Gamedev, graphics, open source. Shuffling bytes and swizzling vectors since 2004...
28 January 2026
I recently decided to port my music app ‘diig’ to Android since I had some requests from friends and other potential Android users. The app was originally designed and built for iOS using all of my own code and no external frameworks. The whole thing took around 2 weeks to port, not full days work but just a few hours here and there. 2 weeks to port an entire app, 99% feature parity with iOS.
It’s Halloween and I have just been caught out by a spooky borrow checker error that caught me by surprise. It feels as though it is the single most time consuming issue to fix and always seems to catch me unaware. The issue in particular is “cannot borrow x immutably as it is already borrowed mutably” - it manifests itself in different ways under different circumstances, but I find myself hitting it often when refactoring. It happened again recently so I did some investigating and thought I would discuss it in more detail.
12 October 2025
diig is a music discovery app and the beginnings of a music platform that I started working on a few years ago. In that time I have been using the app myself, and so have a few friends, but I haven’t really announced much about it so I thought I would get some words down about the project. The name diig comes from the term crate digger which is given to record collectors who dig though vast quantities of records to find hidden gems.
04 March 2025
An ongoing source of frustration is maintaining continuous integration in open source hobby projects. It’s really useful to have continuous builds, automated tests and package delivery, but it comes with maintenance. Time will pass and the time will come where I want to tag a build in git and let all my lovely automated CI publish a package, or maybe work on a project I haven’t touched for a while and I want to run the tests, but for what feels like more often than not, the build fails for an unexpected reason.
07 February 2025
Often a small fix
Requires thorough debugging
Its trace left unseen
06 May 2024
I stopped going on Twitter a while ago because it has the tendency to evoke rage, as it is designed to do. But every now and then I check back in - it can be useful sometimes for keeping up with graphics research, gamedev news and some people do post nice things, like sharing projects they are working on, so there is something to pull me back from time to time.