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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 29/06/2026

Here is the video from this years EuroLLVM where I moderated a panel on LLVM in games tech - it was a fun discussion, hope you'll enjoy it! youtu.be/1SM_wDUEEUg?...

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2026 EuroLLVM - Clang and LLVM in Modern Gaming Platforms

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 29/06/2026

Here is the video from this years EuroLLVM where I moderated a panel on LLVM in games tech - it was a fun discussion, hope you'll enjoy it! youtu.be/1SM_wDUEEUg?...

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2026 EuroLLVM - Clang and LLVM in Modern Gaming Platforms

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 07/06/2026

Here is my talk from Stockholm C++ meetup - a very brief overview of the LLVM architecture: youtu.be/g96voy6M6xo?...

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Tobias Hieta: A Brief Overview of the LLVM Architecture

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 07/06/2026

Here is my talk from Stockholm C++ meetup - a very brief overview of the LLVM architecture: youtu.be/g96voy6M6xo?...

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Tobias Hieta: A Brief Overview of the LLVM Architecture

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Liam Proven @lproven.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/g... Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor <- by me on @theregister.com

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Gram: Zed, but with AI and chat features removed

: Brand-new stripped-down fork of the Zed all-Rust code editor

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 24/02/2026

LLVM 22.1.0 is out! This release was handled by new Release Manager Cullen Rhodes who I have had the privilege to mentor through this process. He did a fantastic job. Go checkout the release notes: discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-22-1-...

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 12/01/2026

@skillup.bsky.social hey. Just a quick shoutout, I heard your MacroFactor ad around 3 months ago, I was already trying to lose weight at that point, but your ad had me check it out and it has been a god send. I have been on a cut for 100 days and just reached my goal, around -20kg. Thanks!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 10/01/2026

Two talks submitted for EuroLLVM 2026! Hope to get them accepted (I think they are bangers), see you there!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 05/01/2026

What a day! First day with the fine folks at @larianstudios.com - the todo list is enormous, but the people is so welcoming and positive. This is going to be great. After that full day of data inhalation I went out for dinner with @kbeyls.bsky.social and it was nice to nerd out with a fellow LLVMer!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 02/01/2026

Weight loss is very individual, but here is what helped me lose 18kg over the last 6 months. I used the app "MacroFactor" to log what I eat, I replaced my lunch with a meal shake, I focused on my protein intake, gym 3x/week and 10k steps the other days. Motivation is the key, and I had it.

Graph of my trend weight going down 17.8kg.

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Kristof Beyls @kbeyls.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The #LLVM developer room is back at #FOSDEM , on January 31st! I'm excited about the variety in topics covered, from hardware generation using mlir/llvm to C/C++ repls. Come join us either in-person in Brussels, or online through the live-feed which will be available at fosdem.org/2026/schedul...

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Kristof Beyls @kbeyls.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We just extended the deadline for the #LLVM dev room at #FOSDEM submissions until 7th of December. There's still time to make your submission at pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2026/... ! Full CFP at discourse.llvm.org/t/88746

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Schedule, talks and talk submissions for FOSDEM 2026

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 25/11/2025

Job update: I am leaving Ubisoft at the end of the year. I am very proud of the work I did on compiler optimizations on AC: Shadows and I will miss my co-workers there dearly. In the new year I will join the fine folks over at @larianstudios.com and work on compilers and builds. I am very excited!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 03/11/2025

2025 is shaping up to be one of the weirdest years I have ever had. Right now I just want to fast forward my life until 2026.

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Kristof Beyls @kbeyls.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The #LLVM developer room is back for the 12th consecutive year at #FOSDEM, on January 31st! We're looking for presentations on all aspects of #LLVM, #MLIR and more. See CFP for details discourse.llvm.org/t/cfp-fosdem.... Deadline for submissions is November 30th. I hope to see many of you at FOSDEM!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 24/10/2025

I worked quite a bit on the toolchain stuff for this, hitting a consistent 30FPS was a hugely collaborative endeavour between toolchain, rendering and other engine work. It's the first time we ship a game with CSPGO as well, which helped in dense areas. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/3oTfnzXb8OE?...

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Assassin's Creed Shadows: Nintendo Switch™ 2 Announce Trailer

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 02/10/2025

Went to the co-working office today and made a decent effort to find a fit. This shirt is pure autumn vibes.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 20/09/2025

One of the best and the worst weeks I have had in a long time... fuck this rollercoaster.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 20/09/2025

@rebeccafernandez.bsky.social if this is not RIGHT up your alley I don't know how badly I have read your taste in music :-) youtu.be/bCL4LUozdME?... Let me know if it's annoying with my music recs, but I don't have that many people that seem to have a similar taste in female fronted metal :)

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SHEORU - Ruin [Live @ The Canal Club]

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 23/08/2025

@mint-tamas.bsky.social have you heard pca.st/episode/8d97... ? I thought about you when I listened to the series :)

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The Cat Drug Black Market

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 20/08/2025

Running "git repack -adf --path-walk" in my local llvm-project shrunk the .git folder from 3GB to 1.7GB. Very helpful! Details about the new path-walk in git release blog: github.blog/open-source/... and www.jonathancreamer.com/how-we-shrun...

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Highlights from Git 2.51

The open source Git project just released Git 2.51. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 15/08/2025

@rebeccafernandez.bsky.social This might be something you'll like - maybe a bit to far on the hardcore side, but there is something about the dynamics in this track that I love: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTA6...

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LANDMVRKS - La Valse Du Temps (OFFICIAL VISUALIZER)

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 09/08/2025

Just discovered Landmvrks and this recording of Creature at Hellfest. Relentless and the singer Flo does an amazing job. Rapping, growling and belting. Top tier stuff: youtu.be/MmRoDovSZ1o?...

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LANDMVRKS - Creature (Live at Hellfest 2024)

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Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · 29/07/2025

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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Skill Up @skillup.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

After 2 months of work, the Clair Obscur Expedition 33 video is here. I interviewed most of the game's senior leadership team asking one simple question: how did you do this? Their answers were inspiring and moving, and it's no surprise that COE33 is as remarkable as it is: youtu.be/mXLOLgC2V2Q?...

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The impossible (true) stories behind the making of Clair Obscur Expedition 33

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Nicolas Lopez @nicolas-lopez.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

It’s really cool to see my talk freely available for everyone. I’m proud of the work our team accomplished, and it means a lot that it’s now accessible to a wider audience. Huge thanks to the GDC team for putting it out there! #AssassinsCreedShadows #GameDevelopment #GDC2025

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 25/04/2025

Expedition 33 is instantly jumping in very high on my personally GOTY list.

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Linda Nagata - (working on the final Inverted Frontier novel) @lindanagata.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

On sale now @ 99¢ The Mythic Island Press ebook edition of THE RED: FIRST LIGHT is now available worldwide. If you haven't yet encountered this Nebula-nominated novel, I hope you'll take a look. Near-future, military, first of a trilogy. More info at my website: mythicisland.com/the_red_firs...

Mythic Island Press book cover for the novel THE RED: FIRST LIGHT showing an armored and helmeted soldier carrying a big gun in front of a flaming city.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 20/03/2025

Assassin's Creed: Shadows launch day! My first credited game! I am so excited and nervous! Hope you all enjoy it!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 23/02/2025

After an intense week of meetings and conference in Montreal I am home and have a week of. I will relax by ... remodelling our kitchen. At least I will have a bit of time to play FF7 Rebirth as well!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 16/02/2025

Back home after a week in Montreal. It was great fun to hang out with my team IRL, had great food and beer and many interesting discussions. My talk got very good feedback as well. With all that said. It's so damn nice to be back home.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 11/02/2025

Montreal has so much good food. I am constantly blown away about the quality!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 02/02/2025

My favorite gaming podcast is @friendspersecond.bsky.social - but just seeing the title of the latest episode makes me really anxious and not sure I can manage to listen to it.

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Mike Sux 🍁 @distraction.engineer · 01/02/2025

PSA: Jonathan Blow blows. 👎

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 29/01/2025

PSA: If you are playing FF7Rebirth on PC and have texture problems and soft-locks - try upgrading the DirectStorage DLL's. It fixed almost ALL my issues with textures. It's almost like they shipped the wrong version of the DLLs. Hope SquareEnix fix it in a patch soon.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 27/01/2025

I can't stop thinking about this absolutely haunting performance by Stephanie and Brutus: youtu.be/3_Vys58zvTk?...

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Brutus - "What Have We Done" (with The Atomic Orchestra)

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 10/12/2024

Finished BG3 finally! But I almost want to jump in to a second play through right away! I feel like I missed so much!

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 03/12/2024

Very happy to have landed some really aggressive optimizations for an upcoming game today. ThinLTO with whole-program-vtables plus PGO and the basic block reordering. Ended up gaining around 10% performance on the CPU frame on PC. It's been a long road with testing and iteration.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 01/12/2024

It's so fucking demoralising at times.

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Destiny 2 @destinythegame.bungie.net · 27/11/2024

Our engineering team has written a deep dive on the results of our perk weighting issue investigation. Read all about it in our newest Dev Insight, then claim your curated weapon rolls at Banshee-44 in The Tower. 📊 bung.ie/4eLz6VR

A white silhouette of a hand cannon on a purple background.

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Tobias Hieta @hieta.se · 26/11/2024

Looks like I am going to Montreal in February! What should I not miss?

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Sy Brand @tartanllama.xyz · 23/11/2024

It's snowing in Scotland, which means the gritters are out. Indispensable logistical workers such as Gritney Spears, Gritty Gritty Bang Bang, and, my personal favourite, Skid Vicious

Tracker of gritters in Scotland and where they are. Other names of gritters include:
- You only grit ice
- Ice breaker
- My names' doddie foundation
- Thistle grit through it
- Gritly bear
- Plougher power
- BFG - Big Friendly Gritter
- Dr. Snow
- Blizzard of Oz
- For your ice only
- Mr Snow-it-all
- Ready, spready, go
- Auntie freeze

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