Next.js Is Infuriating - Dominik's Blog Hey, it's finally happened. I've decided to write a blog post. And if you're reading this, I've also finished one. I have wanted to do this for a long time, but could never find the motivation to start. But you know what they say: anger is the best motiva...
Analyze Your Game With PIX - Game Optimization - Episode 7 In this video I show how to use Microsoft PIX to analyze your game. PIX shows you everything the GPU is doing to render a frame and how long it takes so you can discover targets for optimization. Here's the link for downloading PIX: https://devblogs.micr...
Benn Jordan (@bennjordan.bsky.social) This is SO messed up. 🫥 I had a few messages and tags today asking me to clarify my stance on Israel, which was odd as I've been pretty outspoken against genocide and in full support of Palestinian statehood...
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Blocky Planet — Making Minecraft Spherical Discover the unique design challenges of creating a spherical planet out of Minecraft-like blocks.
Implementing a foil sticker effect A breakdown of how to build a custom Three.js shader that recreates the iridescent, sparkling look of foil stickers using vertex deformation, angle-based color shifts, and procedural flakes.
Cloud tech makes sense on-prem too I can spin up new VMs on the server in my living room and install software on it. But it's more complex than just installing the software on a baremetal server. Fortunately for me, cloud technologies such as opentofu, cloud-init, and ansible can let me sp...
Things I've realized about testing Elixir code An engineer's adventures in business, product development, Elixir, and writing books
My take on blog analytics I recently read You do not need “analytics” for your blog because you are neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company by Leon Paternoster. It’s a well-argued piece, and I agree with the general thrust… but I also won’t be removing...
Eric Greer Weblog There are a lot of dotfile managers out there like chezmoi, stow, yadm, and plenty more I’m sure. They each solve the problem of sharing configs in different ways, but they all require some kind of tool to be installed and some commands to be learned.
A Cure for Technology Addiction If you have never had a problem with this, skip this post as it is kind of embarrasing. If you have keep reading.
The Parallelism Mesh Zoo : ezyang’s blog When training large scale LLMs, there is a large assortment of parallelization strategies which you can employ to scale your training runs to work on more GPUs. There are already a number of good resources for understanding how to parallelize your models...
How to become a VP at a billion-dollar company (Guaranteed success in 24 simple steps) Be born in Ireland where university is free. Study Maths and Economics. Spend 12 hours a week in lectures and 30 hours a week ‘networking’. Join the maths team. Join the karate team — a…
Relative frequency of SI units and prefixes – Negative Feedback I am huge a fan of the SI system, but I’ve often noticed that even my academic colleagues take a mix-and-match aproach to the BIPM standards. It is common for chemists to use Ångstrom over nanometre, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone use megagram ov...
NetSurf on reMarkable 2 Akseli's various rambles and posts about gaming, gamedev, FOSS, programming and other things.
Writing in Djot • pdx.su I’ve completed an effort to get Djot support implemented into Tableau, the Elixir powered static site generator I use to run this blog, and have started writing posts in it1. So far I’m pretty happy with it, although there are a few oddities that I’ve had...
The $20/Month Software Revolution by @ttunguz How AI coding tools are enabling anyone to build applications for $20/month, disrupting traditional software development & creating new strategic opportunities for founders.
Reverse engineering Solos smart glasses First and foremost: If you’ve got any documentation on this hardware, please contact me! I would love to read the actual specs for this protocol.