Long-form notes on the systems I write in my own time.
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The four subsystems that turn the storage layer into something a real game engine can sit on top of. A watermark-based change detector, double-buffered events, sparse-set tags, and a deferred command buffer.
Adding and removing components at runtime by migrating entities between archetypes, walking tables to satisfy queries, and the two caches that make both operations fast.
An ECS, built from nothing, in three posts. Part 1 lays down the storage. Generational entity handles and archetype tables in struct-of-arrays layout.
How bamboo is shaped: the SSG I wrote in Rust and use to build this site. Content walks, frontmatter, syntect, Tera, shortcodes, parallel rendering, and incremental rebuilds.