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2024

Building a secure 10G Home Network - Mar 22 Network, OPNsense, Firewall, Tailscale Use your Network at its full potential!

2023

10x Performance with SIMD Vectorized Code in C#/.NET - Jul 9 C#, .NET, x86, assembler Use your CPU at its full width!
Comments in Code - Jun 23 Wait, I thought it was about quality?

2020

Stark - Native Compiler - Prototype 2019 - Mar 21 Stark, Melody, OS, Compiler, LLVM, C#, .NET Development of an AOT native compiler using RyuJIT
Stark - Language And Frontend Compiler - Prototype 2019 - Mar 6 Stark, Melody, OS, Compiler, LLVM, C#, .NET Syntax of the language and the development of the front-end compiler
The Odyssey of Stark and Melody - Mar 5 Stark, Melody, OS, Compiler, LLVM, C#, .NET Prototyping a new language and OS with the help of the .NET ecosystem and seL4 micro-kernel

2019

Behind the burst compiler - Mar 28 burst, Compiler, C#, .NET

2018

Generate automatically async/await code from sync code with Roslyn - Dec 26 C#, .NET, Roslyn
Writing a Managed JIT in C# with CoreCLR - Apr 12 C#, .NET, CoreCLR
Porting the Unity Engine to .NET CoreCLR - Apr 6 C#, .NET, CoreCLR, Unity
Productivity with ReSharper - Mar 9 Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2015, Roslyn

2017

Implementing a Text Templating Language and Engine for .NET - Nov 13 C#, .Net
Stark - Language Design Part 2 - Packages and Modules - Feb 14 Stark, C#, Rust
Stark - Tokens specification and Tokenizer implementation - Feb 6 Stark, C#
Stark - Language Design Part I - The Tokens - Jan 20 Stark, C#
The Stark Programming Language Experiment - Jan 17 Stark, Compiler, LLVM, C#, .Net

2016

Efficient discriminated unions in C#7 - Oct 28 C#, .Net
Implementing a Markdown Engine for .NET - Jun 13 C#, Markdown, Markdig, .Net
Inline IL ASM in C# with Roslyn - May 25 C#, Roslyn, .Net
Goodbye project.json - May 11 msbuild

2015

A new stackalloc operator for reference types with CoreCLR and Roslyn - Oct 8 C#, Roslyn, CoreCLR, .Net
Struct inheritance in C# with CoreCLR and Roslyn - Sep 27 C#, Roslyn, CoreCLR, .Net
Slow Visual Studio 2015 on large projects - Sep 10 Visual Studio 2015, Roslyn
Migration to Jekyll - Jun 15 jekyll

2014

Why Windows UI Matters: Part 2 - Sep 14 Windows, design, UI, Win8
Why Windows UI Matters: Part 1 - Sep 12 Windows, design, UI, Win8
Packages vNext: Power-up our .NET Builds - Aug 13 Visual Studio, msbuild, .Net
Micro-benchmarking .NET Native and RyuJit - Jun 15 C#, .Net, benchmark
Managing multiple platforms in Visual Studio - May 25 SharpDX, C#, Visual Studio, msbuild, .Net

2013

Advanced HLSL II: Shader compound parameters - Apr 19 shader, hlsl, D3D11, DirectX

2012

Going Native 2.0, The future of WinRT - Aug 8 WinRT, C#, .Net, Win8

2011

Advanced HLSL using closures and function pointers - Nov 24 D3D10, shader, hlsl, D3D11, DirectX
Direct3D11 multithreading micro-benchmark in C# with SharpDX - Nov 17 SharpDX, C#, D3D11, DirectX, .Net
Managed DirectX with Win8 Metro Style App - Oct 2 D3D10, WinRT, SharpDX, DirectX11.1, C#, D3D11, Direct2D, DirectX, .Net, Win8
Benchmarking C#/.Net Direct3D 11 APIs vs native C++ - Mar 14 SharpDX, C#, D3D11, DirectX, .Net

2010

Crinkler secrets, 4k intro executable compressor at its best - Dec 28 x86, demoscene, crinkler, compression
Official release of SharpDX 1.0 - Nov 30 D3D10, SharpDX, C#, D3D11, Direct2D, DirectX, .Net
SharpDX, a new managed .Net DirectX API available - Nov 18 D3D10, SharpDX, SlimDX, C#, D3D11, Direct2D, DirectX, .Net
Hacking Direct2D to use directly Direct3D 11 instead of Direct3D 10.1 API - Nov 2 D3D10, D3D11, Direct2D, DirectX
Implementing an unmanaged C++ interface callback in C#/.Net - Oct 25 C#, .Net
High performance memcpy gotchas in C# - Oct 23 C#, .Net
A new managed .NET/C# Direct3D 11 API generated from DirectX SDK headers - Oct 19 Tools, SharpDX, SlimDX, C#, D3D11, DirectX, .Net
Making of Ergon 4K PC Intro - Aug 25 shader, RayMarching, demoscene
Import and Export 3D Collada files with C#/.NET - Aug 24
Democoding, tools coding and coding scattering - Aug 12 Tools, demoscene
Playing a MP3 in c++ using plain Windows API - May 21
NShader 1.1, hlsl, glsl, cg syntax coloring for Visual Studio 2008 & 2010 - May 20 Tools, hlsl, Visual Studio, nshader
Work in progress, 4k intro for Breakpoint 2010 - Mar 8 softsynth, demoscene
Coding a 4k intro for Breakpoint 2010 - Feb 12 shader, softsynth, demoscene
Building .fx hlsl files with a Custom Build Rule under Visual Studio 2008 - Jan 8 Tools, shader, hlsl, Visual Studio, nshader

2009

Dynamic audio synthesis with Silverlight 3 - Dec 23
RMasm, a new generation of macro assembler - Dec 10 assembler, x86, rmasm
Random float number generator using x86 ASM code optimized in size - Oct 25 assembler, x86
AsmHighlighter Part II : Automatic x86 asm instruction size evaluation - Oct 19 assembler, Tools, x86, Visual Studio
Adding asm x86 Syntax Highlighting to Visual Studio 2008 - Oct 18 assembler, Tools, x86, Visual Studio
Coding a 4k or 64K intro needs tools! - Oct 13 Tools, demoscene
Potatro, RayMarching and DistanceFields : a story of SphereTracing - Oct 12 RayMarching, SphereTracing, demoscene
Welcome to Code4k - Oct 12