Use.GPU now has this sweet black hole raytracer:
usegpu.live/demo/rtt/bla...

Use.GPU 0.15 is out!

Highlights:
- Shaded lines and point clouds
- Narrow and wide (>90º) spot lights with hemispherical shadow maps
- Improved GLTF `.bin` loader for packed/inline textures

Also finally rendered a Sponza atrium.

Demos:
usegpu.live/demo/plot/tu...

Docs:
usegpu.live

Releasing "Stable Fiddusion", a frequency-space 2D/3D/STBN blue noise generator. WebGPU implementation goes brrrr.

acko.net/blog/stable-...

Weebs always get weird when you point this out

When you move the portals, what happens?

New post on the math behind Use.GPUs secret subpixel SDF sauce.

With zoomable diagrams if you're on a WebGPU capable browser.

https://acko.net/blog/subpixel-distance-transform/

It used to be "talk is silver, code is gold" except now it's like a freemium game where silver is the worthless dopamine drip and gold just costs money.

tpot, an illustrated guide

An interactive code/data walkthrough of Live, the incremental effect run-time behind Use.GPU:
https://acko.net/blog/do-it-live/

>we prefer to delegate stuff like that to tools

>why has our codebase grown so messy can you help us fix that

same people

I will eventually write my "here's what you should've been taught about how to structure your react codebase"... but not right now because I don't need more work

I was wondering if anyone other than Twitter could make a half decent infinite scroller web app but based on how much this app spazzes out when you press Back the answer so far is no.

The secret to doing magic with code is not genius tier effort but just writing as little of it as possible. I find this is impossible to teach. You have to feel it in your bones.

Substack has speedrun the descent of Medium as far as the reader's experience goes.

Social media did to progressives what progressives thought Fox News would do to boomers

Desirable microblogging features:

- search all posts I've seen today/this week/ever
- view the combined feed of people I follow
- gantt chart of trends and their longevity, in particular when one topic displaces another

I want tools to manage the firehose and fight social media psyops.

It feels nice because it's a social network filtered by high intelligence, like the early 2000s internet.