Hello? Yes, a moment of your time, if you please. I'm the Vampire Crawlers boss you've been fighting, and I'm not sure if you're aware of the fact that I've been dead for the last 10 minutes. Could you kindly wrap up this hand so I can explode in a shower of coins? It would be most appreciated.

For several months now TypeScript v6/v7 has had an incomplete version of the WebGPU types in their "dom" library, which caused errors in WebGPU apps. The last of the missing symbols was added 2 weeks ago, so you can now follow the instructions here to fix it:

When Jurassic Park came out I was Tim's age. I was obsessed. It was my favorite movie by a long shot, and Alan Grant was a superhero in my eyes. Now I'm Alan Grant's age, the movie is still one of my favorites, and I'm very sad that my childhood hero is gone. Thanks for the memories, Sam!

Serious question: Can we get an American equivalent to Count Binface to highlight how absurd some of our politicians are? And if you just asked "Who?" Oh boy are you about to fall down a delightful rabbit hole!

I think if you needed any more evidence that the cuts are shortsighted and focused on cutting as deep and as fast as possible with little regard for the future, this is pretty definitive. That engine felt like magic in some spots. A colossal waste of talent and resources.

Got 15/20 right on this quiz. Interestingly the majority of the AI ones I misidentified as real we're from Gemini. Gotta adjust my expectations of what to look for in AI images.

Just drove past a big friendly sign saying "We're temporarily closed!" In front of the rubble that was once a McDonald's. Not sure what this is a metaphor for, but it's a good one.

Oh, hey! @erincatto.bsky.social (of Box2d fame) has released a 3D version! You will *never* guess what it's called...

Do you like shaders? Do you hate shaders? Do you use shaders frequently? Khronos wants your tasty shader feedback. www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKWFQ3M

Renting a Mazda this week. It has Android Auto, but when the car is moving the touchscreen is unresponsive and you're forced to use a dial/joystick... thing in the center console to navigate. W. T. F??

Just saw the Steam Machine prices and... Oof. To be clear, I don't think they have much of a choice. That's just where the world is at. Still, the discourse around it is going to be painful.

Beat Mina the Hollower, but the game went pretty out of its way to let me know I got a "bad" ending. I have an idea of what it would take to get a good ending, but I'm pretty sure it would require a whole new playthrough and no thanks. It was fun, but I'm not itching for an immediate replay.

This is me! We're focusing on a few areas next month and I'm leading the "Paper cuts" area. So spam me with your bugs, please - and please file them yourselves first so I can triage them internally 😁

See if you can spot the points in this video where management swoops in and says "Looks great, but how can we work in AI for buzzword-addicted investors?" And then leaves the artist cursing and spending the rest of their afternoon fixing the mess AI made.

Look, I *like* strongly typed languages. But a days worth of scrubbing -Wsign-compare and -Wsign-conversion issues from a large codebase is quickly radicalizing me. Especially when there are major public APIs that are like: int get_foo(); void set_foo(size_t value); 🤬

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

Here's something fun: I think my iPhone may have the world record Speedometer score for any iOS device? www.linkedin.com/pulse/test-d...

glTF 2.1 is in the works with a whole slew of great features: - Composing files into large scenes - Unique IDs for cross-file references - Embedded thumbnails! - Bounding volume hierarchies - .glb files larger than 4Gb And more!

@raccoon.pizza needs to know about this immediately!

Khronos will host a WebGL+WebGPU BOF at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 22 at 9:00 AM. (Full schedule coming soon.) Do you have a product or demo based on these APIs that you would like to share? If so, please email [email protected] and we'll get you on the agenda.

Mina the Hollower has a deep love of flying enemies that its art style simply can't support. 😫

Beat Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. It's a fun game, and also one of the buggiest I've ever played. Difficulty curve felt all over the map. Plus the silly Ubisoft account requirements make it hard to recommend.

Behold my stupidest home automation to date. I am "gently encouraging" my children to be more aware of how much time they are spending in the bathroom by having a door sensor fire an IR blaster to start a sports timer when the door is closed, and stop it when the door opens again. 🤦

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

Monitor I got at the beginning of the pandemic is disappointingly starting to die on me. Any recommendations for a solid new one? Ideally: - 4K - Higher than 60Hz refresh - DisplayPort - HDR would be nice, not a deal breaker

@willsmith.fun Hey, I'm listening to the tech pod and was told I would find Corgi pictures here! This is the most vile form of false advertising! 😫

April 2026 belongs in the clean energy history books. It’s the first time wind and solar power around the world combined to beat gas over a whole month. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/clean-energy/wind-solar-outgenerate-gas-april

Welcome to this week's "Was this worth watching while stuck in an flying metal tube for several hours?" review: Predator Badlands: Yeah! Not nearly as good as "Prey", but fun! Mission Impossible Final Reckoning: Nope. Not even a little bit.

When he moved out the neighbor kid dropped a box off on our doorstep containing an Atari PC, some BASIC programming books, and every issue of Nintendo Power published at that point.

"Wouldn't it be great if we finally had a president that stuck it to Big Oil and made the country prioritize renewables?" <monkey paw curls>

Been playing Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. Decent metroidvania, nice controls, but I've hit multiple game-breaking bugs! - A boss that never attacked - A door that opened but wouldn't let me pass - A trap that failed to trigger, blocking progress Invest more in your QA teams, Ubisoft!

lol. lmao even.

Blink: Intent to Ship: WebGPU: Immediates

I really like TypeScript/JavaScript, despite their less than stellar reputations. But I **despise** the package and build systems that have slowly encrusted themselves onto that ecosystem. Reading this was like having someone speak directly to my soul.

SCOOP: double fine is unionizing

Just encountered an answering machine message that verbally directed me to email "a24@...". After some bounced emails and a lot of searching I found that the actual email address is atuffour@... I want to be mad, but that's a genius way to keep your inbox clear.

i like the "diy home repair vs hiring a professional" vibe coding analogy i heard earlier bc i think it hits the nice balance of making some casual projects more accessible but also still nonzero chance of killing yourself if you get too big for your britches

#graphics folks, I'm thinking of modernizing my undergrad graphics course and move it from OpenGL. Vulkan is too hardcore for an introductory course, Metal & DX12 are not cross-platform enough. Wdyt, how deranged is it to use native WebGPU? (maybe even in rust via wgpu)

"You hear theyre using chickens as camera gimbals now?" "What?" "Chickens. Strap a camera onto their head. No shake. Chicken camera gimbals"

Had a dream last night that I signed up for a college class called "Understanding Vulkan" which turned out to be a metalworking class, which was cool but the professor didn't appreciate me complaining that the distinction between "Vulkan" and "Vulcan" was important in the class title.

After MUCH not-so-subtle hinting that I should be using AI at my job I gave it a fair shot on a tricky bug I've been looking at. It spun it's wheels for a while, suggested a change that added hundreds of lines and didn't actually alter the bug behavior. 1/2

Quest Browser 146.0 now has experimental support for WebGPU in #WebXR. Turn on "webXR experimental features" in "chrome://flags" and the API will be available. Thanks @toji.dev for the demo file! Feedback welcome.

Good job, Virginia! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Larger ASTC block sizes save bandwidth, but may not save memory at all. I tested many iOS and Android devices to find the actual cost of memory alignment: www.ludicon.com/castano/blog...

Anyone have a recommendation for a good library of Web Components? Looking for components to support single page tools like split views and tabs. Ideally very few dependencies, definitely no React, no requirement for custom build steps please.

My son asked me for a video of something crazy (money dancing) and I poked around and to my surprise found a brief clip. I showed it to my kids and they absolutely ROASTED me for showing them something made with AI. (Which it was.) The kids are alright.

There's an egret nesting ground right next to the Chrome team's office in Mountain View, and if you had played me a recording of what they sound like before seeing them myself I would not have believed you.