Software Architecture on Michael-F-Bryan

The Accidental Application Runtime

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:00:00 +0800

Imagine you look after the software for a small 3D-print farm: a rack of printers and a Go service running on a box in the corner. The service started life as a dashboard. Somebody wanted to see what each printer was doing without walking over to it, so you wrote a little HTTP server, and because the handlers needed live printer state, the server’s setup code connected to the printers and started a goroutine to poll them. That was completely reasonable.

Link Time Dependency Injection

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 12:59:58 +0800

Have you ever been in a situation where, because of how the code is structured, it’s practically impossible to inject a dependency into the component that needs it? Even global variables - ubiquitously reviled for their ability to do “spooky action at a distance” - weren’t spooky enough.

In this article, I’ll share a technique I discovered while working on a WebAssembly-based CAD package that allows for dependency injection at link time. This technique is particularly useful when traditional dependency injection methods aren’t available or practical.

A Thought Experiment: Using the ECS Pattern Outside of Game Engines

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0800

It’s been about 6 months since I watched Catherine West’s excellent Using Rust for Game Development sent me down the Entity-Component-System (ECS) rabbit hole, and I thought I’d share some of my findings.

I’ve been meaning to write about this for quite a while now but it took a while to put my thoughts into a cohesive article without throwing massive walls of code at you.