A journey into a wild pointer

Update (28th of September 2026) Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl.

I resigned from Anthropic today.

I resigned.

GitHub was a source of joy for me since day one: a platform to connect with other nerds, discover new cool projects, read code and learn, which made me better… This was great.

The lofi girl was right Sometimes, fighting for a change isn’t worth it.

Any relation between this tale and modern software engineering is entirely up to your own interpretation.

I am working on a project that combines Swift, Raylib, and Raygui.

In my previous article I discussed about the necessary evil to change the coding tests to filter engineers.

Programming tests used to be our primary filter to separate profiles.

Very recently, I was hunting for a new TV show and clicked on Apple TV, drawn in by the buzz surrounding Margo Has Money Troubles.

Silicon Valley executives used to complain about “the Great Resignation” to justify replacing people with machines.

A few days ago I wrote and published a blog post about how Swift interacts with C projects, using Raylib.

Since Ladybird team abandoned their Swift adoption for the browser I heard a lot of criticism about the Swift ecosystem and the interaction between Swift and C/C++ projects.

Last week, the developer community was busy discussing about a single tweet: I'm not joking and this isn't funny.

We are living through a strange era in tech.

With no surprise the end of one year marks the start of the next.

If you read my previous post about gaming on mac, you know I have a soft spot for running Windows games on Apple Silicon.

Disclaimer Article fully writtened by the author, but grammar correction by Gemini.

If you frequent Hacker News regurlarly, you have likely noticed the buzz around engineers using AI (specifically Large Language Models, or LLMs) to tackle Computer Science problems.

A few months ago, a video of a private tech conference leaked online.

UPDATE 2TH OF JUNE 2024 Removed typos (thanks Geoffrey!

Last Saturday, after logging on Twitter X, I came across two tweets from two great programmers I follow. *** Deeply Negative Tweet Alert!!!!!!

I wanted to write about modern graphics APIs at first, how exclusive they are depending of the platform you are developing on (and for), and how difficult to use they are.

If you know me since a while you know my love for the macintosh and the Apple Silicon chips.

In my last year’s blog post I wrote 2022 was a strange year for everyone I think.

The demoscene # The tunnel effect is a pretty old-school effect in graphics programming, coming directly from the demoscene.

Almost one year ago I posted my advances on “Frame”, a custom game engine wrote in Swift with SwiftUI, and Metal as a backend.

Last week I heard about a weird behaviour of a C++ program on Twitter.

2022 was a strange year for everyone I think.

Whoever worked on system programming know that data alignment is very important to save memory space, or avoid runtime crashes casting from a specific type to another.

Today I wanted to share my advancements on Frame, a game engine I began almost two years ago, for Apple devices only.

[10th of August 2022 - Article Update] A friend of mine told me he would not used the word “instructions” talking about the size of a binary program, as there are not only instructions but the ELF structure, the imports, etc.

Among all the computer subcultures that exist, the demoscene subculture is, without a doubt, the one that impresses me the most.

Apple Silicon chips on the mac changed everything… except the gaming industry (yet).

Since a long time now I was interested in learning computer graphics and “do stuff” with computer graphics APIs.

I just discovered a very good dotfiles that contains a lot of hidden features in macOS, or to manage you system through the console.

I am a long time Rust user/fan - since 2014 - and I still have some troubles to follow the community in terms of RFCs, or accepted features to be included in an upcoming version of the language.

People tend to believe that free and open source softwares (FOSS) are way more trustable than proprietary softwares… and I want to believe this idea.

This is truly the end of some good indie games… and a security threat.

Last week, a very good blog post has been published about how Linux by default is “not a secure operating system”… (kernel actually).

The last 30th of November, DeepMind published on their website an article about AlphaFold 2, an Artificial Intelligence that solves with 92.4 GDT, on simple protein structure, a 50 years old grand challenge: the protein folding problem.

EDIT (15th of November 2020) I made a mistake in explaining that OCSP send in its request the hash binary, which is not correct, and I am sorry for that.

if “macintoshgarden” doesn’t give you a smile on your face, I’m pretty sure you don’t know this site… macintoshgarden is an abandonware archive dedicated to supporting the Macintosh computer platform, from the Symantec THINK C 5.0 compiler, to Quake II and

In 2019, I read an average of three books a month, including comic books.

As Microsoft last year, the Chromium project team, responsible for the Chromium browser (which is the base of many open source and proprietary projects like Chrome, Brave, or Visual Studio Code), released a blog post last week about memory bugs in Chromiu…

There is a myth in IT.

Last week, Ibrahim Dursun published an article about zero-cost abstractions in Rust.

This is for sure the most intimate blog post I ever made on this website, and this blog post was absolutely necessary.

Thanks to https://github.com/egonelbre/gophers for this sketch Go is known for it’s strong type system, and explicit type conversion.

If you work a lot with APIs in Go, it may happen you have to work with complex JSON responses… Ok, let’s talk about that using a simple example.