Alexander Torstling

@MortMort_ Let's goooo

🧭 With my new situation, I think imma get back to some Gamedev! Weighing a bit what makes sense, and what I could get to a decent state in 3ish months. Mostly leaning on bringing back Bunny Bounce, seems to fit these conditions well, I may not finish it but perhaps get it far.

@peteoxenham PBR materials discovered in reality

me talking to literally every anodizer I’ve ever worked with

@PeteyMcMuffin69 @CNviolations Yeah that one was crazy. I had to tell my kids to not connect the pen themselves, the risk of breakage was too high. Thanks Apple!

@CNviolations same guy that designed the 1st apple pencil?

This k*lled me 🤣

@geofflangdale While sometimes true, like in legislation, I think architecture or design is about finding an elegant solution that ticks as many boxes as possible without special casing. That's why genius solutions look simple.

@atorstling I think there's an element of truth to this, but sometimes the underlying *task* is just a gigantic mound of irritating cases. I wouldn't always blame management.

Unpleasant truth about programming: solutions that wind up winning aren't the cleanest, most elegant algorithms and design but rather the ones with (morally speaking) the most giant, complete and horrible set of switch statements covering all the weird and interlocking cases.

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This one goes hard

@molecularmusing I'm with you. I view code as a craft or sometimes even an artform. The industry has long gravitated towards treating it as volume production. I think it's hurt the craft, software is buggy and underperforming today. The LLM movement seems to lean even more into this. No thanks.

I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like "I no longer write code" or "let LLMs do it". Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to understand this, I seem to be the odd one out.

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Kubika, now with DLSS5!

All our games will now ship with DLSS 5

This brilliant.

A bugfix in today's pre-release allows us to perform floating point maths using cloud height. Someone (Triton365) has already implemented a square root approximation using 93 (!) bezier curves. ☁️Cloud computation is coming to Minecraft!

@corsix haha c++ go brrr

Speaking as someone who studied joint mathematics and computer science, this right here is how you tell apart the mathematicians from the computer scientists.

@Blasenblaeser @awesomekling Developers are definitely not the ones who will get the benefits of any productivity gains. Everyone will still be expected to work 40 hours a week to earn a living.

@awesomekling Same here. I can now lift weights while I wait for the agent(s) to execute my well described task. Or sit in the sun, thinking about what to do next. Future software developers:

Agentic coding is the greatest QoL improvement I've ever experienced. Many of us feel identity loss right now, defense mechanisms firing all over. It's OK. Every profession eventually rides the express elevator up the abstraction stack. See you on the next floor, bros.

Measurement Bias

"Unpopular opinion: If your 'Clean Code' requires 5 levels of abstraction to read a single function, it’s not clean. It’s a maze."