2025 was a great year for high quality software engineering content. I particularly enjoyed the Wookash Podcast, where the host, Łukasz, interviews many prominent and successful developers—my favourites include Billy Basso (of Animal Well fame) and Iñigo Quilez, graphics programming legend and co-creator of Shadertoy.
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SDL 2.0.5 and stb_image
I recently tried to load a PNG file into an SDL_Texture to render on screen. SDL supports BMP only by default, so I’d need to grab a library. SDL_Image exists as an extension to SDL and runs on any platform supported by SDL. It’s a great option that I’ll probably use it at some point, but I’ve always been a fan of the lightweight stb libraries. So for fun I decided to go with stb_image.
Active Project Shell
Just a small trick I wanted to share. As I mentioned in my last post, I often launch the command-line via shortcut with a script (shell.bat) that initialises the environment for working on a specific project. This shortcut is usually pinned to the start menu so I have easy access.