Democracy does not erode overnight. It erodes when those elected to defend it choose silence instead. Congress has both the authority and the responsibility to push back against judicial overreach. As a member of this legislative body, I chose to stand up and do exactly that.

Some large scale surveys of codebot usage are starting to come online, and the results aren't great. Task throughput is up, but bugs and amount of time it takes for features to get in production are way up. More code just gums up the works later in the pipeline. Good summary here

Here's an awesome new blog post by Maxime Heckel on rendering realistic skies and atmospheres. There's a ton of really cool interactive widgets illustrating each of the steps; I highly recommend giving it a read and giving the interactive widgets a try! blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/on-ren...

The American Heart Association just posted this and tbh, I LOLed.

About 3.5 years ago I did some experiment to improve the behavior of microfacet normals at glancing angles. Many surfaces become highly reflective even though having high roughness. Check the discussion in the thread. Here is my implementation reusing equations you already have:

There's a neat short paper from Eurographics this year that evaluates how well microfacet shading models actually predict measured reflectance. The answer is: not nearly as well as one would hope! (1/3) ssteinberg.xyz/2026_surface...

the more I think about it, the more I feel like “Odysseus is from Boston” is true in a sort of ecstatic truth way

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

Subtle things to make your shaders better: 1) Anti-aliasing - Real life is not limited to pixels so unless you're specifically going for a pixelated style, you should be anti-aliasing everything! mini.gmshaders.com/p/antialiasing

Munetaka Murakami leads the Majors with 13 home runs. His latest left his bat at 111.1 mph and traveled 413 feet.

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 438 - April 27h, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Bureaucracy. Spelling it feels the same as navigating it.

New DirectX 12 Agility SDK. Just preview version, but I hope these additions will reach the retail version soon. I'm excited about CopyBuffer/TextureRegions, clears, and FillBuffers - finally available without implicit barriers around them! devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/shad...

We take pride in prioritizing small web (independent blogs) sources and forums in search results because those are the most authentic corners of the web that deserve to be discovered, especially as they quickly disappeared from search engines elsewhere.

For the first time in our 9-year history: WE ARE HIRING! We're seeking a full-time fundraising manager to establish and grow our non-profit's development department - in other words, to raise money and help us grow! Remote-hybrid in the SF Bay Area with benefits! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

“My eyeline implies that the stage where the people I’m looking at is, like, 30 feet high.”

My talk about the time-travel powers of cross-platform determinism talk at the @conference.aiandgames.com is now freely available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3B_... Debug across time & platforms. PC, Xbox, Playstation, Switch. x64 to Arm64, release builds to debug builds. Thanks determinism!

In this video series, the team and I dive into some of the tech behind Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and what powers the Anvil engine. We cover Atmos, Large-Scale Rendering, Micropolygon, and Ray Tracing. #Anvil #AssassinsCreed #AssassinsCreedShadows www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Did you know: There's HD video of Here Comes The Pizza?

Tired: the pope should stay out of politics Wired: the American pope should pressure the administration by advocating for marginalized groups both within the US and abroad Inspired: the Chicago pope should buy the White Sox

If measuring performance, always talk about milliseconds or microseconds, never frames per second. You can do math with milliseconds - add them up, subtract them, average them, etc. You cannot do math with FPS, and you look like a newb if you try.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Even astronauts get stuck taxiing on the tarmac.

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

What genuinely helped me when we started DSB: When I first fired up Quickbooks and realized "oh this is just Railroad Tycoon".

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

Paul Chadeisson's latest video is a breathtaking short about a 'second skin' for the planet: aftermath.site/paul-chadeisso...

The United States should abolish the presidency and become a parliamentary democracy

Gave this the soundtrack it deserves. Kubrick was onto something when he picked the Blue Danube as the Theme of Objects Floating In Space. Call me, Nutella

I, personally, would like to be on the dark side of the Moon too.

That's right! We destroyed the oldschool demo compo with my most advanced 6502 code to date. This is really running in a stock Atari 2600 with no expansions! (except 32k ROM bank switching) Full video at my channel youtu.be/aEJ0A8Wvdxs

There's something a bit poignant about a Bluetooth device failing to connect to another device right next to it when they're the only Bluetooth devices for hundreds of thousands of kilometres around.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

Today's the day.

The Cathedral! Generated fully in geometry nodes in Blender. Only procedural modeling, no booleans, 40k nodes. 🤡 Nodes available on my github, consider sharing because it will get the free asset to the hands of those who need it: github.com/IRCSS/Blende...

A walkthrough of a selection of Tomb Raider III’s rendering techniques, good read! medium.com/@reinigdavid...

Levin: This is the largest protest in Minnesota history… The next major national action of this movement is not just gonna be another protest. On May 1st, across the country, we are saying no business as usual. No work, no school, no shopping.

This is my jam

I encourage you to reach late middle age by any means necessary if for no other reason than to find out just how primo the naps are. No matter how much you like naps now you will not believe it

The Sora implosion is the first big breakthrough moment with AI that gives Metaverse vibes, or at the very least Dot Com Bubble vibes.

Happy to see Stranglehold has an entry in the Video Game Soda Machine Project vgsmproject.com/category/str...

It's been offline for a couple of months due to hosting issues, but the Video Game Soda Machine Project archive is back online again. If you've ever wanted to browse through more than 3,000 screenshots of soda machines from video games dating back as far as 1983, this is the site for you.

great reporting here. basically yes DLSS 5 is running a gen AI model on the 2D output and nothing more. it doesn’t know anything about the 3D scene, textures / models / lighting / PBR other than what the model infers by looking at a frame. TL:DR, they sped up slop. youtu.be/D0EM1vKt36s?...

ChatGPT: you’re so right, Leto Atreides II. Merging with a worm would give you unconscionable power that you, alone, could wield — you, alone, could be trusted with. You wouldn’t be committing a genocide. You would be saving humanity

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This is sacrificing art direction at the alter of fidelity. You will get wildly different results on different platforms or GPUs. I don't think this is it folks.