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Just venting my frustration, nothing new under the sun here. https://filiph.net/text/fun-times-with-macos.html

Does using a particular state management technique really have an impact on performance?

A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that. https://filiph.net/text/alan-kay-personal-computer-for-children-of-all-ages.html

The counter to the perennial argument that "humans have seen their work automated before". https://filiph.net/text/2026-08-21-11am-no-we-haven't-seen-this-before.html

The HTML progress element, and how it looks in various browsers in 2026. https://filiph.net/text/choppy-progress-in-chrome.html

Find out if your favorite feature have made it to the latest Flutter SDK https://filiph.net/text/are-we-there-yet.html

A piece of advice that is also a (somewhat sad) statement of fact https://filiph.net/text/to-make-money-be-useful-to-rich-people.html

A command-line poker game where you play against bots to train real-world skills. https://filiph.net/text/pokerd.html

How to set up a Windows XP gaming box (before all the hardware capable of running XP becomes too expensive). https://filiph.net/text/windows-xp-retro-gaming-1996-2006.html

On featuritis in video game genres. https://filiph.net/text/market-forces-and-video-game-golden-ages.html

On neo-royalism. https://filiph.net/text/why-usa-supports-orban.html

A concept I wish I had learned in high school. https://filiph.net/text/supernormal-stimulus.html

The simple, helpful counter-argument to 'common sense' casual science denialism. https://filiph.net/text/toxic-plus-explosive-equals-salt.html

Notes for my Lektvar 2026 presentation. https://filiph.net/text/philosophical-underpinnings-of-my-giant-mecha-game.html

My love of Ultima 8: Pagan versus overwhelming evidence (that it was a bad game). https://filiph.net/text/bad-game-good-times.html

Agent workspaces go really well with git worktree.

On explaining things simply and the fake 'Albert Einstein' quote. https://filiph.net/text/your-science-is-not-strong-enough.html

In which I use a few short anecdotes to illuminate the Scylla and Charybdis that is A.I. https://filiph.net/text/ai-is-a-printed-birthday-card-train-to-paris.html

A tech deep dive into multi-threading in Flutter & Dart. https://filiph.net/text/making-my-1970s-renderer-multi-threaded.html

I miss Google's LINT.IfChange. https://filiph.net/text/ifchange-thenchange.html

Here's what to do when someone on the internet says that some technology they're not using 'is dead'. https://filiph.net/text/i-don't-think-about-your-tech-at-all.html

So you've been asked to playtest a game for a friend or a stranger.

Let's stop pretending that "without warranty" means "without expectation". https://filiph.net/text/two-types-of-open-source.html

How a technology from 1993 makes so much sense for today's "Indie Small Web". https://filiph.net/text/the-revenge-of-server-side-includes.html

I love this self-published little book from 2009 full of abstract math-inspired graphic art. https://filiph.net/text/math-minus-math-is-wild.html

Why the C programming language won over Lisp, why QWERTY is winning over Dvorak, and why our favorite hyperfixations aren't as successful as they "obviously" deserve. https://filiph.net/text/performance-versus-preference.html

What happens when you decide to benchmark Flutter as if it was a 2D game development framework. https://filiph.net/text/benchmarking-flutter-flame-unity-godot.html

It’s when “relatively small numbers of people earn enormous amounts of money and seem to dominate the fields in which they engage” (Sherwin Rosen, 1981). https://filiph.net/text/welcome-to-the-superstar-economy.html

I grew up in actual socialism, behind the Iron Curtain, and I find it a little bit worrying to see all these cool people promoting socialism these days. https://filiph.net/text/respectfully,-socialism-is-a-bad-idea.html

How come so many of the most talented engineers of our time work on making our entertainment more immersive?

How does one use social media without falling into its traps?

How this weird game is being built. https://filiph.net/text/the-engineering-principles-behind-giant-robot-game.html

How to deal with Filip. https://filiph.net/text/filip-coworker's-manual.html

Videogames like SimCity or Dwarf Fortress aren’t exactly “educational”, but they still teach you a lot. https://filiph.net/text/videogames-that-teach-you-stuff.html

How to keep an external brain using ideas from 1945 and technology from 2023. https://filiph.net/text/memex-is-already-here,-it's-just-not-evenly-distributed.html