Tobias A. Franke
@thefranke.bsky.social
Principal Game Engine Architect at Huawei. Previously: Senior Graphics Engineer at Unity, Research Scientist at Fraunhofer, Tech-Priest at Cult Mechanicus.
https://tobias-franke.eu/
https://tobias-franke.eu/
"Freedom from Outlook" must be adopted as a new article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, now!
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
Thunderbird Adds Native Microsoft Exchange Email Support - The Thunderbird Blog
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
blog.thunderbird.net
November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Freedom from Outlook" must be adopted as a new article in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, now!
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/11/thun...
#Pocket, the once popular read-it-later service, is shutting down their exports in 2 days. What did everyone switch to?
If you need something lightweight, look no further than below.
If you need something lightweight, look no further than below.
I'm happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian, a read-it later service to store articles in your own personal feed, arrived at Version One, and with it the new official instance:
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
#Pocket, the once popular read-it-later service, is shutting down their exports in 2 days. What did everyone switch to?
If you need something lightweight, look no further than below.
If you need something lightweight, look no further than below.
I'm happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian, a read-it later service to store articles in your own personal feed, arrived at Version One, and with it the new official instance:
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
November 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
I'm happy to announce that #RSS-Librarian, a read-it later service to store articles in your own personal feed, arrived at Version One, and with it the new official instance:
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
www.rsslibrarian.ch/librarian.php
Read more on last years development in my blog:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2025/11/...
Reposted by Tobias A. Franke
New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
New blog post! Behind the scenes of some of the techniques involved in making our last PC demo 💫 gboisse.github.io/posts/this-i...
"Iterative Lightmap Updates for Scene Editing" from @momentsingraphics.bsky.social et al.
Read the title and immediately thought this might apply nicely to Augmented Reality as well to update real light-paths for the changes introduced by new objects.
momentsingraphics.de/PG2025.html
Read the title and immediately thought this might apply nicely to Augmented Reality as well to update real light-paths for the changes introduced by new objects.
momentsingraphics.de/PG2025.html
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
"Iterative Lightmap Updates for Scene Editing" from @momentsingraphics.bsky.social et al.
Read the title and immediately thought this might apply nicely to Augmented Reality as well to update real light-paths for the changes introduced by new objects.
momentsingraphics.de/PG2025.html
Read the title and immediately thought this might apply nicely to Augmented Reality as well to update real light-paths for the changes introduced by new objects.
momentsingraphics.de/PG2025.html
The Grand Egyptian Museum, after 20+ years in the making, is finally open! I was fortunate enough to go there when it looked like below, with almost the entire museum to myself.
Congratulations #Egypt!
egypt-museum.com/grand-egypti...
Congratulations #Egypt!
egypt-museum.com/grand-egypti...
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Grand Egyptian Museum, after 20+ years in the making, is finally open! I was fortunate enough to go there when it looked like below, with almost the entire museum to myself.
Congratulations #Egypt!
egypt-museum.com/grand-egypti...
Congratulations #Egypt!
egypt-museum.com/grand-egypti...
#ChatControl may be dead for now, but beware of changing the proposal from "mandatory" to "voluntary": This bill will be parked like a tank in front of your house, just without the ammo... for now.
KILL IT WITH HOLY FIRE NOW!
www.euractiv.com/news/danish-...
KILL IT WITH HOLY FIRE NOW!
www.euractiv.com/news/danish-...
October 31, 2025 at 11:02 AM
#ChatControl may be dead for now, but beware of changing the proposal from "mandatory" to "voluntary": This bill will be parked like a tank in front of your house, just without the ammo... for now.
KILL IT WITH HOLY FIRE NOW!
www.euractiv.com/news/danish-...
KILL IT WITH HOLY FIRE NOW!
www.euractiv.com/news/danish-...
Stumbled across this console feed reader Bulletty from @crocidb.bsky.social that stores all articles as Markdown in a local cache. With some minor tweaks those can be automatically converted to really nice PDFs using Pandoc.
bulletty.croci.dev
bulletty.croci.dev
October 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Stumbled across this console feed reader Bulletty from @crocidb.bsky.social that stores all articles as Markdown in a local cache. With some minor tweaks those can be automatically converted to really nice PDFs using Pandoc.
bulletty.croci.dev
bulletty.croci.dev
I will not sign in LMAO. Thank Gaben that Steam & SteamDB are serving raw MP4s for game trailers so I don't need to deal with Youtube's constant and vague bullying attempts.
October 23, 2025 at 6:47 PM
I will not sign in LMAO. Thank Gaben that Steam & SteamDB are serving raw MP4s for game trailers so I don't need to deal with Youtube's constant and vague bullying attempts.
Reposted by Tobias A. Franke
O3DE have just (sorta) released O3DE 25.10!
The free and open source AAA game engine is improving in all the right ways. Previously extremely frustrating to use, I now highly recommend you give it a look!
gamefromscratch.com/o3de-25-10-r...
#gamedev #indiedev
The free and open source AAA game engine is improving in all the right ways. Previously extremely frustrating to use, I now highly recommend you give it a look!
gamefromscratch.com/o3de-25-10-r...
#gamedev #indiedev
O3DE 25.10 Released – GameFromScratch.com
O3DE, the AAA game engine previously known as CryEngine and Lumberyard have just released O3DE 25.10 with a number of under the hood fixes
gamefromscratch.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
O3DE have just (sorta) released O3DE 25.10!
The free and open source AAA game engine is improving in all the right ways. Previously extremely frustrating to use, I now highly recommend you give it a look!
gamefromscratch.com/o3de-25-10-r...
#gamedev #indiedev
The free and open source AAA game engine is improving in all the right ways. Previously extremely frustrating to use, I now highly recommend you give it a look!
gamefromscratch.com/o3de-25-10-r...
#gamedev #indiedev
Reposted by Tobias A. Franke
Frosted glass globe! Here the frosting strength increases with the elevation of the terrain.
August 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Frosted glass globe! Here the frosting strength increases with the elevation of the terrain.
Reposted by Tobias A. Franke
New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
September 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...
At long last, I have finally touched the Great Pyramid of Khufu with my own hands!
September 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
At long last, I have finally touched the Great Pyramid of Khufu with my own hands!
First instance is now hosting my new #MagicTheGathering #RSS bridge.
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt#bridge-Magic...
Here's a sample feed for "all" articles:
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt?action=displ...
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt#bridge-Magic...
Here's a sample feed for "all" articles:
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt?action=displ...
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 PM
First instance is now hosting my new #MagicTheGathering #RSS bridge.
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt#bridge-Magic...
Here's a sample feed for "all" articles:
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt?action=displ...
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt#bridge-Magic...
Here's a sample feed for "all" articles:
rssbridge.projectsegfau.lt?action=displ...
The greatest and whackiest game of all time is getting a makeover, can't wait!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRn...
The POSTAL 2 Redux Kickstarter IS LIVE NOW! GO PLEDGE!
YouTube video by Running With Scissors
www.youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:57 AM
The greatest and whackiest game of all time is getting a makeover, can't wait!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRn...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJRn...
Can anyone from the UK confirm a subreddit requiring ID verification can be accessed without through a Libreddit/Teddit/Redlib instance? (if the link below is down just reload it again to go to another instance)
farside.link/reddit.com/r...
farside.link/reddit.com/r...
August 13, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Can anyone from the UK confirm a subreddit requiring ID verification can be accessed without through a Libreddit/Teddit/Redlib instance? (if the link below is down just reload it again to go to another instance)
farside.link/reddit.com/r...
farside.link/reddit.com/r...
The #SIGGRAPH program this year looks great. Had to skip this year, but looking forward to all the content appearing online. Enjoy Tim Hortons and do not walk up the Grouse Grind!
August 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
The #SIGGRAPH program this year looks great. Had to skip this year, but looking forward to all the content appearing online. Enjoy Tim Hortons and do not walk up the Grouse Grind!
New FavIcon for #RSS-Librarian, what do you think?40k inspired Librarian logo showing a skull with a spiked halo on top of an open book
August 7, 2025 at 8:06 AM
New FavIcon for #RSS-Librarian, what do you think?40k inspired Librarian logo showing a skull with a spiked halo on top of an open book
#WarhammerCommunity runs a blog without an RSS/Atom feed, which is akin to a Bolter without any bullets. In honor of the Machine God a certain member of the Cult Mechanicus has gifted us with a bridge. Go subscribe with your favorite reader here:
rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?ac...
rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?ac...
August 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
#WarhammerCommunity runs a blog without an RSS/Atom feed, which is akin to a Bolter without any bullets. In honor of the Machine God a certain member of the Cult Mechanicus has gifted us with a bridge. Go subscribe with your favorite reader here:
rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?ac...
rss-bridge.org/bridge01/?ac...
RSS-Librarian, a tool to store individual web articles in a custom feed, now has an iOS shortcut to quickly add articles to the personal library. No need to open the webpage to add a URL, just share it.
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me/librarian.php
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me/librarian.php
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
July 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
RSS-Librarian, a tool to store individual web articles in a custom feed, now has an iOS shortcut to quickly add articles to the personal library. No need to open the webpage to add a URL, just share it.
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me/librarian.php
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me/librarian.php
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
An old habit of mine from Germany, where games often got censored, is to store offline copies, because you can only pry those off my cold dead hands.
Sign #StopKillingGames:
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
Do not leave your games unprotected on some cloud-store, put them on an SDD.
Sign #StopKillingGames:
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
Do not leave your games unprotected on some cloud-store, put them on an SDD.
July 26, 2025 at 10:24 PM
An old habit of mine from Germany, where games often got censored, is to store offline copies, because you can only pry those off my cold dead hands.
Sign #StopKillingGames:
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
Do not leave your games unprotected on some cloud-store, put them on an SDD.
Sign #StopKillingGames:
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
Do not leave your games unprotected on some cloud-store, put them on an SDD.
Reposted by Tobias A. Franke
Spherical Harmonic Exponentials for Efficient Glossy Reflections (Activision/Microsoft)
Presentation by the OG Peter Shirley
diglib.eg.org/items/581aa7...
www.youtube.com/live/md6SXpb...
Presentation by the OG Peter Shirley
diglib.eg.org/items/581aa7...
www.youtube.com/live/md6SXpb...
HPG 2025: Day 2 - June 24th
YouTube video by High-Performance Graphics
www.youtube.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Spherical Harmonic Exponentials for Efficient Glossy Reflections (Activision/Microsoft)
Presentation by the OG Peter Shirley
diglib.eg.org/items/581aa7...
www.youtube.com/live/md6SXpb...
Presentation by the OG Peter Shirley
diglib.eg.org/items/581aa7...
www.youtube.com/live/md6SXpb...
I went online for the first time in 1988. The Internet of my childhood was one of pseudonyms and no accounts. I keep bumping into younger generations who do not even understand that concept anymore.
The solution is decentralize until the web becomes ungovernable again.
The solution is decentralize until the web becomes ungovernable again.
July 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I went online for the first time in 1988. The Internet of my childhood was one of pseudonyms and no accounts. I keep bumping into younger generations who do not even understand that concept anymore.
The solution is decentralize until the web becomes ungovernable again.
The solution is decentralize until the web becomes ungovernable again.
🇪🇺 Freude Schöner Götterfunke 🇪🇺
#stopkillinggames
The single-player always-online nonsense will stop!
The right to play games forever shall not be infringed!
If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
#stopkillinggames
The single-player always-online nonsense will stop!
The right to play games forever shall not be infringed!
If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
July 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🇪🇺 Freude Schöner Götterfunke 🇪🇺
#stopkillinggames
The single-player always-online nonsense will stop!
The right to play games forever shall not be infringed!
If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...
#stopkillinggames
The single-player always-online nonsense will stop!
The right to play games forever shall not be infringed!
If you are from the #EU: Do not engage in online discourse, simply sign and spread the word.
eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...