that thing never failed to be the loudest in the neighborhood!

When was the last time you saw Sponza on OG Xbox,..? Well, it was never till today,😄despite being super crappy version of Sponza as the raw file (.x from .obj) file was 82.3MB (this is more than the entire console RAM, so had to just run some extreme reduction reaching 600KB).

the brutal reality of gamedev jobs (or maybe all othher jobs, idk, never worked anything else).one day "thank you for your exceptional work" & "achieveing blah blah together in the coming year", the next month, "bye bye" 😄 src:https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7473067422879592449/

My LinkedIn been inactive for quite sometime, recetly i opened the account again & that was thier greetings message! Every service doing that forcing AI to be ON by default (yes, you hear me @github.com) is NASTY!

if you maybe wondering why would i waste part of the project's time in keeping it compatible ancient C++ on Windows and outside the limited scope of MSVC+VS, it is simply because my engine supporting many old platforms natively, and i always want to keep that while moving fwd.

U may find some attempts for Ninja on Win, but i cancelled them early, as it didn't seem to integrate well on VSCode. I wanted to be able to generate project for any platform/console for any C++ver(98->23), & ninja wasn't helping in getting a ready project in the IDE of choice.

After many attemps (see my recycle bin deletion count) and fighting w CMake, the engine now can compile MinGW/G++ on Windows (along side MSVC or Ninja/G++ Linux) This was a very important step, as unfortunatly moving to latest versions of VS took away old C++11/03/98 from me!

how would you expect humans to unify, where we not yet unified on \ and / in paths between Windows, Linux, MSVC and MinGW 😄

While CMake is full of crap and it is entirely a nessissary evil, but a porject on none MSVC generates *.lib, *.a or *.dll with th prefix "lib" while a CMAKE_STATIC_LIBRARY_PREFIX and CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_PREFIX were forced to an empty string is a whole new level of crapeness!

funny how much comments ending in a cmake file vs the actual cmake logic!😄 (green lines for pure comments and blue lines for URL comments)

let's make Visual Studio great again!!😄 "VS Pets" is super cute & funny weird extension (VS22, VS26, VSCode) that gives some life to VS! Didn't expect to see such a thing (MP3 Dancer & Winamp days) and didn't expect to install it! marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

Steam's capsule/boxart vs the actual gameplay footage! 😄(seen while browsing the next fest demos) store.steampowered.com/sale/nextfes... note1: i blurred the game & developer name (or else) in purpose.

this is funny, interesting, and very informative!! Didn't see such a video in a while! www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3OK...

Watching this trailer of genDESIGN's new game, was very excited, but also can tell that UE5.x is going to kill this game if nobody intervene ASAP! if u r familiar w the issues in that engine, you can spot a ton, and nobody puts a TRAILER with such issues! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qii...

🥁🥁🥁& the winner is,....Sunday the 22nd of March 2026 😄 i can't recall what was going on that day, but was interesting to notice it today!

i tried to put some confident in the embeded search feature of VS2026,...oh boy!!! back to vs-chromium where is a must, it is instant results and DON'T CARE about the amount of results!!

Bruce Wayne having a crash 😄

whoever wrote this intro 3 bulletpoints in the "JSON for Classic C++" repo is a marketing genius!! knows how to properly and perfectly sell a product!! github.com/jart/json.cpp

Apple🍎with the finest of the finest engineers, don’t know how to properly cache icons in the folder thumbnail view! Been like that since the app updated!

2026 and yet still mutliple global static variables with the same name in multiple cpp/obj (translation units) confuses the compiler during debuggin, and you hover during a breakpoint on the variable (or look at Autos), & you see the members of another variable from another obj!!

very satisfying little thing, always wanted to add this braced initialization style of array list to my custom containers api! now can use it everywhere, specially in UI. not only clean & readbale, but many blocks will endup being oneliner 😄

Sometimes life punches you in the face with a "How dare you change a CMake version in a project..!".

turned out being nice game, played it 3 times despite the cluncky controls, UI bugs or the annoying infinity-respawn bug in 8th episide! Super funny game, funny entertaining dialogue, nice visuals, & different mechancis. Oh, and it is more Soviet than the Soviet Uninion itself😄

Windows 11 found out that i've penalty of space, so it made an almost full copy of the Windows folder called Windows.old (remains of an update or something), and left it chilling in there!

from some LinkedIn spam newsletter email, 256 what are the odds 😄

"Behind the Pretty Frames" series of articles, breaking down many tricks & hidden gems of the renderer behind some of the most beautiful & remarkable AAA games. i hope u enjoy this few years of digging & researching & find out about few tricks & impressive techniques. mamoniem.com/category/beh...

On that note in the first image, let's not forget that note of the 2nd image : ) www.reddit.com/r/GamingSoup... the meme is from this Detroit Become Human technical breakdown article: mamoniem.com/behind-the-p...

this “Little Orpheus” game is nice, funny, hilarious! Enjoying it!! Not a billion button combination, just straight forward funny experience. Makes me wondering what other great games out there, released and never heard of that could be truly entertaining!

school computer classes back then were very very useful.. 🥰you get out of such class feeling like Neo in the Matrix but instead of Kungfu you say "I know computer" 😄

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it counts..

looks bizarre with Win11 round corners, right..😄

Several tweets recently about Visual Studio 97, with some shared piece of confused info, that Visual Studio 6 is a "1997". No. Visual Studio 6 is a late 1998 not 1997. However, Visual Studio 5 (used to be called Visual Studio 97 nobody called it Visual Studio 5, but i did) is the one from 1997.

really an interesting film about Timur (Tamerlane), Samarkand & Silk Road, with some amazing Uzbekistan landscapes & architecture. not sure how historically accurate, but there are many parts of it are indeed accurate! imdb.com/title/tt2586... (some nice shots below this thread)

Behind the pretty frames of #PRAGMATA. Breaking down many tricks and hidden gems of the renderer behind CAPCOM's RE Engine. i hope you enjoy & find this few months worth of freetime article useful... mamoniem.com/behind-the-p...

the Windows updating experience for the entire 2026 so far!

i name 3 things that well served humankind: 1. Vaccines 2. Transistors 3. Printf

only two rules in life butter salted integer signed

size_tttttt www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEOd...

oh wow!!😳

i name 3 things that well served humankind: 1. Vaccines 2. Transistors 3. Streaming Multiprocessors

while digging an old drive, i found what you could consider one of the main reasons behind kicking the side quest "Behind the Pretty Frames", it is back to some images i stored from a PIXAR blog post about Renderman in 2009. It was kinda magic seeing all passes coming together!

after near ~6 yeras of using Logitech G502 Hero (my favorite) i mistakenly figured out today that the scroll can be pushed right & left for extra functionality! This mouse never stops impressing me! www.logitechg.com/en-us/shop/p...

i name 3 things that well served humankind: 1. Vaccines 2. Transistors 3. Indirect Drawing

apparently Crowbcat dropped a video during the week that i missed! never too late to Crowbcatting! www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-KA...

my kid repeat the silly quote "my generation is so cooked because of AI", so i got two rand images from the interent, and asked him, how much fat that guy got between the two photos that are 1year apart, he said "these are two different guys", then i took him to ask Grok about the same two photos! 😄

When Graphics Changed Forever.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uc...

Graphics & Engine programming (well, programming in general) is pretty much plumbing work in its essence. Don't belive me, here is the proof: - Pipelines (Graphics Pipe, Pipeline States, Top of Pipe, Bottom of Pipe) - Sinks (Commands & Console sinks) - Leaks (Memory Leaks) - 🧵🧵🧵🧵

i can't get enough of that thing, it fits everything!!!😄

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 436 - April 12th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...