my mood recently

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We got you: translate.kagi.com/extension

lmao these guys just sent me an email cus they're looking for a C++ Vulkan expert yeah no thanks bro (company name is "goneural.ai", probably best to avoid them if you can)

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Every year another Doom birthday rolls by and reminds me of the same thing: I never actually launched the project I started five years ago with @textfiles.com Today, I finally fix that.

Drinking game idea: take a shot every time Cloudflare, AWS or Azure goes down

Congratulations to our partner @chasingcarrots.bsky.social!  #HallsOfTorment is now available on #PS5 and #Xbox (Optimized for Xbox Series X|S), brought to console with our 1-click W4 Consoles #GodotEngine solution.

🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢 Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre - Deck out your cruise liner fleet - Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities - Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...

yo can we keep AWS down a bit longer

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

2026 is the year of the Linux desktop!

Found another one: on the calendar in my parents' kitchen

[Friendly Visits - Part 1] (1/2) i like to think Derpy visits Rumi often for affection 🐱💖 • • • #kpopdemonhunters #kpopdemonhuntersnetflix #kpopdemonhuntersfanart #fanart #art #rumi #derpy #characterart #comic #procreate

Incredible, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S version of Halls of Torment are coming on 28th October? DEMOS OUT NOW?! Crazy! Also, we are updating the game on Steam on the same date, the HoT News can be found here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/221...

I don't get how people don't realize that a technology that replaces junior and entry level positions in a field destroys that field. There's no skipping steps. You have to be a junior before you can be a senior, and if you don't have senior people, you don't have a field.

#SIGGRAPH2025 Advances talks slides sharing: "Strand-based hair and fur rendering in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle" by Sergei Kulikov from Machine games is now online advances.realtimerendering.com/s2025/index....

My secret talent is attempting to cook dinner for one but accidentally making enough to feed a small army 😅

I really hate these "point of no return" things forced upon you. I just wanna go back to an earlier level where the hardest boss were the midterm exams, but instead I have to deal with taxes and bills and stuff

This thread is incredible.

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

We've used the #voxel game-engine we build as a team of students to make a little diorama puzzle game :) This has been an incredibly fun experience, building this from the ground up, working together with designers and artists! Engine: youtu.be/uvLZn1X_R0Q Game: buas.itch.io/zentera

Tweaked CI/CD pipelines for a solid 5 hours today. cannot recommend. 🫠

At this point I'm just rooting for Disney tbh

yeah I love time zones as a programmer

I wrote a blog article about D3D12 resource states. It explains the rules around state promotion/decay and how that means a resource can be used on multiple queues at the same time (even if one queue is writing!) danglingpointers.com/post/d3d12-r...

Again, this sounds like a very simple problem to solve. But the fact that very smart people have not solved it implies that there's some brick wall of functionality I don't understand. Imagine a technology so useless you can't even run Doom on it...

average monday at work today

I try to stay away from politics but this crab eating a grape is very important.

"the american dream" well nightmares are also classified as dreams

Useless skill I've picked up as a web dev: being able to spot certain fonts in the wild like yep that is definitely the Ubuntu font, so glad I could spot that one

well well well

From 930 errors, to 600, to 360, to 0, to 730... Ah the sweet life of a software engineer

Hello!! I'm opening up my commissions, if you're interested you can find more info here ✨ marigallet-commissions.carrd.co #commissions #commissionsopen #illustration #conceptart

New dithering method dropped I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG... Source repository: github.com/runevision/D... #gamedev #vfx

If you want to join the team: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Ah dang, so close...

Do you want to learn path tracing? Two lectures that I held at TU Delft are on YouTube now! The 2nd is what I had in mind for part 3 of my path tracing workshop. No Shadertoy exercises this time, but an open source Vulkan path tracer 🥳. www.tudelft.nl/ewi/over-de-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uerw...

I used to collect examples of 'environmental storytelling in the real world' on Twitter. I found it gave me ideas for environmental storytelling in games and demonstrated how 'on the nose' those real vignettes can be. I thought I'd recreate the thread here in the hope that others will contribute.

Every bug in Windows brings me one step closer to fully switching to Linux. Today's episode: blank login screen. Couldn't do anything other than just hard-reboot via the power button.

Hey there bsky! I'm looking for an internship in graphics/engine programming anywhere in the world (I'm willing to relocate). If you happen to know any open positions or if you work at a company that is taking interns, feel free to contact me! Portfolio ⬇️

Great way to expand one's graphics knowledge: Every day grab and read a random graphics paper from realtimerendering.com/random.html. Even if you struggle to get the specifics, read the abstract or skim over it to learn about its existence and get the gist of a graphics technique.

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I start a new side-project?

I am happy to report that I have once again given up on AdventOfCode on the 2nd day.

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Graphics programmer: the cup is opaque because rendering transparencies or fluids is difficult

Decided to give Slang a shot in my newest project. Note to self: GLM is column-major. Slang expects row-major. yeah no wonder I was getting a black screen...

Welp that was the final episode of Arcane man, what a series

The weekly dread of wtf am I gonna eat next week. Being an adult sucks... 😔