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Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

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Tech Director at Assemble Tech Ltd. with a fondness for shiny graphics and good engineering.
Formerly Activision Central Tech & Bizarre Creations.
he/him
shadertoy.com/user/P_Malin
https://blog.mousefingers.com/
https://www.pouet.net/user.php?who=105060

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Kate Compton

@galaxykate.bsky.social

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Conversation with Claude about tracery parsers, and it advises me to look at kate comptons parser, to which i reply “but Doctor i am kate compton”

November 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM

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Conspiracy

@conspiracy.hu

Here's a small treat if you're looking for some colorful backgrounds: 8k screenshots of our 2024 64k intro Empires with particle counts cranked to the tens of millions.
As a bonus there are also a bunch of ultrawides in there for multi-monitor setups. conspiracy.hu/files/screen...

October 17, 2025 at 10:52 PM

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Pablo Zurita

@pzurita.bsky.social

I finally found the time and energy to make a new blog and write a couple of posts. This time I wrote about PBR content and game development principles. Both posts are quite different so hopefully people find something interesting on either one of them.

irradiance.ca/posts/

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irradiance.ca

October 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM

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Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

🎵 Win or lose, sink or swim
One thing is certain, we'll never give in
Side by side, hand in hand
We all stand together 🎵

October 10, 2025 at 8:56 AM

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Kieran HJ Connell

@kieranhj.bsky.social

Don't forget the humble BBC Micro port by yours truly, with music by @inversephase.bsky.social! Find out more and download here: bitshifters.github.io/posts/prods/...

September 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM

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Tommodore 64

@tompedalino.bsky.social

Done a little cry to this.

If everyone complaining about immigrants could just take a moment to understand how so many of them feel there wouldn't be all this hate.

Colin Elves @colinelves.bsky.social · Sep 3

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I started school in Newcastle in Year 5 without knowing a word of English. I was nine years old and had arrived as a refugee from Bosnia just a couple of months earlier.
I was one of those strangers our politicians often speak about.
I missed my grandparents and friends. I was having awful nightmares, and I would wake up screaming every single night. I hated going to school. I would sit in my chair, look out of the window, and spend my day daydreaming about ways to run back to Bosnia. I didn't want to be here.
After a couple of weeks at school, my teacher, Miss Webster, and my classmates did something special to help me settle, something that made me feel less of a stranger. That was the first day I went home with a smile on my face.
I have shared this story before, but as tomorrow is start of the new school year, I thought I would share it again.
**

Miss Webster was amazing, but I couldn't understand a word she was saying. She had this ritual where, at the end of each day, we would all sit on the floor around her, she would play the guitar, and we would all sing a song together.
I couldn't understand what they were singing, but I could see she would sing one part of the song, then she would say someone's name or point to them. The next part of the song would be sung with that person's name in it, and they would get to go home first.
My classmates loved this, but I hated it. It annoyed me because I couldn't understand what they were singing, but if I am honest, l hated it mainly because of how happy they all were. I definitely wasn't happy. I cried myself to sleep nearly every night.
I eventually started having separate English lessons, which I enjoyed more because it took me out of the classroom. It was always daunting coming to school because I felt everyone was looking at me or speaking about me. For months, my dad would stand with me outside the school gates in the morning until it was time to go in.

One day I came back into the classroom from my English lesson. We sat down, and everyone was extra-excited, looking at me more than usual for some reason. Of course, I thought it was because I was a refugee, because I couldn't speak English, or because they couldn't pronounce my name. I was bracing myself for another afternoon of my classmates encouraging me to sing. This was probably the closest I came to running out.
So we were all sitting on the floor around Miss Webster. She was holding her guitar, ready to sing. I remember the sun shining through the tall, narrow windows as I slowly drifted into a daydream of being back in Bosnia. She began playing the guitar, my classmates joined in, but this time, everything was different. I froze. I understood what they were signing. Not because I had miraculously learned English in one afternoon, but because they were singing in Bosnian for me. I looked around in shock, and they were all smiling at me, and for a moment I thought I was daydreaming.

While I was having separate English lessons, Miss Webster had taught our entire class to sing this song for me in Bosnian. They sang it terribly, but it was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard. I skipped home that day with a huge smile on my face. For the first time, I looked forward to going back to school the next day.
I have often imagined Miss Webster and my classmates rehearsing, struggling with the strange Bosnian words and laughing at themselves. For me, that effort was the ultimate recognition, an act of peace that felt like the opposite of everything I had known during the war. It was special.
I do not know if they realised it then, but that moment helped to give me back my dignity, my belonging, and, for the first time in a long time, I didn't feel like I was just a refugee or an outsider. I was home.

September 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM

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Stephen Hill

@selfshadow.com

Most of the slides and course notes for the SIGGRAPH 2025 Physically Based Shading in Theory and practice course are now online, with more to follow:
blog.selfshadow.com/publications...

SIGGRAPH 2025 Course: Physically Based Shading in Theory and Practice

blog.selfshadow.com

August 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM

Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

Zoom in for bonus cat.

Photo of a path through trees in a wood. Sat in the middle of the path if you zoom in is a sitting cat looking at the camera.

August 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM

Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

The other production I had a hand in at Nova 2025 was the Allstar Megademo for the Acorn Archimedes.
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_cY...
For which I made all the graphics and lookup table effects for the "Space Trip" section in #shadertoy.

June 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM

Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

Last weekend was the Nova 2025 demoparty in the UK. I worked on a couple of the productions released there.
I made a 4Kb Executable Graphics picture "void main".
www.pouet.net/prod.php?whi...
Since then I've also put a variation of the code up on #shadertoy www.shadertoy.com/view/3fySDR

June 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM

Paul Malin

@p-malin.bsky.social

Hi, I'm Paul, a tech programmer in the games industry.
I'm a Technical Director at Assemble Technology in the UK working with a number of studios.

I've been known to make stuff on #shadertoy, do random coding for old machines and some other #demoscene stuff.

Expect terrible puns and daft nonsense.

January 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM

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rob cupisz

@robcupisz.bsky.social

For the love of our eyeballs, do not align your ember particles to velocity!

Don’t give them that comet texture either, ugh.

Let’s make
✨physically based flying embers✨

A Unity vfx graph implementation and explanation below. 🧵

January 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM

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