Handmade Seattle

Low-Level

Software

We are Seattle’s top conference for systems programmers. We bring you the world experts on game engines, kernels, drivers, compilers, and more!

We offer an online track if you can’t make it, making us truly hybrid.

Operating independently – support us and keep us indie!

Breakdown

⏳ Talks are 1 hour. Demos 15 minutes
👇 Choose a date to see speakers for that day

Intro

Abner Coimbre

Opening Notes
Talk

Rasmus Andersson

Founding Member at Spotify
Talk

Anne “TheHappieCat”

The Power of Low-Level Emotional Programming
Demo

Ludomotion

Advancing Gameplay Technology
Demo

SerenityOS

A Love Letter to ’90s User Interfaces
Demo

Nushell

A New Type of Shell
Podcast

Zig, Odin and Rust

The Race to Replace C and C++ (2.0) See Episode 1
Talk

Andreas Fredriksson

Context is Everything
Talk

Elizabeth Baumel

Profiling: Principles and Practices for Performant Processing
Demo

The ZLD Linker

Zig’s LLD Drop-In Replacement
Demo

EndBASIC

BASIC interpreter + DOS environment, reimagined.
Demo

Handmade Network

The Future of Low-Level Programming
Talk

Randy Gaul

Cute Framework - Rethinking 2D

Intro

Abner Coimbre

Opening Notes
Demo

Oasis in Curses

An Indie RPG for Windows (3D), Built from Scratch
Demo

BoksOS

A New OS, Built with Zig
Talk

Andrew Kelley

A Practical Guide to Applying Data-Oriented Design
Talk

Dion Systems

The Yin and Yang of Data Formats
Demo

Our Machinery

The Game Engine We Ourselves Would Want to Use
Demo

Essence

The Essence Operating System
Demo

WhiteBox

Watch How Code Behaves As You Write It
Talk

Walter Bright

Writing and Embedding a C Compiler Into The D Compiler
Talk

Dan Wilhelm

The Future of the Web is Low-Level
Demo

Visa Viz

Twitter Thread Graph Explorer
Demo

medc

A C Editor for Phones
Demo

Cove Kid

An Indie Puzzler for macOS (2D), Built from Scratch
Talk

Richard Feldman

High-level, Low-overhead Programming

Abner Coimbre

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Philosophy

Limited Admission

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$100

Physical

General Admission

Private Chat Server

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$30

Online

General Admission
Private Chat Server
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Reviews

What People have Said

I endorse the Handmade ethos! https://t.co/EYV06UyZJy
— John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) October 31, 2020

Running a small conference with accessible ticket prices free of corporate branding is a daunting, grueling, unprofitable job. Hats off to @AbnerCoimbre who did it anyway and gave people from literally all over the globe a great @handmade_seattl 2019!
— Casey Muratori (@cmuratori) November 17, 2019

Slides from my multi-GPU talk @handmade_seattl, Good Times with a Pile of GPUs: https://t.co/ng6eIEKph5
— Ëḹíẑâḇểʈħ 🏂 (òᴥóし) ACAB BLM (@Icetigris) November 18, 2019

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