10 September 2025

32 links · Wednesday

TikTok Won. Now Everything Is 60 Seconds.

As of September 2025, approximately 170 million Americans spend, on average, one hour every day in an app that is designed to maximize psychological grip. While Congress fixates on TikTok’s data collection usages, what hasn’t received enough attention is how t…

OpenAI Platform

Explore developer resources, tutorials, API docs, and dynamic examples to get the most out of OpenAI's platform.

The Scam Called “You Don't Have to Remember Anything”

Debunking the myth that search engines and AI eliminate the need for memory. Building deep knowledge through active learning remains essential for critical thinking, despite promises of instant information access.

Multiple Frames In Flight // Vulkan For Beginners #24

In this video we learn how to implement multiple frames in flight in Vulkan in order to increase the performance of the message submission mechanism. 🔥 See the list of the books that I'm using as background information for my tutorials: https://ogldev.org/bo…

By the way, what are AA?

Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and creative trends shaping the video game industry.

Optimizing Based On Analysis - Game Optimization - Episode 8

In this video, we use last week's PIX analysis to optimize our scenes in Unreal and Unity. We're able to improve performance by quite a bit by first finding the right optimization targets. Here's last week's video about how to use PIX: https://youtu.be/L71zSW…

Prompt snapshot testing

Learn how one team streamlined LLM testing by using prompt snapshots to cut down on pipeline complexity, cost, and runtime. This post shares challenges, lessons, and a practical approach to more efficient automated testing with large language models.

The Case for Cowboy Coding

It seems like a desirable thing to be able to look at work that you've done over the years and say...

Identity – Manu

I, like you, am many things. The person I currently am is the product of a multitude of factors: my environment, my parents, the culture around me, …

Illegible perception

Good ideas are worth disagreeing with. Sean Goedecke posits that organizations implement process to have legibility – a very interesting idea. However, I see it differently. It is not about legibility but it is about perception of legibility. Does the CEO look…

I love UUID, I hate UUID

At Epsio we’re building a streaming SQL engine which natively integrates with databases/warehouses (both as “source”s and “sink”s). Epsio acts as a stream processing “middle man“- receiving data from one (or more) sources, applying transformations (a...