Saku: How I Went From Per-Line KV to 8M Writes/sec in One Week (While Learning C++)
Initial scope was simple: just make it fast. No fsync, no fancy durability. Just raw speed. I was bored. Asked AI "what should I build in C++?" It s…
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34.8k Stars Won't Put GTA VI on Your PC. Here's What AnyPS5 Is Actually Doing
Seeing GTA VI run on a PC before the official port would be a spectacular way to end the console exclusivity argument. So a project that promises to…
SLX RadioTwin: industrial radio propagation studies with C++ and Qt
Silicon LogiX introduces SLX RadioTwin , a desktop demonstrator for studying radio propagation in a three-dimensional industrial plant. The project…
UE5 Shader Optimization: Materials, Custom HLSL, and Global Shaders with RDG
When a material graph grows in Unreal Engine 5, it is tempting to ask: would writing HLSL directly make it faster? Would implementing the shader in…
GEONMI-MEMS VLEO: How We Reduced Satellite Launch Weight by 40% Using Aero-Ionic Energy Harvesting and Deterministic C++17
Operating in Very Low Earth Orbit (VLEO, at an altitude of approximately 250 km) offers superior latency and exceptional image clarity, yet it faces…
Pointers Aren't Arrows. How C and C++ Actually Talk to Hardware.
Ask any software engineer to draw a pointer on a whiteboard. Within three seconds, they will sketch two boxes and a little curved arrow pointing bet…
In 2018 I hand-wrote a C++ deep learning framework so I'd never pad a batch. In 2023 LLM serving landed on the same structure.
There's a sentence in the README of a library I wrote that I've been thinking about lately: "To summarize, we believe that Padding-free Dynamic Batc…
Store Load Reordering: x86 vs ARM64, and the Bug Intel Was Hiding
Here is a bug report that keeps recurring, in different words, every time a team moves to ARM: "the same code works on our Intel CI and on the devel…
Nimmake — The Blazing-Fast Build Tool Built for Embedded Development
🚀 Nimmake — The Blazing-Fast Build Tool Built for Embedded Development Say goodbye to complex Makefiles. Embrace a modern MCU build experience. Nimm…
Why I Rewrote My Flutter Tray App as a C++ Daemon
I built a screen-capture tool for Linux in Flutter. Tray icon, global hotkey, region select, done — that was the plan. It worked, right up until thr…
AArch64 Register Conventions: What Survives a Function Call—and Why
What happens to a register when you call a function? On AArch64, the answer isn't "the CPU saves it." When you call a function, the CPU doesn't look…
Qt 5 to Qt 6 Migration Guide for 2026
Qt 6 is a major version, and migrating a real Qt 5 application to it is more than a recompile. The framework was modularised, the build system shift…
Hardware Abstraction for Robotics: Connecting Sensors and Actuators
Hardware Abstraction for Robotics: Connecting Sensors and Actuators Introduction Robots interact with the physical world through hardware. Sensors p…
Why I Built a Windows Desktop App with C++ + WebView2 Instead of Electron
I'm building yyzTools , a Windows productivity suite with 40+ tools fused into one install. This is the architecture decision I get asked about most…
Flutter FFI: Integrating Native C/C++ Libraries
Flutter FFI: Integrating Native C/C++ Libraries Flutter applications sometimes need functionality that is already implemented in native code. Exampl…
Beyond OOP: Entity Component System schema for high performance
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) taught a generation of software engineers to model complex domains by creating class hierarchies. In games and rea…
In the Beginning...
Working with Modern AIs The day I met Claude was a dark day It was a full-stack project that I wasn't familiar with any of the tools being used. The…
Building DeviceTrust: A Practical Approach to Android Fraud Signals
When we think about cyber attacks, we usually think about someone targeting a backend system or an API gateway, but in my experience with securing m…
Design Notes for a Deterministic C++ Simulation Framework
“Same inputs, same result” sounds like a simple requirement. In a multithreaded simulation, it is an architectural constraint that touches data layo…
DFlash Changes What Tokens per Second Means
I spent a night trying to fit a dense 30B model, 256K context, vision, and speculative decoding onto one 24 GB GPU. The fastest quant lost. The quan…
The Ultimate Chronicle of Over-Engineering the A+B Problem (POJ 1000)
A+B: When the Stars of Humanity Shined Dedicated to all the pioneers of "over-engineering" on the A+B Problem. Prologue: One Problem, Ten Thousand W…
Code Sfumato
sfumato , (from Italian sfumare , “to tone down” or “to evaporate like smoke”), in painting or drawing, the fine shading that produces soft, i…
ESP32 HTTP Client Without the Headache: Consuming REST APIs with Zero Memory Allocation
Consuming REST APIs on ESP32 Without Heap Crashes: Meet ESP32-HTTP-Client If you have ever developed IoT projects on the ESP32 that interact with RE…
Let the Compiler Argue With the Demo: A Repeatable C++ Grader for Coding Models
Benchmark screenshots are abundant. The narrower question a working C++ team needs answered is harsher: can a coding assistant repair the sort of de…
Building a C++ HTTP Server from Scratch (Part 1): Setting Up TCP Sockets
Introduction In this series I will be going through how to build an HTTP Server from scratch in C++ using POSIX APIs, and actually have it serve a w…
Pepper Remastered coming soon
I've decided to create a more feature-rich version of Pepper, an experimental virtual VR device that allows you to use SteamVR without requiring a p…
I Built a Deep Learning Framework from Scratch in C++ and CUDA (And Beat PyTorch's Speed Multiple Run)
If you work in AI today, you are almost certainly using PyTorch or TensorFlow. They are incredible tools, but they are also massive black boxes. As…
Audio Development and C++
Introduction I came into programming from a background in music production and audio engineering. I'd been interested in programming for a long time…
🚀 Mastering OOP for Interviews : Understanding Abstraction from First Principles (C++)
Series: Master OOP for Software Engineering Interviews Introduction Ask ten beginner developers: "What is abstraction?" Most answers sound like this…
Composition over Inheritance
C++ has a lot of double-edged swords. These features abstract the process of turning the sharp edge on yourself, so that you can destroy yourself wi…