Pretty ok compromise for how to initialize a new fibs project without a globally installed fibs tool (instead it's pulled directly via 'jsr:@floooh/fibs' into the deno package cache):

I wrote a blog post describing state of GPU market and what does it mean for support of new GPU features asawicki.info/articles/sta... Thanks to @asawicki.info for letting me publish on his blog

Christmas break tinkering project: started to move my 'secondary projects' from 'fips' to 'fibs', here is doom-sokol: github.com/floooh/doom-... The entire project is now described in a single .ts file instead of spread over various cmake, python and yaml files.

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

After nine years of development, meshoptimizer has reached its first major version, 1.0! This release focuses on improvements in clusterization and simplification as well as stabilization. Here's a release announcement with more details on past, present and future; please RT! meshoptimizer.org/v1

Born on the Amiga, reborn for Steam! ⚔️ Roguecraft mixes classic turn-based dungeon crawling with chunky pixels and retro attitude. Coming to Steam in 2026, and your wishlist can help shape its journey!😊 🎯 thalamus.link/roguecraft #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #roguelike #indiegamedev

PSA: The sokol-zig bindings now include bindings for sokol_gfx_imgui.h which implements a sokol-gfx tracing/debugging UI via Dear ImGui. Zig bindings are here: github.com/floooh/sokol... ...and the sokol-zig Dear ImGui sample has been extended to use the debug UI: github.com/floooh/sokol...

I have been trying out many modern C alternatives (Rust, Zig, C3, Odin). Along the way I learned about arena allocators and decided to give C a second chance. The engine compiles natively and to WebAssembly. To test it out I have started building a silly little retro style boomer shooter.

A small breaking update for querying rendering stats in sokol-gfx (*technically* it's breaking, but hardly any code should actually be affected): github.com/floooh/sokol...

There is a new port of zx2040 to the PicoCalc! github.com/ohm69/zx-pic... @flohofwoe.bsky.social

A pretty wild debugging story: When updating Dawn (Chrome's WebGPU lib), I saw a +50% jump in GPU timings for most/all of my GPU timers (measuring draws, dispatches, etc.). I bisected Dawn's commit history to find the commit where the perf regression happened, and it ... 1/

Ok, the experimental sokol-gfx Vulkan backend has been merged: PR: github.com/floooh/sokol... Changelog: github.com/floooh/sokol... Blog post: floooh.github.io/2025/12/01/s... Remember that this currently only works on Linux, and has only been tested on an Intel GPU.

I've pushed a few changes to my splines library, github.com/andrewwillmo..., recently, including:

The blog post about the upcoming experimental sokol-gfx Vulkan backend is up: floooh.github.io/2025/12/01/s... (as always I'll need to do a couple more edits to fix typos and repetitions but first I'll need some food intake)

New project: ImAnim "Animation Engine for Dear ImGui" by @soufianekhiat.bsky.social - Repo github.com/soufianekhia... - Post github.com/ocornut/imgu...

Ooof, I think the wip blog post about the (experimental) sokol-gfx Vulkan backend will have about the same line count as the backend itself ;)

sokol_audio.h just got a Nintendo 3DS backend :D (see changelog for details: github.com/floooh/sokol...)

Getting NeXT workstation vibes :) store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma...

Just stumbled over this minimal FPS template built in Zig on top of sokol, pretty neat :) github.com/lizard-demon... ...and that's the nice thing about the Zig ecosystem, to check it out you just clone the project and do a `zig build run` and that usually 'just works' :)

Big thanks to @flohofwoe.bsky.social for sokol_app — made it easy to keep github.com/Geolm/onedraw examples small and clean, no extra dependencies. Super smooth setup. Only thing I couldn’t find was a way to create sRGB backbuffer on macOS (did I miss that in the docs?).

Has sokol been featured anywhere? Somehow the GH stars jumped from 8.9k to 9.1k overnight - I was keeping an eye on it for when it flips to 9.0k and now I missed it dammit :D

#Amiga40 things leaked out of my brain into a post. Lesen Sie es! gemini://s73.girv.in/glog/2025/20... s73.girv.in/glog/2025/20... #Amiga #RetroGaming #smolweb

Hijong Park's Defender Patrol has been released! This game started as a "I'm going to make an MD500 game because nobody else will," and has evolved into a little battlefield with interactive cockpits and simlite realism. If you have a joystick, the helicopter is really fun to throw around.

Bit far-fetched, but I created a topic to gather links/videos of software using the Dear ImGui Test Engine for automation: github.com/ocornut/imgu... If you happen to use this somewhere would be nice to drop a word of a capture! (pictured in video: Wonderland Engine wonderlandengine.com)

A retrospective of my tech career - a work-focused autobiography, basically - feels a bit vain, but I'm hopeful that it is interesting or useful enough to justify that. If nothing else writing it up forced me to try to remember what actually happened. randomascii.wordpress.com/2025/10/22/r...

PSA: sokol_audio.h now has a backend for the PS Vita 🤪 Normally I wouldn't merge PRs that I cannot test or maintain myself, but in this case I made an exception because it's very little and very straightforward code: github.com/floooh/sokol...

Latest XCode+macOS can no longer debug C/C++ programs, but in turn I got a 'Apple Intelligence' button which I can't disable, yay? (who needs a debugger anyway when AI writes all the code right?)

Emscripten users: are you generally/often up to date, or is your app/product occasionally stuck on older versions, for whichever reason?

dear imgui 1.92.4 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... Bonus links: - list of extensions github.com/ocornut/imgu... - debug tools github.com/ocornut/imgu... - error recovery github.com/ocornut/imgu... - getting started github.com/ocornut/imgu... - bindings & backends github.com/ocornut/imgu...

"Oh no there's a Chocomel in my Playdate!" is back, but this time Chocomel is also on the web: aras-p.github.io/playdators/ and on github: github.com/aras-p/playd... #dogwalk #playdate

still messin' with this thing. so many yaks to shave when you start from scratch. autocomplete, filter dsp, sample loading, even json parsing. an eternal pile of todos, but each one small enough I'm making slow but continual forward progress...

New sokol-gfx update: this adds a 'sg_draw_ex()' function which takes additional base_vertex and base_instance parameters. See changelog for details: github.com/floooh/sokol... ...and a new sample (needs WebGPU): floooh.github.io/sokol-webgpu...

Interesting, the Swedes invented the famous "cobra maneuver" with the Saab Draken, they just gave it a less catchy name and probably didn't think of it to be interesting enough to show off on airshows: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_m...

New sokol-gfx update: the max number of color attachments and per-shader-stage resource bindings are now determined at runtime (which means it's now generally possible to bind more resources than before on most target systems): Details in the changelog: github.com/floooh/sokol...

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co

Just fixed a somewhat embarassing bug in sokol_app.h's d3d11/dxgi backend in the frame timing code which could get into a mode where the reported frame time is consistently wrong on 120Hz displays Details: github.com/floooh/sokol...

I'd really like to know how this hot mess of different radiuses (radii?) made it through quality control at Apple... I'm mostly a terminal user but each time I open a Finder window it's an instant 'ew, ugly...' (now that it can't get any rounder I hope pointy corners will be the next big thing)

Lol unbelievable. It's not possible to report a Github issue via support.github.com/contact/bug-... because the footer obscures the 'Send Request' button. Have to go into the browser devtools to find and remove the footer.

Minor new sokol-gfx feature: sg_query_frame_stats() now also returns the total number of objects of each type, and 'per-frame activity'. Details in the changelog: github.com/floooh/sokol...

@badlogic.bsky.social ping :) fyi, the warning which is fixed by this Spine C-runtime PR now seems to have been upgraded to an error in the latest Clang versions (my CI started to fail for Emscripten builds starting with emsdk 4.0.15, in 4.0.14 it was still a warning): github.com/EsotericSoft...

Started to display the sizes of some common sokol-gfx structs in the sokol-gfx debug UI (just to keep aware of them and avoid accidential regressions). The size difference between platforms with 64-bit pointers and 32-bit pointers (e.g. WASM) is surprisingly big.

The WebAssembly 3.0 spec is complete! webassembly.org/news/2025-09... This includes major features like GC, 64-bit memories, exceptions, and tail calls.

Dear ImGui 1.92.3 released! github.com/ocornut/imgu... - InputTextMultiline() word-wrapping. - Misc scaling/DPI helpers fixes on backends for Linux X11/Wayland/OSX. - 20+ other fixes or small additions (fonts, navigation, inputtext, debug tools, etc.

Here's another thing in Tahoe that's very un-Apple-like: there's this icon which is a rectangle with dots besides it and I have no idea what it does. There is no tooltip when hovering over it, the icon is absolutely cryptic, and clicking it doesn't do anything except the icon turns inverted.

Ok the one good thing about the macOS Tahoe update: WebGPU in Safari has been enabled, e.g. all the sokol-gfx WebGPU backend samples are working (performance in the drawcallperf sample isn't all that great though, but that's a known WebGPU issue) floooh.github.io/sokol-webgpu/

Just updated to macOS DaHoe, and boy-oh-boy-oh-boy... The Settings app now feels slower than a React webpage. You can literally see how it's rendering individual widgets as if it is downloading everything through a 1990's internet connection...

I just merged a small breaking API cleanup for sokol_gfx.h which I wanted to do for a long time (basically: a special case for defining the content of cubemap textures has been removed, cubemap faces are now simply 'slices' just as in array- or 3d-textures): github.com/floooh/sokol...

I've got a new blog post for all of you fine folks! It runs through the additions to D3D12 since it was released, and finishes up with some of the things that have changed for me personally in my code. (And yes it's really been 10 years 👴). therealmjp.github.io/posts/ten-ye...

I just merged 'native' WebGPU support in sokol_app.h for Windows, macOS and Linux. E.g. sokol_app.h creates the WebGPU device and swapchain surfaces and you bring the WebGPU header and native library (only tested with Google's Dawn so far). Details in the changelog: github.com/floooh/sokol...

RenderDoc v1.40 is now available! This version includes support for VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer, and vulkan 1.4, as well as some other bug fixes an quality of life improvements. Full release notes: github.com/baldurk/rend... Binary builds: renderdoc.org/builds