In programming, the strangler fig pattern or strangler pattern is an architectural pattern that involves wrapping old code, with the intent of redirecting it to newer code or to log uses of the old code. Coined by Martin Fowler,[1] its name derives from the strangler fig plant, which tends to grow on trees and eventually kill them. It has also been called Ship of Theseus pattern, named after a philosophical paradox.[2]
Tiling Is the Missing Abstraction in Graphics Programming
A software engineer’s playbook for tiling: scheduling, threadgroups, and the small decisions that make performance predictable.
Game Programming Patterns
I’m here to help! Game Programming Patterns is a collection of patterns I found in games that make code cleaner, easier to understand, and faster.
Procedural Tokens — encoding design decisions
Most design tokens hold a value. The interesting ones hold a rule. A live walk from static refs to procedural tokens.
What I Found Interesting in Claude Code's Source
A breakdown of the most interesting engineering patterns in Claude Code's leaked source code: composable system prompts, runtime instruction injection, context compression, forking, prompt caching architecture, and more.
Tree-sitter - a new parsing system for programming tools - Strange Loop
Strange Loop is a conference for software developers covering programming langs, databases, distributed systems, security, machine learning, creativity, and more!
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Anti-patterns: things to avoid - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Speculative Programmatic Tool Calling
Speculative programmatic tool calling is a class of techniques for overlapping tool call computation with the code being generated by a harness.
Retro 80s Seamless Pattern Background Stock Vector - Illustration of retro, pattern: 57384117
Retro 80s seamless pattern background. Illustration about retro, pattern, print, fashionable, hipster, fabric, element, backdrop, geometric, arty, graphic, ornament, background - 57384117
An anatomy of interaction: co-occurrences and entanglements
The paper by Basman et al. suggests that we think about programming in terms of interaction rather than algorithms. This call needs to be interpreted in a broad sense – the idea of interaction is not just another programming abstraction, but different ...
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Semble-Coding
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Esoteric Fonts
Arbitrary code can run inside a font, what was a power given to compute the complex layout of characters, can be repurposed for esoteric and even practical purposes. This collection reflects the esoteric fonts people have created and the ways to make them.
Semble Multi-User Graph Explorer
propublica/weepeople
StateFace
Hexagone · eieio.games
Decoy Font: A TTF font that hides what you type
Shader Color
I made a typeface, it's called Flexflex 🔠 I've been working on this project on-and-off for many months. Very happy to finally release it…