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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Question for whoever knows malloc implemeations: whats the ideal allocation sizes, for allocations over one page? My intuition says X * Page size but maybe leave some space for a header. Can anyone confirm/refute this? How big a header should i expect?

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Today I did something for the first time I have aspired to for a long time. I wrote a goto. Deal with it 🕶️

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We are still looking for Gamedesigners who wants to come and design new games at (on site) our studio in Stockholm. Juniors and interns welcome. Must be driven an have any kind of programming experience.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

We have reached the tipping point where AI is making humans dumber faster than Humans are making AI smarter.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

When i type GO in to my browser it autocompletes to godbolt before google.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I want to try something. Next Tuesday(30th) i will try to do a Mentoring session on programming, running a studio and life. We will be on Discord but also stream it. Submit topics/questions on Discord. Join us! discord.gg/nKMC93mq

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Cars, bridges and houses are constantly battered by the elements, Software is made out of bits, that do not degrade. It stays the same. So why does software require so much more maintenance than cars, bridges and houses? youtu.be/EGLoKbBn-VI?...

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @eskilsteenberg.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

This was the first week of me running Quel Solaar as a proper Game development Studio with 2 employees. I’m funding it all out of my own pocket, and while I’m very unlikely to see any of that money ever again, Im determined to have the best of times, and make cool stuff.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I just released a paper for the Wg14, that will hopefully help people understand the Effective type system in C. www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG...

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

As the developer passes the 5 stages of grief caused by Undefined Behaviour, its customary to pay a visit to the wg14 during the bargaining stage.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Russia spends 156$ Billion on its military (6.7% of GDP). If EU spends 2.0% of its GDP on defence that's 360$ Billions, and that's not counting Ukraine, Europe's largest force. We can do this.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m still looking to hire game designers / programmers in Stockholm, for the studio I’m building. Im also interested in finding summer interns.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congratulations to Volkswagen. You are no longer ”the Nazi car”.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I'm looking to hire some creative junior C programmers in Stockholm, who have an interest in game design, to mentor and build a game studio around. If you are driven and want to build something, or know someone, let me know.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Prediction: US congress will fail to put a dent in the deficit, and tariffs and deportations will add to inflation, so the fed will hike rates again, Trump will fire the Fed Chairman and Interest rates on treasury bonds will skyrocket. (Just posting this so I can say told-you-so if it happens )

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I just got a long angry mail refuting every theory of why C is susessfull i made in “Why is C the safest language?”, but it didn’t once refute that C has been more successful than any other language in producing trusted software. 😘

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Have anyone tried using parallax mapping, to encode diffuse reflections in to lightmaps?

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

After reasenly replaying Half-life2 and Titanfall2, for all of Half-life2s brilliance, I think I like Titanfall2 better. It’s aged really well. Newer games look better but Titanfall is at a technical level that still manages to fully realize its vision.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year everyone! Here is my roundup of all the things li liked in 2024: quelsolaar.com/new_years/ne... Have a great 2025!

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Happy new year

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A guy I was buying a router from, was very impressed when I told him I have static IP address to my house. It made me contemplate the fact that almost everything impressive about me, things that I have worked very hard to achieve, are things you don't want to bring up on a date.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today i wrote a function that takes as an argument a function pointer, to a function that takes as an argument a function pointer. My work here is done.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A lot of people ask me how Implement, linked lists/vectors/strings/hash tables, and other common data structures, and I think most people assume i have really good reusable implementations of these after 20+ years. I don't. I always reimplement it every time.

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Recurring C programmer conundrum: You want to allocate memory up front, but you don't know how much memory will be needed. If anyone have good approaches to this, please share them with me! Here are mine:

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I'm trying to get my ridged body dynamics lib to work, and all material seems to suggest you should push bodies apart, when they intersect. I want a solution where bodies are never allowed to intersect in the first place. Its not easy...

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Eskil Steenberg Hald @quelsolaar.bsky.social · 06/11/2024

Wait, You are telling me the Democrats, let someone with no proven ability to connect with voters, run the primary unopposed because it was her turn? ...again?

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