Hi 👋, I'm

Jason Gedge

A Canadian software developer who loves building simple, high-quality software.

I'm currently a Principal Engineer at Gadget , where I do a bit of everything, but currently focused on ensuring our infrastructure scales with the company's growth.

Virtualizing The Canvas

9 minute read
A description of how I created a fixed-size canvas element that could render something much larger, by managing a virtual viewport. Scrolling, zooming, and mapping any location between user and canvas space is automatically handled by the viewport.
javascripttypescriptreact

The shape of grief

12 minute read
The experience of losing our pet cat, Percy, the grief that followed, and some reflections on that grief.
personal

Big O? Big "ohhhhhh" 💡

6 minute read
A practical introduction to big O notation. What is it? What's it good for? We'll dive into a practical approach to understand big O notation, and how we can use it in our daily lives effectively.
theory

Optimizing Chunk Access

3 minute read
How to performantly access voxel storage by taking advantage of CPU cache lines.
c++voxels

Delving Into SSAO

6 minute read
An introduction to screen-space ambient occlusion, a technique for shading pixels based on how much they are blocked by nearby geometry.
c++opengl

Greedy Voxel Meshing

2 minute read
A brief explanation of greedy meshing for voxel data, along with an animation to help explain the process.
c++openglvoxels

static_assert in C++11

4 minute read
A light discussion on the use of static_assert, with an example of building an "all true" function
c++

Components, systems, subsystems, entities...*collapses*

6 minute read
A discussion on entity/component systems.
software engineering

Java Annotations: A [Somewhat] Brief Introduction

6 minute read
A look into Java annotations, what you can use them for and how you can write your own.
java

Other stuff

Shaping Up
9 minute read
running
End of Summer Updates
5 minute read
c++openglvoxels
A Week of Optimizations
5 minute read
c++openglvoxels
Seeing Spheres
3 minute read
c++openglvoxels
To Infinity...And Beyond!
5 minute read
c++openglvoxels
System Benchmarking
2 minute read
c++opengl
Unit Testing and Texture Builder
2 minute read
c++opengl
April Dev Updates
4 minute read
c++voxels
Voxel Iteration
2 minute read
c++voxels
OpenGL Text Rendering With FreeType
4 minute read
c++openglvoxels
Let's Tri To Speed Things Up
3 minute read
c++graphicsvoxels
What Does the Vox(el) Say?
5 minute read
c++openglvoxels
Cool Things I've Recently Discovered
2 minute read
web developmentjavascript
The Latest
1 minute read
Jype Released
1 minute read
java
Manatee Released
2 minute read
java
Announcing OpGraph
1 minute read
java
Jekyll and GitHub
1 minute read
webjekyll
BSides St. John's, 2012
4 minute read
conferencessecurity
First Post
1 minute read
Life
2 minute read
New Projects
4 minute read
javaapisoftware engineering
Revamping The Data Model
3 minute read
software engineering
Data + Rendering – Design Decisions
4 minute read
software engineering
Back in Business
2 minute read
score editingc++python
New Beginnings
1 minute read
Elided Labels in Qt
1 minute read
qtc++
Expressing Qt Love
2 minute read
qtc++
A New Look
1 minute read
score editingqtc++
Sleep is lovely
4 minute read
researchc++
FIZZICKS!!!!
2 minute read
openglgamedev
Modeling 101
3 minute read
graphicsc++gamedev
We got monkeys!
3 minute read
graphicssoftware engineeringc++
Game Design
3 minute read
graphicsopenglgamedev
Current Work
2 minute read
researchconferencesscore editing
Point Grey Cameras
4 minute read
research
First Look
1 minute read
score editing
Listening In
4 minute read
java
Becoming a Jedi, err...JNI Master!
3 minute read
javajni
Java: not always so cross-platform
4 minute read
java
Beginnings
4 minute read
javascore editing
Let's get it goin'
1 minute read
Summer Work
2 minute read
research