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Matt Bierner
Personal blog · blog.mattbierner.comprogramminggames
Matt Bierner writes UWTB, a personal blog at blog.mattbierner.com about programming and games. Since 2014, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 50 times, most often “A simple x86 assembler C++ template metaprogram”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-05-22, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Matt Bierner's blog for experimental and technical posts, such as a JavaScript hash array mapped trie implementation, the PicPlane visual perception app, and C++ template tricks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sending things to Earth... Bits... Html... Rainbows...
Most-linked posts?
- A simple x86 assembler C++ template metaprogram3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-21
- Super C++ Template Tetris3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-07-07
- Stupid C++ Template Tricks: Snake2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-01-19
- Using VR Goggles to View the Real World Through a Selfie Stick2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-11-07
What Hacker News says?
See also Matt Bierner's HAMT impl in JavaScript: https://blog.mattbierner.com/hash-array-mapped-tries-in-java...
Comment linking /hash-array-mapped-tries-in-javascript/
on “Ask HN: What are some cool but obscure data structures you know about?”Submitted Asking questions is a skill: Lessons from 10 years of Stack Overflow as a story · 175 points
HN discussionOver the past five years, I've sort of reinvented myself though side projects all while staying quite professionally productive. I wrote a little about my project process almost a year ago and thought I'd repost it here in case any one else finds it helpful: --- (From early 2018 [1]) My driving force is to create things and that directs how I go about personal projects. I don't have much in the way of an official pr…
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on “How to balance full-time work with creative projects”Submitted 80x40 as a story · 157 points
HN discussionNot quite the same, but I quite enjoyed PicPlane https://blog.mattbierner.com/pic-plane-1-1/ by Matt Bierner who has quite a few of similar experimental visual perception apps.
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on “How does perspective work in pictures?”Submitted A simple x86 assembler C++ template metaprogram as a story · 88 points
HN discussionHow's https://golden.com doing? I have come across some really detailed Wikipedia articles (for sports events, for example) and at times some really drab ones which I try to edit to improve. But original research articles sometimes do contain a lot more specific information that doesn't survive editor scrutiny on Wikipedia. And the less we talk about numerous advertisment/PR/fluff articles and socio/geo-political ed…
Comment linking /hash-array-mapped-tries-in-javascript/
on “Wikipedia now has more than 6M articles in English”Submitted Keyboard Bacterial Culture as a story · 87 points
HN discussionVery cool! I did a something using bitmaps a few months back ( https://blog.mattbierner.com/nes-memory/ ) but I really like how he visualized changes here. If anyone is interested in exploring something similar, here's the simple fceux script I used to sample the memory of a running NES game: https://github.com/mattbierner/NES-Memory-Visualization/blob...
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on “Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong”Submitted Tetris as a C++ Template Metaprogram as a story · 79 points
HN discussionI apologize. Great work though (For anyone interested, there was also compile time Tetris https://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-super-te... and although my mind never fully recovered from the descent into template metaprogramming, I have been able to find some measure of peace in the world of JS :)
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on “Meta Crush Saga: a C++17 compile-time game”Submitted Underhanded C 2015 as a story · 66 points
HN discussionThe bigger issue is the template overloading in the first place that makes libraries like boost possible. A language should not be able to do stuff like this https://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-super-te... . This is on the same level as JSFuck with javascript.
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on “Inside boost::unordered_flat_map”Submitted Stupid C++ Template Tricks: Snake as a story · 65 points
HN discussionFrom the same author/artist: https://blog.mattbierner.com/theremin-x-proposal/
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on “Nuke Scan”Submitted Nuke Scan as a story · 58 points
HN discussionBroken link https://blog.mattbierner.com/nuke-scan/playlist
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on “Nuke Scan”Submitted Stupid C++ Template Tricks: Conway's Game of Life as a story · 54 points
HN discussionI've been exploring some similar ideas recently but focusing more on altering your experience of the real world rather than VR [0]. Interesting to read about the research being done on the subject Even using very crude hardware, it is difficult to convey how profound I have found some of my experiences. Take a simple setup that lets you see yourself in the third person for instance. Logically you know that the perso…
Comment linking /series/modded_reality/
on “Virtual embodiment challenges our understanding of who and what we are”Submitted Photographing with a Disassembled Lens as a story · 47 points
HN discussionI'm just throwing this here: http://blog.mattbierner.com/stupid-template-tricks-template-...
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on “Partially evaluating a bytecode interpreter using C++ templates”Submitted The Delimited Continuation Monad in JavaScript (2014) as a story · 45 points
HN discussionThis post (and the linked project from it) covers how I use ARKit to make it look like the real world is being distorted by music: https://blog.mattbierner.com/reality-shaders/ I personally could never get very exited about AR apps that simply insert digital objects in the real world. Using AR to modify the world though opens up a lot of possibilities and I've been throughly impressed with how well ARKit can pull th…
Comment linking /reality-shaders/
on “Show HN: Beatsy – An augmented reality music visualizer for iOS”Submitted One Pixel Cinema as a story · 40 points
HN discussionSubmitted Printing the human genome on punched tape as a story · 22 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Jungle as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Interneting Trees with Python and Pi as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizing Katamari Damacy gameplay input as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted The war we forgot in our embrace of streaming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Incremental Parser Combinators in JavaScript – UWTB as a story · 4 points
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