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• How to waste time optimizing code

  Posted on September 1, 2019

  I had the pleasure of optimizing the load time of a game last week and reduced it on my test-machine by 30s (CPU time). The icing on the cake is that it was literally a one-character change and also my very last commit at that job. It being my last... [Read More]

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  • programming

• Software Engineering To Deal With Change

  Posted on July 7, 2019

  This is an opinion-piece; it comes mostly from my experience with software. If you have any ideas how to test my hypotheses rigorously, please do get in touch. As a bit of context for the following, assume a shared codebase with multiple projects running over multiple (5-10) years that each... [Read More]

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  • programming

• My Worst Piece Of Useful Code

  Posted on June 23, 2019

  I was once asked in a job interview which code that I had written I was most proud of and which code I was least proud of. It did not take me long to realize that for me there is a simple answer for both: It’s the same piece of... [Read More]

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  • computer science
  • programming

• Data Oriented Design - An Interpretation

  Posted on June 9, 2019

  Data Oriented Design (DOD) is one of those buzzwords that seems to come up frequently in discussions with my co-workers, especially since Unity has gone all-in on what they refer to as DOTS - their data oriented technology stack. This, for all I know, mostly encompasses their Burst compiler, a... [Read More]

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  • computer science
  • programming

• Job Types in the Unity Job System

  Posted on April 26, 2019

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  • programming
  • unity
  • c#

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