Things I thought I'd never do: Write code that disassembles the executable segment of all loaded modules at runtime, finds all inter-library calls and jumps to functions which we want to hook, and determines the type of hook to be used for these automatically.

Our Micropolygon pipeline (MPH) rendering the NVIDIA Zorah demo assets in #Anvil. Zorah is composed of nearly 500 million triangles — but that doesn’t scare us 🙂

#oopsie Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthrop...

It's happening: Live++ on Linux, very very early Alpha. All credit for this goes to @maus-games.at from @mipumi.com who's working on this.

Implemented my I/O system today. Works on all classes that expose Events & Actions, completely generic: no base class, void*, or virtual functions; uses ptr-to-member-funcs & templates. Triggers use an index-based intrusive linked list, everything can be trivially serialized!

Here are the slides for my "Live++: A Bag of Tricks" talk presented at Guerrilla Games last Friday. Enjoy! PPTX: liveplusplus.tech/downloads/Gu... PDF: liveplusplus.tech/downloads/Gu... #cpp

INTRODUCTION TO SPHERICAL HARMONICS FOR GRAPHICS PROGRAMMERS finally done. gpfault.net/posts/sph.html

Gave a talk at Guerrilla Games this morning (slides coming on Monday). Met a bunch of very welcoming, fun and smart people and the tech they built is nothing short of amazing! Had lots of fun hanging out with you folks, thanks so much @jeremy.laumon.name for inviting me!

Large-array index-based intrusive linked lists are underrated for fully dynamic gameplay. Every operation is O(1), no memory allocation anywhere, serialization of the whole tree-like data structure is a single memcpy. For performance, simply work on the large array in bulk.

Anyone focusing on AI gains in Lines Of Code is missing the point. If that was useful, we would have been hiring programmers this whole time based on typing speed. This post is the right way to think about things: cycle time, not output. andrewmurphy.io/blog/if-you-...

Thanks Mike, that's great to hear!

Goes to show that nobody cares what your product looks like, if it's an awful, unmaintainable mess - as long as you're selling shovels to people who really think they need to be digging for gold, you're good.

OPPORTUNITY - Lead Writer - Amsterdam Not affiliated. Shares welcome. www.guerrilla-games.com/join/lead-wr...

I wonder where the build overhead is coming from when compiling in the VS IDE (2026 in this case). Recompiling through Live++ is consistently faster, 6 times as fast in this case. Even compiling & linking & patching is much faster than just compiling a file through VS.

someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline y'know it kinda disincentivizes me from sharing progress when there are slop ghouls around every corner, AI or otherwise

New article! A user is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit. But we also dove into the kernel...again, this time fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it: rovarma.com/articles/a-t...

www.cladlabs.ai/blog/introdu... Very clearly shows the problem with AI being slapped onto everything these days: you don't know if it's a joke or will get acquired for a few million.

BREAKING: A Delaware judge has ruled that Krafton must *reinstate* Ted Gill, the fired CEO of Subnautica 2 maker Unknown Worlds. In the ruling, the judge accuses Krafton's CEO of using ChatGPT to come up with a strategy to get out of paying Unknown Worlds a $250 million bonus. Story coming shortly

Live++ 2.11.2 out now! liveplusplus.tech/releases.html This release includes quality-of-life improvements and a fix for a rare edge case when compiling with the MSVC toolchain. #cpp

arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/m... Have we reached peak "build what you want, as long as it has anything AI in it, somebody will buy it" hype yet? Astounding.

Hot take: If you're writing ImGui-style code in C++ without any kind of code hot-reload, you're holding your computer wrong.

New blog post: Phase 1: Build information liveplusplus.tech/blog/posts/2... #cpp

No no no, Sony shuts down Bluepoint? I'm sorry for everybody at Bluepoint, that really sucks. Guess it's that time of year again until end of March, probably lots of news like this to come :(. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We've just released a new Insider update with some much-requested features, like being able to specify env vars when running, auth support for symbol servers, and proper progress reporting for symbol downloads. And of course, many fixes & QoL improvements. Go check it out!

oh.... my god?? actual chart from learn.microsoft.com/en-us/traini... btw

AI slop paving its way through codebases like the cancer it is.

Reposting this for the European crowd. Please repost and share among friends, peers, coworkers - I'm trying to gauge if this has merit to be continued or not.

I've been working on something new since August 2025 and have decided to finally spill the beans: Introducing "Project Echo", a deterministic Record & Replay tool for PS5: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_sd... Please read the video description and let me know your brutally honest feedback!

Automatically showing latest build ID from e.g. Perforce: 1) Simple .bat file that writes a .txt, build step in Visual Studio 2) A few string views that point into the .txt 3) Render to screen 4) Profit! Sometimes it's the little things. #cpp

Currently preparing a slide deck, looking through some older stuff. Came across these two pictures from GDC 2019. I'll be blunt: the fact that Epic Games announced licensing Live++ in their "State of Unreal" and showed it at their booth still completely blows my mind.

New blog post: Phase 0: Motivation and goals liveplusplus.tech/blog/posts/2...

Had my first real use case for C++ "volatile" in a long time. Need to wait for an event to happen to unblock threads, but cannot talk to the process (=devkit) in any way, only from the outside (=PC). Event to happen is set by changing a certain memory location from the PC.

Thanks for that amazing feedback, keeps me motivated!

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

For what I'm working on, I can change every file, asset, shader, and C++ code and see the changes in <1s. Shaders take roughly 100ms, C++ code 500ms. Using my own custom tech and Live++.

To me, Mathias Gidsel really is the GOAT. Such joy watching him play. 6 assists and 7/7 against that defense. Just amazing how agile, dynamic and intelligent his play is.

Ever wrote spin-locks or had to debug them? I have, and I got tired of seeing (and writing) crappy ones, so I did a real investigation this time. Spoiler: trust your OS. siliceum.com/en/blog/post...

I guess we are doing this again: liveplusplus.tech/blog/ Expect a mix of low-level, C++, assembly.

@jbikker.bsky.social Just wanted to say thank you for your ray-tracing blog series. I needed a refresher for how everything works underneath, and your articles were super informative and well written. Thanks!

Started working on a bit of game/engine tech over the holidays, had a look at Molecule. Found some good bits, but am also on a completely different experience level now. Whipped out a completely async, jobified, hot-reloadable asset manager using I/O completion ports in 10 hours.

Can I just get everybody to read this blog post and apply it to their own programs? randomascii.wordpress.com/2016/05/12/u...

Preparing the traditional veggie broth for the Christmas soup. Happy holidays everyone, see you in 2026!

Eigengrau is on sale again, cheaper than ever! 🎁 A colorful shoot 'em up where every situation, every enemy, and every boss offers a different handcrafted experience. store.steampowered.com/app/1624320/... mausgames.itch.io/eigengrau #SteamWinterSale #indiegame #shmup #EigengrauGame

New article! What do you do when profiling your code shows the slowdown isn't in your code, but deep in the kernel? Why, you grab the kernel source and go spelunking. How a routine profiling session turned into a Linux kernel patch: rovarma.com/articles/fro...

Most likely the last update of the year. I have some great things in store for you for 2026 :).

Surprise! Live++ hot-reload running on SteamDeck Proton. This is a debug build with the SteamDeck connected over Wifi. Final performance will be <1s reloads.

MSVC linker bug reported here: developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/VS-linker-...

Oh no no no... Investigating a customer's bug report. The PDB just came in, and after a day of looking at RVAs, symbol names, .objs, relocations, I finally saw this (note the addresses). And how's your day going?

Tried my new SteamDeck today. Impressed by how easy it is to set up and run Windows executables via Proton. Of course, Live++ uses esoteric internal Win32 APIs that apparently don't work, so I can't hot-reload on the deck (yet).