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Mathieu Ropert

@matropert.bsky.social

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C++ Consultant and Trainer. Game developer and lead. Ex Paris C++ User Group organizer. Avid roleplayer, amateur photographer and occasional winetaster.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Jul 8

I'm officially available for consulting!
Need C++ expertise for games or software? Could use some profiling and optimization? Want training your employees?
Feel free to reach out!
And remember, if it's not made in the Champagne region of France, it's only ✨Sparkling Code AB✨!

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 2d

Would you do it for me?

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 2d

Ok Spotify, why do you offer 4 times the same song (sometimes noted as the same one, sometime not) when I search one given song?

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 3d

Another conference, another set of ai generated images in slides.
Reject the clankers, down with the piss yellow filtered images that we can tell from a mile away!

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 5d

There's some questionable business practices, and then there's Norwegian Airlines randomly charging if you pay with your company card.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 5d

After a somewhat long wait, the next episode of "What Makes A Game Tick" is finally out!
Today we talk about task based parallelism.
mropert.github.io/2025/10/06/m...

What makes a game tick? Part 7 - Data Driven Multi-Threading · Mathieu Ropert

Let’s talk about game simulations. In this episode we look at different ways to approach task-based parallelism.

mropert.github.io

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 6d

A partial refund? They should sue them for a full refund + damages. This kind of "consulting" amounts to malpractice.
If you'd get this kind of shoddy job from a doctor or a lawyer they'd be on the hook to lose their license to practice.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/10/d...

Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report

Consulting firm quietly admitted to GPT-4o use after fake citations were found in August.

arstechnica.com

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 9d

The most shocking part is how is utf-16/ucs-2 still mandated on Windows.
They had 30 years to introduce a better/more convenient API that uses utf-8.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 9d

They're text enough for me 🤷

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 9d

Ok who thought it'd be a great idea to have std::filesystem to use different char type on Windows?
I don't care that some nerd bet wrong on UTF-16 thirty years ago, we shouldn't have to deal with this nonsense in a 21st century standard abstraction.
Any 2010+ API should be UTF-8.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 9d

Submitting a motion to stop using "Modern" to describe a given practice for tech fields that move so fast that a decade makes everything half obsolete.
Maybe use year? Or we need to start naming movements like architecture?
Baroque graphics engine, Neoclassic graphics engine...

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 10d

I used VkBootstrap and it's still painful 😣

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 10d

Although it could also be "Console Hello World" to "Vulkan Hello Triangle"

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 10d

Vulkan hello triangle to Vulkan hello mesh

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 15d

Ok real talk Sicily, what is wrong with toilet seats? Do you have them or something?

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 15d

Caponata is the better ratatouille don't @ me.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 20d

Ordered some business cards online. Glad I double checked the sample because their embedded "QR code generator" would insert a redirect through _their_ website in the link it generates.
I imported a manually made JPG instead but that stuff should be illegal.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 24d

Graphics people, can anyone tell me if there's still any value in sending vertex buffers with defined attribute descriptions compared to using GL_EXT_buffer_reference with std430 layout and completely skipping the need to describe the input on the CPU side?
I can't see the tradeoffs.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 25d

I can't help them with PR but I do game performance consulting...

PC Gamer @pcgamer.com · 25d

Really interested to see how this one's gonna play out 👀

www.pcgamer.com/game...

#pcgamer #pcgaming #borderlands4

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · 27d

Surprise surprise, all those conservatives and libs talking about "free speech" are all too happy to have the government arrest you or go after your livelihood for expressing negative opinion of their favorite debate podcaster or settler colonial genocidal state.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 12

Amazing how the calls for Civil War vanish from my timeline as soon as it's revealed this episode was yet another instance of Conservative Thunderdome.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 12

I know it's a free market and all that but trying to sell me a glass of Gamay that can't even afford the Beaujolais appellation for 13€ should be a crime.

Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 12

Hey Android can stop changing the entire UI every release?
I got an update and now my phone looks like the previous one was redesigned to accommodate young children.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 12

My most polite take on current events is that neither murder nor pushing fascist ideas should be something we tolerate in modern society.

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 11

C++ Modules Update, 2025: it almost totally works for this one set of headers you guys.
As long as you're willing to use MSVC with IntelliSense screaming errors everywhere because it can't parse your module imports and you basically lose all autocomplete. 🙃

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Mathieu Ropert @matropert.bsky.social · Sep 11

At this point it doesn't matter. I could be this, some DOGE kid getting in a brawl or someone keying Trump's golf cart.
This is all pretext and if they can't find one they'll just make one up.

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