Describing a JVM deployable as “a secure file called the jar” is amazing, I’m gonna start doing that at work now (from @matt-levine.bsky.social’s newsletter today)

Done with my MVP of my webgpu accelerated n-body problem simulation (bassp97.github.io/N-Body-Probl...) :)

It not only renders with webgpu, it also performs velocity/force/movement calculations on the gpu using compute shaders

Code: github.com/BassP97/N-Bo...

Progress on my webgpu n-body problem simulation: I got a bunch of circles to render 😄. The brighter a given body/planet is, the more mass it has

WebGPU compute is cool, but I'm confused about some of the limits; eg why can't I have >256 threads per workgroup? Running 256 threads/block doesn't achieve high occupancy on nvidia chips, leaving performance on the table. Maybe WG != block and the compiler is doing some clever stuff under the hood?

I’m implementing a Barnes-Hut N body problem simulation, and the outputs are mesmerizing

I particularly like this one; watching the orderly circle descend into chaos is so neat 😊

The real downside of Linux on the desktop is tripping every single website’s risk-o-meter and having to constantly 2FA

I loved reading this paper - the key insight (ordering matters at read time, not write time) feels so obvious in hindsight, but I’d have never thought of it in a million years; really clever stuff

The other site is pretty terrible so. Here I am!