>I desire to connect with people. I long for the days where I was vulnerable and shared my struggles with engineers who charitably stepped up to support me. I miss taking what I learned from those struggles and sharing them back out as a blog post or presentation All of this.

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116565662607962457 The chill I got when I downloaded the repo and realized the “exploit” was a zero byte file with a magic filename… The charitable interpretation is that Microsoft accidentally shipped an internal test build to global production. The […]

The AI coding tools have advanced a lot in the year+ since I posted this but I still see a ton of this phenomenon. I'm convinced that a significant percentage of the wow factor for a lot of folks can be chalked up to simply not having known their old tools well prior to the arrival of the new tools.

"Predictably, the huge spike in productivity that these companies claim their own AI products have enabled hasn’t resulted in more or better products, shorter work weeks, or better consumer experiences." www.404media.co/software-dev...

New heights in not taking women's health seriously have just been achieved.

RE: https://mastodon.me.uk/@pikesley/116560335270718717 If you're still on GitLab you might want to speed up planning your migration path.

Enjoyed reading this. I was explaining CASE and spec or example driven dev tools from the long-ago times and why they disappeared last week. This has some nice mental models and explanations, plus I never knew about The Last One.

I can't recommend reading this thing in full enough.

I've put a bunch more stuff up on my website! If you want to read about some of the projects I've worked on recently, go have a look :3 blahaj.pet

i think sometimes when people get too rich they start trying to design money-powered rube goldberg gambling machines

i feel like a lot of companies say "contractors" when they mean "third-party dev sweatshop firms" and i really do think we need to make that distinction stronger

My custom subD modifier with auto-creasing feels like cheating

I just discovered that unity's Matf.SmoothStep is NOT A SMOOTHSTEP 😭 it's entirely missing the step part of smoothstep, it's just a lerp with a smoothing curve applied there's no step in that!! that's just a smooth! maybe this is just me being graphics programmer brained but unity pls 😭

sometimes you optimize binary greedy meshing so hard that the actual logic of it compiles into 22 assembly instructions (everything else is just loops that load data into this function)

cancel your adobe subs asap and use non adobe products if you haven't already

Even in a world where LLM never existed this is solid mentoring

how to make programming terrible for everyone jneen.ca/posts/2026-0...

If you use GitHub (especially if you pay for it!!) consider doing this *immediately* Settings -> Privacy -> Disallow GitHub to train their models on your code. GitHub opted *everyone* into training. No matter if you pay for the service (like I do). WTH github.com/settings/cop...

Same shader, different track..

this thing is available now! it's open source and set up to be easy to add more characters to, if anyone wants to! current characters you can play as: - the knight (from hollow knight, wow - as pictured) - mini goopy le grande (the cuphead boss) github.com/Hyyeve/Cuphe...

375mil is not even close to enough. that's cost of doing business at their scale.

I really can't put this more clearly. If you watch the new Harry Potter series, you are directly funding the genocide of trans people, because that's what Rowling gleefully spends HP revenue on. There's no "death of the author" here, no "there's lots of awful creators." You are funding genocide.

I remembered I never posted clips of the shader stuff I did for @automaphoni.ca, so, here you go! This is possibly the most advanced shader effect I've ever made - there's no geometry or models here, just one shader and a LOT of math.

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Haven't had time to check out all the new demos from NEXT Fest, but I took a look at CICADAMATA and WOWZERS the demo was so good!!! We have been blessed with so many good indie games these past couple of years and this one deserves your attention, too! store.steampowered.com/app/3817250/...

i was up until 4am two days in a row playing this demo btw

starting now!

the WIP CITY premiere is about half hour from now!! GET HYPED!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdYa...

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

so fun fact, slang doesn't *strictly* support opengl-flavour GLSL, so I now have an extra layer where i take slang spirv and pass it through spirv-cross to remap bindings and generate opengl compatible glsl lol honestly been really fun writing a full on graphics library though!

i hope you can make it! the ppl of wip city have risen and now wip will play out on inside city everybody enjoy great music wip revenge!!!!

hey! do you like fun music with cool visuals? this is a release organized by some of my friends, featuring a bunch of fun shaders, including a few by me that I am incredibly proud of :3 if that sounds good, come by and hang out!

this seems incredibly cool

stardraw is now able to fully setup and render a basic triangle with a slang shader! there's still some work to be done on passing uniform/ssbo data to shaders but i know roughly what i'm doing for that so i don't think it'll take too long

that new rendering abstraction i mentioned is going pretty well! i called it stardraw, and it uses a much more declarative style to setup named objects and pipelines than my old misc collection of classes. plus it also allows for it to be data-driven!

do you ever listen to music and feel like you just want to, like, Become part of it? this happens to me a lot and none of the rhythm games I've played have ever quite managed to feel like I want them to

if you've never played super hexagon, it's probably the most enjoyable way to torture your eyeballs that I know of

sometimes working on my game engine means getting dissatisfied with my (fully working) rendering systems and deciding to build a completely new rendering library that supports data driven objects and rendering commands just because the adhd decided that'd be fun yknow

usually i enjoy c++ and then occasionally it decides to throw an error so obscure that googling it only finds a few posts from like the gcc and clang development forums 😭

so i've been working on a thing that lets you play as alternate characters in cuphead, any suggestions for characters to add? :3

since when do i have 120 followers that seems like more than i remember admittedly it's 4am so my memory is quite sleepy

Hewwo! I made a website! It has All the cool information about me as well a couple of posts (more to come!) about cool things. Maybe take a look? 🥺 blahaj.pet

yknow sometimes you intend to have an actual social media precense and then months later realize your brain is really bad at coming up with things to post consistently anyway my VRC shaders have light volume support now you should try it :) (its free btw?!)

Sakura Toon is now FREE! (and has built-in documentation) I haven't worked on it much recently, so I decided it wasn't fair to keep it paywalled anymore, and it is now freely available! I also have some new projects that I might post about, and my Ko-fi is still up if you'd like to support them :3

unity is great I love unity there's no way they could possibly make FUNDAMENTAL BREAKING CHANGES to how their shader processor works in unity 6 nope no never no way. anyways my shaders work in unity 6 now :3

ASGHJJHGF MY SHADER SUPPORTS URP NOW I wrote an entire shader compatibility layer (which I might release separately sometime) to allow any shader to easily work across different unity render pipelines, and it is WORKING! also I reworked my LTCGI integration a bit :3 Available RIGHT NOW :3

Shader update! I've reworked how patterns/masks display in the editor, and added some more options for reflections and matcap - take a look at these funky materials! Available now :)

AAA sorry for being absent for a while, I've finally put together a slightly-longer-form video about my shader! It'd be incredible if you'd check it out and maybe share it around :) youtu.be/UozOOy8Uqzw

And by "soon" I mean RIGHT NOW! Shiny reflections & matcap support are available now in the latest release. Here's a selection of all the different kinds of possibilities you can achive with my shader currently, reflective and otherwise! All from just a small set of straightforward settings :)