Welcome to Handmade Knowledge! This wiki aims to be a repository of links and knowledge for the handmade community.

Warning! I haven’t independently verified each link, nor do I have the expertise to do so. The inclusion of each link here should not be interpreted as having an official Handmade seal of approval. If you encounter a link that you believe is of subpar quality, please let me know.

If you want to write your own codebase/standard library, check out Codebase.
If you want to write a game without an off-the-shelf engine, take a look at Game Engineering.
If you want to learn how to write faster code, maybe CPU Performance is for you.
If you are interested in compilers/linkers/debuggers/profilers, give Dev Toolchain a chance.

Influential Talks and Blog Posts

Some talks and blog posts were so influential they served as the bedrock for the handmade community.

Jonathan Blow (April 2011): How to program independent games
Casey Muratori (May 2014): Semantic Compression
Mike Acton (September 2014): Data-Oriented Design
John Carmack (September 2014): Inlined Code
Sean Barrett (June 2015): Advice for Writing Small Programs in C
Casey Muratori (May 2018): The Thirty-Million-Line Problem
Jonathan Blow (May 2019): Preventing the Collapse of Civilization

Recommended Blogs

If you are looking for a light read… Well maybe not these ones…