Hacking the Grepson

HackingTheGrepson
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Matt and Mike, two career developers, discuss their experiences and talk about programming in a (hopefully) not-too-technical way.

  1. 18H AGO

    Hacking the Grepson 110: Advent of Code 2025, Day 7-12

    Matt and Mike wrap up the 2025 edition of Advent of Code by going through days 7 through 12. * https://adventofcode.com/2025

    1h 39m

  2. 12/24/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 109: Advent of Code 2025 - Day 7 Live

    Matt and Mike take a look at Advent of Code 2025, Day 7 live on the episode! We try to make heads or tails of it in half an hour. Will we solve it? Clickbait description demands you listen and find out. * https://adventofcode.com

    36 min

  3. 12/10/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 108: Advent of Code 2025 - Day 1-6

    It's December, which means it's Advent of Code time! Taking a break from our "Let's Make a Game!" project to instead help elves figure out programming problems is what this episode is all about. Matt and Mike go over the first 6 days of logic conundrums. * https://adventofcode.com

    1h 17m

  4. 11/26/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 107: Gamely Checking

    More words and thoughts and ideas and progress on our combined efforts at figured out both Defold and Love2D to make a game. Matt talks about playing around with his slingshot prototype and Mike talks about rejiggering his entire Astronaut tutorial so he can load a different level.

    48 min

  5. 11/12/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 106: Gamey Checky

    Mike shares some updates on the game-making progress achieved recently (still no finished game to share with each other yet, but working on it!).

    9 min

  6. 10/29/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 105: Game Checkin: Sprites and Animation

    Matt and Mike continue their Let's Make a Game experiment, spending time going over the progress made so far in their Love2D and Defold prototypes. Matt also shows how Claude works on the command line and Mike is entranced.

    1 hr

  7. 10/15/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 104: Game-Making Check-In

    Matt and Mike check in again on their progress of making a game. More discussion ensues about preferences, recent games played, and about Defold and Love2D, including some recent efforts made by both.

    55 min

  8. 10/01/2025

    Hacking the Grepson 103: What Game Engine Should We Use?

    Matt and Mike continue to discuss more details about the game they're going to make. On this episode the decision of which engine/language/IDE they're going to primarily use is made...sort of.

    57 min
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Matt and Mike, two career developers, discuss their experiences and talk about programming in a (hopefully) not-too-technical way.

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  • Creator
    HackingTheGrepson
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Clean
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