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A blog about random hacks, graphics and design, math and other ephemera.

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Blog 3 months ago
Curvature Beziers
Acko.queue(function () { renderMathInElement(document.querySelector('article'), {delimiters: {left: "$$", right: "$$", display: true}, {left: "$", right: "$", display: false}, }); }); Improving on a timeless recipe .embed-two-panels { position: relative;
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Blog 8 months ago
The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over. Strangely though, despite now years of LLM-powered tooling, the results look, feel and function mostly the same as they ever did: barely. It's undeniabl
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Blog 1 year ago
HTML is Dead, Long Live HTML
Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place. While WebAssembly has succeeded, even on the server, the client still feels largely the same as it did 10 years ago. Enthusiasts will tell you that accessing native web APIs via WASM
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Blog 1 year ago
Occlusion with Bells On
Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts. The highlights in this release are: dramatic inspector viewing upgrades a modern ambient-occlusion (SSAO/GTAO) implementation newly rev
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Blog 2 years ago
The Bouquet Residence
Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways.It's meant to imply aimless, angry venting. But often it means: Naming problems without proposing solutions,this makes me feel confused. Naming problems and assignin
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Blog 2 years ago
I is for Intent
Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, your architecture's poor. Your users can't do anything, unless you code some more. This isn't how it used to be, we had this figured out. But then you had to mess it up by moving into cl
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years of dubious reporting, conflicts of interest and agenda pushing
Where might we have seen all of this again recently? Let me lay it all out. What do you do when you're a notable reporter in entertainment, like say, video games, who finds that trade press is mostly obsolete in an age of YouTube, Twitch, Twitter, Reddit
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News gitgud.io
get some real work done
Even crazier would be to see that, unlike every single time it's happened before, this kind of entryism-by-way-of-social-justice met a wall of defiant opposition. That somehow the impossible happened, and people from Reddit and 4chan could put aside their
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