David Neto 🇨🇦
@dneto.dev
WebGPU and Vulkan shader language standards and tooling.
I work at Google, on the Chrome team.
I'm also on Mastodon.
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place
Canadian, eh
He/him
I work at Google, on the Chrome team.
I'm also on Mastodon.
@dneto@mastodon.gamedev.place
Canadian, eh
He/him
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Like a wound, grief does not heal overnight. As the days pass, let the empty space fill with memories, let the sorrow be replaced with gratitude for the good times, the kind words, and most of all, the part of them that made you who you are.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Like a wound, grief does not heal overnight. As the days pass, let the empty space fill with memories, let the sorrow be replaced with gratitude for the good times, the kind words, and most of all, the part of them that made you who you are.
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I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
November 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I got an actual "Your silence on this subject is deafening" message this AM, so, super-quick: Nobody here owes anyone commentary about anything. This is a public park. It's full of interesting people. We hang out here, make friends, and chat, and then we leave to do whatever it is we do. That's it!
A stunning second album. Audacious and surefooted in its understated mood.
On this day in 1988, Cowboy Junkies released their second studio album The Trinity Session. Recorded a year earlier, the album went 2x platinum in Canada and reached #28. It also hit #26 on the Billboard 200. It remains one of the most celebrated Canadian albums in history.
November 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
A stunning second album. Audacious and surefooted in its understated mood.
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On this day in 1988, Cowboy Junkies released their second studio album The Trinity Session. Recorded a year earlier, the album went 2x platinum in Canada and reached #28. It also hit #26 on the Billboard 200. It remains one of the most celebrated Canadian albums in history.
November 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
On this day in 1988, Cowboy Junkies released their second studio album The Trinity Session. Recorded a year earlier, the album went 2x platinum in Canada and reached #28. It also hit #26 on the Billboard 200. It remains one of the most celebrated Canadian albums in history.
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Taking a moment to realise that in the movie 2010 its revealed that HAL in 2001 goes nuts because he is asked to lie.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Taking a moment to realise that in the movie 2010 its revealed that HAL in 2001 goes nuts because he is asked to lie.
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Level 1: holy shit, X is possible
Level 2: holy shit, X is possible in a browser
Level 3: holy shit, X is possible (and of course it’s in a browser, that’s we’re cutting edge things just *are*)
Level 2: holy shit, X is possible in a browser
Level 3: holy shit, X is possible (and of course it’s in a browser, that’s we’re cutting edge things just *are*)
November 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Level 1: holy shit, X is possible
Level 2: holy shit, X is possible in a browser
Level 3: holy shit, X is possible (and of course it’s in a browser, that’s we’re cutting edge things just *are*)
Level 2: holy shit, X is possible in a browser
Level 3: holy shit, X is possible (and of course it’s in a browser, that’s we’re cutting edge things just *are*)
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Gotta say, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome still rocks after all these years. Great if you're in the right mood. (Yeah it's filled with remakes too, but ok...)
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Bang!... The Greatest Hits Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Album by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Bang!... The Greatest Hits of Frankie Goes to Hollywood is a compilation album by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, released in 1993 during a spate of reissuing and remixing of Frankie Goes to Hollywood prod...
music.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Gotta say, Welcome to the Pleasure Dome still rocks after all these years. Great if you're in the right mood. (Yeah it's filled with remakes too, but ok...)
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Banting and Best sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1 in 1923.
Insulin should be available at cost.
Insulin should be available at cost.
Sir Frederick Banting wasn't just the co-discover of insulin.
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
🧵 1/12
He was the youngest recipient of the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine, an accomplished artist, and a decorated war hero.
This is the story of one of the greatest Canadians.
🧵 1/12
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Banting and Best sold the patent for insulin to the University of Toronto for $1 in 1923.
Insulin should be available at cost.
Insulin should be available at cost.
Waiting for a commit to land, and am reminded of this maxim:
Fast is better than slow.
Fast is better than slow.
November 14, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Waiting for a commit to land, and am reminded of this maxim:
Fast is better than slow.
Fast is better than slow.
Oh C'mon. Using the Berlin Wall falling as the *old* reference point just hurts.
Signed...GenX
Signed...GenX
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
November 14, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Oh C'mon. Using the Berlin Wall falling as the *old* reference point just hurts.
Signed...GenX
Signed...GenX
The corner store in my old neighbourhood was a delight. And the small independent coffee and pastry shop on the next block. All right in the middle of residential blocks.
The neighbourhood retail report as amended CARRIES 23-2.
Toronto Council votes to permit corner stores in all Old Toronto & East York wards, and expands permission for retail on some (but not all) major streets city-wide.
Toronto Council votes to permit corner stores in all Old Toronto & East York wards, and expands permission for retail on some (but not all) major streets city-wide.
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
The corner store in my old neighbourhood was a delight. And the small independent coffee and pastry shop on the next block. All right in the middle of residential blocks.
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The world’s first microprocessor is *NOT* from Intel.
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
November 13, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The world’s first microprocessor is *NOT* from Intel.
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
But you won’t find it in many textbooks.
It was a secret only declassified in 1998; for good reason.
The Garrett AiResearch F14 Air Data Computer was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, and a year earlier!
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“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
security.googleblog.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...
NEWS FROM CANADA
36 year old man with no fixed address took an articulated bus on a 15 minute ride on its route. Passengers provided directions when the driver took a wrong turn.
The driver picked up and dropped off passengers along the way.
The bus was returned in perfect condition.
36 year old man with no fixed address took an articulated bus on a 15 minute ride on its route. Passengers provided directions when the driver took a wrong turn.
The driver picked up and dropped off passengers along the way.
The bus was returned in perfect condition.
November 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
NEWS FROM CANADA
36 year old man with no fixed address took an articulated bus on a 15 minute ride on its route. Passengers provided directions when the driver took a wrong turn.
The driver picked up and dropped off passengers along the way.
The bus was returned in perfect condition.
36 year old man with no fixed address took an articulated bus on a 15 minute ride on its route. Passengers provided directions when the driver took a wrong turn.
The driver picked up and dropped off passengers along the way.
The bus was returned in perfect condition.
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“..design firm in Canada discovered this the hard way. After enforcing strict return-to-office mandate, half its engineering team left within 6 months.
..competitor, which offered flexible hybrid arrangements among other perks, hired most of them.”
@drsmith.bsky.social
www.ept.ca/features/the...
..competitor, which offered flexible hybrid arrangements among other perks, hired most of them.”
@drsmith.bsky.social
www.ept.ca/features/the...
The future of electronic P.Eng talent in Canada
Competition is intense, as Canuck firms compete globally
www.ept.ca
November 12, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“..design firm in Canada discovered this the hard way. After enforcing strict return-to-office mandate, half its engineering team left within 6 months.
..competitor, which offered flexible hybrid arrangements among other perks, hired most of them.”
@drsmith.bsky.social
www.ept.ca/features/the...
..competitor, which offered flexible hybrid arrangements among other perks, hired most of them.”
@drsmith.bsky.social
www.ept.ca/features/the...
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most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 AM
most on the nose “he’s on a mission from god” reference in recorded history
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So beautiful, needs to be shared with alt text
November 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So beautiful, needs to be shared with alt text
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I'll Be Here in the Morning
Lee Munn
2023
Lee Munn
2023
November 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I'll Be Here in the Morning
Lee Munn
2023
Lee Munn
2023
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This is, no joke, my favorite part about consulting. I love finding the engineer (there’s always at least one) who has been trying to say the thing everyone has been ignoring and then getting to make the recommendation they’ve been trying to make and have it actually be listened to
November 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is, no joke, my favorite part about consulting. I love finding the engineer (there’s always at least one) who has been trying to say the thing everyone has been ignoring and then getting to make the recommendation they’ve been trying to make and have it actually be listened to
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My colleague Antonio Maiorano added some basic support for capturing Chrome #WebGPU content with RenderDoc recently! I wrote a brief article about how to use it. It's pretty primitive right now, but I have high hopes that we can improve the ergonomics in the future.
Profiling WebGPU with Renderdoc
Brandon Jones - Graphics and XR on the web
toji.dev
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
My colleague Antonio Maiorano added some basic support for capturing Chrome #WebGPU content with RenderDoc recently! I wrote a brief article about how to use it. It's pretty primitive right now, but I have high hopes that we can improve the ergonomics in the future.
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It’s bizarre to see all the snow in Ottawa and Toronto but hardly any in Winnipeg (yet).
This goal will be shown around the world.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
It’s bizarre to see all the snow in Ottawa and Toronto but hardly any in Winnipeg (yet).
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On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.
November 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.