Hey! You there, reading this, welcome to my blog! 🎉
I'm Antoine (also known online as vanyle), I rarely sometimes post articles
about programming, making games (and game engines), or just general thoughts.
I try to present things that are rarely talked about online, provide a fresh perspective on topics or write concise explainers.
Debugging with the Chrome Developer Tools
A guided tour of the best debugger you didn't know existed
News is qualitative, it should be quantitative
Warning, this is a small rant, but a useful one.
Bypass the borrow checker in Rust
With this one weird trick, resolve mutable borrowing errors. Rustaceans hate it!
The perfect rice recipe
After decades of trial and error, I present you the ultimate rice recipe! 🍚
The unreasonable effectiveness of Luau
Seals and Moons go well together
What's the deal with JavaScript Modules?
What do AMD, CommonJS or ESM even mean?
Let's talk about Dev Ex
Why are there so many 🎉 confettis laying on the floor?
Using web components effectively
And how I decided to build more frontend framework as there are not enough to go around recently
Monorepos for frontend, are they worth it?
Short answer, it depends, probably not
Even tinier and awesomer dockers images
The quest to not fill up disk space continues
Rewriting in rust
How to clone you way out of a problem
Docker basics
The sequel to the old man and the sea explained for programmers
Tiny Docker, Big Performance
How to build apps that are quick to deploy to enhance your productivity
Overengineering Gardening
How an engineer takes care of a plant
Emscripten
Writing cross-platform code with Nim, C and Emscripten.
Layout Algorithms
A story about shuffling rectangles around
Top 5 of the best data structures
Number 2 might surprise you!
Stop wasting my time
Why I think a lot of open-source software is in a very bad state and what we can do about it.
A critique of content feeds curated by "Popularity"
Like a lot of people, I spend a lot of time online.
Building a programming language
If you want to build your own programming language and have no idea where to start, there is this cool website / book
Making the computer do math
How I wrote a sat solver, and what I learnt along the way.
How to make compelling games?
A game design idea concept I realized
Cooking and chemistry
Like most people except this guy, I like food.
Texts
An autological word renderer
Rings
A trippy animation based on circles.
Neural networks
A basic interactive introduction to neural networks
Projectile
The curve of a projectile based on initial angle with no velocity. The maximal height range makes a cool shape.
Sudoku
A sudoku solver.
Bouncy
Click anywhere to spawn a bouncing ball!
OuterSpace
A physics simulation of planets with Newtonian physics.
Fractalo!
Julia style fractal renderer
Fractalo 2
Recursive fractal renderer
Cube
A Cube rendered with a custom minimal 3d engine.
ODE
A representation of an object moving in a position/speed
Fields
Ce jeu est une introduction interactive aux champs de vecteurs. Vous voilà prévenus !
Game Of Life
A game of life renderer with a random start.
Cute
A cool looking animation using follower curves
Droplets
A colorful water droplet animation
Hyperbolic
A failed attempt at rendering a hyperbolic tiling.
