Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

• Episode: Jonathan Blow
• Website: On The Metal
• Feed URL: https://feeds.transistor.fm/on-the-metal-0294649e-ec23-4eab-975a-9eb13fd94e06
• Duration: 02:51:26
• Published: 2020-01-27 12:00

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...