Behind the pretty frames of #PRAGMATA. Breaking down many tricks and hidden gems of the renderer behind CAPCOM's RE Engine.
i hope you enjoy & find this few months worth of freetime article useful...
mamoniem.com/behind-the-p...

I'm sorry, but no.

very important video please watch

Daft Punk - Human After All (Official Music Video) YouTube video by Daft Punk

well now, daft punk was not on my 2026 bingo card

youtu.be/UsXubuXq1lM

To paraphrase a friend: stay on the path, make good things. Indie has always flourished in the face of AAA distraction. Times are bad, but let others deskill, pivot to nonsense or chase impossible outcomes. People really like playing videogames. Suits forget that every 6 months or so.

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Somebody implemented shortest-path-between-nodes entirely in CSS. I have a few questions:

1. what
2. how
3. why

css-tip.com/graph-theory/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

Every part of this makes me just hold my head in my hands

theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

I posted a small article relating to many peoples' favourite topic:
www.dominikgrabiec.com/posts/2026/0...
I've had this written for many months but never felt comfortable enough to post it. Don't know if this means it is a good piece of writing or not.

Pushing Simulation to the Limit to Find Order in Chaos YouTube video by Drew's Campfire

A colleague sent me this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jVo...

No further comments needed, it's **very** good.

I've seen some of his videos in the past, but I missed this one. Glad I saw it.

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire . ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of fire .

my mood recently

GitHub - 9001/copyparty: Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, SFTP, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file - 9001/copyparty

I've recently started using copyparty for this exact use case :)
github.com/9001/copyparty

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI.

Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

We got you: translate.kagi.com/extension

also if they're so big on AI, couldn't they just use an AI to write their renderer 🤭

screenshot of the marketing page for "The World Engine". it reads: "Your World. Your Rules. Your Vision. Instantly. AI-native, real-time collaborative platform that will enable the next generation of 10x creatives. Create original, interactive, high-fidelity virtual worlds in days rather than months."

lmao these guys just sent me an email cus they're looking for a C++ Vulkan expert

yeah no thanks bro (company name is "goneural.ai", probably best to avoid them if you can)

No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :)
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...

I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

Every year another Doom birthday rolls by and reminds me of the same thing:

I never actually launched the project I started five years ago with @textfiles.com

Today, I finally fix that.

Drinking game idea: take a shot every time Cloudflare, AWS or Azure goes down

Congratulations to our partner @Chasing_Carrots! #HallsOfTorment is now available on #PS5 and #Xbox (Optimized for Xbox Series X|S), brought to console with our 1-click W4 Consoles #GodotEngine solution.

Congratulations to our partner @chasingcarrots.bsky.social!  #HallsOfTorment is now available on #PS5 and #Xbox (Optimized for Xbox Series X|S), brought to console with our 1-click W4 Consoles #GodotEngine solution.

🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢

Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre

- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand

WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...

screenshot of the OpenAI status page, showing that OpenAI is also affected by the current AWS outage. Underneath the screenshot, it says: "Looks as if some of OpenAI's services rely on AWS too. They're experiencing some Single Sign On (SSO) issues that will stop people logging into their ChatGPT, and the API for developer's apps to work."

yo can we keep AWS down a bit longer

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

Can't wait to run around the office yelling "hey copilot, delete system 32"

Also, good luck selling this in busy office environments lmao.

"No you piece of shit, that was my coworker talking, not me!".

2026 is the year of the Linux desktop!