Stories by davikr

1964 Recompiling Engine Documentation (2001) [pdf]

Making Crash Bandicoot (2011)

The Untold History of Arduino (2016)

Reversing the Construction of the View-Projection Matrix (Game Engine Reversing)

RTNN: Accelerating Neighbor Search Using Hardware Ray Tracing

Darts, Dice, and Coins: Sampling from a Discrete Distribution (2011)

Steam Machine

x86 is an octal machine (1995)

Not possible to logout from one Google account, or change your default profile?

Nitrogen Crisis in the Netherlands

The Generic Wellbutrin Problem: Whose Fault Is It? (2012)

Torvalds: "If somebody really wants to create bad hardware in this day and age"

Optimizing a 6502 image decoder, from 70 minutes to 1 minute

Linux as a UEFI bootloader and kexecing windows (2022)

On benchmarking: "measuring performance is hard" (2017)

Orforglipron led to significantly greater reductions in weight than placebo

Why do we use godawful blue-with-yellow-text for medical school lectures? (2020)

Creating the OG Xbox Boot Sound: Using oldschool audio tech in a modern console

Divergent Association Task

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