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How do you ensure success when collaborating with AI agents? I broke down my go-to techniques at the O'Reilly AI conference last month, and the video + presentation notes are now available. Check it out here: https://www.codeofhonor.com/library/ #LLMs #Coding #AI
If everything worked correctly, my blog articles are now syndicated to Mastadon/Bluesky/X, with reverse syndication links in the comments. Thanks Molly White for your Citation Needed article explaining how to make this work.
Twenty years after Guild Wars launched, the memories are still sharp. This is the anniversary look back fans kept asking for.
A lot of people got the Battle.net origin story wrong. This sets the record straight with names, dates, and receipts.
A rare long-form game-dev conversation with Casey Muratori, Jonathan Blow, Mike Acton, Ron Gilbert, and more, all in one place.
Fans of Blizzard's early years may want to check this out: a newly released book on the making of Diablo.
For a moment it looked like the company site might have been hacked. Here's what actually caused the scare.
StarCraft pathfinding looked impossible to fix until one ugly hack changed everything. Here's the trick that shipped.
Some bugs look so impossible you start blaming the OS, the tools, or the compiler. This post digs into three of them.
Warcraft's first multiplayer match was somehow a win, a loss, and a tie. The story behind that mess is even better.
StarCraft was once mocked as 'Orcs in space' and heading for disaster. This is the story of the reboot that saved it.
Linked lists look harmless until they start detonating your game at runtime. This is the bug pattern far too many programmers miss.
The road to StarCraft was a brutal sequence of bad breaks, hard pivots, and near-disasters. This is the part most people never heard.
Warcraft almost didn't become Warcraft. Part 2 gets into the hard calls, surprises, and turning points that shaped the hit.
It worked in test, then collapsed under real players. This is how to debug a live server without flying blind.
Being a great programmer is not enough if nobody notices. Here's how to stand out before your next job search forces the issue.
Before Warcraft became a legend, it was a risky DOS-era experiment. This is how it actually began.
The Guild Wars scaling trick most developers never think to use: record everything, replay it, and break your servers on purpose.
Detecting named-pipe disconnects in C# sounds easy until nothing works. Here's the fix.