Charlie Malmqvist
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Website: https://charliemqv.com/
Donation link: https://charliemqv.com/support
GitHub: https://github.com/asbott
Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KySQRAE2Rv


Wookash Podcast
Show links: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lukasz-sciga
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Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wookash-podcast/id1683109481
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9J9u3apteD0EuFjzRpt71w
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Chapters:
00:00 Highlights
00:27 The Start of His Journey
04:41 OpenGL Enters the Chat
10:27 How Competitive Graphics Programming Is?
16:03 Life as a Contractor
18:37 BSC Conference
22:02 Enter Nowgrep
24:24 How Did He Figure Things Out?
27:49 Proof of Concept
31:36 What Makes Nowgrep Different
37:23 Rules of Thumbs
42:25 The Future of Nowgrep
48:19 Where to Find Him
49:00 How BSC Came together
52:45 Making It Work
58:20 What’s Next
01:02:00 The End

Game Engineering Podcast

Charlie Malmqvist shares his programming journey from learning C at 14 to building nowgrep, a high-performance file search tool for Windows. He discusses parsing NTFS directly to achieve sub-second search times versus minutes with existing tools, building everything from scratch including a CPU-rendered GUI without libraries or C runtime. The conversation covers his work organizing the Better Software Conference, philosophy on simple problem-solving over abstractions, and advice for aspiring systems programmers to focus on understanding fundamentals and solving specific problems rather than applying general patterns.

Charlie Malmqvist on Engineering, Nowgrep and BSC Conference