PSY’s Gangnam Style video broke YouTube’s view-counter: We never thought a video would be watched in numbers greater than a 32-bit integer (=2,147,483,647 views), but that was before we met P...
https://www.davekellam.com/2014/12/gangnam-style-broke-youtube/
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Tom Moertel’s tale of a great old-timey game-programming hack, it reminded me of my computer science days and assembly programming. A long time ago, when I was a co...
https://www.davekellam.com/2013/12/the-story-of-an-old-timey-programming-hack/
Fabien Sanglard takes an in-depth look at the Doom 3 source code. Getting our hands on the source code of such a ground breaking engine is exciting. Upon release in 2004 Doom III set new visual a...
https://www.davekellam.com/2013/10/doom-3-source-code-review/
Mariner 1, a NASA probe, crashed into the ocean not long after takeoff. The cause was a source of confusion for a long time, but seems to have been the result of a missing hypen. One of the offic...
https://www.davekellam.com/2013/04/mariner-1-brought-down-by-hyphen/
From a post by Achal Aggarwal, Lazy People Innovate: Our job as programmers is not to churn out huge chunks of code everyday. Our job is to think innovative ways to solve a problem. Code is not t...
From Designing Programs by Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams. Writing software is something that’s not typically associated with the work of a visual designer, but there’s a growing number o...
https://www.davekellam.com/2012/03/designers-writing-custom-code/
Apple has donated the the MacPaint source code to the Computer History Museum. Bill Atkinson was responsible for the code, including QuickDraw, which formed a large portion of the MacOS. A report...
The Mandelbulb is an attempt to create a three dimensional equivalent to the famed Mandelbrot fractal. There’s information about the math behind the Mandelbulb, many images, links to videos and...
Infinite Super Mario AI one of the submissions for the Mario AI competition has been released under a WTFPL license. Make sure to check out the videos.
The source code for the Command Module and Lunar Module has been scanned and posted online for all to enjoy.