Mac is so easy and natural to use if you plug a mouse it'll scroll the wrong way around and you can't fix it without a third party 🙃 Is this whole ecosystem a joke or a cult?

AI is so agreeable if you ask how can a language do multithreading efficiently without const qualifiers it'll tell you "it's fine you can just use mutexes and rely on runtime data race detection" 🤣

Looks like C++26 adoption is gonna be slow one for many. Sometime by 2030 if you ship on Windows or on console it would seem 😭

Thank you Norwegian Air this was a very useful email

I miss Italian weather already

You can just tell ai vibe coders don't understand the most basic things about computers when you read something like this. No the device doesn't go into the aether when you close the lid. You can configure the behaviour. And if it's remote use a persistent terminal emulator.

This week on @cppcast.bsky.social, @lefticus.bsky.social and I interview Chris Bieneman, principal engineer in the HLSL team. open.spotify.com/episode/1kr1... youtu.be/RHAGn2BOPA4

I'm in northern Italy. The rumours were true. They really do drive like shit.

Protip: set your locale to English (UK) instead of English (US) and most websites will display times in 24H format instead of letting you wonder if 12PM means noon or midnight.

This is how I feel when I find the software KVM I need but it's a GitHub project that doesn't provide windows binaries and requires QT to build

I don't care which engine you're using, booting up the game after install shouldn't greet you with "compiling shaders 12/9001". Then tell you to update your graphic driver. Then compile _again_.

Since last week I'm a consultant for @unity.com. Looking forward to help with performance and any other needs you have on your Unity games! ✨Sparkling Code AB✨remains available for your non Unity needs, although with limited bandwidth.

I'm watching The Wandering Earth (2019) because of @killjamesbond.bsky.social and let me tell you, socialist editing with Chinese characteristics just doesn't work, man. All those cuts feel rushed and I can't keep up with what's happening.

Beloved indie game makes a sequel in Unreal Engine 5 and immediately turns the recommended spec into a war machine forged by the dwarves of Moria

So glad we can use AI for teaching and have it confuse features from C++11 with feature that will be in C++26. Those are only 15 years apart!

Did Apple call their profiler "Instruments" to make sure every google search for instrumentation profiling related to their tool will yield no useful result because of name conflation? Or was it to hid the fact that their instrumentation profiling support is very mid?

I was looking at a website listing Disco Elysium build and in the cons under the top one it read "popular pick, resources may be contested". Excuse me what? Did the AI you obviously used to write this hallucinate it as a competitive MP game?

Made a close save today

A software made for windows with build from this year just told me "install paths with spaces in them aren't supported"

When you try to get a product review and all hits are very obviously copy paste / AI rewrites of the exact same text

Installing a new laptop and Windows asks me if I want to use the "presence sensor" which sparked 2 questions: "wtf is a presence sensor" and "where is my drill".

Going back to my "What Makes A Game Tick?" series with a special issue. Tonight we talk about stats, buffs and modifiers and their impact on tick performance. mropert.github.io/2026/05/05/m...

I don't know what it is about this meme that makes me laugh out loud each time I see it

The important thing to know about Sweden is that all you heard about it being a socialist paradise is foreign perception from the 1980s that hasn't been updated yet. And it's been accelerating over the past decade, like in every other country in Europe.

FAST AND FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS AND SHAW So its come to this: The copy of a copy of a copy of a palimpsest Point Break has finally hallucinated out a Fast and Furious movie with zero Brian and zero Dom. May God have mercy on us all.

Now online: @matropert.bsky.social ' talk about The Performance Mindset 🚀 From our most recent Stockholm #Cpp Meetup. Enjoy! youtu.be/o-C6puc7nOk

Today is May 1st. It's my mom's birthday. Also it's international worker's day. Join a fucking union!

Speaking of Unreal, it's a bit insane that in 2026 their TArray type doesn't offer an STL compatible API if you want to use it as a drop-in replacement for std::vector. Like, what are we doing here?

Swedish state alcohol stores have removed the country flag of origin on _some_ wines because how dare you vote with your wallet in the perfectly neutral kingdom of Sweden? Who cares if it's made in occupied territories or countries that enact war crimes or threaten allies daily?

Wrapped up a consulting job on UE5 with no prior engine experience outside hobby interest. Within hours I had significant performance improvements and found architectural design flaws. Job ads making hard requirements on specific engines show deep misunderstanding of software engineering.

Free newsletter: The economics of AI don't make sense. Monthly subscriptions to AI services are scams that represent a product that is impossible for OpenAI and Anthropic to provide long term, and AI data centers are an economic disaster at scale. www.wheresyoured.at/ais-economics-dont-make-sense/

Local opposition is now considered bourgeois by so called "leftist" newspaper in the US because they liked using ChatGPT to save on legal fees. Those people are deeply unserious.

Why is she so tiny?

I think my talk at @swedencpp.bsky.social went well. No one remembered to ask "wait what happened to the twice as fast performance branch you showed and why isn't it live?" until we reached the bar.

New CppCast: Compiler Warnings as Errors with Keith Stockdale cppcast.com/compiler_war... #cpp #cplusplus

Sea of Thieves - Keeping Games Up to Standard - Keith Stockdale - CppCast Ep 406 / C++Weekly Ep 529 youtu.be/qXweoDfdUOY

Airlines will sell you priority boarding and then not have a priority boarding lane.

I had missed this. I've read the full court transcript. Krafton's CEO wasn't just evil, he was also the biggest idiot I've seen in a while. Dunno if that makes it better or worse. Although I'd like to see more talk about how AI happily enabled this and how HR went along. fortune.com/2026/03/17/k...

I'm filling a passport form and it has a "recommended values" helper for the country field that I find hilarious. What do you mean "recommended issuing countries"?

I tried to use C++ modules again last week. Here's a summary of my findings & adventures. mropert.github.io/2026/04/13/m...

Sometimes Youtube recommends me videos and after I watched them I feel like "it's ok to have nothing to say about this, happens to me all the time"

Update: I fixed some issues, but the conclusion is modules are all or nothing. For every library in the project, it has to be consumed the same everywhere, import or include. You can try to hack your way through mix and matching, but you'll be fighting the compiler at every turn.

Yeah yeah The Boys is running into the same problem as The Onion that they can't manage to out parody the news, but their audio folks used a song of Téléphone so the first episode of S5 so they're ok in my book.

Current conclusion: it's basically impossible to tell if I'm hitting a compiler bug, a feature limitation or doing something wrong because despite the fact that it's been 6 years we still have no migration path and we standardized a thing that only works on slideware.

Ppl who use C++ Modules, do you publish libraries in "dual form", useable with or without modules enabled, or did you move to modules only? I found doing dual is a bit of a maintenance pain, but the alternative is very viral "all or nothing". cc @comicsansms.bsky.social

I asked an LLM how to do very specific thing with CMake and it hallucinated 3 solutions that each relied on variables or functions that don't exist.

Hey, my podcast interview is finally out! cppcast.com/a_compiler_i...

RE: Requiem first starts by asking to tweak a bunch of accessibility settings which is great, but weirdly only then does it start compiling shaders. Weird idea to not immediately start compiling shaders as a background task, but sadly not uncommon.

I've said it before but the fact that The Voyage starts banging at the 2 minutes mark means people back then didn't believe we couldn't optimize loading times.

What the hell are those ads popping inside Discord with the new update? Isn't it enough to pay for Nitro?