We’re honored to announce legendary programmer, researcher, writer and speaker — and creator of the game Love — Eskil Steenberg will be giving not just one, but two talks at BSC 2025! He will be taking the place of Phil, who sadly cannot deliver his talk due to

So proud to be able to show the game we've been working on for years!

Every depiction of the future in sci-fi games today comes with performance issues, bad visuals, and underdelivering promises, so much so that I’ve started to associate the future itself with that inevitable disappointment. Oddly enough, that has been quite therapeutic.

Bring back having standards.

Imagine

I find it surprising when decisions about things like the number of runs with different random seeds wind up with “round numbers” like 10 or 50 instead of system friendly powers of two like 8 or 32. You know something about the background of a programmer by their constants!

highly recommend making a fully procedural character controller, there's no way you'll spend too much time working on it.

This was the first week of me running Quel Solaar as a proper Game development Studio with 2 employees. I’m funding it all out of my own pocket, and while I’m very unlikely to see any of that money ever again, Im determined to have the best of times, and make cool stuff.

Guys, you won't believe who's speaking at the conference

Tune in 12th -14th on twitch, Better Software Conference bettersoftwareconference.com

What a day! I spent more than 9 hours non-stop listening and talking to super-interesting people about all kinds of topics. And Better Software Conference hasn’t even really started yet! 🤯

Tomorrow I'll give a talk at the Better Software Conference on parallelization. I'm squeezed in between these giants. No pressure :-O Come tune in if you want to watch! bettersoftwareconference.com

If you zoom in BSC 2025 has Odin code in background. Naturally there is no way this happens without the legendary gingerBill ! He’s giving his talk in 10minutes!

Andrew is casually dropping „Andrew‘s Hacker‘s Delight“ plus the equivalent of a full data structure paper without even blinking 🤯

We just wrapped up Better Software Conference. The gratitude I feel is indescribable. The talks were all incredible, the people were wonderful, the food was amazing, and everyone keeps telling one another how happy we are to have met and become friends, and that we're still processing

Existing search tools on Windows suck. Even with an SSD, it’s painfully slow. So I built a prototype of Nowgrep. It bypasses most of the slow Windows nonsense, and just parses the raw NTFS. On an SSD, this ends up faster than ripgrep, even on a cached run (Nowgrep bypasses

Windows users: Try resizing a Chrome window quickly. Or Steam. Any major app. They get this wrong. I'm not the first person to solve this problem, but I might be the first to publish a minimal, well-documented example of how it's done. GitHub link (and .exe) in replies.