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Filip is a programming buff with formal training in journalism.

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39 from 22 Dec 2021 to 4 Oct 2026
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2026 18

  1. Benchmark: Which Dart loop is the fastest?
  2. What grinds my gears: macOS 26 Tahoe
  3. Benchmark: Flutter state management approaches and thier performance
  4. Alan Kay: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages (1972)
  5. “AI will only do the drudging work,” they said
  6. Why is <progress> so choppy in Chrome?
  7. Are we there yet?
  8. If you want to make money, be useful to rich people
  9. How I built a CLI poker game that you don’t need to install to play
  10. Playing classic Windows games from 1996-2006
  11. The decline of video game golden ages
  12. Say, isn’t it weird that the US spends so much effort to help the Prime Minister of a small European country get re-elected?
  13. Supernormal stimulus
  14. Nobody owes it to us for things to be obvious
  15. The philosophical underpinnings of my giant mecha game
  16. Bad game + scarcity = good times
  17. Using git worktree for A.I.-assisted coding
  18. A techie’s guide to keeping young kids away from technology

2025 12

  1. Shove your AI features where the sun don’t shine
  2. Making a tile-based game look like it’s not
  3. Your science is not strong enough
  4. A.I. is a printed birthday card train to Paris
  5. Making my 1970’s-style renderer multi-threaded
  6. IfChange ThenChange
  7. I don’t think about «your tech» at all
  8. How to playtest a video game
  9. The two types of open source
  10. The revenge of Server Side Includes (SSI)
  11. “Math minus math” is wild
  12. Performance vs Preference

2024 5

  1. Benchmarking Flutter, Flame, Unity and Godot
  2. Welcome to the superstar economy (you’re not going to like it)
  3. Respectfully, socialism is a bad idea
  4. We need technology that is less immersive, not more
  5. (Personally) sustainable social media

2023 3

  1. The engineering principles behind GIANT ROBOT GAME
  2. Filip H. — Coworker’s Manual
  3. Videogames that teach you stuff

2021 1

  1. Memex is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed