NOT! :D

2026-04-04 13:11:48 GMT

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1. it's "just" a flyby mission 2. the US already landed people on the over half a century ago 3. it's entirely politically motivated, just like last time

2026-03-02 09:54:30 GMT

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> There should be a way to work with many files side by side.
IME a plain old table-view with some sort of bulk-editing never hurts for this type of problem ;) (doesn't need to be the only option just a different way to view and edit)

2026-01-01 14:10:48 GMT

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hmm yeah... AFAIK the home computer revolution was mostly feeding on an overcapacity of slightly outdated 8-bit chips which suddenly became very cheap at the start of the 80s, and hobbyists and enthusiasts started to build all sorts of awesome things with this 'junk'.
Maybe we'll see a similar Cambrian Explosion after the AI bubble pops and suddenly there's a shitton of just slightly outdated GPUs and memory flooding the market waiting to be used for actually interesting stuff :)

2026-01-01 14:01:33 GMT

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IMHO this 'war on personal computing' had been going on in the background for decades with varying intensity, similar to how DDOS attacks happen all the time without bringing the whole internet down (mostly at least). Personal computing might go back to be the niche/hobbyist activity it was in the 70s to 90s, but it won't entirely disappear. I guess it might become an expensive hobby again though :/

2025-11-27 19:04:23 GMT

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...could also be setbox ;)
...apparently the & glyph is derived from the 'et' characters, and the official (although uncommon) name in German is still `Et-Sign`: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et-Zeichen

2025-01-15 12:57:10 GMT

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I have it on good authority that the Windows team is already working on a comprehensive fix for the blue-screen-of-death problem by changing the hostile blue background color to a friendly pink.

2024-12-18 18:48:45 GMT

I have switched the Chips emulator debug UI to the Dear ImGui docking branch, and added imgui.ini persistency via LocalStorage. I'll probably spend the next couple of days on related stuff. To test, start via the top-right-corner 'UI' buttons:
https://floooh.github.io/tiny8bit/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/675/318/931/194/635/original/b70ce0ac7fbf2629.png

2024-10-23 12:06:40 GMT

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Thanks, Vulkan ;)
I think it's just the pendulum swinging back and forth though. In 15..20 years everybody might be back to inhouse.

2024-06-08 10:09:59 GMT

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just std::vector alone pulls in nearly 25kloc into each compilation unit for no good reason:
https://www.godbolt.org/z/T33jWsM6q
For reference, that's more than an entire 3D API wrapper that covers D3D11, Metal and GL:
https://github.com/floooh/sokol/blob/master/sokol_gfx.h

2024-06-08 10:04:16 GMT

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for containers I would definitely write my own highly specialized classes in perf-critical code bases. Since the requirements are much more focused those can be done in a couple of hundred lines instead of tens of thousands like the stdlib containers.

2024-06-08 10:02:09 GMT

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I think the Orthodox C++ advice of "don't use anything from the STL that allocates memory" makes sense for perf-critical code bases: https://gist.github.com/bkaradzic/2e39896bc7d8c34e042b
For the rare case where I use C++ for cmdline tools I'm more "open" (e.g. in sokol-shdc I use std::vector and std::string together with pystring and libfmt) but that's about as far as I would go.