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Alex Dixon
Personal blog · polymonster.co.uk/blog · on HN as polymonsterprogramminggames
Alex Dixon's personal blog at polymonster.co.uk covers programming and games. Since 2020, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Not So Modern C++”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Programming blog and portfolio
Most-linked posts?
- Not So Modern C++2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-27
- Data oriented design is not about SoA and ECS2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-24
What Hacker News says?
A music discovery app for record diggers. It’s an instagram style UI but for scrolling through record releases and snippets, worked on making it responsive as possible with low latency audio playback so you can browse a lot of stuff quickly. Wrote about it on my blog: https://www.polymonster.co.uk/blog/diig And GitHub repo: https://github.com/polymonster/diig
Comment linking /blog/diig
on “Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)”Submitted Printf debugging is ok as a story · 119 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not So Modern C++ as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a new graphics engine in Rust as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Borrow checker says "No": An error that scares me every single time as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Diig: a music discovery app for record diggers as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Haiku About Debugging and the Perception of Productivity as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dear ImGui back end implementation with docking and viewports in Rust as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Not So Modern C++ as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data oriented design is not about SoA and ECS as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Porting a C++ game engine to the web with emscripten as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI coding tools are powerful but we mustn't let our own skills atrophy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: Diig: a music discovery app for record diggers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Maintaining CI Is a Pain in The as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a new graphics engine in Rust – Part 4 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Building a new graphics engine in Rust – part 2 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hot reloading C++ for rapid development with the help of fungos/cr as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A quick solution for OpenGLES lack of wireframe fill mode as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Data oriented design is not about SoA and ECS as a story · 1 points
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