I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

this video still has not left my head, "I thought I smelled something burning..." "A monarch's job is never done!" "Focus, M" It's just nail on the head after nail on the head I should show this in every class I teach just so I get to use "aaa mario-ing" as a critique shorthand

"ai is going to take your job" was just the capitalists admitting they can give us trash and we have to take it

We showed Zoe a few episodes of Invader Zim during a bout of college nostalgia and now we get asked daily “why is there bacon in the soap?!” I’m so proud 🥹

As the prophecy foretold

New post up! Bindless Oriented Graphics Programming alextardif.com/BindlessProg...

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things. Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

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".

I’ll be streaming with famed American Girl Shoe Doll Designer Brennan Lee Mulligan!! Make sure to tune in Monday, Dec 8 at 6:30 PM CT on Twitch or YouTube! Drop any snack-related questions I should ask below : ) @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

Great read: "Video Game Blurs (and how the best one works)" blog.frost.kiwi/dual-kawase/

It's not this platform. It's all of society that hates AI

evergreen

This study is the most cyberpunk thing that has ever existed.

lately i've been thinking about how LLMs must feel really amazing to use if you're a dumbass, but incredibly frustrating if you're just basically competent in life.

In 2006 a high school English teacher asked students to write to a famous author & ask for advice. KURT VONNEGUT - born 103yrs ago today - was the only one to respond. His reply was a doozy.

I wrote a lil post about AI, bubbles, and unions 👻 brooklyn.bearblog.dev/ai-futures/

the nyt posts this stuff like avoiding AI for 48 hours is hard and meanwhile i have literally never once intentionally used an AI program for anything ever

Some information about Ghost of Yōtei's rendering systems blog.playstation.com/2025/10/23/g...

At first I thought this would just be baking a 3d animation, or just using a simple palette swap, but it actually goes a bit further. Clever technique, basically UV mapping sprites into texture space. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsOK...

Bit the bullet and finally removed my all-in-one shader and constant buffer management helper library from my graphics class. It ended up hiding too many details that were important when we move to D3D12 in the next course. But hey, now I have materials on proper constant buffer management!

It's happening!

Sorry we couldn't help you, Sam.

Zoe came home talking all about “cake pop demon hunters”. Probably going to need Netflix again soon, huh?

Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.

Zoe and I play Disney Dreamlight Valley (think Animal Crossing with Mickey Mouse) pretty regularly. Earlier today I handed her the controller while I ran to another room for something. A minute later I hear "Dad! I bought a couch! It's green!" She was very excited.

A guy at Zoe’s kindergarten orientation told me I look like a streamer. I guess I have backup if this whole teaching thing doesn’t pan out.

Broke out our old Skylanders to play with Zoe. Super simple setup in 2025: - Xbox One refuses to update - Skip update, but the 360 games aren’t compatible - Break out the Wii U - Wii U is bricked?! - Oh it’s on PlayStation - Wait, it’s FIFTY DOLLARS?! - Dig out my 360 And we’re in business! EZPZ

Ok, officially mega hyped for Campaign 4!

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

Why doesn't Sam's AI software just design new computers that need less space and energy and generate less heat.

Well said!!

Padmé Empanada

this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? GPUs can do insane triangle counts these days. What they can't do is insane numbers of objects. That number hasn't grown much since the noughties. A million triangles per object? No problem. A million objects? You ask the impossible!

“I asked ChatGPT-“ okay well I asked the big oak tree at the center of the woods and she said you’re a lazy dork

I was so shocked to relate to this, I have so much love and pride for my teaching!! But I've seen a type of vacant expression and cluelessness this semester I've never seen before, an expression that comes from a complete erosion of any familiarity with the feeling of working through a problem.

I recently started tinkering with mesh shaders in my toy engine to get a feel for what is involved in adding support for them and potential performance improvement opportunities and wrote a blog post detailing my findings. interplayoflight.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/m...

"AI is coming, its inevitable" no its not you sniveling weirdo. how are those 3D TVs going. how are NFT markets looking these days. Seen anything cool in the metaverse lately? anyone who says we need to resign to using it, that itll be here whether we like it or not, is a feckless dipshit.

Breaking: Nintendo Switch 2 controllers will apparently be sold at a loss.

The Magic Behind Ray-Traced Lighting in Star Wars Outlaws, GDC2025 presentation recording www.nvidia.com/en-us/on-dem...

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

In today's new blog post, I try to provide some intuition and clear up some misconceptions about early Z cull behavior on desktop GPUs. Have a read if that interests you! therealmjp.github.io/posts/to-ear...

The Eras of GPU Development blog.siggraph.org/2025/04/evol...

TIL that because the FFmpeg project has gained so much experience in hand-writing assembly code to provide huge speedups, they now are putting together a series of lessons for learning assembly: Vibe coding is fun and all, but this is probably a better use of time! github.com/FFmpeg/asm-l...

Completely spaced but all of my bookmarks have been added to etsy 🥰 I think these are my favorite things to make and will be doing a ton more I'm sure! www.etsy.com/listing/1874... #dnd #dungeonsanddragons

It's ✨Path Tracing Day✨ in my advanced graphics class