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/
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/...
"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.
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...
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.
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/#...
Even LLMs are so lazy now they just revert to letmegooglethat.com
July 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Even LLMs are so lazy now they just revert to letmegooglethat.com
RSS-Librarian, a tool to store readibility-extracted articles in a custom RSS feed, now has a mobile-friendly interface. Go check it out:
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
July 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
RSS-Librarian, a tool to store readibility-extracted articles in a custom RSS feed, now has a mobile-friendly interface. Go check it out:
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Demo instance:
alternator.hstn.me
Code:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Want to get notified when there are new free/100% discounted assets on Epic's Fab.com?
Subscribe here via #RSS:
bridge.easter.fr?action=displ...
Subscribe here via #RSS:
bridge.easter.fr?action=displ...
June 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Want to get notified when there are new free/100% discounted assets on Epic's Fab.com?
Subscribe here via #RSS:
bridge.easter.fr?action=displ...
Subscribe here via #RSS:
bridge.easter.fr?action=displ...
Epic Games @Fab RSS for free items... Soon available on an #RSS-Bridge instance near you.
June 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Epic Games @Fab RSS for free items... Soon available on an #RSS-Bridge instance near you.
3D Gaussian Splats are DEAD 😆 Nothing can kill the triangular king!
trianglesplatting.github.io
trianglesplatting.github.io
May 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
3D Gaussian Splats are DEAD 😆 Nothing can kill the triangular king!
trianglesplatting.github.io
trianglesplatting.github.io
#Mozilla shuts down #Pocket.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...
Do you know what cant be shutdown? The RSS-Librarian, which adds your extracted, readable articles to a custom #RSS feed!
Source:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Documentation:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...
Do you know what cant be shutdown? The RSS-Librarian, which adds your extracted, readable articles to a custom #RSS feed!
Source:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Documentation:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...
May 24, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#Mozilla shuts down #Pocket.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...
Do you know what cant be shutdown? The RSS-Librarian, which adds your extracted, readable articles to a custom #RSS feed!
Source:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Documentation:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/fut...
Do you know what cant be shutdown? The RSS-Librarian, which adds your extracted, readable articles to a custom #RSS feed!
Source:
github.com/thefranke/rs...
Documentation:
www.tobias-franke.eu/log/2024/04/...
The "Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency" tutorial at Eurographics 2025 was a big success. You can find the material links here:
www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...
Also, name our band
www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...
Also, name our band
May 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
The "Traditional and Neural Order-Independent Transparency" tutorial at Eurographics 2025 was a big success. You can find the material links here:
www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...
Also, name our band
www.tobias-franke.eu/publications...
Also, name our band
I’m at Eurographics 2025 in London until Thursday night. Happy to talk, simply look for the right symbol and you will find me.
May 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
I’m at Eurographics 2025 in London until Thursday night. Happy to talk, simply look for the right symbol and you will find me.
Join our tutorial tomorrow at @Eurographics@twitter.com 2025 from 9:00 - 12:30. The team from the University of Ioannina (@gtsopus@twitter.com and others) together with the #Huawei Game Acceleration Technology group will present insights into rendering OIT the neural way.
May 11, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Join our tutorial tomorrow at @Eurographics@twitter.com 2025 from 9:00 - 12:30. The team from the University of Ioannina (@gtsopus@twitter.com and others) together with the #Huawei Game Acceleration Technology group will present insights into rendering OIT the neural way.