LG Display announced they have a 27" 4k true RGB stripe OLED with a 240hz and FHD 480hz mode similar to their current WOLED 4k panels. news.lgdisplay.com/en/2025/12/l...

Ah, the Xmas tradition of figuring out who sent the latest package of unwrapped and unlabeled gifts to you based on the subtle differences in how people choose to write the name on the shipping address. Is it to just me? Just to my wife? Just me but my full name? To my wife and I? To the family?

I got the first post about direct lighting material occlusion up on my blog. On this one I go over the commonly used micro-occlusion approach and its limitations, and I start digging into micro-shadowing as an improvement. irradiance.ca/posts/micros...

Family drama, comedy, turn-based fantastical battles with your exes, skating, and cooking tasty dishes! Thirsty Suitors is 50% off on Steam. Here’s an overview. If you played it, please leave a review! store.steampowered.com/app/1617220/...

My iPhone finally forced an update to the latest iOS with Liquid Glass UI elements. And I've spent the last few days finding all the ways to turn that shit off so I can actually read anything and use my device efficiently again.

Over 4 years ago I wrote an article about trying to solve the texture seam you often get in shader generated UVs. Especially in things like equirectangular UVs, though any kind of discontinuity will cause them. bgolus.medium.com/distinctive-...

The world today is spending an awful lot of money to try and make sand think, and trying to avoid making man think.

Steam Cube

I watch @smartereveryday.bsky.social ’s video on the nuclear power plant and there was one offhand comment by someone who works there about how “nuclear radiation” (specifically Cherenkov radiation) is blue, but “everyone thinks it’s green”.

Fun Fact: We do not know how to tell someone’s gender from DNA. There are strong _correlations_, but it’s far less strong than you may think. The Olympics tried this, and had to stop because it was “unreliable”… www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

A neighbor of mine has extremely bright LED light bars all the way around his roofline. He changes the colors daily and often has it animating or flashing all day and night. And I do mean daily. He hasn’t turned it off since he installed it about a year ago. Except for one night. Halloween

So, I run Windows 11 Pro on my home system. Why? Originally because I know people who work at Microsoft so I can get it for super cheap, but these days it’s so I can more easily avoid things like the forced Microsoft Account login and AI features they keep forcing on Home users.

On a completely different tack, a small rant. This fucked up “iNtErSeX pEoPlE aRe aLl eItHeR mAlE oR fEmAlE oNlY” bullshit that empty-headed chucklefucks come out with ignores a huge part of the human side of living this - and that is WE OFTEN DON’T KNOW WHICH OURSELVES in whatever manner of-

People always make fun of one particular company for their terrible console naming. I man, first they added a silly number, then they called the next release “One”, then they added an X to denote its an upgrade to the existing console. Sony is so weird. Wait, was who you were thinking?

There was a thread by @nanoraptor.danamania.com a few days ago about weird body traits that I didn’t respond to mostly because my weird body things are fairly mundane things like my thumbs are thicker at the knuckle than the base, I have squared ribs, and hazel eyes. But there is one other thing…

So it works now! If you have Bakery, can you try getting the latest github patch and using it? Add "Bakery Light Filter" component to an object to make it act like stained glass 😋 (video from RTPreview for fanciness, but it looks the same when baked) #gamedev

The iPhone Air looks nice, but I'm waiting for next year's iPhone Land, which is 2 cm inches thick and has a week long battery life, has brick textured sides, and the camera "bump" is concave rather than convex.

First WiFi was just for wireless local networking. Now it's also for allowing your phone to figure out where it is when GPS doesn't work. And for other devices to track your phone. Then to track your body just by how it interferes with the radio waves. Now: www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/r...

BMW showed off their first real Neue Klass platform based production vehicle, the 2027 iX3. Certainly some really interesting stuff, but... uh... did they miss the memo about piano black touch sensitive controls being universally hated?

A bunch of SSDs are apparently failing after a recent Windows patch. Microsoft says it’s not them, and their metrics aren’t showing any abnormal increases in hardware failures. Phison, a component manufacturer commonly used in many of the drives that are failing, say they can’t repro any issue.

One of my favorite facts about the current Hollywood trend of claiming movies have "no CGI" is at one time the movie with the most CGI shots of any movie was a romantic comedy, because they digitally replaced the sky and background in every single shot in the movie.

Me and Towerbolt are at the Seattle Indies Expo!! Come on down to check out the game and all the other awesome games made by local devs!! #SIX2025 @seattleindies.bsky.social

@hankgreen.bsky.social In your latest AHA you wondered if chimerism only exists for XX chromosome individuals. Well, @nanoraptor.danamania.com is apparently an XX/XY chimera. So…

@digitalfoundry.bsky.social posted a clip from their DF Direct Weekly podcast about them talking about borderless windowed mode in games today. It ends with them talking about how windowed gaming was a thing in the early Windows era and it dislodged a memory. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cPY...

I find it hilarious that they wanted Robert Pattinson to play the lead role in Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, could get him, but clearly had already modelled the main character after him. It seems like they tweaked the model a little to look less like him from the front, but forgot the profile.

Show me your quick getaway vehicle!

Been feeling a little queer lately.

Clearly a manipulated photo was uploaded, so I uncovered the original unedited version.

I’m constantly fascinated by the word ironic. It’s a word that went from common usage, to uncommon usage, back to common usage. And subtly changed in meaning in that time quite rapidly. And while lots of words change quickly due to use in slang or technical terminology, this was neither.

bsky.app/profile/radi... I really like biplanar mapping from the standpoint of “neat shader tricks”. But like many neat shader tricks, it’s probably not actually cheaper than triplanar. And on some hardware it’s much, much more expensive.

PCIe 5.0 for the main PCIe slot is entirely pointless for consumer PCs. The only people it's good for is the GPU manufacturers letting them ship video cards with only 8 or 4 lanes actually connected so they can save some money on their $400+ GPUs.

It's absolutely hilarious to me that Grok was created in large part to help a whiny man baby have "proof" that his world view is correct, and it keeps calling him out for his bullshit instead. I'm convinced DOGE used llama because they couldn't get Grok to agree to the kinds of cuts they wanted.

If you like the sound of this and want to support us, wishlist here. Thank you. store.steampowered.com/app/2950710/... the-indie-in-former.com/2025/06/17/d...

NuPhy has a new version of their so-called "ultra-thin" mechanical keyboard, the AIR75 V3. This is advertised as being "13.2 mm tall". But, that's only how thick the keyboard's chassis is at its thinnest point. That's ignoring the the height of the key caps and the feet.

Good News Expat Canadians! They sell Ketchup Chips in the US now!* (* They’re corn chips, not potato, and taste nothing like ketchup chips. Just like most US versions of Canadian products.)

There’s an unincorporated area near Seattle named White Center. Basically a town with no local government. Every year they hold an LGBTQIA festival around this time of year they call White Center Pride. And to me doing double takes when I hear that on the radio multiple times in the weeks before.

The crazy things about iOS 26's "Aero Glass" redesign is that I legitimately think the Windows implementation was better for usability.

I absolutely loved Magic Eye images as a kid. I reverse engineered how they worked on my own, and would draw ones by hand on line paper while sitting in classes in junior high. Yes, I was a weird one.

The more times I see posts on social media about “weird autistic traits” I wonder if we shouldn’t be putting more money intro researching what causes allium.

I wonder how much time graphics programmers / tech artists have inadvertently spent attempting to find a solution to the Hairy Ball Theorem.

New TMNT game doesn’t have 4 player support, and doesn’t let you pick which turtle you play? Fail.

Upgraded my GPU from a 3080 Ti to a 5080 yesterday. Needed the slightly extra VRAM for work, otherwise was quite happy with the 3080 Ti's performance. Was cautiously optimistic that the driver issues wouldn't be too bad. Oh boy was I wrong.

This should be fine, right? The 50 series only uses one of these wires for all of the power anyway.

It's funny how for the Nvidia 30 and 40 series everyone made a big fuss about making sure you're using multiple separate PCIe power cables and not using daisy chained connectors for powering GPUs. And for the 50 series Nvidia decided "one wire should be enough for anyone."

A thing I find funny about "Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans" existing as a real world candy that the main draw of is the fact you don't know if the next one you have is going to be tasty or gross... I feel like the pre-existing Jelly Belly assortment bags have always been that.

Me watching the latest @techconnectify.bsky.social video:

People talk about "brute force" "breadth-first" or "depth-first" methods for finding some data in a data tree. I'd like to propose my alternative algorithm: "final-first" Just go straight to the thing you're looking for rather than iterating over everything. Much faster.

The current US admin is considering offering $5k for any US citizen who has a baby as a way to incentivize people having more kids. Just giving birth in the US costs several times that in medical fees, not to mention the ongoing costs.

One of my favorite things about DisplayPort is that virtually all DisplayPort outputs can also automatically output HDMI. All you need is a cable that has a DP connector on one end and an HDMI connector on the other. There's no trickery going on in the cable itself, it really is just a cable.

A weird thing has happened with the number of people who view or read my Medium articles in the last year. Since I first started posting them, they'd of course get big spikes for the first month or two of readers. And afterwards slowly dwindle over time. But there was a sharp drop in the last year.