Nick Matantsev

@ikeough @fredric_ @WebAMV Indeed, I have a to-do item to support "bake-only" lights that get turned off afterwards. Using emissive materials has been a good workaround so far though (i.e. glowy boxes instead of point lights)! Doesn't work so well for spot/directional though.

@fredric_ @WebAMV @unframework Looks cool. Major downside is that it looks like direct lights need to stay on which, in an architectural scene with lots of light, is a challenge for performance. Need a solution that will bake a lot of photometric lights.

web based path tracing is getting real. lgltracer by @WebAMV even handles complex indoor scenes surprisingly well

@0xca0a @BryanChrisBrown @giuliozausa @NikkitaFTW Not sure if could adapt LGL itself for this because it does not render occluded pixels out of the box? But the @react-three/lightmap" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">npmjs.com/package/@react… package could definitely be "productionized" for faithful offline pre-baking. Hard parts are auto-UV-unwrapping logic and just tuning, etc.

@BryanChrisBrown @giuliozausa @NikkitaFTW oh you mean as a service, i would not know how but @unframework for sure does. i would love something like that tbh.

trying github.com/pmndrs/react-t… with some assets from the poimandres market market.pmnd.rs @NikkitaFTW made the original thumbs by hand, now im pretty sure this is good enough to automate them. small node process loading into a headless browser and storing the snaps. 😄

it strikes a chord because it reframes the problem of 'how to make long-lasting software' around people and culture, rather than coming up with the perfect technology platform

@NoraJKS Is the Nations arcade open yet? Still saving points for that long-legged bear...

I haven’t paused in forever and while I thought about traveling or going to a wellness retreat, I thought it would fill my cup more to eat an edible at the Nations arcade, be able to waste a day watching movies with a friend, or go to the wax museum. We should do more dumb stuff!

Taking the rest of the month off, not to travel or do anything poignant but just to be a general wastrel and do whatever dumb stuff I want.

@mleitz1 I actually do work here. And the thing is, everything you said can be true without working 80 hour weeks or being toxic.

Should you get into software engineering only for the money?!? #CodeTok vm.tiktok.com/ZMdTwvoTB/

Once you’ve worked an environment where you move faster *because* of tests, you cannot unsee this. Yet so much of the industry still sees tests as a waste of time - thanks to leaders who never saw these befits first-hand. There’s a reason tests are baseline at all of big tech.

I wouldn't mind living in a world where that's a virtue people are happy to signal a bit more.

Even I got to have a brief but fun work adventure in this office... 🙌

My post about getting TypeORM to work with Next.js and TypeScript #DEVCommunity dev.to/unframework/ge…

Writing code is among the least important things you do as a senior engineer, even as an IC. But I still extremely enjoy it!

Experimenting with using React without any event callbacks: codesandbox.io/s/github/unfra…

Wish there was a way to wrap a React hook to be "optional" - e.g. completely unmounted if some condition is not met; is there some kind of a composition helper for hooks out there?

Feeling like you belong brings so many superpowers with it.

feature designers: creativity comes from constraints! users: oh cool can you make the ui accessible to me? feature designers: not like that

This is the most exciting period for enterprise software that we’ve ever been in. Even amidst rapid adoption of modern cloud tools in recent years, 90% of the world’s knowledge workers are now getting them for the first time. We’re still in the early innings folks.

Friendly reminder that written communication almost always comes across as more terse/harsh than you intended. Good to be mindful of in these remote times!