Blue Prince. What a delightful experience.

If you’re looking for an excuse to get out in San Francisco as the days get longer and warmer and you’re fond of puzzles, I recommend this city-wide scavenger hunt, running now until the end of May: thesigilhunt.org

After 18 months of gestation, Godot and SwiftUI had a baby! Xogot is out now on the AppStore:

Remarkable passage from Inferno, canto XVII: the beast Geryon (who Doré depicts not once but twice) carries Dante down the sheer cliff face to the Eighth Circle—and Dante says his terror matches that of Icarus “unfeathered”

RealityKit experiment #61 (code in the comments) Height map image to animated 3D terrain pipeline using LowLevelMesh, LowLevelTexture, and Metal compute shaders. Inspired by Apple's tutorial on the topic (link in replies)

🚀 Level up your graphics skills at #OMT WWDC25 week! Join Warren Moore on June 7 for "Fundamentals of 3D Graphics Programming with Metal" - an exclusive half-day workshop on Saturday. This premium add-on helps fund our free events all week, Thanks to Warren Moore for the support!

WWDC is almost here! If you’re visiting and planning a visit to San Francisco and interested in chatting about graphics, Metal, or spatial computing, feel free to drop a line—DMs open

🦊 Metal 4 confirmed!

#WWDC25 is here. Packed with many features. Metal4 should be interest to game, pro-apps, compute and ML developers. #MetalFX introduces frame interpolation and denoiser for games and pro renderers.

Metal 4 brings with it significant changes to command encoding and more—will be writing about that soon. In the meantime, here’s a preview of a simple physically-based renderer I built over the past couple of days

RealityKit experiment #64 (code in the comments) LowLevelMesh sphere to rectangular plane morph using Metal compute shader

New on Metal by Example: "Getting Started with Metal 4," a gentle introduction to the API changes coming to Metal in iOS 26 this fall metalbyexample.com/metal-4

Today Shopify is open sourcing the tool we use for optimizing glTF 3D models. 🔧 Tweak compression settings per texture ⚡ See changes immediately 🧰 Mesh compression options 🌐 Hosted online & free 👇 Check the thread for details

SIGGRAPH 2025 is mere days away! If you’re headed to Vancouver and want to chat Metal, spatial computing, or related topics, get in touch (DMs open)

What’s the easiest way to bundle apps with resources on Windows for installer-free distribution outside the Store? Still just a ZIP file?

This talk by Ed Catmull was a highlight of SIGGRAPH this year, and it’s now available in full on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=q1Uq8b…

new Pynchon slaps