Mastodawn

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

https://larstofus.com/2026/03/22/the-gold-standard-of-optimization-a-look-under-the-hood-of-rollercoaster-tycoon/

#HackerNews #goldstandard #optimization #RollerCoasterTycoon #gamedevelopment #gameoptimization

The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

Due to some lucky circumstances, I recently had the chance to appear in one of the biggest German gaming podcasts, Stay Forever, to talk about the technology of RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999). It was …

Larst Of Us

U3dn 2h ago

Mobile Environment Pack #Mobile #Environment #Pack #Prefabs #Terrain #Textures #Audio #Particles #Buildings #Props #Performance #Optimization #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/mobile-environment-pack-263746

CHAINCODER 7h ago

new post on chaincoder, talking some more about maximizing one's output/coherence with the right tools- today, that tool is #obsidian - a classic for a reason. #blog #programming #systemsthinking #productivity #optimization #workflow

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/22/how-i-use-obsidian-to-capture-distill-and-weaponize-ideas/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

How I Use Obsidian to Capture, Distill, and Weaponize Ideas

Ideas rarely stand alone. They’re fragments of larger structures. When you link a note to two or three others, something starts to form. Not a hierarchy. More like pressure building in certain area…

Chaincoder

Frontend Dogma 7h ago

Astro: How to Set Up More Powerful HTML Minification (in 31 Seconds), by @j9t [@frontenddogma]:

https://meiert.com/blog/astro-html-minification/

#howtos #astro #html #htmlminifier #minification #optimization

Astro: How to Set Up More Powerful HTML Minification (in 31 Seconds) · Jens Oliver Meiert

On improving HTML as well as CSS, JS, and SVG minification in Astro projects.

N-gated Hacker News 13h ago

🚀 Wow, a riveting tale about squeezing the bloat out of #Haskell binaries. Because who wouldn't want to spend their weekend optimizing code so niche it's basically a hipster's dream? 🧙‍♂️✨ Just embrace the 100MB, folks; your hard drives can handle it! 😂
https://brandon.si/code/linking-smaller-haskell-binaries/ #Optimization #CodeNiche #WeekendBloatReduction #HipsterCoding #HackerNews #ngated

Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries | Brandon Simmons' website

Haskell binaries can get quite large (think ~100MB), especially for projects with many transitive dependencies. Here are two strategies that can help at link time, the latter being more experimental. I used the test-pandoc binary from pandoc on GHC 9.2.5 below. This was nice because obviously it was easy to test if linking broke anything (just run the tests). -split-sections and --gc-sections You can instruct ghc to emit code in individual minimal sections, allowing the linker to easily find and remove dead code. This looks like, in your cabal.project:

Hacker News 13h ago

Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries

https://brandon.si/code/linking-smaller-haskell-binaries/

#HackerNews #Haskell #Binaries #Smaller #Binaries #Programming #Efficiency #Code #Optimization

Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries | Brandon Simmons' website

Haskell binaries can get quite large (think ~100MB), especially for projects with many transitive dependencies. Here are two strategies that can help at link time, the latter being more experimental. I used the test-pandoc binary from pandoc on GHC 9.2.5 below. This was nice because obviously it was easy to test if linking broke anything (just run the tests). -split-sections and --gc-sections You can instruct ghc to emit code in individual minimal sections, allowing the linker to easily find and remove dead code. This looks like, in your cabal.project:

Hacker News 1d ago

ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

https://railsatscale.com/2026-03-18-how-zjit-removes-redundant-object-loads-and-stores/

#HackerNews #ZJIT #redundant #object #loads #stores #optimization #performance #programming

How ZJIT removes redundant object loads and stores

ZJIT’s optimizer now removes redundant object loads and stores, improving JIT performance of CRuby’s shape system. This post explains how the optimization works.

Rails at Scale