Steven's blog

I think there are 3 main reasons to make things: I enjoy the process of making it I want it to exist I am being asked to make it As an employed person, most of the time I spend making in the last category.

Here’s the thing about AI writing—and this is load-bearing—it’s not just bad, it’s a testament to badness.

第一次跟我老婆去马来西亚的时候，我一直要等她 帮我翻译。

I want to write about the hard part of this though: the sync engine.

The core piece of functionality in Bookchoy is “tap on a character, see a popup with the dictionary definition”.

building random small things At this point we all know that AI lets us build whatever we want when we want it.

UPDATE: I made this into a small Go module: https://github.com/stevenctl/deadlog.

It’s been a while!

I’ve been studying Mandarin Chinese for a few years, starting with basic phrases (Pimsleur) and then moving on to Hello Chinese.

In the last post we were able to randomly generate “correct” looking 3D shapes.

Introduction I don’t think I would have become interested in shooters if it weren’t for Halo 3’s forge mode.

During the intro to a game I (perodically) work on, the player starts on a pirate ship.

I am not a good artist.

Triplanar mapping is already expensive, and multiplying that by the samples for paralax occlusion mapping is probably a bad idea.

I saw this picture on Reddit or something, and I decided to recreate it.

These are a few of the first things I ever made in Blender.