One More Novella on Open Systems vs System Integrity:

We're in the business of trying to put games on a relatively insecure platform, and the more open a prospective system is, the more access we need to validate its defenses. (1/4)

This whole article is actually just an excerpt from my thesis, 'A Comparative Analysis into the Average Cheater's Total Lack of Desire to Get Good.'

I know multiple people whose kids ended up joining them at Microsoft. It's a very different vibe from Silicon Valley companies where if you stay as long as your 4-year vesting cliff then you're an old timer.

Silicon Valley people are often shocked when I tell them I was at Microsoft for 17 years. I like to tell them that there are a ton of lifers at Microsoft and my tenure was short compared to most of my cohort.

People spending multiple decades at Microsoft is the norm.

Top tier workbench buddy.

For those that are going to miss the eclipse on Monday, I have created a simulation of what the eclipse will look like along the path of totality

Getting back into a rhythm. Feels good.

During our most recent balance pass, we discovered that Viper’s smoke uptime is shortened in-game. This is due to an update that had unintentionally shipped in 7.09 resulting in reduced smoke duration and cooldown after deactivating Viper’s smoke.

While we hadn’t meant for these…

The standard discord server April Fools of changing the server image to show unread notis is a war crime.

We're seeing a lot of cheaters re-appearing on accounts that don't belong to them, and Vanguard preemptively locks these to avoid the damage.

These aren't 'false bans,' you just need to submit a ticket for recovery.

Also please enable MFA. PLEASE.

I refactored some code in a toy project and it slowed down a lot. I was confident I didn't change any logic, but I couldn't figure it out until I used instrumented profiling...

It turns out if you call a function 100 million times, inlining makes a big difference.

With the new patch, some gun firing sounds are bugged. We're trying to fix them, sorry! Here's what we know so far so reply if you've noticed more:
Default & Oni Phantom, Ion Sheriff & Phantom, Prime Phantom & Classic, Glitchpop Phantom & Classic, Sentinels of Light Sheriff

Ready to make some mischief? here is some behind the scenes of the animation I made for #clove #clove valorant #VALORANT #ValorantArt #riotgames

constexpr functions still feel like magic

Wingman mvp

They’ve got all the time in the world.

Say hello to Clove: immortal Scottish troublemaker, aggressive Controller, and ultimate comeback kid.

Okay, so we've gotten great value out of the current system, but the context driving our original decisions has changed. It's time to invest in bringing Hats up to our current technical bar.

I really enjoyed Herb Sutter's thoughtful exploration of safety improvements in C++. I'm going to shamelessly steal the pithy “subset of a superset” framing for improving the language.

herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/saf…