Alain Galvan ๐ @alain@octodon.social
Graphics Software Engineer @ Marmoset.co. Writes about ๐ Computer Graphics, ๐จ Art & ๐น๐ธ Audio Design/Engineering.
๐'s #vulkan #typescript, #rust, #cpp
- Website
- https://alain.xyz
- https://twitter.com/Alainxyz
Updated my site with some of the projects I've been working on:
- CodeVR for virtual reality programming
- Raw Graphics, a graphics twitch stream/podcast
- React Anime, a react animation library
- Realtime Celestial Rendering, a research paper.
Currently setting up the distance field font rendering system.
https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen
It's a extremely fast way of rendering text that's used in games like Team Fortress! :)
https://github.com/OpenHID/code-vr
Current project: CodeVR, convert code to 3D worlds you can explore and collaborate in. Built w/ #rust and #vulkan.
https://github.com/alaingalvan/ora.gmx
Open sourced a #indie #GameMaker Studio #game I made a while back. Was a finalist in the Steam Workshop Competition! ๐
It's free and available for PC/Android (just click the badge on the repo). :)
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join me in rejecting all technology. burn your computers. throw out your books. refridgerators? technology, get rid of em. furniture? that smells like technology. wheels? how dare you
Cargo-culting is fine; it's how we programmers get a lot of important work done. If everyone built their own framework, those frameworks would be much poorer for it.
But OTOH I'm tired of hearing 100 different teams all pretend that they independently arrived upon React as if it's some universal mathematical axiom you can derive from deductive reasoning. I wish we programmers had the self-awareness to realize when we're being influenced by the crowd, charismatic thoughtleaders, narratives, etc.
https://github.com/alaingalvan/alain.xyz/tree/master/packages/daemon
Got continuous delivery working with #rust and #Github, they use HMAC SHA1 hashes to verify the push event, cool jazz ๐ท!
Construction or Traffic, you can have 1, the other, or both. ๐
Currently using #mattermosthq as a Slack alternative with my research team, it's powered by #react, #go, and #postgres, nice and simple! ๐
https://archive.fo/ecA9E#selection-2077.0-2077.24
Finally starting to notice this striking inverse correlation between
- whether something is confusing
- whether you've read a book about it
This "google things as you need them" habit, I think, It's actually pretty bad
Somehow I taught myself this helplessness. Struggle over years. Feel like I'll never get it.
Have you read a book about it?
Well, no
๐ I've added a feature to https://alain.xyz that auto-deploys changes to the site whenever a commit to the master branch occurs. This is through Github Hooks and a #rust daemon powered by Nickel. Got to love continuous delivery. :3
Why AI is /not/ the answer to the problem of overwhelming complexity in science.
could #mastodon hit a million users by mid May? I think it is possible....
AGPL was a bold pick for the Mastodon license. It means that anyone running the software is obligated to share any changes they make with people who use it - even if all those changes are on the server side, and the users are just people who visit the site. This is much more restrictive than regular GPL, which doesn't count it as "distribution" people only access via the web.
Corporate entities are going to stay the hell away from any AGPL code. I guess that's the point.
Being self-employed with your hobby as your job is a good way to never take any time off.
Which is a good way to burn out.
I always struggle with finding a balance.
If you're using `process.on` in #node/#javascript to close database connections, make sure to add a `process.exit()` at the end, otherwise the process well, won't end. ๐ถ
@lmorchard One possibility is reducing the polling rate of A* searches from every frame to every 0.05 secs, this could also serve as a "reactiveness" level for individual enemies. Some weaker enemies can have an even slower polling rate.
"Outside of some brand specific background-images, gradients, and colors etc., the overwhelming majority of css you would need for your site has already been written. Yet we continue as a community to constantly reinvent the wheel. Which is starting to feel like building a camera from scratch every time you want to take a photo."
โ Adam Morse, CSS and Scalability, http://mrmrs.io/writing/2016/03/24/scalable-css/
From March 2016 but saw it re-linked today by Colm Tuite.
