Abner Coimbre started Handmade Network when rallying the Handmade Hero community around a common goal. He led the policies, initiatives, and public facing of the network. He also runs Handmade conferences at https://handmade-seattle.com.
Abner became NASA's Kennedy Intern of the Year in 2015 and was named to Kennedy’s 2016 Top 10 Innovators. In 2017 Abner moved to Seattle, WA to work for Jonathan Blow's studio Thekla Inc. In 2020, Abner is taking a sabbatical to focus on private projects.
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REGISTER HERE: Jam projects / teams!
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The new Handmade Network website is live!
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The new Handmade Network website is live!
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Jon Blow using OpenGL
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Should there be a discord or something similar?
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[News] Discord community showcase integration
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[News] Discord community showcase integration
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Thoughts on Sabbaticals?
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Screencasts for computer science and C programming
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Screencasts for computer science and C programming
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Jonathan Blow array
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Jonathan Blow array
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Jonathan Blow array
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Jonathan Blow array
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Rust replacing C/C++?
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The Art of Syzygy — Part I
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Made an official website for the project
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Finding the best out of the sad state of things?
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Handmade Collectives around the world
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Programming Conversations
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Handmade Collectives around the world
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Handmade Collectives around the world
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Handmade Collectives around the world
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Data oriented tutorials
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Text editor
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Making a console app
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Making a console app
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Jiyu Update - November 2019
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Making a console app
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New theme feedback
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Manticore Games Demo
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Manticore Games Demo
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Thoughts on doing more good
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Brain dump about debugger
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[News] Handmade Seattle Conference
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Brain dump about debugger
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Is There Going to be a HandmadeCon 2017?
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[News] Special Event Stream Date/Time
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[News] Special Event Stream Date/Time
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Data loss
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Link with a link as the label produce 2 links
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[News] Passing on the Torch
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[News] Passing on the Torch
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Discrete Mathematics
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Discrete Mathematics
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Schedule for New Builds
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Casey's programming methods and encapsulation
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Casey's programming methods and encapsulation
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Discrete Mathematics
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Discrete Mathematics
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Discrete Mathematics
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Any thoughts on creating a 4Coder Discord server?
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Any thoughts on creating a 4Coder Discord server?
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CDbg Build 0.0.0.5
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[News] New Technical Staff; Pseudonym73 Guest Appearance!
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[News] Per Vognsen's Bitwise Project
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Devlog #10 (Under The Hood) Uploaded (3/2/2018)
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Audio Versions
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[News] Establishing Wiki Rules; On GDC '18
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[News] Establishing Wiki Rules; On GDC '18
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Handmade Ep 14.2 | happiecat
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Handmade Ep 14.1 | happiecat
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Handmade Ep 13 | Eskil Steenberg
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Handmade Ep 12 | Won Chun
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Handmade Ep 11 | Brian Will
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Handmade Ep 10 | Jonathan Blow
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Handmade Ep 9.2 | Fabien Giesen
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Handmade Ep 9.1 | Fabien Giesen
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Handmade Ep 8 | Sean Barrett
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Handmade Ep 7 | Philip Buuck
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Handmade Ep 6 | Shawn Mcgrath
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Handmade Ep 5.2 | Casey Muratori
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Handmade Ep 5.1 | Majora's Mask
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Handmade Ep 4 | William Chyr
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Handmade Ep 3 | Bret Hudson
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Handmade Ep 2 | Allen Webster
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Pixie Game System
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Wrestling With Qt
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[News] Site Growth (2018)
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Designing Forward (1/21/2018)
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Designing Forward (1/21/2018)
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Name Change... Again... Sorry (1/16/2018)
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[News] Handmade Wiki Released
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Livestream new project
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December Update
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[News] Handmade Wiki Released
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[News] Handmade Holiday Break
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Where is this headed?
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Where is this headed?
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Veek - Slim live video chat
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DAY 004 CODE
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[News] Shutting Down Our Patreon
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[News] What do *you* want to see on the wiki?
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MotionBox 1.3.0 has *finally* been released !
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[News] Shutting Down Our Patreon
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[News] What do *you* want to see on the wiki?
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[News] What do *you* want to see on the wiki?
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[News] What do *you* want to see on the wiki?
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[News] A Stab at a Stream Schedule
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Recommended learning resources for CS
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Is There Going to be a HandmadeCon 2017?
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More options for project background images
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Day 001 with Visual Studio 2017
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Day 001 with Visual Studio 2017
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[News] Handmade 2017! How does it end?
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[News] Handmade 2017! How does it end?
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[News] Those Lessons Mang, We Can't Wait!
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Unity Builds in Practice
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[News] Those Lessons Mang, We Can't Wait!
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[News] Focusing on Education Until Year's End
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[Notice] Server Move / HMN Gitlab
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[News] Network Interruptions over the Weekend
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[News] Open Education Meeting
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[News] Handmade Roadmap On Track for 2017
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Linux debugger
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[Feature] Turning Certain Posts into Lessons
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[News] NASA Article, Matrix
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Implementing a Basic PNG reader the handmade way
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[Feature] Turning Certain Posts into Lessons
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[News] FCC and our Space Program
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[News] Handmade Efforts Growing
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[News] Handmade Efforts Growing
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[News] Handmade Efforts Growing
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[News] Handmade Efforts Growing
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Handmade Ep 1 | Andrew Chronister, Jeroen van Rijn
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[Notice] handmadedev.show
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[News] New Projects, Matrix Server, Lessons, and NASA
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4coder crash immediatly
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Knowledge for game makers
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[Notice] Search the Handmade Hero Episode Guide
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[News] Beta Testers for Our Lessons
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[News] Beta Testers for Our Lessons
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The Rabbit Hole
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YouCompleteMe - Vim Completion Engine
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[News] Writing Lessons Left-and-Right
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Thoughts on Coroutines
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How did this start?
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MotionBox 1.2.0 has been released !
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insobot update #1 — The Owl and the Polls went to IRC
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[News] Writing Lessons Left-and-Right
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[News] Writing Lessons Left-and-Right
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MotionBox 1.2.0 has been released !
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[Notice] News Coming April 2nd
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[News] Handmade Educational Roadmap
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Worshipping at the Altar of Youth
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February 2017 Update
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[News] Handmade Educational Roadmap
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[News] Handmade Educational Roadmap
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The Grand Opening
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Throw more hardware at it
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OpenGL Runtime Recompile Of Shaders
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[News] Handmade Network v1.0 Released!
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Devlog #2 Uploaded (1/18/2017)
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[News] January 2017 - Handmade Dev Monthly
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[News] January 2017 - Handmade Dev Monthly
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any advice on interviews for hightech?
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Programming , Databases and $$$Finance$$$
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Do you still code un-handmade?
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Dissonance isn't on the project list
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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New Tutorials Page
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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[Feedback] TheHappieCat Interview
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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Go IDE
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Where can I watch Handmade Con 2016 (VOD) ?
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Go IDE
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Pretty nice talk on C programming.
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[Feedback] Handmade Code of Conduct
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Where can I watch Handmade Con 2016 (VOD) ?
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Abner's Schedule
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Seattle Traveling
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Abner's Schedule
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[Meetup] Saturday Lunch
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A Very Simple Request, Part II
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[Meetup] Saturday Lunch
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[Meetup] Saturday Lunch
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CDbg build 0.0.0.3
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[Feedback] Handmade Code of Conduct
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[Notice] Sunday Twitch Stream
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New site style
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[Notice] Surfing with style
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[Notice] Community Chat
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[Notice] Community Chat
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Linux Support
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[Free] Handmade Con Ticket
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[Free] Handmade Con Ticket
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[Free] Handmade Con Ticket
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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[Notice] Alive and Well
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[Notice] Hurricane Matthew
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Going through the series with Linux?
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Feature request: semantically-aware code folding
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[Notice] October Updates
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Anybody just starting on this recently?
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C Programming Resources/Algorithms
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C Programming Resources/Algorithms
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Handmade Game Competition
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Starting Points, Questions, and Game Ideas
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Starting Points, Questions, and Game Ideas
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Starting Points, Questions, and Game Ideas
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Veek - Slim live video chat
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[Article] A Space-filled Summer
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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[Notice] September Updates
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Favoured Desktop OSs
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Feature Request: Project Survey
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[August 2016] HMN Gitlab
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MotionBox is now part of the Handmade network
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Why People Use Windows
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Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
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Expanding Polytope Algorithm in 3D Confusion.
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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What makes a handmade dev?
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Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
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Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
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Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming
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[Article] NASA notices Handmade Dev
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Is Win 10 better for development?
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Is Win 10 better for development?
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[Hiatus] The Handmade Dev Show
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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Are pointer really *that* bad?
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Are pointer really *that* bad?
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Resources (text editor config)
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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Why are we not using Object Oriented Programming?
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Why are we not using Object Oriented Programming?
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Feature Request: Report Spam
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C++ 14 "owners" and pointers at the stack
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[News] Handmade Dev Monthly
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Wrong parameters in glBlendFunc() function?
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Rendering pipeline question
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Memory management of a handmade voxel editor
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New 4coder Version: alpha 4.0.3
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HandmadeCon 2016 FAQ
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The Handmade.Network Feedback Megathread!
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[Feature Request] Embedding a Kiwi IRC widget
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[Tutorial] Handmade Network IRC
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Old landing page was better?
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[Feature Request] Embedding a Kiwi IRC widget
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[Tutorial] Handmade Network IRC
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[Tutorial] Handmade Network IRC
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Feature progress query: projects
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[Resolved] Updated Titles don't Update on Preview Posts
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[Resolved] Preview post
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April Shenanigans and the Summer of 4coder
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Bug: BBCode broken tags
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The Handmade.Network Feedback Megathread!
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The Handmade.Network Feedback Megathread!
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The Handmade.Network Feedback Megathread!
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[Tutorial] Handmade Network IRC
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The Handmade.Network Feedback Megathread!
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Ticket cost for HandmadeCon 2016?
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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The Annotation Pushers
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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The Annotation Pushers
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Can't find my previous post.
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Can't find my previous post.
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Recursive vs Non-recursive algorithms
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I love Handemade Hero, don't you?
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Handmade Hero GitHub set-up
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Handmade Hero GitHub set-up
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Handmade Hero Private GitHub Repository
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The Annotation Pushers
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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Projects Inspired by Handmade Hero
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The Annotation Pushers
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Complaint about being banned today.
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Complaint about being banned today.
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The Annotation Pushers
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suffering-oriented programming
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suffering-oriented programming
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The Annotation Pushers
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The Annotation Pushers
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"Episode Guide" part need update
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The Annotation Pushers
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Speaking of "Build" -> Performance / Details?
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Speaking of "Build" -> Performance / Details?
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Day 11 - "invisible" types?
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Day 11 - "invisible" types?
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Why use C++ instead of C
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"Episode Guide" part need update
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Why use C++ instead of C
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Day 11 - "invisible" types?