🔻 Update Control: Ultimate Edition on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S now to get: Three previously locked outfits Unlocked frame rate HDR support PSSR support (PS5 Pro) And more! Update notes: https://controlgame.com/control-ultimate-edition-october-2025-update-notes-console/ 📸 hellacoreshots

I'm a registered voter again 🥹

Game idea: You fund development and I make a game.

meet the terminal emulator wizardzines.com/comics/meet-... (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! (wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

Hey! Need 3D character art for your project? I'm opening up for freelance and commissions in October! With almost 15 years of experience across over a dozen games, I'm comfortable in both stylized and realistic work, as well as mobile and VR Drop me a line! 🎨 xavierck.com 💌 [email protected]

What if every TNG character had a signature maneuver? (thread)

Saved posts (bookmarking) is great and all, but several posts I bookmarked were subsequently deleted and all I have are anonymous tombstones in my saved posts :(

After 3D printing my first file handle, I realized my missed opportunity and bought a second file so that I could correct my error

"Turbine" for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(z,1,s,1)/s/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=5.;a.x--;a=mix(dot(a,p)*a,p,sin(s-=t-z))+cos(s)*cross(a,p);for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(ceil(a*d)-t).yzx/d);s=sqrt(length(a.yz));z+=d=length(sin(a))*s/2e1;}o=tanh(o/5e3);

im going to develop it in public! the repo is here github.com/plinkysynth/... i dont yet know where this will go but let's see. thanks to @boggo.bsky.social and @todepond.com for inspiring me to fall into this particular rabbit hole.

i started to make a live coding environment for myself! its currently basically shadertoy but on my mac with compiled c for the audio. its not a particularly unique wheel, but it's *my* wheel, so I am mostly experimenting with the details to see what makes me feel productive & creative.

First entirely new pc in a very long time, up and running for weeks, no apparent problems. Installed some updates, rebooted, system is unstable. Uninstalled some updates, system is still unstable. Run memtest for a few hours, memory faults galore. 😞.

stty wizardzines.com/comics/stty/ (from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

I shared this earlier because I think it is so funny but then I also thought to myself, what advice would I (a learning scientist by background, married to someone who teaches programming) actually give a developer who feels bad reading this? How can you avoid writing this? A few tips:

Oh. blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/0...

Why does Yoda use -fno-exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Because there is no try 🥁 #Cplusplus

"Quasar" for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(z,4,1,1)/d) {vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a;p.z+=9.;s=length(a=mix(dot(a+=.57,p)*a,p,cos(s-=t))-sin(s)*cross(a,p)); for(d=1.;d++<9.;a+=sin(a*d-t).yzx/d); z+=d=length(sin(a-t)+.7)*length(p.xy-p.z)/4e1;} o=tanh(o/2e4);

Everyone knows that the x86 ISA is big.
 Modern CPUs have ~1000+ mnemonics. Guess how many make up 90% of compiled C/C++ code? TWELVE. I'm not kidding. The question is…what if we shrank it?

"Storm" in 238 bytes: for(float i,z,d,s;i++<1e2;o+=vec4(.2/d,9,2,1)/d){vec3 p=z*normalize(FC.rgb*2.-r.xyy),a=p;p.z+=7.;s=length(p); for(d=0.;d++<9.;a+=sin(a*d-t).yzx/d); z+=d=length(vec4(sin(s+s-t/.1+a*sin(a.yzx/3.+t))+.9,min(s-=4.,-s/.1)*.4))*.1;} o=tanh(o/8e3);

Late to the party? Our first little tomatoes are ripening. 🌱

It's very nice to have bookmarks again.

Would you believe I installed a new Visual Studio and it has the same intellisense problems.

Fun fact I learned when I visited the Capitol one time, California's original constitution was written in both Spanish and English. www.sos.ca.gov/archives/col...

Interesting perspective on measuring productivity: look at expected side effects. If AI were truly boosting productivity by the claimed amount, we'd expect to see a significant increase in software releases. We don't. mikelovesrobots.substack.com/p/wheres-the...

Some days I learn new things about C++. First I learned that nested structs can be defined out-of-line. class A // enclosing { class B; // nested }; class A::B { ... }; Then I realized that a nested class can inherit from its enclosing class: class A::B : A { ... }; 🤔

Updating my thoughts here... "vNext" has been announced* - but we've already hit copilot-only changes in the endless 17.14.

I needed to check a detail about the System V ABI. I used the Compiler Explorer store page for this mug to do so.

The list of changes that popped up after updating to the latest version of Visual Studio: All gen AI. And one UE feature. Cool.

Tickets are up! graphicsprogrammingconference.com/tickets/

We should improve society somewhat.

Lumines Arise demo is a thing of beauty. lumines.game/demo/

One of my family members is learning C++ - I'm helping where I can. So far we've covered nasal demons, and the initialization gif.

we should replace tech interviews with do dogs like you or not

I saw a presentation recently that reminded me of some very loosely related work I did a while ago (2009 🙃).

I saw a presentation recently that reminded me of some very loosely related work I did a while ago (2009 🙃).

Me: what year is it? C++: best not to ask.

Halestorm to the rescue 🤘 youtu.be/8hkmuTvkp_s?...

"the distinguishing factor of effective engineers is their ability to build and maintain clear mental models" from zed.dev/blog/why-llm...

If you're like me and can't remember if it's RCX or R8 for the fourth parameter... Get the Compiler Explorer ABI Mug: actual calling conventions for x86-64 System V, Windows, and ARM64. Support @godbolt.org: grab yours here -> shop.compiler-explorer.com/collections/...

A little reminder that I'm still actively looking for character and tech art work, and I'm open to freelance as well! 🎨 xavierck.com 🔗 linkedin.com/in/xavierck 📧 [email protected]

The EON talk slides are now online: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Meschers: Geometry Processing of Impossible Objects anadodik.github.io/publication/...

To get a triangle mesh out at the end, you will still need a meshing step (e.g. marching cubes). The key difference is that NeRF requires addtl. optimization & heuristics to create a volume that will ultimately produce a high quality surface. With this new method, it just works.

Wow, this is such a cool paper! Basically with a surprisingly small modification to existing NeRF optimization, this paper gets a really good direct surface reconstruction technique that doesn't require all of the usual mess that meshing a NeRF requires (raymarching, marching cubes, etc).

Custard - Howzat (Sherbet cover) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwZI...

Just an FYI, I am absolutely open to freelance work! If you have character or shader work you need done, drop me a line and let me work with you on your cool projects!