Mārtiņš Možeiko • 2022 • Conference Guide • Handmade Seattle

0:00Abner Coimbre: Hello, internet

0:36Testimonials for Mārtiņš

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0:36Testimonials for Mārtiņš

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0:36Testimonials for Mārtiņš

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1:07AC: Return to audibly evangelise Chocolate Wine

1:43AC: Promote the Conference

2:59AC: Welcome Mārtiņš Možeiko

3:17Mārtiņš Možeiko: Testing

3:29AC: Thank you for joining the show

3:33MM: Happy to join you

3:37AC: What are you drinking?

3:39MM: Water

3:41AC: No sweet Chocolate Wine?

3:45MM: Not today

3:48AC: Yes, chat, he has a voice

3:56MM: You can find me, see me and hear me already¹

4:14AC: Should I be evangelising Vulkan?²

4:58MM: Vulkan is as high-level as other graphics APIs

5:57AC: Updating uniforms in Vulkan, addressing memory feels low-level

6:23MM: Vulkan's unnecessary control over memory, in most cases

7:33AC: What graphics API would you recommend for a cross-platform game?

7:55MM: Recommend Direct3D 11 on Windows and OpenGL on Linux

8:22MM: Making the choice of graphics API not matter, by abstracting API calls

9:06AC: Moving from Vulkan to Sokol for Terminal Click

10:03MM: Use whatever is easiest to start

10:30AC: How did you start helping people, and why do you do it?

12:21MM: The fun of helping people

13:15AC: So it's something you just enjoy?

13:24MM: Participating on various forums, including Stack Overflow³

13:44AC: You were trying to find an answer to a question that you yourself answered on Stack Overflow?

14:01MM: Finding ones own answers and being surprised

14:10AC: How do you find the time?

14:32MM: Whiling away the time while Unreal Engine compiles

14:42MM: Talking about programming during breaks

14:56AC: So it's whenever you have a minute?

14:59MM: Staving off boredom by answering programming questions

15:13AC: Idling and wasting a lot of time on Reddit, YouTube, etc.

15:22MM: Replacing Reddit and YouTube usage with programming help

15:26AC: That's a very smart way to replace it

15:29MM: Learning by helping

16:01AC: Quote from Mārtiņš on pretending to be a CPU⁴

16:54MM: This is how you approach figuring out stuff

17:07AC: What does it mean to pretend to be a CPU?

17:10MM: Mentally simulating the program behaviour

18:02MM: Looking at and really understanding what the instructions are doing

18:39AC: How did you learn x86?

18:48MM: Gradually learning x86 through curiosity

19:53fabianccl His 3D model died

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19:53fabianccl His 3D model died

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19:53fabianccl His 3D model died

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20:16MM: Gradually learning x86 through curiosity (cont.)

20:45AC: It's just a long process of curiosity and figuring things out?

21:04MM: Curiosity through playing games

21:56AC: Reinforce the replacement of idle time with time spent learning and answering questions for people

22:25MM: Pre-internet lack of interest in non-technical content

23:04AC: Do you prefer to fix existing code, rather than reinvent the wheel?

24:28MM: Writing from scratch as a means of understanding, but appreciating the sheer complexity and general use of software

27:06AC: Do you go through the trouble of contributing to existing projects?

27:52MM: Adding multisampling to glfw, and submitting improvements to Clang

29:02MM: Figuring out a build system once

29:43AC: Why use old software?

30:41MM: Caring about the functionality of software, not its age, e.g. Far Manager⁵

33:34AC: What editor do you use to write C++?

33:49MM: Programming 50/50 between Visual Studio and Far Manager

34:19AC: Would you switch to my aesthetically pleasing terminal?

34:38MM: Needing a 2D grid of text and efficient editing, not graphical nonsense

35:25MM: The sheer functionality of Far Manager

36:41AC: And muscle memory plays a part in efficiency?

36:50MM: Building up 20 years of muscle memory

37:01AC: So aesthetic features are not core to your workflow?

37:31MM: Adding value in the Far Manager codebase

37:57AC: What's your take on project ownership?

38:19MM: Contributing to and part-owning existing software

39:45AC: Heartbreak at the desire for total ownership being a phase

40:09MM: Learning aside, utility is best built into existing software

41:49AC: What's your programming and professional history?

42:27MM: Starting programming in the 90s on a BASIC interpreter

44:27MM: First job working on Lotus Notes⁶ then landing a C++ role in 2005 without knowing the language

45:26MM: 2005: Cryptography-related tooling working on APIs and build systems in C++

46:27MM: 2012: Bigger enterprise companies

48:18MM: 2020: RAD Game Tools

48:45AC: Increasing technicality yields increasing ownership

48:59MM: Being a professional figurer out of problems

49:33AC: 5-minute break

50:12AC: Q&A

50:35nickito97 Q: Do you think helping people with their questions / problems helps you diversify your own knowledge base?

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50:35nickito97 Q: Do you think helping people with their questions / problems helps you diversify your own knowledge base?

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50:35nickito97 Q: Do you think helping people with their questions / problems helps you diversify your own knowledge base?

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50:50MM: Learning by helping

51:31poye_polomi Q: Do you still remember how to code in Basic? You seem to remember so many things, so trying to go as far back as possible to test

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51:31poye_polomi Q: Do you still remember how to code in Basic? You seem to remember so many things, so trying to go as far back as possible to test

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51:31poye_polomi Q: Do you still remember how to code in Basic? You seem to remember so many things, so trying to go as far back as possible to test

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51:35MM: Needing 5 minutes memory refreshing time

52:19poye_polomi Q: Have you watched all Handmade Hero? You're mentioned there during Q&A in the early episodes (~50) already. Do you keep watching it today?

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52:19poye_polomi Q: Have you watched all Handmade Hero? You're mentioned there during Q&A in the early episodes (~50) already. Do you keep watching it today?

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52:19poye_polomi Q: Have you watched all Handmade Hero? You're mentioned there during Q&A in the early episodes (~50) already. Do you keep watching it today?

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52:27MM: I am up-to-date on Handmade Hero, watching on 2x speed

52:50bvisness Q: Many people come to Handmade Network, and therefore you, to answer their toughest programming questions. But you obviously didn't have this resource. What sources have you pulled from to solve your toughest programming problems?

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52:50bvisness Q: Many people come to Handmade Network, and therefore you, to answer their toughest programming questions. But you obviously didn't have this resource. What sources have you pulled from to solve your toughest programming problems?

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52:50bvisness Q: Many people come to Handmade Network, and therefore you, to answer their toughest programming questions. But you obviously didn't have this resource. What sources have you pulled from to solve your toughest programming problems?

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53:13MM: Learning from books, e.g. Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs"⁷ in Russian translation

55:44zeanith64 Q: Can incremental improvement for existing technology ever solve the Ten-Million [sic] Line Problem⁸ illustrated by Casey?

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55:44zeanith64 Q: Can incremental improvement for existing technology ever solve the Ten-Million [sic] Line Problem⁸ illustrated by Casey?

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55:44zeanith64 Q: Can incremental improvement for existing technology ever solve the Ten-Million [sic] Line Problem⁸ illustrated by Casey?

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56:03MM: Incrementally approximating a solution to the Thirty-Million Line Problem⁹

57:04nickito97 Q: Do you have a blog or something similar? Have you ever considered starting a series like Handmade Hero, or making educational blog posts or videos?

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57:04nickito97 Q: Do you have a blog or something similar? Have you ever considered starting a series like Handmade Hero, or making educational blog posts or videos?

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57:04nickito97 Q: Do you have a blog or something similar? Have you ever considered starting a series like Handmade Hero, or making educational blog posts or videos?

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57:26MM: Being shy about writing in English

59:00boagz5757 Q: What particular areas do you work on mostly? Like compression, rendering, AI, etc. Do you specialize in any areas?

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59:00boagz5757 Q: What particular areas do you work on mostly? Like compression, rendering, AI, etc. Do you specialize in any areas?

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59:00boagz5757 Q: What particular areas do you work on mostly? Like compression, rendering, AI, etc. Do you specialize in any areas?

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59:15MM: Being a systems-level programmer

1:00:22gotacode Q: Do you think there is a point at which it's not worth trying to fix a big existing project incrementally because it has bad structure and would require a big rewrite?

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1:00:22gotacode Q: Do you think there is a point at which it's not worth trying to fix a big existing project incrementally because it has bad structure and would require a big rewrite?

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1:00:22gotacode Q: Do you think there is a point at which it's not worth trying to fix a big existing project incrementally because it has bad structure and would require a big rewrite?

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1:00:40MM: Addressing the question of why a codebase got to the point of not being worth trying to fix

1:02:19captainkraft Q: Is there any software that you use now that you wish someone would make a better alternative for?

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1:02:19captainkraft Q: Is there any software that you use now that you wish someone would make a better alternative for?

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1:02:19captainkraft Q: Is there any software that you use now that you wish someone would make a better alternative for?

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1:02:39MM: Software ideas in the Handmade Network GitHub wishlist¹⁰^,11^,12

1:03:04MM: Dream for privacy-respecting alternatives to web-based applications

1:04:18AC: Ownership over personal data

1:05:12MM: Desiring the option to self-host software

1:05:37AC: Is the ability to export your data enough, while a company retains ownership of it?

1:05:51MM: Wanting (at least the option) to control the server

1:06:12AC: Ideally a self-hosted server to which a website may connect?

1:06:25MM: Standard Notes exemplifies this idea of flexible self-hosting¹³

1:07:27gotacode Q: What do you think about new programming languages like JAI? Do you think at some point C++ should be replaced by a new thing or will incremental changes to it be enough?

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1:07:27gotacode Q: What do you think about new programming languages like JAI? Do you think at some point C++ should be replaced by a new thing or will incremental changes to it be enough?

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1:07:27gotacode Q: What do you think about new programming languages like JAI? Do you think at some point C++ should be replaced by a new thing or will incremental changes to it be enough?

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1:07:40MM: Not caring about new languages

1:09:28nickito97 Q: To make us feel better about ourselves, could you share a programming area or skill that you think you could improve at, or you wish you were better at?

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1:09:28nickito97 Q: To make us feel better about ourselves, could you share a programming area or skill that you think you could improve at, or you wish you were better at?

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1:09:28nickito97 Q: To make us feel better about ourselves, could you share a programming area or skill that you think you could improve at, or you wish you were better at?

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1:09:45MM: Wanting to get better at deciding what to make

1:10:52AC: Have you shipped any (personal) software?

1:10:59MM: Plug wcap¹⁴

1:11:41bvisness I recall that wcap¹⁵ came out of some HMN questions about how to capture video

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1:11:41bvisness I recall that wcap¹⁵ came out of some HMN questions about how to capture video

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1:11:41bvisness I recall that wcap¹⁵ came out of some HMN questions about how to capture video

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1:11:48AC: What else?

1:11:54MM: Plug CxxProfiler¹⁶

1:13:02AC: We talked about Far Manager's codebase showing its age

1:13:11MM: CxxProfiler's profiling scheme is the problem, not the codebase's age

1:13:50the_sea_peoples Twitch Notify!¹⁷

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1:13:50the_sea_peoples Twitch Notify!¹⁷

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1:13:50the_sea_peoples Twitch Notify!¹⁷

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1:13:53MM: Plug Twitch Notify¹⁸

1:14:32AC: There is something nice about writing a quick thing

1:14:38MM: Evolving Twitch Notify¹⁹ to use WebSockets

1:15:46AC: Thank you

1:17:09MM: You're welcome

1:17:23AC: Closing thoughts

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