Mar 25 2019 Why WebVR is intriguing to me

2 minute read.

To­day I had a call about We­b­VR and op­ti­miza­tion and re­al­ized a thing about We­b­VR and VR in gen­er­al that ap­pear to be es­pe­cial­ly ap­peal­ing to me.

I think one of the …

Feb 09 2019 Wordpress Multisite: Too Many Redirects

1 minute read.

To­day I found an in­ter­est­ing is­sue on Word­press: too many redi­rects caused by a con­fig­u­ra­tion er­ror.

While set­ting up a “net­work”, which al­lows run­ning mul­ti­ple Word­press blogs on one Word­press …

Feb 05 2019 I locked myself out of my phone

4 minute read.

Turns out the Google Pix­el has quite some stur­dy se­cu­ri­ty with An­droid 9.0.

Jan 26 2019 Optimize Battery Drain of WebGL Elements

4 minute read.

Back in the days I thought it was re­quired to reren­der 20-60 times per sec­ond on any graph­ics ap­pli­ca­tion. That may be true for most games, but many ap­pli­ca­tions do not!

Vladimír showed me dif­fer­ent­ly: the Mag …

Dec 20 2018 Build Magnum in a Linux Subsystem on Windows

~ 1 minute read.

I re­cent­ly had the plea­sure to fi­nal­ly in­stall an ubun­tu sub­sys­tem on my Win­dows 10 PC to com­pile test some C++ code on GCC.

Nov 08 2018 Vimscript: Run Command in Terminal

~ 2 minute read.

A more re­cent vim fea­ture is :term, the abil­i­ty to have a ter­mi­nal in­side vim. This su­per use­ful fea­ture now al­lows you to switch be­tween your code and asyn­chro­neous­ly run com­pile com­mands very …

Nov 05 2018 Standard and User-Defined Conversions

~ 3 minute read.

I just came across a sur­pris­ing bug in my code which I did not ex­pect to cause any prob­lem at all. The sim­pli­fied code goes like this:

void foo(const std::string& str) { printf("string!"); }

          void foo(const bool b) { printf("bool!"); }

          // ...

          foo("0 …

Oct 31 2018 Don’t Look Up

~ 2 minute read.

In “Look­ing Up” I wrote about how your be­hav­iour changes to­wards peo­ple you look up to that are more suc­cess­ful than you are. The same blog post al­so de­scribes what I do to re­duce this ef­fect in my­self …