Matt Godbolt
@matt.godbolt.org
Sometime verb, real person, lover of 8-bit computers, husband & father, trying to be a kind person. #blacklivesmatter; trans rights are human rights. he/him
Work wanted to film me talking about things that I care about ... so obviously I talked about reading assembly and why it still matters :) www.youtube.com/shorts/cZbkQ...
Do developers still need to read assembly?
YouTube video by Hudson River Trading
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Arg. What happened to Google home stuff? I used to come home and "hey Google, play some music please". Today I said that three times: - sure here's a playlist called sunflower - sure here's some (giant long playlist name I didn't recognise) - sure here's a playlist called "some music" Srsly...
Can someone help my pal make it up to Chicago for #vcfmw ? Thanks in advance!
Inverse Phase@inversephase.bsky.social · 4d agoOk I'm officially putting out the call for help, Wonderbread (my prius) is acting up and I think it's unsafe to drive it to Chicago. Looking for folks driving through Pittsburgh to #VCFMW. I will need a little bit of cargo space.
Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards - Kevin Carpenter - CppCast 411 / C++Weekly 549 youtu.be/hPjwPyAAqYg
Running Conferences and Processing Credit Cards - Kevin Carpenter - CppCast 411 / C++Weekly 549
Mathieu and Jason are joined by Kevin Carpenter to discuss all aspects of being involved with a conference: from regular attendee, to volunteering, to speaker, volunteer coordinator, and catering…
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Wondering vaguely if I'm now more an "executive programmer" these days.
In which I fart about to recreate a silly thing I did at Google, 16 years ago... xania.org/202608/recre...
Recreating a 2010 Experiment — Matt Godbolt’s blog
Hooking a BBC Master up as a serial terminal to browse the web again
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What time is it? Computerphile time! Sean does another great job of editing my word salad of excitement as I go into how your computer tells the time!
Sean Riley@seanski44.bsky.social · 2w agoLatest Computerphile video is about CPU time vs Wall Clock time! featuring the fab @matt.godbolt.org Dive in for your coffee break :) youtu.be/xs5iOwkX9fU #computerscience #CompSci #time
Book now for an upcoming C++ workshop! Sep 12-13 (Aurora, CO): cppcon.org/class-2026-b... Sep 21-22 (Kongsberg, NO): ndctechtown.com/tickets Oct 14 (Breda, NL): cppunderthesea.nl#workshops
C++ Best Practices 2026 | CppCon
C++ Best Practices is a two-day onsite training course with programming examples, taught by Jason Turner. It is offered at the Gaylord Rockies from 09:00 to 17:00 Aurora time (MDT) on Saturday and…
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All code in this game which did not originate from Micro Power LTD is dedicated to Tracey Dianne Nicholson... (C) Micro Power LTD and written by Gary Partis - ILTDN the Mega Being
So close.... some people have individual videos with more than a million but my goal is to get a million in total :) youtube.com/@mattgodbolt
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Well, I let myself get distracted as to why my Spectrum emulator's newer versions weren't as fast as the older ones...as is the way a couple of single line changes and now they're beating the old way comprehensively... I should be concentrating on C++26 stuff but I can't help myself!
Ok...I am now cautiously optimistic about what cool tricks I can play with C++26 (obviously for my emulator....)
Poking about with compile time consteval programming. Finally understanding why @hanicka.net wants everything to be constexpr. Also, trying to bridge the gap from compile time data to static constants at runtime is painful...
[back in the day] Low level programmers: "It's all about optimizing every byte and every cycle, use as little RAM as you can" Other devs: "Nonsense. We have plenty of RAM" [today] Low level programmers: "Well well well"
Some hobby JavaScript work (admittedly with lots of LLM help) has led to some jsbeeb updates too: hqx support, disc structure visualiser, HFE disc image archive support too. Nice to knock out some very old todos (mostly while I was gardening!)
Did some C++ hobby coding for the first time in ages. Trying out some C++26 stuff and oh gosh, compiler errors are not helpful, are they!? GCC 16.2 and some "X cannot be cast to X" type errors...and std::string_view is not structural so I can't use it how I'd like... Had to step away in frustration
It's Bandcamp Friday and I released my first original EDM track! #music #electronicmusic #indiemusic nocturnalplant.bandcamp.com/track/photos...
Photosynthesis, by nocturnalplant
track by nocturnalplant
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Are you in the US and trying to order a Pretty Eight Machine vinyl from inversephase.bandcamp.com/album/pretty... for #BandcampFriday? Only folks in Europe or the UK can order them right now from @bandcamp.com - US folks, order at www.savepoint.store/product/pret... or visit @bloopmuseum.bsky.social
Pretty Eight Machine SE, by Inverse Phase
13 track album
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Excited to be giving a keynote at CppCon 2026 this September, go check it out!
Raddle is an occasionally infuriating word puzzle that does not fund hate.
Raddle — Word transformation game
A daily word game by Sandy Weisz
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Why would you need to download and install code libraries these days? Just ask your AI to add the feature into your own codebase... It's simpler than package management in C++ (this has been a C++ package management joke post, please behave accordingly)
Here are some words what I wrote.
I Accidentally Wrote an Emulator (Part 4) - L Break Into Program, 0:1
In the last three blog posts, I managed to get the emulator booting up and displaying the famous Sinclair copyright message in an SDL window. But I had no way to interact with the emulator, notably th...
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Two-player #BBCMicro Elite has just become the first game ever to support all the buttons on twin Delta 14B joysticks So two players can dogfight in Elite without either of them needing the keyboard For some of us, this is a dream come true! And it justifies all this hardware I keep buying... 😀
