30 September 2025

35 links · Tuesday

The Hidden Artist Deciding Which Indie Games Blow Up

Execute Steam Demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3829620/Execute/ An interview with the Steam cover artist helping indie devs blow up! Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/u3443171 art by: Giovanni Fim https://www.artstation.com/ggtfim/albums/60967 ————…

Billions of triangles in minutes

Early this year, NVIDIA released their new raytracing technology, RTX Mega Geometry, alongside an impressive Zorah demo. This demo was distributed as a ~100 GB Unreal Engine scene - that can only be opened in a special branch of Unreal Engine, NvRTX. The demo …

Notes on Unreal Engine 5, Nanite

Nanite in UE5 is a virtualized geometry system that renders only visible detail, enabling film-quality assets with millions of polygons and minimal performance cost. It replaces normal maps, suppor...

Shipping Calendearing

Written pieces, talks, and other bits by Zach Holman.

I'll quit my job and buy a farm - Alin Panaitiu

You've heard the words in that title before. You've probably said them yourself, when your day to day job became so absurd that you couldn’t even tell what it is that you do there. Details shift; maybe you wanted to open a bar and talk to people face to face, …

Apply the Trie: Word Search — Monday Morning Haskell

Today will be a nice culmination of some of the work we’ve been doing with data structures and algorithms. In the past few weeks we’ve covered graph algorithms, particularly Depth First Search. And last week, we implemented the Trie data structure from scratch…

Mike Kohn!

Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.

Low Code vs. High Code

It's extremely annoying to ever use a low code platform. I've never found any joy in it and it's always just trying to learn the ropes to do something yo...

Consistent hashing - Eli Bendersky's website

This post is an introduction to consistent hashing, an algorithm for designing a hash table such that only a small portion of keys has to be recomputed when the table's size changes.

Ansible meets UV – Camilo MATAJIRA

Ansible is still the most powerful Configuration Management tool in 2025. It’s used mainly to configure and manage bare-metal servers and virtual machines.But can also be used to for network automation, cloud resource provisioning, CICD pipelines, etc.