The Daily Index — Monday, August 5, 2024 · TLDR Index

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PORTING MY JAVASCRIPT GAME ENGINE TO C FOR NO REASON

The creator of the Impact JavaScript game engine rebuilt it in C and called it high_impact. This new engine is designed for 2D action games and runs on Windows, Mac, Linux, and the web. high_impact utilizes a simple framework with minimal code and is highly extensible, offering support for tile-maps, entities, collision detection, and rendering through OpenGL or a software renderer. The developer ported two of his original Impact games, Biolab Disaster and Drop, to high_impact to demonstrate the engine's functionality.

phoboslab.org · 17 min

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HOW TO BUILD ANYTHING EXTREMELY QUICKLY

“Outline speedrunning” is a technique for accelerating the building process of any project. It involves recursively outlining a project into smaller and smaller components, then filling in these components as quickly as possible without focusing on perfection. Only after completing all components does one go back and refine the work, resulting in a faster and less stressful process. This approach is significantly faster than the traditional "loading bar" style of building, which involves working through the project sequentially.

learnhowtolearn.org · 5 min

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HOW TO GET PROMOTED (WITHOUT GETTING LUCKY)

Promotions to Staff Engineer focus on sustained, measurable impact aligned with company goals, often demonstrated over at least six months. Leveraging people, writing, and high-quality code multiplies your influence, differentiating higher-level ICs from others. Building a strong internal brand through quality work, collaboration, and effective communication is necessary.

developing.dev · 4 min

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HOW I USE "AI"

LLMs are already providing tangible value, contrary to the claims of many who consider them just hype. This post details how the author uses LLMs to simplify code, automate boring tasks, provide API references, search for things difficult to find, explain concepts, solve one-off tasks, and various other tasks. While LLMs might not be able to solve complex or novel problems, their ability to handle mundane tasks can significantly improve productivity and allow developers to focus on the interesting aspects of their work.

nicholas.carlini.com · 14 min

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USING YOUR KINDLE AS AN E-INK MONITOR

This developer jailbroke their Kindle Paperwhite to use as an e-ink monitor. The process involved jailbreaking the Kindle, setting up a listener server on it to receive image files, and using screen capture and image manipulation tools to send images from a computer to the Kindle.

gist.github.com · 6 min

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SHOULD YOU AVOID BARREL FILES FOR BETTER CODEBASE CONSISTENCY AND PERFORMANCE?

Avoiding barrel files can prevent issues like circular imports and improve development speed by reducing unnecessary module loading. Consistency in file organization can be enforced by lint rules like `import/no-cycle`. A single casing format for filenames is useful for team style guides. While barrel files may be necessary for libraries, they often complicate application code and should be avoided.

tkdodo.eu · 4 min

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WHAT WE GOT WRONG ABOUT HTTP IMPORTS

Deno's initial HTTP imports aimed to simplify JavaScript development by using distributed URLs instead of a centralized registry, but this approach faced issues like long URLs, cumbersome dependency management, and reliability concerns. Deno introduced Import Maps and JSR to address these problems, offering better version management and reliability while maintaining the benefits of granular, HTTP-based module loading.

deno.com · 6 min

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ENUM CLASS IMPROVEMENTS FOR C++17, C++20 AND C++23 - C++ STORIES

C++17, C++20, and C++23 have introduced improvements to enum classes, enhancing their type safety and usability through features like direct initialization from underlying types, the 'using enum' keyword, and the std::to_underlying utility.

cppstories.com · 6 min