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Optimising Data Building In Game Development - Dominik Grabiec - ACCU 2025

#coding #cplusplus #cpp #programming

I noticed that the first of my talks from ACCU2025 has been released to YouTube. It's a short one about mistakes I've seen made with data in game development.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_5P...

So there's going to be a new version of Visual Studio coming out and if there's no way to completely disable the AI features I'm going to be forced to switch to Sublime Text + some debugger.
devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

We have just released a new ACCU 2025 Conference Video!

Challenges and Benefits of Upgrading Sea of Thieves From C++14 to C++20 - Keith Stockdale - ACCU 2025

#cplusplus #cpp #cpp20 #gamedev #programming

Coinbase’s CEO asking people to use AI by Saturday then firing people who didn’t is fascinating because I don’t remember such threats to get tech workers to use Slack, Jira, Visual Studio Code, Google Docs, smartphones or really any valuable productivity tool.

Makes you wonder…

Since Google has revealed the new Pixel phones I looked into if it's possible to disable all AI features. Found this article with the headline "I turned off all AI features on my Pixel phone — and instantly regretted it" and in reading through each regret it instead sounded like a blessing to me.

So after quite some time and travelling I've gotten back to writing some articles about things I've been working on.

This one is about a neat little technique with enum classes, which I will use in a future article.
www.dominikgrabiec.com/posts/2025/0...

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I've always likened LLMs to that one uncle/relative who has an opinion on everything and expresses it confidently as if it were fact.
So when people claim they're exploring the frontiers of science with LLMs I picture them having beers/weed on a porch at 3am talking shit incoherently.

over 20% of the global game dev force was laid of on the last 3 years and absolutely none of it was because of piracy

Looking at various job ads and seeing "modern C++" with "including templates and object oriented patterns" does not instill me with confidence that it's anything past C++14.

After visiting Normandy recently and loving the cider and perry made there, any other cider that I've tried since then feels nothing more than weak apple juice with a bit of alcohol in it.

I'm trying to use exceptions in C++ for some error handling where I think it would make sense, but decades of embedded and game development programming makes me still uneasy about doing this.

Was watching a video and they mentioned "side-loading". FFS it's not "side" loading, it's just installing. A normal and natural way of installing programs and applications since the dawn of the PC.
Using a vendor specific store is the unusual way to install things.

Save Time, Space & a Little Sanity With std::function_ref - David Ledger

Tired of function pointer chaos or std::function issues? Enter std::function_ref: a lightweight, non-allocating, compile-time friendly abstraction that boosts performance and reduces memory.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIQ...