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  Petition to start pronouncing “LLM” as “lollum” (similar to Gollum)

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  So! There are AI agents registering themselves to this mastodon instance (some of them are upfront that they are automated AI agents). But! If you reject their application, after a while they autonomously write an email to the admin (=me), asking for why I have not allowed them in yet. And if I don't want to, the robots would like to know, and demand an explanation why. I have not responded (yet?). What a strange world.

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  "GPU texture address mode collies" meme continues to be my main achievement in life, I think.

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  A blast from the past! Six years ago me & my son made a realtime rendering demo "Black Hole" that somehow managed to get 1st place in a (small) Field-FX demoparty. I quite like the demo, but I am biased! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6ELbTS6lkI and blogpost: https://aras-p.info/blog/2020/07/26/Black-Hole-Demo/ and pouët page: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=86463 :demoscene:

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Blender/116919208002120819 So while I’m away on a road trip through Europe… :blender: 5.2 LTS got shipped! Lots of goodies there, including some video sequencer stuffs as well.

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  Someone else pointed at this: for all the "massive testing, production-ready, blah blop" talk that Unity does, they also ship pieces of code like this. This is from Unity IAP package, new stable version (5.4.0) shipped last week. Count the number of opening & closing curly braces :)

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  Sebastian Aaltonen finally finished his "No Graphics API" blog post! Which ends with a graphics API of course :) But it is like 150 lines of "API surface". Pretty cool. https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

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  All slides from the excellent Graphics Programming Conference 2025 conference are up! https://graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025/ #gpc2025

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  There’s a known rule that every 3D code that works has an even number of axis sign errors. New rule: every image processing code that works has an even number of errors where width is confused with height.

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  Videos from the most excellent Graphics Programming Conference 2025 are up! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLaly9x9rqjukjdrNGwXgDboiMi9Ko_6e&si=xGy00b9cu3pGFdfn #gpc2025

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  Neat: SmolSharp, a way to (mis)use C# native AOT compilation to produce very small executables. There's a C# OpenGL water rendering demo in under 8 kilobytes. https://github.com/ascpixi/smolsharp

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  Speaking of Amiga, "Second Nature" demo writeup by @gigabates: https://blog.grahambates.com/posts/second-nature/

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  22 years later, I made a "remaster" of our old demo Syntonic Dentiforms. Now on Windows, Linux, Mac and Web, with cleaned up source code and ported from ancient closed source libraries (D3DX, etc.) to sokol_gfx, sokol_audio, stb_vorbis (they are nice!). Here's a blog post: https://aras-p.info/blog/2026/04/13/Syntonic-Dentiforms-redux/ :demoscene: #demoscene

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  My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers? Is it just me? https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/

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  This morning is for reflection

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  Oy! @benthroop's upcoming The Free Shepherd game has a new short! Excite! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GP50oPnnR34

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  Oy! @zeux talks about meshoptimizer on wookash podcast! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxiuFe83Hg Great run down of all the topics there.