Hello there, welcome to my blog! Here you'll find articles about interesting problems I've tackled in my open source projects. I'm regularly updating the content so it doesn't get outdated, so the posts can be seen more as articles than a blog. The opinions presented here are my own only.

C++ Optimizations & SIMD

• Generating Unique IDs Fast - exploring different approaches to generating 64-bit unique identifiers and evaluating their performance
• Repeat & Reflect Trick - implementing both repeat & reflect mapping in a parametrized way
• BMI and BMI2 Instructions - clever tricks and hacks that can be used with BMI and BMI2 instructions
• SSSE3 and SSE4.1 in Pure SSE2 - an implementation of some SSSE3 and SSE4.1 instructions without relying on anything other than SSE2
• Predicated AVX-512 Byte & Word Operations - exploring new ideas that can be used to implement predicated zeroing, filling, and 1s complement of 8-bit and 16-bit elements

HTML, JavaScript, and <canvas>

• Rendering 2D Game Maps in HTML Canvas - exploring how to render a 2D tile-based game terrain with textures and blend maps

Other

• Using Build-Actions to Simplify CI - using build-actions to simplify CI pipelines used by C/C++ projects