What's Automat? See for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cwx... Demo from LIVE 2025 (liveprog.org)

Some thoughts on context menu #ui #design #devlog youtu.be/UeCDk5-lXYU

So here is the new mouse trace chunking algorithm. Notice that mouse traces are now split into meaningful windows now and zooming no longer causes chaos. Also new bugs. Powered by segment trees. #gamedev #wip #ui #design

Mouse traces now have little thumbnails on the timeline. Zooming is still a little chaotic but not for long... #wip #gamedev #ui #design

My mouse pointer seems to be possessed. Is this the proper way to exorcise your PC?

#Automat just learned how to move mouse! It's brewing me healing potions in #KingdomComeDeliverance2 right now ^^ #kcd2

Here is a fun trick: signal handlers can perform surgery on the stack & registers for the interrupted thread. It can be used to inject fake function calls or steer the execution arbitrarily. It's almost like a built-in programmatic debugger that can be triggered with a "signal()" call.

that was *such* a good demo session. 3 mind bending futuristic tech demos techs from @mrogalski.eu , @pomdtr.me and I. Links in the vid. It went so well! I love that meetup.

4D depth of field Almost made a UI out of this 😅

Randomizing some color palettes with #HSLuv www.hsluv.org

This is amazing! 🤩

Here is a little exploit for leveling up speech in #skyrim. It's about ~1 hour of manual clicking (or 30 minutes with an auto-clicker) www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HlJ...

Skyrim Alchemy macro is ready! JSON can be downloaded from the #machines-exchange channel in Automat's Discord (discord.com/invite/MRfuB...).

Automat can now farm alchemy ingredients in Skyrim! It scans the shopkeeper's inventory, buying every "Giant's Toe" & "Creep Cluster". When done, performs inventory reset glitch & starts over. Another step towards fully automated alchemy grinding. #TheElderScrolls #skyrim

Programming intuitions are generally hard to build and require quite a bit of effort. Automat attempts to make it easier using a "scales" analogy. Here is how it works: youtu.be/GDXvH2CMzuk

Civitai is the new DeviantArt

Shaders don't have typos but happy accidents #art #creativecoding #shaders

If "no overflow" then...

An interesting performance tip I learned while making sense of x86 addressing system is that your arrays elements should ideally have 1, 2, 4 or 8 bytes. Only for those sizes x86 instructions can access array elements directly (so no extra multiplication is needed to get an address).

Here is a tiny but useful function. Given radius of a circle and length of a leg of an embedded triangle, it finds the length of the other leg. It may seem silly but it really makes it easier to think about geometric problems. It's like LERP for geometry.

Some of notes made while making sense of x86 conditions. The worst part for me are the JB & JNB conditions which have dual use. They are used for comparing numbers and for "unsigned overflow" checking. This makes it hard to find a reasonable visual metaphor as it also has to exhibit this duality.

Do you know what's the difference between JA (jump above) and JG (jump if greater)? Conditional instructions in x86 come in 16 variants with a bunch of interesting symmetries between them. Here is a visual language that attempts to exploit those symmetries to make their meaning more intuitive.

Instruction immediates can now be edited! The widget allows decimal, hexadecimal & UTF-8 input.

Has anybody been able to build a statically linked binary that shows a Vulkan surface? I understand that the Vulkan driver has to be loaded dynamically - so it’s more of a question whether a statically built app can reliably load and talk with it? #c++ #programming #linux

Self-modifying programs can store variables directly within their instructions. I guess this has some interesting implications.

Any app can be a text input now

Here is a short video about smart pointers used internally by Automat! youtu.be/g0JADIBjPHc

Radial menus are the best

Introducing bubble menu!

Windows XP-like frame is now complete. No bitmaps were used in the process.

Personal opinion: Microsoft's design peaked sometime between Windows95 and Windows XP. "Welcoming UI" > "Professional UI"

Tesseract OCR (3MB model) vs Skyrim Tesseract seems to have issues with: - text shadows - text outlines - high-contrast backgrounds Which is exactly what most game UIs are made of =_= It's far from perfect but I guess we can work with this...

The Incredible Machine for MS-DOS is one of the very few games that uses 640x480 16-color graphics using default palette, and easily the best looking game using this graphics mode. I put the palette in the corner so you can see for yourself.

New devlog is out! This time I'm talking about Automat's shape representations.

Automat got its own Discord! I'm generally reluctant towards contributing to the dark-web but it seems like Discord became the de-facto communication standard these days. This is the "Worse is better" playing out one more time before our eyes Anyway, here is the invite: discord.com/invite/MRfuB...

Do you want to know what was the secret to Flash websites? Instead of presupposing that "everything is a document" & "documents are a collection of boxes within other boxes" it went with "everything is a movie clip" & "movie clip is a collection of other movie clips" (Clips all the way down!) 🧵👇

Isn't it crazy that something so simple is so difficult when attempted from within a web browser's sandbox?

Don't you miss the times when apps were free to just access pixels of your desktop?

Guess what happens when the instruction deck runs out of cards?

Automat can now grind levels in Skyrim! www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6cw...

Enough assembly. Back to playing games now. youtu.be/tjFsMnga890

I've added broadway lights to the assembler widget. Still not sure what to use them for...

YSK debuggers can do much more than debugging! Attaching one to a process can also turn it into a sort of VM-like execution environment. Pausing & resuming execution, hot-swapping code and registers (also instruction pointer). All at the performance cost of ~an OS context switch!

Stars in the background of the Assembler widget use a shape called "astroid" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid). Same idea as squircle, but instead of exponent 4, astroid uses 2/3.

If my math is correct, this executes at 5 billion increments / second! And if we count the JMP at the end, it's 10 billlion instructions / second!

Another devlog out! (I think I'm slowly getting hang of video editing ^^) This time we take a look at x86 instruction cards and how they can be used to drive the execution of Automat macros. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Fw...

Bookmarking this for later!

Oh, and @mrogalski.eu is of course on here now, sorry about missing that! Thanks for presenting, and now we have this great video to share.

Snappy Animations - numerical tricks for low-latency visual feedback, Marek Rogalski A bunch of tricks that will bring your animations to the next level. We’ll focus on the use of animations in user interfaces - where it’s critical to squeeze every millisecond out of the input latency.

They say multithreaded rendering is hard. They're right! www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwOH...