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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · 2d

Next detailed article on the history of personal computing, from one of my favorite history of technology blogs:

technicshistory.com/2025/10/03/m...

Microcomputers – The Second Wave: Toward A Mass Market

In 1977, three new microcomputers appeared on the scene that broke free from the industry’s hobbyist roots: the Apple II, the Commodore PET, and the Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80. Much later, in the 199…

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 3d

With the #AI-bubble looking close to bursting, here I present a pre-mortem, in which I state that much of AI is simultaneously mega-impressive and still mostly useless. And that any collapse does not mean AI and LLMs will go away: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

The AI-collapse pre-mortem - Bert Hubert

An essential part of being able say ‘I told you so’ is in fact having told you so. Here goes. In April 2023, I wrote an article titled AI: Guaranteed to disrupt our economies. In this piece I also ann...

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Sam Rose @samwho.dev · Aug 24

As always, the code for my big O post is here and MIT licensed so feel free to use it: github.com/samwho/visua...

Specifically I think github.com/samwho/visua... could have broader use, this is the component for stepping through code line by line. It’s a bit of a mess, sorry 😅

visualisations/big-o at main · samwho/visualisations

Code behind my visualisation blog posts. Contribute to samwho/visualisations development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Amit Sheen @amitsheen.bsky.social · May 26

✨ New article is live: CSS Spotlight Effect

I asked myself what we could do with just the mouse position, and got to this fun simple effect.

Hope you enjoy it, and maybe it will spark some new ideas for you too. 😊

🔗 Check it out on @frontendmasters.com: frontendmasters.com/blog/css-spo...

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Ben Houston @benhouston3d.com · May 23

Three hard-won lessons for entrepreneurs I learned in my journey from VFX to Enterprise SaaS.

My talk at the Ottawa Network last night (May 22, 2025)

benhouston3d.com/blog/lession...

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William Candillon @wcandillon.bsky.social · May 6

The game is on: we are bringing WebGPU to React Native. This update enables:
🐎 Seamless Reanimated integration for UI thread rendering
🧊ThreeJS and React Three Fiber are a major focus to bring stunning 3d experiences to React Native.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9t-...

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Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · Apr 27

“Going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same 4 words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, forever. This difference is vital yet often ignored: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

'The cloud' is not just servers. 'Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor - Bert Hubert's writingsSupport Ukraine

The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean lockin...

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Xor @xordev.com · Apr 26

NEW tutorial: Common Shader Mistakes!
mini.gmshaders.com/p/mistakes
How to avoid the most common pitfalls in graphics programming

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SimonDev @simondev.bsky.social · Apr 27

Early access is underway! Shader course students are already helping test the new GameDev course.

Look for a broader announcement shortly. All the project demos are live too!

simondev.teachable.com/p/games-thre...

#threejs #gamedevelopment

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David Velasco @davelsan.bsky.social · Apr 25

I might remember using TortoiseSVN along with it 😊

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dan @danabra.mov · Apr 15

⚛️📝 New on Overreacted: JSX Over The Wire overreacted.io/jsx-over-the...

JSX Over The Wire — overreacted

Turning your API inside-out.

overreacted.io

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David Velasco @davelsan.bsky.social · Apr 17

This was a lovely read. Thank you 🙏

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David Velasco @davelsan.bsky.social · Apr 17

Sweet. Reminds me of Reanimated's SharedValue 😊

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Matt Perry @citizenofnowhe.re · Apr 17

Warp overlay recreated in Motion for React

Example: examples.motion.dev/react/warp-o...
Original React Native source: github.com/eds2002/imme...

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paul デジタルアーティスト @byt3m3chanic.bsky.social · Dec 18

Started out just to test some patterns for something 3D I want to make - but ended up making a cute little shader. #webgl #shader #glsl #pattern #geometry #hexagon

www.shadertoy.com/view/4cVfWG

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Renaud @handle.invalid · Dec 18

Still a work in progress, but this week I'm adding 3D Render Targets and 2D Array RenderTargets to the WebGPURenderer in threejs!

It works on both WebGPU and WebGL backends and supports Multi Render Targets and writing to specific layer/depth OOTB!

github.com/mrdoob/three...

WebGPURenderer: Introduce RenderTarget3D and RenderTargetArray by RenaudRohlinger · Pull Request #30155 · mrdoob/three.js

Description Introduce support for 3D textures and texture arrays in multi-render target (MRT) setups for both WebGPU and WebGL backends. Unlike WebGLRenderer I used prefix instead of suffix (WebGLA...

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Dan Greenheck @dangreenheck.bsky.social · Dec 7

Just wrapped up coding the combat for my #threejs Isometric RPG series! Starting to feel like a real game. New video drops on Monday for Patreons, public release the following week. I think for the next video I might start putting some lipstick on this pig 🐷

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Ricardo Oliva @rolivaalonso.bsky.social · Dec 4

Encontré una imagen en Behance la cual decidí recrear con Blender y ThreeJS - Diseñado por Michel Fernandez (Behance: xiperseime7b34)

Diorama - Milk

Live + code en CodePen: codepen.io/ricardooliva...

#html #css #javascript #threejs #blender #diorama #anime

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Elke Stangl (elkement) @elkement.art · Dec 5

These are my code-generated artworks now on display at Mathematical Art Digital Exhibition at Queens College @cuny.bsky.social, curated by @mathzorro.bsky.social

Check out this diverse collection of #MathArt:
www.qc.cuny.edu/academics/ma...

Thanks also to @threejs.org #threejs :-)

#SciArt

Reality and Imagination #0, code-generated math art by elkement 2023 (No AI). Real and imaginary part of complex funcion 1/z, envisaged via its contour lines (perfect circles aligned along a point on the circumference, rendered as shiny metallic tubes in blue and gold on black background. Created with custom javascript code, using the threejs framework.

Reality and Imagination #3, code-generated math art by elkement 2023 (No AI). Real and imaginary part of complex funcion 1/z, envisaged via its contour lines (perfect circles aligned along a point on the circumference, rendered as shiny metallic tubes in blue and gold on black background. Created with custom javascript code, using the threejs framework.

Reality and Imagination #5, code-generated math art by elkement 2023 (No AI). Real and imaginary part of complex funcion 1/z, envisaged via its contour lines (perfect circles aligned along a point on the circumference, rendered as shiny metallic tubes in blue and gold on black background. Created with custom javascript code, using the threejs framework.

Reality and Imagination #12, code-generated math art by elkement 2023 (No AI). Real and imaginary part of complex funcion 1/z, envisaged via its contour lines (perfect circles aligned along a point on the circumference, rendered as shiny metallic tubes in blue and gold on black background. Created with custom javascript code, using the threejs framework.

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Ben McCormick @phobon.io · Dec 6

#shadercraft (№77) grgrdvrt.github.io/three_shader... by @grgrdvrt.bsky.social (learning)

#threejs really helps get a great result quickly by providing amazing materials. You can learn so much about #shaders using this site to dive through the code and see how it all fits together 🙌

three.js Shaders Sources

grgrdvrt.github.io

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Alex Warnes @awarnes.bsky.social · Dec 6

I spend a lot of time making little 3D scenes for fun that require different ways of positioning objects, so I wanted to collect and share a reference for some quick ways that I typically handle that with utility fns. 🧵 (0/7)

#svelte #threlte #threejs

code: stackblitz.com/edit/demo-po...

demo_positioning-things - StackBlitz

A series of examples on how to programmatically position objects in your scene.

stackblitz.com

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Nik Lever @niklever.bsky.social · Dec 3

In part 3 of my TSL series we start to move the vertices around niklever.com/get-to-grips... #threejs

Get to grips with ThreeJS Shading Language (TSL) – Part 3 - Nik Lever

As we learn TSL together I've set myself the challenge of reproducing the lava ball example that you can see below. It will need to adjust the vertices of the modelled geometry. In this lesson we'll l...

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Yuri Artiukh @akella.bsky.social · Nov 24

new youtube stream, ascii effect with WebGPU, TSL and #threejs, inspired by @luluxxx.bsky.social gifs www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxeR...

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Marcin Ignac @marcinignac.bsky.social · Nov 24

Proceduraly generated oak leaves and acorns.
JS/PEX/WebGL/Nodes

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Thomas Hooper @tdhooper.bsky.social · Nov 21

Let's post some old work with a little behind-the-scenes

This loop, Fractal Polycephaly, won the 2019 Revision Demoparty animated GIF competition

It's rendered entirely within a raymarching shader, there's no polygonal geometry

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