This is part 1 of a multi-part series on grass rendering. We’ll start by figuring out how realistic grass should look like, and how herbage can be modeled with the tools we have at our disposal in real-time 3D graphics. Then, we’ll look at how to implement…

In a previous post about ractors, I explained why I think it’s really unlikely you’d ever be able to run an entire application inside a ractor, but that they could still be situationally very useful to move CPU-bound work out of the main thread, and to unlock…

The PicoMite is a Raspberry Pi Pico running the free MMBasic interpreter.
MMBasic is a Microsoft BASIC compatible implementation of the BASIC language with floating point, integer and string variables, arrays, long variable names, a built in program editor…

With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerged. David Siegel advocated for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen kept it simple, while Jeffrey Zeldman combined flair with usability.

My experience joining the United States DOGE Service as a software engineer, and what I learned along the way.

The fallacy of the tech genius.

A research team has developed the world's first Pixel-Based Local Sound OLED technology. This breakthrough enables each pixel of an OLED display to simultaneously emit different sounds, essentially allowing the display to function as a multichannel speaker…

Magit for VSCode. Contribute to kahole/edamagit development by creating an account on GitHub.

A recent study by behavioral biologists from Wageningen University & Research and the German Primate Research Center has uncovered a remarkable phenomenon among wild chimpanzees in West Africa: the use ...

My letter to the FTC explaining how Google is using AI to censor thousands of independent websites - and to control the flow of information online.

If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’t want good art – she wanted my art.

Somebody with good taste could’ve made my website, but then it wouldn’t be mine.

To…

Daron Acemoglu finds nothing to support widely cited assessments of the technology’s near-term potential.

A group of British men went from London to the summit of Everest and back in less than a week with the help of xenon gas. Mountaineers and the Nepalese government weren’t pleased.

A SwiftUI based macOS GUI for rsync. Contribute to rsyncOSX/RsyncUI development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tripling reading level through tutoring

The Trump administration has canceled a contract awarded to Moderna for the late-stage development of its bird flu vaccine for humans, as well as the right to purchase shots, the drugmaker announced on Wednesday.

Real-time visualization platform for Python, JS, and C++. Features include: Execution flow animation, Variable tracing, Memory allocation monitoring, and Code optimization suggestions.

Thanks to Jesse Richardson for discussion. Polymarket asks: will Jesus Christ return in 2025? In the three days since the market opened, traders have wagered over $100,000 on this question. The mar…