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2026 1

  1. Announcing pkgmirror: self-host your own Zig mirror

2024 3

  1. Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
  2. Mach v0.3 released - Zig game engine & graphics toolkit
  3. Announcing Mach nominated Zig versions

2023 3

  1. Mach v0.2 released - Zig game engine & graphics toolkit
  2. Mach: providing an ecosystem of C libraries using the Zig package manager
  3. Zig tips: v0.11 std.build API / package manager changes

2022 7

  1. Debugging undefined behavior caught by Zig
  2. Perfecting WebGPU/Dawn native graphics for Zig
  3. Packed structs in Zig make bit/flag sets trivial
  4. Let's build an Entity Component System (part 2): databases
  5. Mach v0.1 - cross-platform Zig graphics in ~60 seconds
  6. Zig hashmaps explained
  7. Let's build an Entity Component System from scratch (part 1)

2021 8

  1. Perfecting GLFW for Zig, and finding lurking undefined behavior that went unnoticed for 6+ years
  2. Mach Engine: The future of graphics (with Zig)
  3. Unicode data file compression: achieving 40-70% reduction over gzip alone
  4. Unicode sorting is hard & why browsers added special emoji matching to regexp
  5. My game development journey & why I'm increasing my contribution to Zig to $200/mo
  6. Zig, Parser Combinators - and Why They're Awesome
  7. Postgres regex search over 10,000 GitHub repositories (using only a Macbook)
  8. Postgres Trigram search learnings