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Improving on a timeless recipe The bezier curve is a staple of CAD and computer graphics.

On Evitability in Use of AI If the hype is to be believed, software development as we know it is over.

Rethinking DOM from first principles Browsers are in a very weird place.

Modern SSAO in a modern run-time Use.GPU 0.14 is out, so here's an update on my declarative/reactive rendering efforts.

Keeping up appearances in tech The word "rant" is used far too often, and in various ways.

Why your app turned into spaghetti "I do not like your software sir, your architecture's poor.

Frequency-domain blue noise generator In computer graphics, stochastic methods are so hot right now.

High quality font rendering for WebGPU This page includes diagrams in WebGPU, which has limited browser support.

How the Live effect run-time is implemented In this post I describe how the Live run-time internals are implemented, which drive Use.GPU.

Rendering analysis In this post I'll do a "one frame" breakdown of Tuxedo Labs' indie game Teardown.

Old is new again I've released a new version of Use.GPU, my experimental reactive/declarative WebGPU framework, now at version 0.8.

Looking back, and forward Lately, it seems popular to talk smack about React.

Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library.

Reinventing rendering one shader at a time The other day I ran into a perfect example of exactly why GPU programming is so foreign and weird.

How to take care of your tribe The other day I read: "If you're hiking and you stop to let other people catch up, don't start walking immediately when they arrive.

Question the rules for fun and profit One of the nice things about having your own lean copy of a popular library's patterns is that you can experiment with all sorts of changes.

The known unknown knowns we lost When people think of George Orwell's 1984, what usually comes to mind is the orwellianism: a society in the grip of a dictatorial, oppressive regime which rewrote history daily as if it was a casual matter.

The essay "Who goes Nazi" (1941) by Dorothy Thompson is a commonly cited classic.

Hassle free GLSL I've been working on a new library to compose GLSL shaders.

"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read.