Laurent Le Brun

Many software engineers I know are familiar with the demoscene, but very few follow it actively. Every year, around 2,000 productions are released. Once in a while, a masterpiece like .kkrieger or Elevated becomes famous, but most of the best work stays inside the scene.

To filter the noise, j...

In the last few days, I built a shoot ’em up game by embedding a tiny custom bytecode VM and rendering the graphics using a fullscreen pixel shader. The result is a 3kB Windows executable.

This was done for Langjam Gamejam, a 7-day challenge where you create a programming language and then use i...

Many people have learned English mainly through TV series and video games. We know that language acquisition happens when someone is exposed to a language that’s mostly understandable, with enough context, visuals, and motivation to make sense of it.

But it’s often hard to find good content in y...

An AI-generated book

A few days ago, I found a newly published book about Starlark (a language derived from Python, intended to be embedded). This caught my attention since I was responsible for Starlark during my time at Google.

I was shocked. Starlark is too niche to warrant a full book, and...

Have you ever found an anonymous letter in your mailbox, with a riddle leading you into your own home? Here's a true story...

It was the end of November, a cold but uneventful day in the quiet French countryside. My parents had arrived at their country house, the kind of place where time slows...