been hacking together a graphical frontend for the vis text editor, and it can now do some basic text editing! i did the rendering (ogl1.1) and text rasterization (anti-aliased shape fill & hardcoded font) myself. (didn't realize OBS also captures my audio... enjoy some of montreal.) #programming
November 17, 2025 at 7:09 AM
been hacking together a graphical frontend for the vis text editor, and it can now do some basic text editing! i did the rendering (ogl1.1) and text rasterization (anti-aliased shape fill & hardcoded font) myself. (didn't realize OBS also captures my audio... enjoy some of montreal.) #programming
writing a font rasterizer. pictured left to right: exclamation mark, double quote, hash, dollar sign, and percentage. um, you have to look closely, but they're there
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 PM
writing a font rasterizer. pictured left to right: exclamation mark, double quote, hash, dollar sign, and percentage. um, you have to look closely, but they're there
wrote a system that converts a number to a set of ratios and plays them as tones relative to A=440. it's a nice way to intuitively represent the 'simplicity' of a number! (sound on for video (｢•-•)｢ )
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
wrote a system that converts a number to a set of ratios and plays them as tones relative to A=440. it's a nice way to intuitively represent the 'simplicity' of a number! (sound on for video (｢•-•)｢ )
communicating with a rust program using the networking features in the game's scripting language. rust generates a save file (also we have a real save file format now!) and serves it over localhost, and a user program in the game requests and loads it in a loop. #gamedev
September 1, 2025 at 11:49 AM
communicating with a rust program using the networking features in the game's scripting language. rust generates a save file (also we have a real save file format now!) and serves it over localhost, and a user program in the game requests and loads it in a loop. #gamedev
'traditional polys' vs new rendering technique that involves doing raycasting & shading on the CPU and rendering 'splats', quads on GPU. rays work great with simple shapes (i.e. voxels), and doing lighting CPU-side could allow for more interesting lighting effects. also, it looks cool #gamedev
August 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
'traditional polys' vs new rendering technique that involves doing raycasting & shading on the CPU and rendering 'splats', quads on GPU. rays work great with simple shapes (i.e. voxels), and doing lighting CPU-side could allow for more interesting lighting effects. also, it looks cool #gamedev
for the dynamic memory allocator for my game, i'm testing bucketing the allocation sizes using the floating point exponent & mantissa. it's all basic bit math, so it's really quick and requires no memory reads. each bucket has its own free list, so best-fit allocation is O(1). #gamedev #programming
August 23, 2025 at 4:59 AM
for the dynamic memory allocator for my game, i'm testing bucketing the allocation sizes using the floating point exponent & mantissa. it's all basic bit math, so it's really quick and requires no memory reads. each bucket has its own free list, so best-fit allocation is O(1). #gamedev #programming
i've seen a lot of interesting abbreviations of common programming terms (e.g. 'fun' for 'function' in go), but this abbreviation for 'method' takes the cake
August 9, 2025 at 10:11 AM
i've seen a lot of interesting abbreviations of common programming terms (e.g. 'fun' for 'function' in go), but this abbreviation for 'method' takes the cake
interesting #webdev thing today: i love JSX syntax but i don't want to bundle a runtime, so I wrote a custom parser that transpiles jsx to native DOM calls. I wrote it as a vite plugin; only 138 lines of code! no error reporting, but otherwise feature rich, and zero (really zero!) overhead.
![the original source jsx code.
const todos = [
{ text: 'Play Donkey Kong Bananza', },
{ text: 'Continue Playing Donkey Kong Bananza', },
{ text: 'Banana', bold: true },
];
const app = <div>
<h1 style="color: green">Todos:</h1>
{...todos.map(todo =>
<li style={todo.bold && "font-weight: bold"}>
{todo.text}
<button onclick={() => {li.remove()}}>Remove</button>
</li>)
}
</div>
document.getElementById('app').appendChild(app);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:asvttos3skv2lzprpjl2bhja/bafkreicbd45dh7z5lynyioegzurxn7bjpiadaye6zkcotlwnnkhcdumjgy@jpeg)
![The transpiled javascript code, pretty printed by the chromium debugger.
const todos = [{
text: "Play Donkey Kong Bananza"
}, {
text: "Continue Playing Donkey Kong Bananza"
}, {
text: "Banana",
bold: true
}];
const app = ( () => {
let div = document.createElement("div");
div.appendChild(( () => {
let h1 = document.createElement("h1");
h1.setAttribute("style", "color: green");
h1.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Todos:"));
return h1;
}
)());
div.append(...todos.map( (todo) => ( () => {
let li = document.createElement("li");
li.setAttribute("style", todo.bold && "font-weight: bold");
li.append(todo.text);
li.appendChild(( () => {
let button = document.createElement("button");
button.addEventListener("click", () => {
li.remove();
}
);
button.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Remove"));
return button;
}
)());
return li;
}
)()));
return div;
}
)();
document.getElementById("app").appendChild(app);](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:asvttos3skv2lzprpjl2bhja/bafkreiaxhsfosjxhydi3v5ezb5k2wlv2soc7h7tyfeevzxg2n2tmcsqyqu@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
interesting #webdev thing today: i love JSX syntax but i don't want to bundle a runtime, so I wrote a custom parser that transpiles jsx to native DOM calls. I wrote it as a vite plugin; only 138 lines of code! no error reporting, but otherwise feature rich, and zero (really zero!) overhead.
Apple docs: "yeah totally, you can pass nil. it'll just autofill the data for you. no problem dude"
Apple validation layers: "what the fuck. why would you pass nil. what is wrong with you"
Apple validation layers: "what the fuck. why would you pass nil. what is wrong with you"
July 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Apple docs: "yeah totally, you can pass nil. it'll just autofill the data for you. no problem dude"
Apple validation layers: "what the fuck. why would you pass nil. what is wrong with you"
Apple validation layers: "what the fuck. why would you pass nil. what is wrong with you"
the game's scripting language can now download files! you can import and run code, fetch html, or even read the weather. it uses a poll system & you basically have to roll your own poll loop (but there is one in the stdlib). internally, it uses the OS' networking tools (had to do some objc lol)
June 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM
the game's scripting language can now download files! you can import and run code, fetch html, or even read the weather. it uses a poll system & you basically have to roll your own poll loop (but there is one in the stdlib). internally, it uses the OS' networking tools (had to do some objc lol)
Wrote a custom cross-platform GPU API for my game's engine, so now it can directly speak both Metal and Vulkan through the same rendering code. The new API is designed to be super low-overhead: it doesn't allocate memory or do any hidden work. Here's a (slightly boring...) demo! #gamedev #techart
June 26, 2025 at 8:50 AM
After 9 months, I'm cutting the raytracing-based voxel renderer for my game and going back to basic meshing. (I'll have to do a post-mortem on why raytracing was a horrible idea!!) Anyway, here's a visualization for some basic voxel meshing stuff #gamedev
June 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
After 9 months, I'm cutting the raytracing-based voxel renderer for my game and going back to basic meshing. (I'll have to do a post-mortem on why raytracing was a horrible idea!!) Anyway, here's a visualization for some basic voxel meshing stuff #gamedev
quick note: i've put a bunch of my game development screenshots & videos at aaaa.sh/creatures in case people want to take a look at what i've been working on without scrolling through here #gamedev
May 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
quick note: i've put a bunch of my game development screenshots & videos at aaaa.sh/creatures in case people want to take a look at what i've been working on without scrolling through here #gamedev
just finished reading "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst; it was one of the most well-written textbooks I've ever read! here are some of my favorite excerpts #design #typography
May 12, 2025 at 10:06 AM
just finished reading "The Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst; it was one of the most well-written textbooks I've ever read! here are some of my favorite excerpts #design #typography
man i really went from "yeah i think it would be fun to make video games" to "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN X PRIME AND X PRIME PRIME" real quick #gamedev
May 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
man i really went from "yeah i think it would be fun to make video games" to "HOLY SHIT WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN X PRIME AND X PRIME PRIME" real quick #gamedev
found a problem with my game today :) i wanted to stress-test the collision detection & gravity routines by spawning a ton of objects, turns out the bottleneck is rendering! each object caries with it a huge amount of rendering overhead, so the game slows to a crawl... (-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷄_-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷅ ) (1/N) #gamedev
April 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
found a problem with my game today :) i wanted to stress-test the collision detection & gravity routines by spawning a ton of objects, turns out the bottleneck is rendering! each object caries with it a huge amount of rendering overhead, so the game slows to a crawl... (-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷄_-̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥᷅ ) (1/N) #gamedev