https://www.alexnaraghi.com/blogAlex Naraghi's bloghttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/stop-treating-every-bug-the-same-wayhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/stop-treating-every-bug-the-same-waySat, 28 Feb 2026 17:14:45 GMTThe Realization An update deadline was approaching and beta player reports were stacking up fast. Characters would suddenly start jittering, snapping to different positions mid-fight. Ithttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/pitfalls-of-measurementshttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/pitfalls-of-measurementsSat, 15 Feb 2025 01:22:14 GMTMeasuring is important but easy to misuse. So many of our decisions are influenced by measurements. Deciding if we should chase a competitor or do something new. Validating if we shouldhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/resiliencyhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/resiliencySun, 17 Mar 2024 20:34:32 GMTWe want to do innovative things. In our casual conversations and social media, we excitedly bring up the latest product that another studio just released. It’s their magnum opus, ahttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/do-job-researchhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/do-job-researchFri, 08 Dec 2023 20:59:00 GMTYou're searching for a game job. Your first one? Pivoting from a different industry? Seeking a healthier work-life balance? A better salary? A challenge? You need to do job research.https://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/dont-start-your-dream-projecthttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/dont-start-your-dream-projectTue, 21 Nov 2023 02:00:00 GMTI wish more beginners to game development understood the incredible momentum that they can build from small projects. When I ramp up inexperienced programmers, my goal is to give them taskshttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/remembering-the-kanjihttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/remembering-the-kanjiFri, 03 Sep 2021 21:02:11 GMTI have some big changes coming up, most notably I’m moving to Japan this month! In preparation for that I undertook a tremendous task, learning the kanji, the many Japanese characters thathttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/blog-post-one-dd6eahttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/blog-post-one-dd6eaTue, 28 Apr 2020 04:00:00 GMTI place a big value on personal improvement.  Software engineering isn't just about making better tools, processes, and organizations.  Those things are important, but at the end of the dayhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/im-bad-at-mathhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/im-bad-at-mathSun, 24 Jun 2018 04:00:00 GMTI'm not artistic. I was never a science person. I just can't listen long enough to learn. I wasn't born with drawing skills. These are negative identities.  Things we are not.  Many athttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/convention-and-formalizationhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/convention-and-formalizationFri, 20 Oct 2017 04:00:00 GMTThe first time I really thought about conventions was about a year into my first programming job.  I had a coworker and good friend, Victor, who was looking into our process for adding newhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/producers-and-processeshttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/producers-and-processesThu, 27 Jul 2017 04:00:00 GMTProduction methodologies are overrated.  It sounds silly to say it because it's repeated so commonly.  Everybody knows it.  "Scrum is not a silver bullet" say the supporters AND critics ofhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/code-evaluationhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/code-evaluationMon, 24 Apr 2017 04:00:00 GMTThink back for a moment to presentations you've witnessed or conducted in a classroom, a recent programming convention, or a co-worker explaining a concept. The typical exercise in codehttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/exceptionalismhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/exceptionalismWed, 28 Dec 2016 05:00:00 GMTOne of the things I ask myself often is how do great programmers separate themselves from good programmers.  As a follow up, how does exceptionalism relate to my personal pursuit of sucess?https://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/architecture-is-a-democracyhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/architecture-is-a-democracyWed, 28 Sep 2016 04:00:00 GMTToday I'm going to throw out some thoughts I've been having about software architecture.  Why is architecture so interesting?  It's the land of the dreamer, the big picture thinker, thehttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/what-i-didnt-understand-as-a-junior-programmerhttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/what-i-didnt-understand-as-a-junior-programmerThu, 08 Sep 2016 04:00:00 GMTI remember the first time I saw a codebase over a million lines.  It was at my internship, a large 10+ year old system, in multiple languages, thousands of unit tests, organized intohttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/the-beginninghttps://www.alexnaraghi.com/blog/the-beginningMon, 05 Sep 2016 04:00:00 GMTWell this is exciting, my first blog post!  I've been interested in blogging for a long time, but have always had this apprehension to publicizing my opinions.  It's probably because I