I like custom engines but I also try to remember that Unreal Engine allows an individual to do this 🙂

When did this happen??

I still kind of can't believe Russia sent in their tanks to conquer a neighboring country, then screamed that anyone who resisted them was against "peace", and some people with an IQ greater than a radish actually bought that.

I think about this a lot.

The Ideological Poisoning of Biology skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-id… via @skeptinquirer

I found a pub with an inverted normal map. If you understand what this means, you have to retweet.

Preparing for interview to FAANG / Working in FAANG

Warning! I've been getting reports that Final Cut Pro Title plugins that do automatic object tracking using Apple’s FxAnalysis API will not work properly in Final Cut Pro 10.6.9. A flaw is something that only Apple can fix. If you must update do this: support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203010

Do not update to FCP 10.6.9 and stick with 10.6.8 at this time if you rely on plugins to work. More info coming. #finalcutpro

Final Cut Pro 10.6.9: Skip the update! More info here: fxfactory.com/news/finalcutp… #finalcutpro #fcpx

Thomas Sowell, going strong at 93, is among the most brilliant thinkers I know (which doesn't mean I agree w him on everything). Particularly insightful on distributed knowledge; intellectual foundations of L vs R ideology; theories of human nature; ... quillette.com/2023/09/18/ine…

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

TIL the Apple developer website recognizes the same ⌘ ⇧ O equivalent as Xcode’s Open Quickly... command and this is what true love fees like.

Here is a sneak peak of Yanobox Nodes 4 For AE , FCPX, Premiere and Apple Motion. This version supports voxels, 3D models, Styled Text, SSAO, Bloom and more at almost 120 I/s. Accelerated by Metal and pure joy on Apple Silicon. Comments and shares are welcome !

One goal for this piece was to capture the way the dust and gas swirls around the supermassive black hole, something usually not captured at this level of detail. I have a free 4k download and prints up to 75” on my website, so you can see every detail! cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea_the-s…

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" can be shortened as "Swift Concurrency"

How do I put this nicely... No amount of fiddling with it is going to make it better. You have a fundamental problem at the core of it. In order to fix it, you have to discard the idea in its entirety.

Insane fact: Fil-C is the most memory safe programming language. Why? Because the transitive closure of your dependencies - all of those legacy C/C++ libraries you absolutely will depend on - is memory safe in Fil-C. You just recompile them with my compiler In other “safe”