Calling Kaze Emanuar “well-known” in the modding space is the understatement of the century: legend has it he spends his days editing hexcode in Notepad.

With Kaze’s direct help you’ll learn to disassemble, modify and even improve the ROMs that ran on old hardware—using the N64 as our example.

This is a skill that will help us weather the software winter too.

Freya Holmér is the creator of Shader Forge and Shapes—the award-winning real-time vector graphics library. As a Twitch Partner and YouTube educator she teaches everything from math, shaders, procedural geometry all the way up to product design.

At Handmade we need guidance on skills that supercharge our low-level programming: specifically on the artistic and mathematical. Freya is more than qualified to help us out here.

There are important technical decisions about how to design raylib. There’s also other decisions required to succeed too: crafting the perfect README, thinking about logo design, doing user outreach, applying for grants, and other interesting angles we as programmers tend to miss.

Join the author for a deep dive on the technical (and non-technical) dimensions of shipping Handmade software!

At Handmade we’re often building our own isolated apps, tools, or games. However it’s also important to explore the work of others to imitate the good and avoid repeating the bad.

Join Jasper on a very interesting tour to discover why engineering decisions are made in ways that seem foreign to us. You’ll gain new insights as we think hard about what software quality means in a messy world.

Psst, check out Jasper’s noclip site, it’s incredible.

Extreme constraints yield extraordinary ingenuity: nowhere is this more true in software than when you’re creating intros for Revision Party. Andreas Fredriksson and his group took home first price at the demo combo – with their masterpiece Eon by The Black Lotus. (It was supremely challenging to make it all work on a vanilla 7 MHz Amiga 500.)

Come learn how old-school demos are created and how those lessons will transfer to your daily work and projects.

Andreas, famous for his mantra “Low level thinking translates to high level wins”, is not a stranger to Handmade Cities. In Handmade Seattle 2021, he gave the talk Context is Everything, which sits comfortably in the top three most popular talks of all our conferences.

When pressed for the secret sauce, Martins boils it down to F*ck Around and Find Out (not exactly in those words, but we like the meme here.) That answer, although accurate, may invite further questions from the audience.

Martins will show you the specific ways he plays around to figure stuff out, and to break the illusion that only special programmers can achieve wizardly knowledge.

The old-school way of managing low-level memory, in Ryan’s own words, “can easily lead to a rat’s nest of complexity.” This problem has plagued most C/C++ programmers for decades.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

With his recent | tours of arena-based memory allocators, Ryan is now poised to show you his solution in a mentorship setting! It’s time to level up your memory strategy and eliminate the common memory bugs in C.