Hi there!

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

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• read my blog via the archive, or just continue below
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• play some of my poorly explained puzzle games like Block Machine or Patterna

• 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]

• Data-soup with long noodles

  Posted on April 25, 2025

  This is a post about Unity’s ECS (as of Unity 6) and how it handles dependencies between jobs. [Read More]

• Optimization at the speed of 1.6 Kilo-Fredriksson

  Posted on April 17, 2025

  I have already introduced my latest project cpp2better in a previous post. I have made good progress and wanted to share some results. [Read More]

• GPU hang adventures

  Posted on April 8, 2025

  After the last post, you might think that I have spent most of my time lately with IL2CPP. That, however, is untrue: I have actually mostly been looking at GPU hangs. I would by no means call myself a graphics programmer: When I program for GPUs, it’s either a compute... [Read More]

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