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

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  • Learnings from creating a GUI library

    Posted on February 9, 2026

    I have spent a lot of time recently on creating a GUI library. I have simply not found a library that satisfies my specific list of (partially subjective) requirements: has a C interface, looks reasonably good by default and allows to create things that actually look good, compiles to WASM,... [Read More]

  • Putting slim locks on a diet

    Posted on January 28, 2026

    Let’s talk about reader-writer locks. Reader-writer locks are what you employ when you know that multiple readers can safely access a resource concurrently, but once there is a single writer that writer will need exclusive access to said resource. In my particular case, there is a C# program which is... [Read More]

  • Clauded optimism

    Posted on January 14, 2026

    This post is a continuation of my last post about programming with AI agents. I wanted to specifically talk about one property of Claude Code: The constant “Yes, of course!” and “That’s a brilliant idea!” [Read More]

  • An early good bye to 2025

    Posted on December 19, 2025

    There are less than 2 weeks left in 2025 and this means it is time to look back at the last year. In last year’s review I ended on this note: [Read More]

  • When better codegen doesn't help

    Posted on December 4, 2025

    I want to write a few words about what sorts of games benefit from my build postprocessor for Unity il2cpp builds, cpp2better. It’s not the case that every game unconditionally benefits from it to the same extent. cpp2better essentially takes on the role of a compiler: given some program, it... [Read More]