Spent the morning wrestling a subtle C/SDL memory leak. Brutal reminder of low-level complexity makes me profoundly grateful for Godot. Perf trade-off is real, but velocity and sanity gain from its resource management and abstraction layers are a huge win.

#gamedev #godotengine #indiedev #godot

what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

Joshua Rogers sent us a *massive* list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, but still bugs and there could be one or two actual security flaws in there. Actually truly awesome findings.

I have […]

Decided to learn modern C++ by building a game engine instead of Hello World.

Now I have: ECS architecture, OpenGL renderer, cross-platform builds, and a working space shooter demo.

Was this overkill? Yes. Would I do it again? Also yes. 🎮

www.rhelmer.org/blog/buildin...

#gamedev #cpp

My humor?
Terminal.

Funny guy

Everyone hates cookie banners—users ignore them, conversions drop, compliance is messy.

I tested cookieless approaches that eliminate banners. Promising results, but legal nuances matter.

My findings: rhelmer.org/blog/privacy-analytics-without-cookie-banners/

A privacy-first analytics enhancement for @umami — adds scroll depth, time-on-page, visibility, click tracking, and more.

- No cookies
- First-party tracking
- Just one script tag to get started

www.rhelmer.org/blog/automat...

#UmamiAnalytics #PrivacyTech #OpenSource #Analytics #WebDev

A contributor just fixed a game-breaking bug in my old Magicor fork! This game is nostalgic for me since my kids and I used to play it when they were little. I ported it to Python 3 & Pygame, and I'm updating the WASM version for better web play: www.rhelmer.org/magicor/ 🎮 🐧 #gamedev #Magicor

Quick post about re-writing my 17-year-old Breakout! clone www.rhelmer.org/blog/rewriti... #webdev #gamedev #buildinpublic

I reimplemented the same game (Reversi) in Godot, Typescript and C+SDL to compare (so you don't have to!) www.rhelmer.org/blog/game-de... #gamedev #webdev #godot

My old blog post about experimenting with React for the `about:addons` UI in Firefox (spoiler: Firefox uses Lit now) keeps getting search engine traffic for people looking for how to build browser extensions in React, so I made one that covers a bunch of frameworks: www.rhelmer.org/blog/browser...

www.rhelmer.org/blog/observa... #webdev #gamedev #godot #indiedev

Just published my first blog post in quite a while! Sharing my 2025 website hosting setup guide using Astro + Azure Blob Storage + Cloudflare Workers for fast, scalable, and cost-effective sites. www.rhelmer.org/blog/how-i-a... #webdev #perfmatters