i was also struck by how many people receiving SNAP are employees of wal-mart and other big corporations. almost seems like we taxpayers are subsidizing private companies 🤔

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...

It only took 12 years, but I have just implemented THE most important feature in Cadence... #PetTheCat

Want to help build a crowdsourced microcontroller? You're invited to design peripherals (UARTs, timers, synths, etc.) for a @riscv.org.web.brid.gy chip that will be fabbed for real! Take part for free! tinytapeout.com/competitions...

Get me some more agrovoltaic farms, ON THE DOUBLE

Made a blog post about all the technology and updates about Darksouls3 Lighting engine. ko-fi.com/post/Darksou...

Great statement and one I absolutely agree with as a developer, both from my professional experiences in industry and ones as an independent developer. www.videogameseurope.eu/news/stateme...

In 2025, no one encapsulates the spirit of Independence Day more than this man. Happy Fourth of July to people struggling for freedom and independence everywhere.

People settle in for the night in the Kyiv metro as sirens continue to wail across Ukraine. Video: Yan Dobronosov

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

Garcia is back in the States and can speak. And, because of his testimony, it's clear that CECOT is torturing inmates. In 2025, the American President is disappearing immigrants to concentration camps in El Salvador to be tortured until they die. This cannot be who we are.

Howdy all. I'm unfortunately not going to be with my employer for much longer due to team relocation. If anyone has any info on roles that would allow me to continue my Rust compiler work (in New York City), they'd be greatly appreciated.

Logarithmic maps are incredibly useful for algorithms on surfaces--they're local 2D coordinates centered at a given source. Yousuf Soliman and I found a better way to compute log maps w/ fast short-time heat flow in "The Affine Heat Method" presented @ SGP2025 today! 🧵

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

Pet peeve that has been peeving me a lot recently: People that make their own simplified and barebones version of a thing (very cool), then publish it (also very cool), then market it using some misleading claims about how it's 10-50x faster than the original thing (very not cool).

Have you ever wanted to make a video game? on your OWN computer? Computer illuminary Tim Hartnell has just the book for you. (Source.)

Wrote an incredibly long and personal essay about what it really means to be a trans man in a — er, I don’t know, a transmisandrist world? A world that actually loves trans men and valorizes us constantly? Whatever people are arguing about nowadays? open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

Histogram Stratification for Spatio-Temporal Reservoir Sampling Corentin Salaün, Martin Bálint, Laurent Belcour, Eric Heitz, Gurprit Singh and Karol Myszkowski (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Germany & Intel, France) iribis.github.io/publication/...

I long held some misconceptions about atomic memory orderings which I now see commonly echoed even by extremely experienced and skilled developers. So, I wrote a blog post about it. www.grayolson.me/blog/posts/m...

I long held some misconceptions about atomic memory orderings which I now see commonly echoed even by extremely experienced and skilled developers. So, I wrote a blog post about it. www.grayolson.me/blog/posts/m...

Writing a new blog post, which will feature

I don't agree with all points expressed here by any stretch but I think there is some really insightful analysis about a craftsman's relationship with tools, how different forms of expression have inherent tradeoffs, and how this relates to code vs natural language and genAI youtu.be/1WC8dxMC4Xw

Our #SGP25 work studies a simple and effective way to uniformly sample implicit surfaces by casting rays. (1/9) “Uniform Sampling of Surfaces by Casting Rays” w/ @abhishekmadan.bsky.social @nmwsharp.bsky.social and Alec Jacobson

We heard you needed some more time, so we wanted to let you cook. We decided to push the Phrack 72 CFP deadline back until June 15th. Stay tuned for upcoming Phrack events. Print this flyer out and give it to someone IRL!!

Don't self-experiment with psychological hazards! I can't stress this enough! One of the reasons why I wrote the original LLMentalist post two years ago (softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...) was I wanted people to understand that chatbots and the like are a psychological hazard.

This game is amazing and is inspiring me to actually make the ultra niche fps I thought I would never actually make youtu.be/x8-hqcD3Pho

This is one of the primary reasons I get depressed about AI. Much of the value proposition of current AI systems comes as a direct consequence of disposing the idea that craftsmanship has any value at all. I care *so much* about craftsmanship.

It is supremely funny to me that when we find out that LLMs work better with good docs it’s suddenly worthwhile to write them, while humans were expected to just roll with it

easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features! create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org

If you're a tech artist, game dev or generally person that sometimes wants to quickly whip up a diagram or "storyboard sketch," I highly recommend www.getleonardo.com - starts instantly, direct to drawable canvas - drawing actually feels good - raster with infinite scroll canvas

Oh yeah

17 years ago today. The first self-replication by a #RepRap #3Dprinter - the start of the #3Dprinting revolution.

My pessimistic take (which I think is close to being my real take) is that it represents a real threat to culture and art thru an extreme overcommodification/"firehose of palatability", WALL-E style youtu.be/tjSxFAGP9Ss And jmsdnns.com/tech/algo-un... which Steve linked both discuss this angle

Avoiding becoming the lone dependency peg using load-bearing anime instead (from @xeiaso.net) xeiaso.net/blog/2025/av...

Importance Sampled FAST Noise Here's a 25 minute video about the latest and greatest in blue noise textures / precalculated per pixel random numbers www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFSk... Also repo: github.com/electronicar... And published paper: jcgt.org/published/00...

pack 4! pack 4! pack 4!

GodSVG, my free & open-source SVG editor made with #GodotEngine, just released alpha 9, introducing configurable layouts! 📰 The website was also updated. Check out this page for details on the prerelease: godsvg.com/article/1-0-... #GodotEngine #VectorArt #OpenSource

reflection probe any% world record

what people aren’t considering that this is probably less hallucinatory than the information satya normally gets

I've now published my blog post, "I want a good parallel computer." raphlinus.github.io/gpu/2025/03/... . Thanks much to all the feedback on the draft, I'd like to think I've clarified some things that might have been confusing.

Treating this like an insane scoop just shows the crisis games are in. Someone convinced ppl indies somehow produce insane quality for pennies...because AAA is too dumb to? Quality costs money, but the environment is that of indies budgeting as low as they dare to in order to have a game at all

REAC 2025 talk details have been posted on the website! Register today - it's free! enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm If you can share this message, we'd appreciate it. Thanks, and see you soon!

Let's be real about dependencies wiki.alopex.li/LetsBeRealAb...

This is definitely an interesting discussion. One important observation is that multithreading is pretty much only relevant in the local-player game client. On the gameserver, it is often more scalable and predictable to have a "one server-game-client per thread" architecture[1].

Holographic Radiance Cascades for 2D Global Illumination Rouli Freeman, Alexander Sannikov, Adrian Margel arxiv.org/abs/2505.02041

After 18 months of gestation, Godot and SwiftUI had a baby! Xogot is out now on the AppStore: blog.la-terminal.net/xogot-godot-... AppStore: apps.apple.com/us/app/xogot...

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the two types of Linux distribution: 1. Everything is so old it doesn't even build anymore 2. Everything is so new it doesn't even build yet

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.