Sam H Smith

Another excellent year @BetterSoftwareC

I can confirm from the inside that it is incredible what @SanderSkjegstad pulls off as essentially a one-man production house. If you look at the results, you'd think BSC's AV was produced by an expensive team of several people, but it's actually just Sander being baller.

Reminder: a little while after Order of the Sinking Star ships, we will be giving out the game engine (full source) for free!

Last talk/demo of @BetterSoftwareC ark-vcs.com

“Our age of Lisp… is collapsing” “Wait - it’s you? You’re the C people?”

@BetterSoftwareC 2026 absolutely ROCKED @cmuratori

Ive been working on a guide for writing Dependable C that you may find useful if you want to write portable C that can be compiled and understood by the the widest possible audience. You can find it at DependableC.org

Q&A for the greatest video editor ever. Available for purchase soon.

He is speaking right now!

First thoughts on The Odyssey. There is a scene at the very beginning of the film in which, in the absence of his father, Telemachus is being trained by the blind Eumaeus, Odysseus’s loyal servant. Eumaeus warns that the reason Telemachus is constantly being bested by his sparring partner is that his defense is too quick. He must move more slowly, open his chest, invite the attack, and use his opponent’s momentum against him. In the spirit of Odysseus, deep trickery is at work in this film. Don’t let the apparent compromises fool you. The Odyssey is an absolute triumph. It is made with a profound love for the source material, filled with deep pathos: the return of the father, the elevation of the son, and the restoration of proper order despite all the sins perpetrated by the guardians of that order. It is a film about the end of one world and the beginning of another; about remembrance, return, and the perpetuation of an order after a long wandering through chaos. It’s The Odyssey.

In a few days bettersoftwareconference.com vill start and I will finally announce both of the project i have spent the last 2 years working on. I really hope people will take the time to see what i have been working on. (And the rest of the conf!)

Greco-futurism for those who love both: Doric entasis rising through the sandstone majesty of the Temple of Hephaestus at golden hour, and the dihedral angularity, the... netteté géométrique of Gigabyte AORUS Elite Pro RTX 5090. RETVRN trad movement is very interesting.

@rfleury @pdrmnvd Also Fable/Mythos can just find the memory bugs now. So with cheap audits being available there is much less reason to use rust.

@pdrmnvd This but unironically. Manual memory management is way easier than people think. I don’t think everyone should be doing it, but the right people are often taught horrible methods for doing so, so they bounce off of it.

the zig vs bun thing boils down to one simple thing in the end: that you should simply be a perfect programmer who allocates memory perfectly and makes no mistakes. which is why the best programmers in the world use C, because they can write linux kernel code without a single CVE

@yacineMTB Please provide real measurements? ANY unit other than "usable fps". Or do you not posses the intelligence to understand what Sol did that was good in order to tell us about it? If so please remove the human from the loop of this account so that I may talk to the real SWE.

after having sol rip on it all night, i can do over twice as many boxes without dropping to unusable fps

@rfleury @tetsuo_cpp I mean. It was pretty funny though...

@tetsuo_cpp DELETE

If you missed the Zig/Bun drama, here's a recap.

I'm giving two talks at the Better Software Conference in Sweden next week: 1) Software Design in the Radical Pie Equation Editor 2) Math and Container Libraries in the C4 Game Engine Architecture I believe videos will be available, and I will post slides.

Dear Software Devs. FUCKING STOP. STOP UPDATING YOUR FUCKING PRODUCTS. IVE NEVER ONCE IN MY LIFE INSTALLED AN UPDATE AND SAID "wow, this software is so much better now" NO! ITS ALWAYS WORSE THAN WHEN I INSTALLED IT! FUCKING STOOOOOOOOP FUCKING UP YOUR OWN FUCKING SOFTWARE -🍷

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About page, might have overdone it with the artworks; Will revisit later, getting the mood right first.

years is being spent in a short time frame. The memory companies like micron *should* seek the highest profit possible when selling their memory since those profits are what will fund R&D for future production of faster and better memory at greater scale.

Maybe I am misunderstanding. But I do not understand why people are upset at DRAM companies selling to enterprise instead of consumer? The way our economies work is that those who have money get to bid and price out others. ALL of the accumulated tech capital from the past 25 ...