Jonathan Blow

You can find Jonathan on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow.

Some of the highlights of the show include:

The Witness • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_video_game)Prince of Persia • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_Persia_(1989_video_game)Prince of Persia • source code: https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II • Sprite: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(computer_graphics) • Atari 800: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_8-bit_family • Atari CTIA (chip performing, among many other things, collision detection for the Atari 800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CTIA_and_GTIA • Commodore 64: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 • VIC-II (CTIA-equivalent chip found in the C64): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_VIC-II • Skeletal animation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation • GPGPU: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General-purpose_computing_on_graphics_processing_units • GeForce 2080 Ti: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_20_series • Cell microprocessor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(microprocessor) • Dennard scaling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling • Amdahl's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law • Embarrassingly parallel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarrassingly_parallel • Client-side prediction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side_prediction • Particle system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle_systemMinecraft • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft Red Dead Redemption 2 • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dead_Redemption_2 • Rewinding time to address lag: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lag#Rewind_time • Chronostasis (the illusion of time standing still after eye movement): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChronostasisCounter-strike • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike SimCity • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCityTrinity • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game) • Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty • Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfocomLost Treasures of Infocom • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lost_Treasures_of_Infocom • Netrek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netrek • Apollo Computer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Computer • Silicon Graphics (SGI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics • Time Warner's "Full Service Network" (SGI Orlando project): https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/12/business/time-warner-s-time-machine-for-future-video.html • Netscape Communications: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetscapeDoom • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)Wolfenstein 3D • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3DUltima • series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultima_(series) • SGI engineers transferred to Nvidia, ca. 1999: https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/Quake • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quake_(video_game)Quake • source code: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake • John Carmack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack • Michael Abrash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Abrash • Total Entertainment Network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Entertainment_Network • boo.com: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.comBraid • : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braid_(video_game) • SIMD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD • Pentium U-pipe and V-pipe: https://en.wikichip.org/w/index.php?title=File:24281603.pdf&page=8 • Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design • Jonathan's rant on Rust: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t1K66dMhWk • Catherine West's closing keynote at RustConf 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKLntZcp27M • JAI language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Blow#JAI_language • "Worse is better" and the "MIT approach": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better • Smart pointer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_pointer • D language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(programming_language) • Entity-component-system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system • Jonathan's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://ww...