Hi, I'm Oliver.
Coffee enthusiast with a love for all things tech. Tech enthusiast with a love for all things coffee. Failing my
Bachelor's in Computer Science at USW.
Why I hate: Ads
And why you're an asshole for adding them.
Languages don't have speeds
I often hear "C++ is faster than C#", or “Python / Java is slow”. This irks me, and here's why.
The American
Dear friend
On March 7th, a friend of mine from the US will be landing in the UK for the first time. I will - from this point onward - refer to him as “The American”.
"Indie" vs "AAA" is not helpful
Back in the days of old, only large studios could produce and publish games. Huge companies like Atari, Sega, Capcom. It was simply infeasible to make something that would be as successful on your own. Today that's no longer the case. Increasingly rapidly, ever since the boom of 2009, a whole new era of games has entered the scene.
Why Unicode is amazing
Lately I've found myself engrossed in the inner workings of Unicode and its associated UTF encodings. Today I'm going to talk about them, and I hope to get you as excited as I am about it, because frankly the solutions that the Unicode Consortium has come up with are genius.