Joe's Blog

2024

• Type-erased generic functions for C: A modest non-proposal
• How the FM TOWNS boots from CD-ROM

2023

• Use the COPY key to take screenshots in FM TOWNS Windows
• Imaging PC98, FM TOWNS, or X68000 floppy disks with KryoFlux
• The lost language extensions of MetaWare's High C Compiler
• Making a new CMOS battery for the FM TOWNS UX20
• Reverse-engineering the 2017 Chanel LED Boy 2.0 Clutch
• Discrete coordinate systems for plane tilings

2022

• Better effect type management with coroutines
• Data-oriented design for 8-bit CPUs: SoA lookup tables
• How to write your next math function in the style of John Carmack: understanding the "fast" inverse square root

2018

• Optimizing is-multiple checks with modular arithmetic
• Constructing human-grade parsers
• Optimizing global constant data structures using relative references

2012

• Self-aware struct-like types in C++11

2010

• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 4: Rendering a Dynamic 3D Scene with Phong Shading
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Table of Contents
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 3: 3D transformation and projection
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 2.3: Rendering
• An intro to modern OpenGL, in Chinese
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 2.1: Buffers and Textures
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 2: Hello World: The Slideshow
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 2.2: Shaders
• An intro to modern OpenGL. Chapter 1: The Graphics Pipeline
• Improving Factor's error messages
• Preparing Factor for Google Summer of Code
• A new toy: HTML side-scroller

2009

• Hot-rodding Factor with typed functions, SIMD, and data-map
• PSA: avoiding the "ucontext routines are deprecated" error on Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• Spring cleaning
• The Factor game framework
• Get your RAII on with the finally template class
• Tracking VFP registers when debugging with iPhone gdb
• A new toy: Strawman Comics
• Using Inkscape as a map editor
• Footsie now available!

2008

• Footsie submitted