https://matthewberger.dev/articles Experienced software engineer with a passion for graphics and Rust en https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-events-changes-tags-commands/ https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-events-changes-tags-commands/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-structural-change/ https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-structural-change/ Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-archetype-storage/ https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/build-your-own-ecs-archetype-storage/ Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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. https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/building-a-static-site-generator-in-rust/ https://matthewberger.dev/articles/posts/building-a-static-site-generator-in-rust/ Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 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.