filiph.net/text

Benchmark: Which Dart loop is the fastest?

2026-10-04T20:00:00.000Z

Yet another microbenchmark, for science!

https://filiph.net/text/dart-for-loops-performance.html

What grinds my gears: macOS 26 Tahoe

2026-09-03T12:00:00.000Z

Just venting my frustration, nothing new under the sun here.

https://filiph.net/text/fun-times-with-macos.html

Benchmark: Flutter state management approaches and thier performance

2026-09-02T12:00:00.000Z

Does using a particular state management technique really have an impact on performance?

https://filiph.net/text/flutter-state-management-performance-2026.html

Alan Kay: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages (1972)

2026-08-25T12:00:00.000Z

A 1972 paper that predicted the iPad (or, rather, it's spiritual opposite) but is actually way more important than that.

https://filiph.net/text/alan-kay-personal-computer-for-children-of-all-ages.html

“AI will only do the drudging work,” they said

2026-08-21T12:00:00.000Z

The counter to the perennial argument that "humans have seen their work automated before".

https://filiph.net/text/2026-08-21-11am-no-we-haven't-seen-this-before.html

Why is <progress> so choppy in Chrome?

2026-07-21T09:00:00.000Z

The HTML progress element, and how it looks in various browsers in 2026.

https://filiph.net/text/choppy-progress-in-chrome.html

Are we there yet?

2026-07-17T13:00:00.000Z

Find out if your favorite feature have made it to the latest Flutter SDK

https://filiph.net/text/are-we-there-yet.html

If you want to make money, be useful to rich people

2026-07-09T13:00:00.000Z

A piece of advice that is also a (somewhat sad) statement of fact

https://filiph.net/text/to-make-money-be-useful-to-rich-people.html

How I built a CLI poker game that you don’t need to install to play

2026-06-19T16:00:00.000Z

A command-line poker game where you play against bots to train real-world skills.

https://filiph.net/text/pokerd.html

Playing classic Windows games from 1996-2006

2026-05-29T13:00:00.000Z

How to set up a Windows XP gaming box (before all the hardware capable of running XP becomes too expensive).

https://filiph.net/text/windows-xp-retro-gaming-1996-2006.html

The decline of video game golden ages

2026-05-26T13:00:00.000Z

On featuritis in video game genres.

https://filiph.net/text/market-forces-and-video-game-golden-ages.html

Say, isn’t it weird that the US spends so much effort to help the Prime Minister of a small European country get re-elected?

2026-04-04T14:00:00.000Z

On neo-royalism.

https://filiph.net/text/why-usa-supports-orban.html

Supernormal stimulus

2026-04-03T11:00:00.000Z

A concept I wish I had learned in high school.

https://filiph.net/text/supernormal-stimulus.html

Nobody owes it to us for things to be obvious

2026-03-30T14:00:00.000Z

The simple, helpful counter-argument to 'common sense' casual science denialism.

https://filiph.net/text/toxic-plus-explosive-equals-salt.html

The philosophical underpinnings of my giant mecha game

2026-03-24T11:00:00.000Z

Notes for my Lektvar 2026 presentation.

https://filiph.net/text/philosophical-underpinnings-of-my-giant-mecha-game.html

Bad game + scarcity = good times

2026-03-09T14:00:00.000Z

My love of Ultima 8: Pagan versus overwhelming evidence (that it was a bad game).

https://filiph.net/text/bad-game-good-times.html

Using git worktree for A.I.-assisted coding

2026-01-26T09:00:00.000Z

Agent workspaces go really well with git worktree. Here's my current setup.

https://filiph.net/text/ai-and-git-worktree.html

A techie’s guide to keeping young kids away from technology

2026-01-13T00:00:00.000

Raising tech-savvy kids by limiting their early childhood access to technology.

https://filiph.net/text/tech-versus-kids.html

Shove your AI features where the sun don’t shine

2025-12-19T00:00:00.000

A diatribe.

https://filiph.net/text/shove-your-ai-features-where-the-sun-don't-shine.html

Making a tile-based game look like it’s not

2025-12-15T00:00:00.000

Hide tiles from the player using these three weird gamedev tricks.

https://filiph.net/text/making-a-tile-based-game-look-like-it's-not.html

Your science is not strong enough

2025-12-12T09:00:00.000Z

On explaining things simply and the fake 'Albert Einstein' quote.

https://filiph.net/text/your-science-is-not-strong-enough.html

A.I. is a printed birthday card train to Paris

2025-11-24T09:00:00.000Z

In which I use a few short anecdotes to illuminate the Scylla and Charybdis that is A.I.

https://filiph.net/text/ai-is-a-printed-birthday-card-train-to-paris.html

Making my 1970’s-style renderer multi-threaded

2025-11-21T09:00:00.000Z

A tech deep dive into multi-threading in Flutter & Dart.

https://filiph.net/text/making-my-1970s-renderer-multi-threaded.html

IfChange ThenChange

2025-11-14T09:00:00.000Z

I miss Google's LINT.IfChange.

https://filiph.net/text/ifchange-thenchange.html

I don’t think about «your tech» at all

2025-11-06T09:00:00.000Z

Here's what to do when someone on the internet says that some technology they're not using 'is dead'.

https://filiph.net/text/i-don't-think-about-your-tech-at-all.html

How to playtest a video game

2025-10-18T09:00:00.000Z

So you've been asked to playtest a game for a friend or a stranger. Here's how to be the most helpful.

https://filiph.net/text/how-to-playtest-a-video-game.html

The two types of open source

2025-05-27T09:00:00.000Z

Let's stop pretending that "without warranty" means "without expectation".

https://filiph.net/text/two-types-of-open-source.html

The revenge of Server Side Includes (SSI)

2025-05-06T09:00:00.000Z

How a technology from 1993 makes so much sense for today's "Indie Small Web".

https://filiph.net/text/the-revenge-of-server-side-includes.html

“Math minus math” is wild

2025-02-13T09:00:00.000Z

I love this self-published little book from 2009 full of abstract math-inspired graphic art.

https://filiph.net/text/math-minus-math-is-wild.html

Performance vs Preference

2025-01-28T19:00:00.000Z

Why the C programming language won over Lisp, why QWERTY is winning over Dvorak, and why our favorite hyperfixations aren't as successful as they "obviously" deserve.

https://filiph.net/text/performance-versus-preference.html

Benchmarking Flutter, Flame, Unity and Godot

2024-09-26T23:00:00.000Z

What happens when you decide to benchmark Flutter as if it was a 2D game development framework.

https://filiph.net/text/benchmarking-flutter-flame-unity-godot.html

Welcome to the superstar economy (you’re not going to like it)

2024-07-08T23:00:00.000Z

It’s when “relatively small numbers of people earn enormous amounts of money and seem to dominate the fields in which they engage” (Sherwin Rosen, 1981).

https://filiph.net/text/welcome-to-the-superstar-economy.html

Respectfully, socialism is a bad idea

2024-06-21T12:00:00.000Z

I grew up in actual socialism, behind the Iron Curtain, and I find it a little bit worrying to see all these cool people promoting socialism these days.

https://filiph.net/text/respectfully,-socialism-is-a-bad-idea.html