New #ThreeJS PR: high quality 3D procedural wood materials via TSL. Includes maple, oak, walnut, cedar, poplar, cherry wood types and also includes raw + coating variants. Full detais: github.com/mrdoob/three...

New Github PR to #ThreeJS that adds much improved #MaterialX support. New nodes & properties supported: thin film, sheen, transmission, rotate, determine, inverse, floor, reflect, refract, opacity, specular, anisotropy, etc... Full details: github.com/mrdoob/three...

Having fun this evening making passion fruit ice cream. #parenting

Victoria Day Fireworks captured on my DJI Neo drone. #drone #dji #djineo

Three hard-won lessons for entrepreneurs I learned in my journey from VFX to Enterprise SaaS. My talk at the Ottawa Network last night (May 22, 2025) benhouston3d.com/blog/lession...

Learnt terraform this week. Not too complex and has a lot of advantages. First website to have its infrastructure fully automated is benhouston3d.com.

I'm having better success with @benhouston3d.com 's github.com/bhouston/mcp...

Yum! Buffalo and honey garlic wings for supper.

I wrote this for myself but figured I would share it: TanStack Router provides powerful data loading capabilities through its beforeLoad and loader functions. Understanding their behavior is critical for effective use of TanStack Router in your projects. benhouston3d.com/blog/tanstac...

This @ludocene.bsky.social thing seemed pretty cool, so when they reached out to see if I wanted to do an expert profile - well, I did. Hopefully it helps you find some games you like! www.ludocene.com/expert-56

Intercepting and influencing LLM communications+training is the perfect intelligence vector in the new decoupled world economy. Don't say I didn't warn you. benhouston3d.com/blog/decoupl...

Is it a war crime to execute 15 paramedics and rescue workers one by one ? Much of the West wants you to believe that it depends on whether you're Israel. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

This morning's personal website update: added an RSS feed and OpenGraph metadata. Old school stuff, but still interesting to do. benhouston3d.com/api/rss

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

Having fun with AI image generation/editing from real photos.

The Rise of "Test Theater": Enabled by AI AI coding assistants are excellent at generating tests with high coverage. But there's often a critical problem: they're testing that code behaves as written, not as intended. This "Test Theater" creates a dangerous illusion.

Building 3D Web Apps that work everywhere! I wrote up why I recommend a dual tier strategy and how to achieve it using data from web3dsurvey.com benhouston3d.com/blog/buildin...

Israel killed Hossam Shabat (below) one of the last remaining journalists in Northern Gaza today in a targeted strike. He in his early twenties. He worked for Al Jazeera. This is likely preparation for the ethnic cleansing of Northern Gaza by Israel per: www.972mag.com/israel-trump...

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly: Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time! github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...

Alien Trilogy PS1 (1996) cutscene mocap shows off Acclaim's cutting-edge facilities (for the time). Crazy this was 3 decades ago.

"Building an agentic coder from scratch." A write-up and slide deck from my talk last night at Ottawa Forward JS. benhouston3d.com/blog/buildin...

Amazing day of spring skiing at Mont Tremblant with my eldest daughter’s high school.

🚨 At least 112 people killed in renewed Israeli attacks across Gaza, medical sources tell Al Jazeera.

>> The Ephemeral Nature of Software in the Age of AI As the cost of creating software with AI assistance drops to near zero, we need to fundamentally rethink our relationship with code itself. benhouston3d.com/blog/empheme...

Two year old wanted a spider costume this afternoon. An Amazon box and some packing tape later and she was satisfied.

Wrote my first Model Context Protocol server today, a simple one. Just an open source implementation of the built-in Claude text editor tool: github.com/bhouston/mcp... #modelcontextprotocol #mcp

No joke: How I created went from idea to Github Issue to PR while waiting for my toddler to finish breakfast this morning: benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic... #agenticcoding #vibecoding #mycoder

Huge Update to mycoder.ai: - Support for Ollama & OpenAI. - Config via "mycoder.config.js" supported. - Multithreaded agents (faster, more aligned) - Token caching, usage tracking & costing. - GitHub Action to use MyCoder in CI. >> "npm install -g mycoder@latest"

Enjoying a local sugar bush this morning!

How a 40-Year-Old Trick Solves Seamless Image Blending Laplacian pyramid blending is a simple yet effective tool for many applications, including object composition, seamless panorama stitching, and exposure fusion. Let’s learn this classic method that still works so well today.

"GitHub Mode" is a game changer for Agentic Coding My recent addition of "GitHub Mode" to mycoder.ai this week has 3-5x my productivity. I've been so productive that it is almost disorienting. benhouston3d.com/blog/github-... (also here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329...)

I have +100 GitHub commits today for across 5 repositories and it is only 9am here. Why? I'm hitting my stride with mycoder.ai and its Github workflow. Previous record was 94 commits yesterday. Before agentic coding, a productive long day was ~30 commits.

New documentation site up for MyCoder: docs.mycoder.ai - Feedback welcome!

Ran into a lot of problems using the #Vercel AI SDK. It introduced a lot of instability into mycoder.ai versus just using the Anthropic SDK directly. I would not recommend the SDK at this point to anyone.

Excellent article! I was getting ready to bash on your clickbait title but it turns out I agree with everything you wrote. Most patterns are what I find useful for myself and ai too.

Tip: Lean into Your Agentic Coder's Mistakes It will make your code better for both AI and humans alike. benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-in...

Stop Writing Code for Humans – Agentic Coding Best Practices: benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic... As AI coding agents become increasingly capable, we need to rethink our coding and documentation best practices for optimal AI compatibility.

New homepage for mycoder.ai with the reasons why it makes you more productive:

Massive Mycoder.ai update today: - Support for OpenAI, Grok/xAI, Ollama - Github mode (create issues, comments, PRs) - Persistent config options - Profiling - Improved windows compatibility mycoder.ai/blog/mycoder...

MyCoder.ai is really hitting its stride. Wrote and merged 22 PRs in the last 2 days using it. And those are mostly quite meaningful PRs like adding OpenAI, Ollama supporting, profiling, global settings, and Github support.

Trump has based his ENTIRE tariff attack on Canada on the claim that 43 pounds of fentanyl, of the 4,500 that entered the United States last year, came through the northern border. This investigation found that the actual figure is closer to zero www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

A quick demo of MyCoder.ai coding via Github Issues and Pull Requests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o49z...

Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative Discussion

Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative Discussion

Show HN: MyCoder, an open source Claude-Code alternative L: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 posted on 2025.02.25 at 15:41:30 (c=0, p=3)

mycoder Simple to install, powerful command-line based AI agent system for coding. (6 mentions) https://www.libhunt.com/r/mycoder Event Attributes

[Ongoing thread] Consider Phlebas, an upcoming sci-fi show by Amazon MGM Studio Yes, the legendary Culture novel series by Iain M. Banks is (potentially) coming on TV! And they'll obviously start with the first of the nine books, published in 1987. Charles Yu is writing and executive producing.

Combining drone practice with hockey practice at the outdoor rink last night. #parenting.

I've started using @tanstack.com Start and I like it a lot. benhouston3d.com/blog/ive-sta... (Also here on Hacker News: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4309...)

Here is real world example of using mycoder.ai to complete a coding task - Getting Vitest to have a mono-repository setup: pastebin.com/wAcGxa1T It researched ViTest monorepo setups, the current project setup, a plan to implement, then implemented it.