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Quick bench test of the new trackball design. One one sensor and one button wired up for this test.

Got to love when Apple's dialogs violently object to the (very normal) USB-firmware-flashing flow on the XIAO nRF52840

Best render buffer corruption I've seen in a hot minute (triggered by changing resolution). Memory-safe GPU languages when?

You can no longer disable slackbot from showing up in the right-hand navigation bar #enshittification

The 90's called, and they'd like their benchmark back

Gmail's little LLM-powered writing suggestions are the bane of my existence, and I can't find a setting that reliably disables them. Let me be overly-wordy in peace, goddamnit

1 year anniversary of opening the cafe

I voiced Scoutmaster Myers in the trailer for Peak's final update!! Can't wait for folks to get their hands on this one. :)

You know, we could also just do 3D cerca 2016, which I seem to recall looked pretty damn good 🤷‍♀️

I guess I must be somewhat inured to the idea of LLM slop, because I used to work at firms that paid 10s of millions for Deloitte/Accenture/etc to produce sycophantic buzzword-filled slide decks and bug-ridden software…

That's the classic #WaveFunctionCollapse in a good place. Now to investigate if the state of the art on global constraints has progressed in the last few years…

Back on my bullshit - dusting off an old wavefrontcollapse tile map project

Really loving this new iteration of iOS, whether the weather app can apparently eat my whole battery in just 3 minutes…

People who name their vscode themes 'High Contrast', but the text is 4 different shades of medium grey...

As much fun as it is to dunk on bsky reliability, the alternatives have their own challenges…

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

I wonder if they actually learned anything from the first go round? Because I can tell you first-hand that was a shit show from conception to cancellation...

Really curious why this random Amazon vendor decided to vacuum-pack my usb cables

Every now and then I find my account is following bsky staff accounts that I have definitely never followed, and I’m just curious what’s up with that

Apple UX designers please stop overloading swipe gestures challenge (difficulty: impossible)

It's funny to me that they looked at the gritty world of the Expanse as seen on TV, and decided the video game crew should look like they came out of a made-for-CW teen drama

Jesus Christ, this age verification thing is going to be the most useless and annoying thing we’ve ever done to undermine privacy and democracy in the history of the world. I vote that all in favor are banned from the internet.

I was today years old when I learned that scallops are (highly!) mobile. Always assumed they were stationary, like mussels clinging to rocks...

I actually don’t think this is entirely unworkable? Hexagon is just a 2D projection of a cube, it decomposes into 3 squares quite nicely. Of course, they are a bit squished when viewed in 2 dimensions, and they don’t form straight lines… but otherwise they pretty much act like a squares grid

This is very playable for an early access release. Some rough edges of course, but I had a good time with the first few runs - worth a look if you are into FTL/roguelite/deckbuilders

You know, I've had this blasted theme song stuck in my head for about the last 20 years, and it finally dawned on me that it's probably meant to be a heavily-synthed version of the Soviet national anthem

It’s wine making season once more. My neighbours make wine by the many 1,000 litres, but I’ll content myself with this one damajuana…

I see Slack has decided to add yet another mutually-incompatible way to organise messages

Man, why don’t my dev tools work like this? I really have to find some time to sink into live coding IDEs…

After a macOS update, apparently I'm being protected from my own previously-installed system extensions. I feel... safer?

I think Game of Thrones fails every single one of those? And yet HBO+ subscriptions are still purchasable by credit card. Video games once again are in the hot seat at the thin end of the censorship wedge

Has the strange Chinese logistics platform become self-aware?

Let chains might be the single biggest item on my wish list since… non lexical lifetimes? It’s going to let me clean up a whole lot of code

Things I didn't miss about working in mobile/VR: justifying the import value of hardware prototypes to customs officials