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I am Sebastian Schöner, and you are most likely here because you enjoy programming as well.

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  • How The Mods Made Me

    Posted on May 18, 2025

    Recently I got a message from someone that ran into a performance problem with a tool I wrote 15 years ago. On shutdown, the program would completely grind the entire machine to a halt for 3 minutes. Was I able to help them? A little bit, I think: We had... [Read More]

  • Invisible loads and why I like free-standing functions

    Posted on May 8, 2025

    I have been grappling with a really silly C++ problem for a long time: I don’t like member functions, but I need to write member functions to get a decent programming UX. Member functions give me two things: scoping and discoverability. Scoping is the lesser of the two, because my... [Read More]

  • More lessons from parenting

    Posted on May 5, 2025

    Today is my daughter’s fourth birthday. I have already previously written a few words about how parenting has changed me, and I want to continue with that today. One thing that changed recently is that my perspective on birthdays has changed, in a subtle way: Growing up as a kid... [Read More]

  • Passing stuff by value and ABIs

    Posted on April 30, 2025

    I have in the past had this very romantic belief that when you pass a struct by value the compiler will lovingly select the right combination of registers to carefully craft the perfect packing of your arguments, for maximum efficiency. Unfortunately, that is not how reality works. This post is... [Read More]