Hi, I'm Philip.

I started programming as a kid in 1990 and never stopped. I've been working as a software developer since 2000, mostly building web applications.

I also make videos on YouTube, work on my pet projects, and share ideas, thoughts and opinions here.

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• • project
  Back to the Pascal
  Building a retro game for the i386 with Turbo Pascal and Turbo Assembler
  May 5, 2026
• • video
  The Isometric View Is Dead; Long Live the Isometric View (Back to the Pascal, Ep. 9)
  After a detour through a top‑down prototype, a single tip from a fellow retro‑dev sparked a new direction.
  April 30, 2026
• • video
  Performance Limits: How Mode X Pushed Me Back Into Assembly (Back to the Pascal, Ep. 8)
  Back in the 90s, I had a graphics programming book with a section on Mode X ...
  February 2, 2026
• • video
  Isometric Struggles (Back to the Pascal, Ep. 7)
  I took the first steps toward a new direction for the project and started experimenting with isometric maps ...
  December 15, 2025
• • video
  New Direction? (Back to the Pascal, Ep. 6)
  Six weeks in, I'm rethinking the direction of the project. This video is part Q&A, part devlog, part "wait... what am I actually building?"
  November 30, 2025
• • video
  Did My Abstraction Slow Everything Down? (Back to the Pascal, Ep. 5)
  This week was all about figuring out whether my new Canvas abstraction was slowing the game down ...
  November 24, 2025