Jonathan Blow
Update: 2020-01-275
Description
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_system
- Minecraft: 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/Chronostasis
- Counter-strike: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Strike
- SimCity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimCity
- Trinity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(video_game)
- Brian Moriarty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Moriarty
- Infocom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infocom
- Lost 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/Netscape
- Doom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(1993_video_game)
- Wolfenstein 3D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfenstein_3D
- Ultima 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.com
- Braid: 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...
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