2026-07-07T09:59:48Z https://njump.me Aras Pranckevičius https://njump.me/npub1ktc8k8jfpjk57jyds6wwkxeqyajfd00j5hwzpjvgwe6jkmulq4cq4csfyn https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/8e341538b27ffa52.jpeg https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/accounts/avatars/000/000/001/original/8e341538b27ffa52.jpeg https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz65c7d8mh665lmkv047qsem8epwksew62jv55fu3f26fyz9jm67gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq5xrte4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9tehlej4cj8e539p9rqsvz4jnmda7tm6vwnsw2dnpdqywcssqa0qesqtp8'>nevent1q…qtp8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>welcome back! 2026-05-04T19:16:45Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqst60pxsrx3akp3qkhnznly6j3ntey6yrwfr2d45dazxw0k5tv7xegzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqe4deju In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspngahmhse3mvtwc02m7uk3hvpajf595sztexczn9d30ysrqcvhlgphr3mw'>nevent1q…r3mw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so now that you know everything, can you confirm that PS6 is going to be 768 PICO-8s duct taped together? 2026-01-15T19:56:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswlrxgk76avu06hyesl4ytfuasvpwls29m47a337ycjpxdyhnqhhqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq3pzupl Teapot wireframe: ON<br/>Snow effect: ON<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/888/568/043/533/489/original/8b1b5616f810c679.jpeg"> <br/> 2026-01-13T15:46:58Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp9gdh3ut5q45m50nf6nwgl0ftc8ec685hp2eds79fpm7wexxuygqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq899qg8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsp0ffmrskckmdgtct3v2phf9me9xrwvzgl6fsrur9dhllu96lperg8kjqtv'>nevent1q…jqtv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what, this time it is not EdgeGeom on SPUs?!?! Anyway, congrats! (And oof for Unity…) 2026-01-06T04:43:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspq8xf3ljx33xze3zp53e376llhpjfgagj6p25hzuc06strad0r6gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqcfv007 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspnsd0898kelfqstq93p4p23xx6wze5kr2xxskgdrump9u9fjkg9skxs8j7'>nevent1q…s8j7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;d think that &#34;I&#39;m generating machine code directly&#34; is kinda the opposite of &#34;portable&#34; already to begin with :) 2025-12-21T12:21:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv293f5r6gtsnl8asf4u0pfv5cg8xck5m8naplz9mv00p62qf396gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqhkpgyx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrc9t3pmcuu9ug2pa0wxhaacsjc4n0l4z5c99539emnhdh8cvpp7sskk7n8'>nevent1q…k7n8</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>why it would not work? You have to write into executable memory, but that’s about it. 2025-12-21T10:37:23Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0wkeghnna0aa8h6qvdsr6jg8qwyzcwjdnwrv2lx0vwufgteyge3szyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqrnwj5d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz8kkky2epe40fh6m69pxvngutr7dz4gzj74q8ja9zt3dhrwnykcsenp49n'>nevent1q…p49n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>related to your masm on 64 bit woes; I recall a similar case where just generating (very small amount of) machine code directly was easier than trying to get assemblers to work. Something like:<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/756/894/295/225/839/original/4ba0b04c74471f95.png"> <br/> 2025-12-21T09:40:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsz8kkky2epe40fh6m69pxvngutr7dz4gzj74q8ja9zt3dhrwnykcszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqw559et In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszavngprvpvjxqkr5zgemdxa2g8ra97g6f2quapju4eche8pf9lrg4ck0rr'>nevent1q…k0rr</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>so that was an introduction alright. How many topics you had drafted after the intro? :P 2025-12-21T07:14:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgvd9y2v72zah307snwcqc0ns3g6a6k7yy606f74tsgjz68u5xunczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqmn6gk2 So! This mastodon instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has 136 custom &#34;emojis&#34; representing various engines &amp; tools often used in gamedev. I made all of them 2+ years ago. Which notable ones have popped up since then that we are missing out on? Here are all the current ones: <a href="https://github.com/aras-p/gamedev-emojis">https://github.com/aras-p/gamedev-emojis</a> 2025-12-02T08:34:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrvvp3rg66efy2zl9fmlz550nxehqjs02wem8354hvunjsqjauz4qzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqf6lan2 &#34;Reflections on My Tech Career&#34; from Bruce Dawson is great, in two parts: <a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1/">https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-1/</a> and <a href="https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-2/">https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/reflections-on-my-tech-career-part-2/</a> 2025-11-12T04:49:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrvuhaft0kps5mfmy2jjx8tpp5yr6fdnwstz25lzct22xzkxmxhvszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqh588pv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspnd3q78c9fz0e20w8hw72weyng9rdq2hdltlejeu8ey2jsdehp8qtlgfrz'>nevent1q…gfrz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>ohh... I run at 150% display scale on windows... so you&#39;re saying that&#39;s generally still an unsolved problem in Linux land? o_O 2025-10-20T10:41:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8p64tmzsm29yvwgfskzd8uafnn0fldvy7jwjnt2zlkqyzyc3yzsczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqj45tm8 So... given that Win10 support is EOL, and I kinda want to avoid Win11... What&#39;s the take on Linux these days? I mostly use computer for C++ development: Visual Studio, Fork, Superluminal. What&#39;s the least amount of hassle? GPU is nvidia. 2025-10-20T08:19:22Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsp9mkf4x7cvq4fzz85d9l2vjl35qxqukeuus2ats4ndz5ehns9lxszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqtec6c8 Oh, so these AI slopbros are explicitly training on GPL code PRs, cool cool. The email asks for what I do think about this offer. Hmm.<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/387/486/248/942/260/original/252d19f655a9b813.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-10-17T03:55:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsq5mp39229egq0hgp9882vhafqtksptj34vpfn03km4xhmhp5f2aqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqypgry6 New thing from the Zstd (and LZ4/xxhash) crowd: OpenZL. A dozen or so building blocks (shufflers, transposers, filters, compressors) that can be chained together. Can automatically build &#34;best&#34; config based on sample data; same decompressor can decompress any config. Nice! <a href="https://openzl.org/">https://openzl.org/</a> (and whitepaper: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203">https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03203</a>) #compression #openzl 2025-10-07T07:48:12Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsgz8ffxp6sfs2tkjh2z2vageev50f24550fd9ynds94mamzerms8szyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq290jyt I… I just assembled a poster for an Epic Games service. That was not on my bingo card! #bcon25<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/214/715/189/229/952/original/69fa8ddae6cfdfd5.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-09-16T15:37:21Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsf9wmynf7jdpp0t8em68w24cg2x3ekuu8np2uex6u2s7r7vsdltxqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqrhlg4h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9h9079zvqrwwvt47d43vlle5zfz2az7ts87x5lvygsa0cu4xt2jcla98yf'>nevent1q…98yf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>nice release, congrats! 2025-09-16T04:10:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs85uepa63rcxx29nxml86z6ftq827869665en6d6fprqlsqazqs3qzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqz2h9el In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdj2ga7nw3sac966ft490pphmg3dxa2a0gyutpz3fyfjt6u6ynvdsn62564'>nevent1q…2564</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>the winning move is to turn off slack and never turn it on again! 2025-07-23T03:39:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspary6u8usggalwx93l82c4djdvn3uapjmurve9dz0n7pa55d7yxszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqlp45xh “jemalloc Postmortem” <a href="https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/">https://jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/jemalloc-postmortem/</a> 2025-06-13T03:59:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsycvt5cfwtsqcwntqsngkgscaw2y2gtyuwx0v6yjwkq9ae5vt9z2czyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqwzttch Apple WWDC is happening, so: 20 years ago at WWDC Unity 1.0 has launched. I think it did have a massive effect of the whole game development! Also, 20 years in games tech is a really long time. #unity :unity:<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/656/987/420/203/549/original/1f5232a832f28d0c.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-06-10T03:39:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9udrkp0cpe3gg0r5wg42musu8f7celqp69frch0uv78eysteh92gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqch3yxt Skribidi - &#34;Nimble bidirectional text stack for UIs&#34; by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1rx7lucvjc2j68wgd3s08wypffet2w0zfksuqm74kvtr9gcxks56s45v92v" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Mikko Mononen</span> (<span class="italic">npub1rx7…v92v</span>)</a></span> looks very cool. <a href="https://github.com/memononen/Skribidi">https://github.com/memononen/Skribidi</a> 2025-06-05T10:01:19Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2262363kk25l73syygrcfwc6wxguvlz2lnv8cgmvn7eksch5uhvgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq9zfsqh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspc96c9z2g490rvtflle3zqhf0tku5xmn5vpadxnwjpv99f9l3cjq35rcps'>nevent1q…rcps</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you! 2025-05-22T11:12:05Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs0kytxs5d5a9zsfdrj8yugk9wgs4upmtnj7lrdsczse8npfcmm0eczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqh3myzv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9n6zr57rygmy7krqgj9x3sk5ajnz05206np3jk2qha53hamjdzqg00eyew'>nevent1q…eyew</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Here’s me shocked at sudden year increase, and Ren trying to calm me down<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/541/729/735/103/235/original/21b1861fe5b7998d.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-05-20T19:08:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs9n6zr57rygmy7krqgj9x3sk5ajnz05206np3jk2qha53hamjdzqgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqxkd2cc So one thing led to another, and I turned 44, AMA 2025-05-20T13:15:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqu5xdq6klrd9qrf5ht2qhhx9cksfzhm467mdnc5xh9afkuc9a9mqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqvfen75 Teapot vs Tulips<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/428/627/926/063/036/original/d045e24d47c41863.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-04-30T19:45:01Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsymam4ud2zzpwjawgnw7u9wjdsdaq7lxqmteswfujw36rg67fjc9gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqmncxx8 &#34;Senior Engineer tries Vibe Coding&#34; is excellent. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2C2CNmK7dQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2C2CNmK7dQ</a> 2025-04-09T04:13:57Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdyflvk79g6mzgzextyp4qvvepjelqun0uzga8jkp38mq6aplfe3czyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqnrmaql In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8y9eg9xz4dyw6ruaa6q44jurwt5ajjsmfh5sr5ghdvha2gzxn8wsmqh2ws'>nevent1q…h2ws</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>out of interest (have deleted my LI some years ago), is that still happening? I know job requirements used to speak of ninjas and rockstars umpteen years ago, I had assumed that fad is over by now… 2025-03-28T15:51:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszsll0z2d5hyzdjhxjxa4k7zfgf03seq6r587x7xsy33jzxgxpfmczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqy9sl59 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsffp9kr7keljztqv74rxyckt37mknm0h0rcv0l5yynlrr5us2h3cqrd8u4u'>nevent1q…8u4u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>now now, there’s no need to insult actual rockstars like this! 2025-03-28T15:45:07Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8803wkm27esd27wwzw5hy9fzgjswd749jc32eysgq4gqcth4qheqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqq5zedx Ok, time for some reflection<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/207/819/236/483/967/original/98a6c8c4bd8ac25a.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-03-22T19:50:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvanp6ujr9rhke25as4gkyavte6pf0m3jqdhplwqvlkrqp44ajyyszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq7x9z5j “Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face” <a href="https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html">https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html</a> 2025-03-19T04:42:34Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvje0ngfmfy0038a2cnkm3pqls2uqjy67ynqpxds40f5fdw7ag9dczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqjjez4d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszgwvwaj04tur7j6kmv2gv73adt2u6r9l664cj9axy9qvh3wnswss8lrsyf'>nevent1q…rsyf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>great video, thanks ❤️ This answer to &#34;do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song?&#34; question by Nick Cave -- way back from 2019! -- I often think about. <a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/considering-human-imagination-the-last-piece-of-wilderness-do-you-think-ai-will-ever-be-able-to-write-a-good-song/">https://www.theredhandfiles.com/considering-human-imagination-the-last-piece-of-wilderness-do-you-think-ai-will-ever-be-able-to-write-a-good-song/</a><br/><br/>There&#39;s also his later (2023) answer about ChatGPT writing lyrics: <a href="https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/">https://www.theredhandfiles.com/chatgpt-making-things-faster-and-easier/</a> 2025-01-04T18:53:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsvusp0687ae3kfu7r74a7uv6rc25whwpm54zadt3s5pgqfgd79scgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqwr6sws RenderDoc :renderdoc: 1.36 is out, and while it contains DXIL debugging, raytracing capture and other magic things... it also now can load and display tiled &amp; mipmapped EXR files! For the, I dunno, three of us who use :renderdoc: as an EXR viewer :) <a href="https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/releases/tag/v1.36">https://github.com/baldurk/renderdoc/releases/tag/v1.36</a> 2024-12-20T17:56:06Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv9p5urnevks5t4efzxatmtr9gfcg08fj92z5m2crd0mg6sp9p58qzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq7vkx4q Oh, turns out this :mastodon: instance (mastodon.gamedev.place) has been running for 7 years already. Not a terribly bad result! Here&#39;s what I wrote about it at the very start: <a href="https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/12/04/Gamedev-Mastodon-mastodon.gamedev.place/">https://aras-p.info/blog/2017/12/04/Gamedev-Mastodon-mastodon.gamedev.place/</a> 2024-12-17T19:16:30Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg67swt8gwf3lvt0cm4ltrc74qvtrdqmmfnadpqez6m6x7xpug4cczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqqkqlat &#34;Mission: Importable - Ghost of Tsushima PC Postmortem&#34; is good. Iteresting to see that the very 1st step is getting debug markers correct, so you can look at frame structure in RenderDoc :renderdoc: (without RenderDoc large parts of PC gfx dev would fall sideways...). Would have not expected &#34;emulate PS API on D3D12&#34; to work as well as it did for them, good job! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tostM4-rK6o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tostM4-rK6o</a> #GPC2024 2024-12-06T12:42:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdnz5xx0635nz8vfmaep9fskagsz2ly0hdq8xtqx5403z2wta5wcqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqdngqe3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszw7z4f375j4fmjlnrypdqrprkun5ur5vvc776fne50s6xh7tgh8q6kp7a7'>nevent1q…p7a7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it’s not a leak, it is revealing design thinking! Please “leak” more! ;) 2024-11-24T07:22:16Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsylrnl6ea8efznfmcq2txwjzdp5wsdyfnlv4l6mwy6nr45lhgv4yczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqsqg0a9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv26mwdsfpa4awdajuhdjpt50xwv6cq2q4xvhpxyq09cn6a78w46qc39rwd'>nevent1q…9rwd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>like, even the whole asset dependencies concept I feel like is not known about widely enough 2024-11-22T12:57:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv26mwdsfpa4awdajuhdjpt50xwv6cq2q4xvhpxyq09cn6a78w46qzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq6g0rc3 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0gdeftjrfphy9mp6mvg4qtr69v9mlzeacduy905gtrhtkmvskgjqjz35w5'>nevent1q…35w5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh wow, that is pretty cool! I’m wondering how many of “yeah this is actually possible” workflows are possible, just Unity does not clearly tell people about them 2024-11-22T12:56:35Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrajwm6sj8qpzm3qp4f6xvg7m40j7mkzydx5um8eglqhssvce8xvczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq0uyw4m In the middle of #bcon24, Cycles team is reviewing pull requests with integrals and formulas and stuff. As one does.<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/362/253/284/513/298/original/53998e074677ba29.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-10-24T11:51:55Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrj8txjzmvppt95lxkxmf2nxat7w2rrjq9y6y800e2hkyjctq0ffgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqldh4cm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszez6p9srxzs95nfhuuwc8q34zg4yvcm2k9k9jdypxfexreyehkqqx8pfz2'>nevent1q…pfz2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is one of &#34;all the apps automagically update themselves&#34; reality downsides: it used to be that software you have stays the same, on the same computer. Now, computer stays the same, but software (slowly but surely) gets slower. Needs more memory, no longer acceptably works on non-SSD, etc. etc. 2024-10-02T04:02:31Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqszez6p9srxzs95nfhuuwc8q34zg4yvcm2k9k9jdypxfexreyehkqqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqdpr070 Was trying to figure out why laptop of mother-in-law was very slow. It is 7 years old, 4GB RAM, HDD, so yeah. But it used to be not slow! Constant updates of both Windows and Chrome make everything sluggish. Even bringing up task manager takes half a minute. *One* app there that is still snappy? Picasa. Because it was discontinued before the laptop was made, so it had *zero* updates that would make it slower. 2024-10-02T04:00:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspus8nnjaeev3x2vwkkje8736lga7dgq4pmgqamyy0gcsskhh3tjczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq06hf7l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgjhjuwkx8ft80p3punckj2qu3a4c33sds38s2aph2a4me28gamfst0xy3v'>nevent1q…xy3v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you mean they also did a groundbreaking discovery that computers can display more than six colors?! or — gasp — vary the color a bit across a rectangle on screen?! what a time to be alive! 2024-09-21T05:03:46Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw9xll5zhgg3cdgvy8cxnfdwgwfu5epvrrczddaea6qt26yxr9mvszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq8ceq0n Whoa. D3D is switching to SPIR-V as shader bytecode format! This is excellent, and I guess lets them move away from their llvm 3.7 fork easier. <a href="https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/">https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/directx-adopting-spir-v/</a> 2024-09-19T18:51:29Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs8hpsszwh25fjepfnkcs625jpfkgtyzwrxzc8srjywsq4p4pr5y9gzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqc9t7h2 How it started / how it is going. Never been to Utah, but the wireframe teapot is now here! Dog for scale.<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/142/142/791/447/342/original/38fea493a59096c1.jpeg"> <br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/142/142/856/022/057/original/533801c4ebf1a3a9.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-09-15T14:54:54Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs2ypurap79msgm0252wlglmsu7gsh62kh8qm5pzteltffnne9lm5czyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhq7rsvwu In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswvex5fhenrkywg4f529w9xjnqeqxfyr8ltc9vg2jwyjfg09uelmgyux9ln'>nevent1q…x9ln</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>And no mastodon/&#34;fediverse&#34; is not a sustainable and scalable answer. You still need someone to run the servers (costs $$$) and do moderation (costs human work and sometimes human misery).<br/><br/>Like, this instance running at all is a combination of Someone paying a $700 bill each.and.every.month, and about 5 moderators looking at reports and user registrations each.and.every.day. *So far* this has been working. Will it keep on working? Who knows! Forever? Probably not :/ 2024-09-10T04:00:47Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqswvex5fhenrkywg4f529w9xjnqeqxfyr8ltc9vg2jwyjfg09uelmgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqs6gk8g Cohost shutting down (<a href="https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down">https://cohost.org/staff/post/7611443-cohost-to-shut-down</a>) is sad but not surprising. Unfortunately.<br/><br/>People saying &#34;I wish media was not like today! I&#39;d gladly pay $N for a nice no-nonsense / no-ads social platform&#34;. And then they don&#39;t. 2024-09-10T03:59:20Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsfrdsqjhessy6ytgqjqaehncjqslcxu08vn6u40l6j6mne0zkexagzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqxr32zz Monica Harrington&#39;s story on early days of Valve &amp; Half-Life is a good read! <a href="https://medium.com/@monicah428/the-early-days-of-valve-from-a-woman-inside-bf80c6b47961">https://medium.com/@monicah428/the-early-days-of-valve-from-a-woman-inside-bf80c6b47961</a> 2024-09-08T18:02:04Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstzxr0nss883rkeegaem82q4qcwr9qr3ztwavuy3k5pfn4yvztgfszyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqyxwjq3 &#34;No CPU, no GPU, no memory&#34; demo category is cool! You actually make an ASIC that outputs a VGA signal. My friend ReJ just made one. &#34;The Drop&#34;, 3.5k logic gates, displays pictures and plays muzak. Submitted to Tiny Tapeout. Source: <a href="https://github.com/rejunity/tt08-vga-drop">https://github.com/rejunity/tt08-vga-drop</a><br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/096/139/891/860/181/original/5f4753b56952e92f.mp4"></video><br/> 2024-09-07T11:55:48Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqspfj0z8ewuv353dftvqcfjr38a00llfrt0euqg3q497ptarmpmksczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqy0w57w In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9dl5zmyzdw2v9pw4kgyrt46ffvm7vmkwndfsac9ulwgwq366apyq4ccclu'>nevent1q…cclu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know, and that&#39;s why I&#39;m a code monkey and not some biz guy :) But yes a good question. And it is entirely possible that Unity without VC would not exist at all today.<br/><br/>Heck, I think Unity without JR becoming CEO back then would probably not exist today. There was *a lot* of internal power fighting among C suite and everything was a mess for about a year before JR became CEO. 2024-08-21T07:18:27Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsw3msejws07p95daq4fst2xg4cemjfg6t2a8ttuxdv3dkf6p643uczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqngyrau In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqst03r4n7sh0hj4jcxn3m0gjcyhv2747e26nu5flgjfp6hg8lqh87cugwf4h'>nevent1q…wf4h</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Also, maybe having multiple visions at once, which are conflicting with each other, is also not great. And trying to solve multiple visions by &#34;let&#39;s hire everyone!&#34; just means all the usual growth pains, plus an unsustainable business due to massive burn rate. Unity &#34;the engine&#34; was close to 1500 people at one point, ffs. 2024-08-21T07:10:51Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqstk20qat5k0rgqtf6fuhm06kld3n0yexj5emxw2h6v3rpr0848zwczyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqlhspnm I wrote some random thoughts about Unity <a href="https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/">https://aras-p.info/blog/2024/08/11/Random-thoughts-about-Unity/</a> 2024-08-21T05:15:25Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsy9vjamel4ll2xuhpcggp8nv8jexz8mx225muyhf6wkr6ant9v2yqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqa7cw8g Wait, so the whole VFX industry uses these &#34;.cube&#34; files for grading LUTs that are just... half a million floats in ASCII format? Have we not learned anything from OBJ? It would be oh so trivial to have these LUTs be like 15x smaller files, and I guess faster to load too. 2024-06-18T04:05:17Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsg9h2s6qkwfwxwj4h763xet4u47h48gst2rehace433exwqaxdkhgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqfejjwp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zvwyhjnx99lfezvn6ru3zkuudjqaxcl40apwxwqlkesykcqp3xckj44h3'>nevent1q…44h3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>brb, first need to port Lua garbage collector and all the user code callbacks to compute shaders! 2024-06-12T13:11:10Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsv5093324450jnsexe7gh5hmjnrs3k5jvcpkp6mlfqkmusw67jjlgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqmuh42f So once you move a video editor timeline strip control UI widget to be done in a GPU shader, you know what is the obvious next step, right? Running a shadertoy as the widget background, of course. #blender #vse<br/><video controls width="100%" class="max-h-[90vh] bg-neutral-300 dark:bg-zinc-700"><source src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/603/217/975/671/031/original/dab9a6325c72dec3.mp4"></video><br/> 2024-06-12T10:39:15Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsdp09pesvcs0q8hvcg380zz274f9402w7pfeaps58vdwc9tzhue2szyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqck4cd3 Organic truck<br/> <img src="https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/587/826/085/892/069/original/c7b1d3e72159795b.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-06-09T17:24:53Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs93a9grxsk37z9ald2ythtey4zw9xh6hyd7z53mexjl775d2dp0pgzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqefzjrs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq4z82shcawhn8y5wjueexjy334azghsx6vw5gfuz87c5s674xdyqfxrcfd'>nevent1q…rcfd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>replace Adobe with &lt;well, any decently large tech company&gt; and it still is still very much true. 2024-06-07T15:33:43Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqs00x6e3ddudknqxesvgmuje24f63wqqqsmvdyxxkyww20nx9lkyvqzyze0q7c7fyx26n6g3krfe6cmyqnkf94a72jacgxf3pm822m0nuzhqzrrtmt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqspu7pjk9d4jrzz285teecpgsglqslmnzv2jr55etdttauud6wpycqj9pffj'>nevent1q…pffj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>“Google eats glue after it tells users to eat glue” 2024-05-31T11:10:20Z