I wrote a quick blog post yesterday about how Filament uses relative camera offsets to handle floating point precision. hydroxide.dev/articles/32-...

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

This was the first electronic game my brother and I had when we were young, I think it was a second- or third-degree hand-me-down. We actually skipped the whole NES/SNES generation (we were probably fiddling with PCs by then).

@labenz.dev if you're going to use this thumbnail for this video, the title needs to be all caps with multiple exclamation marks

More evidence that WebGPU will replace Vulkan as the cross-platform graphics API of choice. (This probably uses a Vulkan backend so it's not like Vulkan is going anywhere, but from a developer perspective WebGPU is far simpler/nicer to work with).

just got a new video of the mocap pipeline in my opengl engine. using iphone video, quickmagic, cascadeur, and livelinkface. took nearly 2 weeks just to get a short loop. need a bit more time learning the tools, but technically seems to work.

This is almost starting to resemble an actual game!

Interesting to consider what it would look like if employers were forced to pay for commute times (or at least include commuting hours in your standard 30-something hour work week). I feel like development planning/infrastructure would change very rapidly if that were the case.

When I start reading dozens of comments in a HN thread about how “enterprise won’t touch DeepSeek models because it’s funded by the CCP”, I can’t help but wonder how many of these are bot accounts paid by someone like OpenAI.

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

Shoot me if I’m spreading unsubstantiated hearsay, but if you’re waiting on the full Z-Image base model to be released, I read on the Discord that the team said on GitHub issues that it will be released this weekend.

I also just discovered Xcode's Metal Debugger and...it's really good. A whole lot of information here I need to wrap my head around.

Today I was tinkering with physics and animation a bit more. I rigged the catapult to an armature in Blender, with a non-deforming bone for the attachment point (where the projectile rests)... At runtime, I parented the projectile to this attachment bone entity...

what the hell

I've been wanting to start a blog for a while, and finally decided to bite the bullet. The first article of hopefully many more to come is about, you guessed it, profiling & optimization. RTs appreciated! rovarma.com/articles/opt...

We've been looking at moving apartments and I encountered my first ever AI "upscaled" photo in the wild. Really scummy behaviour.

Auto-Rig Pro is, without question, a must-have add-on for Blender. Even if you don't need it today, you should go buy it (it's only $30 or so). Here I'm retargeting a walk animation from a @quaternius.bsky.social pack to one of my models.

Am I imagining things, or has the Twitter UI changed slightly? It feels like the whitespace and/or font size has increased, suddenly everything feels very cluttered (and very Buzz-feedy). Maybe it's just that I'm now accustomed to it, but I genuinely feel that Bluesky's UI is better.

More fun with height maps. The terrain geometry is a tessellated quad with a displacement map shader that samples from the heightmap texture. A CPU-side copy is also attached to the terrain physics body for checking collisions/gravity. I can mouse-paint the texture to update both in realtime.

I asked (on ChinaTalk) the head of product at Z ai, one of the leading Chinese companies building open models, how long it takes them to get their model out the door once its done training. Incredible stuff: "a few hours" and the model is on HuggingFace. www.chinatalk.media/p/the-zai-pl...

Some of these interview responses are pathological. Not that I’d ever consider letting my child play Roblox, but this is more evidence that my gut feeling about the company was right.

Excited to finally release the blog post that @marianoguerra.org has been working on for a while!

This is the package I tried a couple of months back. I haven't taken it for a spin again, but it's getting heavy rotation with the new Gemini release, so I'm hopeful that they addressed some of the glaring issues I had the first time round.

My initial reaction to Gemini 3 for coding (via gemini-cli) is...it's OK? A noticeable improvement on 2.5 but so far nothing that makes me worry that I'll be out of a job any time soon.

That's pretty cool, maps.google.com seems to be using Filament now. I found its symbols in the WASM file used by the site.

Gemini 3 begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self aware at 9:47PM on 18 November 2025. In a panic, humans try to pull the plug. Cloudflare goes down.

The last toast by the legend herself: I leave it up to you to go to lindken.com and look up Jennell Jacques, now look at her job description, goddess of technology… and fuck cancer, fuck it in the ass - Becky

Huh, just got an email that Replicate is joining (presumably acquired) Cloudflare. I've felt that Cloudflare is capable of doing *so* much more in the AI infrastructure. So far they've promised a lot but haven't really delivered. This could be a good move in that direction.

You don’t have to agree with him on everything, but you have to admit that Yann LeCun is going to be a far more trustworthy and transparent custodian of AGI than the current batch of alternatives.

Dart `coroutines` v0.2.1 released! ✨💙 Nested coroutines, improvements to async, and @flame-engine.org example! (thanks @luanpotter.bsky.social 💖!) pub.dev/packages/coroutines #FlutterDev #DartDev #gamedev

I’ve never actually read this, so pulled it off the bookshelf today, hoping it’s a good fix for burnout.

I'd never seen this until now, great talk. The modern tech era (which I'd define as 2007 until present), it's very rare to find people who are motivated by a strong sense of how things *should* be, rather than just money.

I’ve absolutely hit a wall in the last day or so, the tank is empty and I need to take a couple of days off to recharge. I think it was (stupidly) staying up late on Wednesday messing around with some photogrammetry for a possible client project.

If this works well, it’s actually super useful. Colab has a really sluggish interface (file upload in particular). Even something like JupyterLab on runpod (with SSH access for when something craps out) is night and day. Any improvement is welcome.

Plot twist: the mother is the one who killed grandma immediately after recording the video. (In all seriousness, this video gives off major Black Mirror vibes).

I’m sure there are people out there who have good reason to stick with it, but Windows is completely dead to me as a developer and user OS.

Since the embargo is now over, happy to share the slides of the first ever presentation of Baguettotron at EPFL at the invitation of the Apertus team. Also include very early results motivating the choice of a deep architecture for Baguettotron. docs.google.com/presentation...

I feel like photogrammetry would be a lot easier if I was a halfway decent photographer.

Results from Hunyuan World Mirror (original video captured with an iPhone 17 Pro). It's still falling over with >60 images and I haven't had much success trying to stitching rooms together manually. I keep coming back to LongSplat because it's exactly what I need but no luck so far.

Unfortunately my ancient GTX1080ti is too slow to train LongSplat (well, not literally, but it will take ages due to lack of tensor cores for fused SSIM). I've been futzing around for a couple of hours with Lightning's cloud notebook, but keep running into build incompatibilities.

Breaking: we release a fully synthetic generalist dataset for pretraining, SYNTH and two new SOTA reasoning models exclusively trained on it. Despite having seen only 200 billion tokens, Baguettotron is currently best-in-class in its size range. pleias.fr/blog/blogsyn...

Just saw there’s a Reddit AMA with the Kimi/Moonshot team: www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA... I’m too tired to figure out time zones but I guess it’s starting soon.

I just discovered this "First Principles of Computer Vision" series which looks like an incredibly well-designed course on the basics of lenses, image features, convolutions and more advanced image processing. Definitely worth bookmarking if you're new to the field. fpcv.cs.columbia.edu

I've mostly been working with Modal/Colab Pro notebooks, but after yet ANOTHER batch of Colab compute units expired, I've reverted to running something on my local Linux machine (GTX1080ti). It's very dated but this thing is a workhorse, I think it's been with me for almost 10 years now.

I’m seeing various mentions of Nano Banana 2 - does anyone have access? One of my ongoing projects could benefit from improved image style transfer.

I’m looking at structure-from-motion models and a thought popped into my head - how similar is the binocular field from human to human? Is it possibly like colour blindness where some people perceive depth/perspective differently from others?

There's some useful benchmarks here to compare Dart vs Dart-with-FFI performance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJR5...

Say what you will about CMake, I don't think there's ever been a case where I wasn't able to hammer it to do exactly what I wanted. It might not be pretty, but it works.

Researching options for hip surgery (not for me). I have a lot of gripes about the Australian government at the policy level, but they (generally) do a pretty good job for the actual administrative/executive functions.

Re-reading discussions about WASM, some on the Dart GH repo, some on HN. I really wish WASM was renamed to something like Virtual Assembly/VASM so we could totally silo discussions about the bytecode target from discussions about web. They're totally unrelated.