Jalmari Ikävalko

Everyone loves sharing their web dev stacks! There's even a whole popular site dedicated just for that. Rather than just blindly sharing the stack(s) I prefer, I thought I'd write a little bit about my general experiences and goals with web stacks. I'm

In this series I present a bunch of cool blog posts, articles, talks and podcasts that I've happened on over the past few months. The criteria is simple; if I can recall the piece when I'm writing this post, it must have been good!

Something I've wanted to get better at has been teaching software development. Learning is a general interest to me, and learning how to accelerate the learning of others is a natural expression of that interest. Often, I approach new subjects by studying them for

In this small tutorial, we'll take a look at the basics of shader programming. We're using the Unity engine as our framework, though the tutorial is meant to be a very generically applicable look over the basics of shader programming. The reason we'll use

This is a tool for planning lanes in the competitive mode of Insurgency: Sandstorm. !WIP! Persistency not (yet) implemented. Plans are lost as the backend is restarted for e.g. code changes. There may be scaling issues; recommended to be used in full screen

Oh boy, I was supposed to write this in the spring.. So in early 2018 when I saw the Real-Time Raytraced Reflections demo by Unreal, I immediately wanted to finally implement raytracing against full meshes in some form or shape. This is something that

So recently I ended up needing to convert an array of characters in Windows-1252 aka CP-1252, pointed to by char *, to UTF-8. As always, my first solution: Google. My first hit was this: https://codereview.stackexchange.com/a/40857 (And as I soon learned,

I just finished (for the most part - some return types need a bit of tuning to cover for failure scenarios) a small learning project for Rust, aptly named 'Very Simple Database'. It's a very simple, in-memory database, with optional single-file flushing to store

I've always loved playing games competitively. I vividly remember going through the move list for Tekken 3 and finding out the most abusable moves, the ones hardest to block. And then I'd try and learn how to counter them. In Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

Previously I wrote a small post (now unpublished, it was quite boring) about finding the smallest possible opening for introducing Rust into production use. In that case, Rust's place was quite minor; just the small script-like snippet for updating the installations of our main

Learning more about the practical development of AIs has been a project pretty high on my list of priorities for way too long now. My interest, in particular, is in how one can go about implementing personalities and learning for video game AIs in

As automation, digitalization and globalization (just imagine all the cute abbreviations and nicknames we could come up with here..) continue to hog up human jobs, one can but wonder what the logical conclusion of the whole process will be. Will humans wind up in

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A simple passphrase generator, based on a word list of 8829 common English words. Words shorter than 4 characters are not included. Generate Passphrase Why use a passphrase? Simply put, a passphrase has higher entropy - in other words, it's harder for a computer

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Almost weekly, I see an online discussion about disadvantages of NoSQL with the above argument being thrown in at some point. Almost all data tends to start to form relationships with other data, so you should use a relational database. Since most of the

Jalmari Ikävalko tzaeru@gmail.com Since 1990 Located at Espoo, Finland Capital Region Worked at Uplause Ltd since Nov 2013, first as a game developer, later with lead developer & CTO duties Studied computer science at Tampere University from Sep 2009 to May 2011

Hi! I'm Jalmari Ikävalko, a programmer halfway into their 20s. The whereabouts of my physical body is probably in southern Finland. Ever since I first tried coding as a little kid, I've been more or less hooked. Today, I work as the lead developer