Good morning fediverse.

If your Internet goes down, remember you can fill out the paper version of the packet transmission form.

Finally got around to setting up a slog for my zpool, and despite widespread warnings around the internet that it would not affect performance, it appears to have made Akkoma and Kanboard respond much quicker.

Or it’s a placebo, but I’ll take it.

https://meshoptimizer.org has also been updated with better documentation structure, and more details where relevant. Hopefully that’s easier to navigate!

Upgraded my dual-booting laptop’s just-in-case-I-need-it install of Windows 10 to Windows 11, and despite my suspicions, it appears to have done so without messing up the rest of the computer! I suppose backing up everything carefully worked like taking an umbrella to ensure the day stays sunny…

Windows stays losing though, it’s surprisingly sluggish and slow to boot and shutdown compared to Arch with SDDM and Plasma.

An it's live!!! Rendering Engine Conference 2025 is now live, you can still sign up and enjoy the stellar talks. Right now Machine Games are sharing their lessons on getting to 60HZ while delivering incredible visual fidelity

Program: https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm
Register: https://tinyurl.com/register4reac25

✨ New blog post: "Sharing everything I could understand about gradient noise"

https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html

I had a lot of fun making the WebGL demos, but it took me weeks of work. Boost are really appreciated if you enjoy it.

#glsl #noise #demomaking #shader #blog #programming

Anyone know if there are safety concerns regarding keeping servers (like, a regular desktop PC without a monitor) on a windowed balcony — i.e. temperature-wise outside, but safe from the elements? #selfhosting

Would save some square meters from inside the apartment, and have just a little less fan/hdd noise around…

The US ASCII control characters have official symbols? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Control_characters

📣 Blender is looking for people to join the team! Read our new job postings and get in touch - let's collaborate!

➡️ UX Designer | Dev Manager | Render and Graphics Engineers ✍️

#b3d #cganimation #rendering #uxdesign #jobs #apply
https://www.blender.org/jobs/

Two different approaches to debugging a software problem:

The Sudoku approach: stare at the limited set of clues you have, and think harder and harder about them until you find a way to deduce something useful.

The Minesweeper approach: don't even try to figure out the solution from only the clues you have right now. Instead, focus on finding a way to acquire another clue, and then using that to get another, and so on. Eventually you've collected so many clues that the answer is obvious.

Sometimes the Sudoku approach is necessary, because you've got all the clues you're ever going to get. But I think my new motto is "Never Sudoku a problem when you can Minesweeper it."

REAC 2025 talk details have been posted on the website! Register today - it's free! https://enginearchitecture.org/2025.htm

If you can share this message, we'd appreciate it. Thanks, and see you soon!

A new blog post on our N64 demo: https://30fps.net/pages/palette-lighting-tricks-n64/

It explains the normal mapping technique and how baked lighting was stored and composited at runtime. Also reveals what a hack the specular effects were!

#n64

The whole experience of the fedi is just yelling "hey nerds, I found something interesting..." into the abyss and the abyss going "fuck me, that is interesting"

I feel a little bit foolish, I run a solar powered server which provides a #mastodon instance, a #bittorrent client and a #gitea server. During the winter it's only online for fairly short periods of time depending on the sun.
Ive got some markdown files on the gitea server which I edit using the website, I therefore have to wait for the sunshine before i can do this, it can be a little annoying if the timing doesn't line up with my day schedule.

I have only just clicked that it's #git so I can clone to my laptop, edit to my hearts content and then push it back when the server is online. Honestly completely forgot this key function. Git (or other similar systems) are ideal for a #solarpunk #frugalcomputing approach, the server doesn't need to be online all day as it's not actually doing much in between, I can work separately. I wonder if this model could be applied to our parts of our day to day work

SDL3 is officially released! https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.2.0

May I present my new four-part article series “Demystifying the PVS” on Quake's precomputed visibility.

The first three parts are out now!
Read them here:
📜 https://30fps.net/pages/pvs-portals-and-quake/

The "vis.py" code available at:
🖳 https://github.com/pekkavaa/vis.py/

Huh, TIL. The "transform normals with inverse transpose matrix" is not ideal, turns out. Adjugate matrix is both better and faster to calculate. See https://github.com/graphitemaster/normals_revisited and shadertoy by iq himself: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/3s33zj