Our Workflow with Blender and Godot - Blender Studio
For DOGWALK we set up a pipeline between Blender and Godot. Here is how we did it.
» Bullfrog in the Dungeon The Digital Antiquarian
In January of 1995, Electronic Arts bought the prestigious British games studio Bullfrog Productions for an undisclosed sum that was rumored to be in the neighborhood of $45 million. The lives of the 35 or so people who worked at Bullfrog were transformed over…
2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown
In 2018 we brought you some exciting news.
New trend: extreme hours at AI startups
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
I'm Bringing Serial Back (with Captions) - Dave's Garage
[Verse] I'm bringin' serial back (yeah) Those other protocols don't know how to act (yeah) I think you're special what's behind your stack (yeah) So send me all your data I'll unpack [Chorus] (yeah) I'm bringin' serial back (yeah) and when I hack the code I'l…
The Making of Walker (DMA Design) - Ian Dunlop & Neill Glancy Interview - Amiga Classic
Walker is a classic 2D shooter with the side-scrolling from the right to the left. Player takes control of gigantic robot AG-9 (codename Walker). The mission is simple - guide Walker through the four time zones and kill everybody/destroy everything. Learn ho…
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We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application
We just completed rewriting the Ghostty GTK application fully embracing the GObject type system from Zig and also verifying with Valgrind every step of the way. The result is a more feature rich, stable, and maintainable Ghostty on Linux and BSD.
Your Mac Game Is Probably Rendering Blurry
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
Typing to Think, Speaking to Prompt
My earlier post about the rise of voice as a UI had me pondering what exactly is it that makes voice input ideal in some circumstances and entirely undesired in others. Spoken language is faster per word and, in a naive economic sense, “better”1. And yet, ther…
Why Lean 4 replaced OCaml as my Primary Language
As I was reading Hacker News today, I happened to stumble upon an article titled "Why I Chose OCaml as my Primary Language".
Document.write
Aug 13, 2025
GPT-5 Router - Inevitable Future of Chat Interfaces
Why OpenAI's GPT-5 router is inevitable: understanding the cost squeeze driving automatic model selection and what it means for users.
Is MCP just a WSDL Reboot for LLMs?
If the Model Context Protocol gives you 2005 vibes, you’re not imagining it. MCP feels like the good part of the old web-services dream brought forward for AI agents: describe what you can do, let a generic client discover it, and integrate without bespoke glu…
The Death of the IDE? - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Steve Yegge and Nathan Sobo debate whether IDEs are obsolete in the AI era. Their opposing perspectives reveal surprising common ground.
The fixed length bottleneck and the feed forward network
The feed-forward network in an LLM processes context vectors one at a time. This feels like it would cause similar issues to the old fixed-length bottleneck, even though it almost certainly does not.
You do the best you can | Ryan Glover
Sometimes things don't work in your favor—but hey, you do the best you can.
Passion Over Profits - Dillon Shook
Passion Over Profits - Dillon Shook
Bypass PostgreSQL catalog overhead with direct partition hash calculations
Eliminating PostgreSQL catalog traversal overhead with local partition calculations for up to 20x faster hash partition queries.
Our relationship to technology is broken
The other day I texted an old friend. His name had come up in conversation, and I wanted him to know I was thinking of him. His reply came swiftly: “When are you gonna get an iPhone? 🤣” My friend is a gifted communicator. Rather than engage in a stilted b…
I wanted to take more pictures, so I vibecoded a portfolio
Warning: English is not my native language and I refused to ask an LLM to write this for me, so at least you got a somewhat human blogpost in exchange for some bad english :P I’ve had an interest in photography for a long time, I remember being fascinated by i…
Why I Quit Competitive Programming
TL;DR # I tried competitive programming for a whole year and it didn’t work out well for me, I didn’t enjoy it and didn’t achieve anything remarkable as well. So it’s better to take the L and move on and try other things I wanted to try, but I couldn’t because…
Fun with finite state transducers
Aug 14, 2025 Tags: devblog, programming, rust, zizmor
Extracting Data from PDFs | Challenges in RAG/LLM Applications
Extracting text from PDFs often poses significant challenges, especially for applications in RAG, NLP, and large language models (LLMs). In this article, we delve into some challenges.
I am a Windows User
I'm pretty good at bootstrapping a new PC. Taking it from the box, installing all my software, changing all my preferred settings takes me about three hours. I have nobody who does it for me, but I also have nobody who messes up my setup with corporate policie…
Lasso Transactions as an alternative to Copyright
Often, people who oppose copyright give weak excuses as for how a market would sustain artists creating work, without the government creating an artificial monopoly on said work. In a recent …
Typeface licenses | Dave Smyth
Dave Smyth’s personal site.
Why Zapier Won My Time Back from n8n
A comparison of n8n vs Zapier, sharing why I switched back to Zapier to save time, avoid hosting hassles, and build powerful automations faster with a larger app ecosystem.
RisingWave Labs Blog
Explore the “equality delete” challenge in Apache Iceberg for streaming CDC ingestion from Postgres. Learn why major query engines often lack support.