Ryan Schmidt

Hey I made a new thing - it's called Gradientspace Graph, and it's a C#-based NodeGraph Programming system that also supports inline C# and Python "Code Nodes". The NodeGraph Engine is MIT Open-Source and the Editor is Free. More details here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...

Graphics / Games students: Sign up to volunteer at @i3dsymposium.org! We're looking for student volunteers for the duration of the conference. Priority will be given to students local to the bay area. DM me or email general@i3dsymposium.org .

man claude can really go down some rabbit-holes trying to "verify" weird UE C++ idioms that would have been trivial for me to just test (in this case templated Cast<> functions where the types are all predecl'd and finding the actual headers/etc is quite hard). goodbye ~10% of session tokens...

It's looking good for SCA 2026 ! If all the abstracts submitted are converted into full submissions it will be the most submissions to SCA in the last 10 years !!!! Final submission deadline: April 17th sca.graphics

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

For those submitting to SCA (sca.graphics) — the submission system (SRM) is back up after an outage yesterday. Remember abstract deadline is tomorrrow :) Submit here: srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Confer...

A programming lesson that's been hammered into my skull is to not try to create a general system until you've implemented AT LEAST a handful of one-offs the system is supposed to support. Otherwise you waste endless time fighting with and refactoring your "general" system.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error. You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

Wouldn’t be surprised if every GenAI video service is hemorrhaging money (and Gen3D too). Despite all the noise, the market is just inherently small, and the content is not good enough.

2 more Nanite Tessellation posts are up. graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/02/nani..., graphicrants.blogspot.com/2026/03/vari...

the scale in the javascript ecosystem is mind-boggling... @zeux.io 's meshoptimizer.js npm package has 3 million weekly downloads. **weekly** (for comparison my C# geo library - which is relatively widely used, for a geo library - has total 1m nuget downloads over the past ~10 years...)

not sure I love it that steam has decided I am into "Inventory Management" games

My iPhone just autocorrected “you” to “noncombatant”…seems weird

assuming this applies to AI-generated code (no obvious reason it shouldn't), you can't even put an MIT license on it.

the robots ported my ModelGrid C++ library to Typescript today, and made a basic little in-browser editor. Thought this tech was going to be dead (it's trapped in an Unreal plugin) but now maybe not... (clearly some face-normal issues, though...)

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming! BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026! Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026 Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026 Website: sca.graphics Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions... Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

wrote a post about developing geometry libraries in this new reality where a robot can generate working code for damn near anything. www.rms80.com/blog/2026-03...

I refuse to do any amount of fact checking on this, I am taking it at face value

hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon

added Claude Coding Robots to this infinite-canvas app I've been noodling with, because I really don't love a CLI. Being able to be lazy w/ the prompts and use screenshots as context is pretty nice. Full vid on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-r...

the hero we need

roblox is hiring an entry-level geometry engineer in Vancouver, if that sounds like your kinda thing: careers.roblox.com/jobs/7558821...

made a vid about this app that the robots have been coding for me. It's on Github if you wanna try it. youtu.be/gJo4UDf73mk?... They made a website for it, too: www.gsworkspace.com

this website (blueprintue.com) is basically github gist but for unreal engine blueprints (a visual scripting language). Not run by a megacorp, so not able to implement a complex age-verification system. These laws are unbelievably stupid, and coming soon to a country near you...

nice blog post about a humanoid robotics startup failure: ruixu.us/posts/six-th...

a significant challenge in claude-coding is just figuring out good ways to describe things in words. Abstract high-level concepts, very precisely identifying (eg) UI elements, explaining observed behaviors, giving things good unique names, etc. Perhaps time to bring back Technical Writing classes

used claude code SDK to make my app able to modify itself...

soooo what’s the next IRC-in-browser we can all switch over to?

hmm not sure about this direction I seem to be moving...

zomg had no idea this existed why isn’t it the default

I can’t believe Apple ships this, it looks like placeholder UI. This is what you have to click through to save a cropped screenshot on iOS. If you don’t do this, it silently discards the image!!

migrated my personal website off Squarespace w/ assistance from the coding robot. Compared to writing a web app it was not so great at this, but (a) I don't know how this site actually functions and (b) I won't ever need to again. Wrote a post about it! www.rms80.com/blog/2026-01...

"You just need to get Flinge 8.0 and compile a Kumbara script with ~imp.dd on a partitioned IRQ drive" WOULD YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOURSELVES? I want an icon to click and then it's Linux

ouch. I remember when Autodesk killed off ArtCAM, a 2.5D design tool that was used by Mints around the world to design coins (among many other things). The suggestion to abandoned users was “try MudBox (?)”