Spent the day wandering around Seattle. Art museum was good for the soul

Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 439 - May 4th, 2026 www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphic...

Inspired by @sebaaltonen.bsky.social's "No Graphics API", I've written a GPU pointer-centric bindless wrapper on Vulkan+Metal. Still in rough shape, but I've written about it here: www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing...

Inspired by @sebaaltonen.bsky.social's "No Graphics API", I've written a GPU pointer-centric bindless wrapper on Vulkan+Metal. Still in rough shape, but I've written about it here: www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing...

After 2+ years at Apple, this is my last week. It's time for my family and I to move back home to Toronto, and sadly the job is here. Planning on enjoying the summer but I will be looking for work - if you need a C++ dev with experience in graphics, let me know! Open to remote or Toronto local gigs.

After 2+ years at Apple, this is my last week. It's time for my family and I to move back home to Toronto, and sadly the job is here. Planning on enjoying the summer but I will be looking for work - if you need a C++ dev with experience in graphics, let me know! Open to remote or Toronto local gigs.

This is an impressive low-level dive into memory hardware/software, refresh cycles, and read latency - definitely learned some things and saw some cool graphs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbg...

“You may leave here for four days in space, but when you return it’s the same old place” youtu.be/_38SWIIKITE?...

Angine De Poitrine keeps making its way into Blue Jays broadcasts and I want to know who at Sportsnet is sneaking the microtonal math rock into the mix

“The use of formal symbols for logical and technical tasks historically represented a major breakthrough, and is one we should not let slip lightly.” jneen.ca/posts/2026-0...

Is it a good sign when the "market update" from my financial advisors mentions the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?

Shocked that it happened, but grateful that the indirect draw structures all match across Vulkan/Metal/D3D12. Just one less thing to worry about.

Vulkan is getting descriptor heaps. Seems like a significant simplification, looking forward to driver support docs.vulkan.org/refpages/lat...

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".

RIP to Frank Gehry. The Art Gallery of Ontario is probably my favorite space in Toronto, in no small part because of his design

MSVC still defaults to permissive/non-standard mode, where templates are only checked/compiled when instantiated. If you add /permissive- to the command line it will also complain, because then templates are syntax checked at the point of definition, which is the indended standard behavior.

Huh, I think this is the first time I've found such a major compiler difference. Feels like MSVC is right here, not sure why Clang/gcc wont compile. Note it works correctly if the parent class isn't a template. godbolt.org/z/c76exG6ha

This actually helps, thank you

LMFAO IT’S A BALLGAME NOW

So glad Bo Bichette gets his big postseason moment - Blue Jays wouldn't be here without him, and this might be his last game in this uniform

I would be okay with the Blue Jays not pitching to Ohtani for the rest of the series, honestly

The Blue Jays art department has been doing great work this postseason.

Need some blood pressure medication after that game, but Blue Jays win! Now I just need the Mariners to win on Friday so I can go to a game next week

AL east champions! Hell of a season for these guys

me fighting bosses in silksong: My body is a machine that turns pain into death. I know all the steps to this dance. You cannot touch me. I am a leaf on the wind but made out of razor blades me fighting three (3) generic goons in silksong: aaghghg shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck shit fuck

All wrapped for SIGGRAPH this year. Leaving exhausted and full of ideas as usual, ready to not have the time to explore 90% of them.

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow: blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

Seeing Superman at the combination movie theatre/museum/worst place in the world to get locked in after dark, the Highland Cinemas in Kinmount Ontario

Heading to SIGGRAPH this year for the first time in a while. Surely there’s been nothing new in graphics in the past, say, 5 years?

This basically sums up my experience at Microsoft - dozens of opportunities squandered by mismanagement by people who never will be held accountable. Much love to all the folks getting laid off today.

Local SWAT team is apparently using some empty houses nearby for a training exercise tonight, which is cool except for the random explosions going off every once in a while.

Seems obvious that he’d be Thénardier - shifty landlords that go bankrupt and resort to looting corpses

This is really nice. Image transitions are annoying because they depend on the execution order of individual commands, but need to be recorded as part of a command buffer, and can't be dealt with by just adding a timeline semaphore or something between queueSubmit calls.

Oh hey, the renderer I've been working on for Persona got shown off at WWDC this morning www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

The doom 2016 Siggraph talk is one my all time favs, hope they do another one this year (or an Indy one, that game is jaw dropping)

Guess I should start carrying my passport with me to try and score some discounts. Very curious to see what the crowd is like at the Mariners series this weekend, it’s normally packed with visitors, but I suspect it’ll be quiet

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Code Nerds for trans rights in Edinburgh.

Long overdue, but good news

Thank you CNN for your astute commentary

Love to see a thread go from first amendment protections to... Gödel's incompleteness theorem?

Well it’s a good thing democrats didn’t just hand Trump a 6 month blank check, otherwise these threats might be really concerning

This is my annual reminder that the Oscars take place in a mall. There is a Footlocker and a Hot Topic.

Hard to say how much of the engine revenue decline is self inflicted reputation wounds vs general games industry collapse, but yikes

Not sure if this makes me more or less nervous for when they invade Canada

C++ developers, I found a neat trick to improve performance of your CMake project: Spelling your config as "RelWithDebInfo" and not "RelWithDebugInfo" to actually turn on compiler optimizations 🤦

Teaching my toddler to blend in, in case we need to make a quick escape