Jeff Russell

Finally! All of that for just showing a dynamic illustration in app! Bunch of algorithms was implemented for this dynamic illustration. WIP version available (github.com/soufianekhiat/… no LaTeX yet!) Depends on ImPlatform for custom shaders github.com/soufianekhiat/… 1/4

You ugly, hate-filled picture format!

Daniel Lemire, "How many branches can your CPU predict?," in Daniel Lemire's blog, March 18, 2026, lemire.me/blog/2026/03/1….

New blog post: A Decade of Slug This talks about the evolution of the Slug font rendering algorithm, and it includes an exciting announcement: The patent has been dedicated to the public domain. terathon.com/blog/decade-sl…

This is a very narrow view. Software did not just destroy multiple orders of magnitude of performance improvements in hardware. We also made the user experience much, much worse. You're welcome.

Hackers got DOOM running on a pregnancy test.

One annoying thing about thinking hard to solve technical problems is that a successful solution almost always involves reformulating the question in a way that makes the answer simple Then, I feel bad that it took me 3 days to come up with an "obviously simple" answer

This year at GDC, my peers Evan, Kelsey, and Richard will showcase the latest progress in the UE NvRTX branch, including LSS optimized hair strands path tracing, an area I’ve had the privilege to work on over the past couple of months. schedule.gdconf.com/session/state-…

being a senior dev means thinking about a feature for a long time, and ultimately deciding not to implement it

Depth, famously referred to as the "y-buffer" Narrator: nobody has ever called it the y-buffer

A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself, "I know I'll solve it with threads!". has now problems. two He

for years, society was limited to only 16 syrup squares per waffle but with recent combinatorial optimization breakthroughs our research department has achieved previously unheard of densities of waffle syrup

@alyssa_michael2 @marmosetco The tool is more real-time-rendering by its nature, as we try to keep render/bake/texture tools fast. Most team members spend time with render & texture tooling, as these are seeing the most changes lately.

@marmosetco Is the work more focused on real time rendering or offline tooling, and which areas need the most help right now (rendering, baking, texture tools, animation)?

We’re looking for skilled graphics programmers (remote contract) to help us build bigger and better tools for 3D artists. At Marmoset, we work on challenging problems in rendering, baking, texture painting, animation, & more. 👉 Click for full details! marmoset.co/jobs

If a developer says: I’ll fix it in 1 hour. Just believe them. No need to send a follow-up in every 3 hours.

Daily reminder that Bungie made every Halo level a .ASS file and every object you put inside the .ASS is known as a poop. This is hard-coded, you cannot change it.

Does anyone have any thoughts on AI? I'm having trouble finding any takes on this subject

After CAD was invented all these guys had to be humanely euthanized. Sad but true.

People leaving regular companies: Time for a change! Excited for my next chapter! People leaving AI companies: I have gazed into the endless night and there are shapes out there. We must be kind to one another. I am moving on to study philosophy.

In fact I would wager that in general (outside high security code etc) people are scared of memory bugs because of a fallacy. As they are rare AND we have great tools to catch them dynamically, the ones that survive are nasty cases that take weeks to debug. People get traumatized