Ben Visness

Our sixth and final presentation from the Handmade Network Expo is now up. Andrew Varlamov demoed the second iteration of his live-programming editor for games, where N tiny processes can operate on the same shared state to make iteration easy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kb2...

Expo presentation number five! Cameron DaCamara is the creator of an editor called fred, which has a very powerful customization system and preserves the document’s entire edit history, even when you undo. youtube.com/watch?v=xz5a...

Time for our fourth Expo presentation! @leddoo.bsky.social has been working on a time travel debugger for macOS, and he used it LIVE to find a nasty (self-inflicted) bug in the Lua runtime. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-UA...

Time for the third presentation from the Handmade Network Expo! Gabriel Dechichi has been working on a custom game engine called Horizon Engine, and you can use it as a library, picking and choosing the layers you want. youtu.be/NTuLfB2ex5Q

The second presentation from the Handmade Network Expo is now live! @frogtoss.bsky.social has been building a real-time metaprogramming system with a custom IDE called Grain DDL. Zero dependencies, runs everywhere, small enough to check into source control. youtu.be/qfEzUnZlMIo

The first video from the Handmade Network Expo is finally going live in just 15 minutes! Nic Barker and Anton Mikhailov have joined forces in a game studio called Ostrich Effect, and today they're ready to show their first game: an RTS with a programming twist. youtu.be/ibN3t5ahAF8

Today at 1pm CDT we will have a live recap show to celebrate the Handmade Essentials Jam from last month! It was our biggest jam ever and I’ll be interviewing several project creators + airing lots of demos. Join us at twitch.tv/HandmadeNetw...

I'm very excited to announce `raylib 6.0`! 😄 With +2000 commits and +200 contributors, this is the biggest release ever!💯 - Release details: github.com/raysan5/rayl... - Discord: discord.gg/raylib - Webpage: raylib.com **code once, play everywhere!**

We’re building a user-friendly WebAssembly language reference on MDN! Want to help make Wasm more accessible? We’re looking for technical writers and reviewers to join the project. Start here if you're interested: github.com/mdn/mdn/issu...

We are fortunate to have a Handmade event in Vancouver. The format is a mix of presentations and conversations -- if striving for great software is your thing, this is worth checking out.

Ark VCS has finally reached 1.0! 🎉 youtu.be/XSnIw4siQ6U get it from ark-vcs.com

Next week we are hosting the Handmade Essentials Jam: a one-week jam where we build essential software from scratch, by hand. If you like building simple software, or want to get better at coding without AI, then sign up and join us next week: handmade.network/jam/essentials

We at Mozilla feel that WebAssembly has been a second-class citizen on the web for long enough. You shouldn't have to go through JS to do everything. This is probably a lot of what I will be focusing on for work in 2026! hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/maki...

Inspiring words from the Handmade Network Discord today

the one time git asks for my permission first is the one time it absolutely does not matter

The X-Ray Jam is complete! I had a great time and we have 10 lovely submissions you can look through: handmade.network/jam/x-ray-2025 We're planning a recap live show in the near future, so stay tuned for that.

Behold! A list of mDNS services in my house. (This is basically just the output of `avahi-browse`, so nothing too novel yet.)

The things you learn from reading specs

The X-Ray Jam is underway (handmade.network/jam/x-ray-2025) and I am exploring mDNS. First step: testing if mDNS works on my printer. It does.

A file explorer called File Pilot just released in open beta yesterday: filepilot.tech It is so insanely fast that it makes you question how all other software is developed. The Handmade community does good work.

After working hard to get 64-bit WebAssembly released in browsers, I would now like to discourage most people from using it 😛 (My first post on the SpiderMonkey website btw, which is a fun milestone) spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/01...