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

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  • One more tale about avoiding microbenchmarks

    Posted on February 10, 2025

    I was recently approached by a friend with a fun performance puzzle that sheds a light on why you should be very careful with microbenchmarks. This puzzle happens in the context of Unity and DOTS, but you can easily follow along without any specific knowledge of that. [Read More]

  • Different kinds of people

    Posted on February 6, 2025

    One experience that came hand-in-hand with having kids is that I now find myself having much more in common with people that I previously did not share much ground with. If you have chosen to have kids (and do not regret it) then that is usually a good indicator that... [Read More]

  • Programming without friction

    Posted on February 3, 2025

    I recently wanted to get a better overview of our household’s finances. One misconception about my new found independence might be that my previous employments left me so wealthy that I have no reason to ever work again. Unfortunately not! No, independence merely means “I have my own business and... [Read More]

  • How and why I wrote a build system

    Posted on January 29, 2025

    A perennial pet peeve of mine (and of every C++ programmer, presumably) is the apparent lack of a default build system. There are two separate problems here: First, everyone is using a different build system. Second, what build system should I use? I am interested in the latter problem, not... [Read More]

  • How to use DbgHelp to download symbol files

    Posted on January 27, 2025

    I could not find a guide online for how to use DbgHelp to download symbols for a binary on disk on Windows. It seemed like a relatively obvious question, hence I decided to record the answer in the hopes that more people use this to write debugger-shaped software. We should... [Read More]