Samuel von Stachelski

Episode 3 of Wading Through AI is up! In this episode, @DemetriSpanos and I look at the aspects of AI technology that cause people to have wildly different experiences when using it, even for similar tasks: computerenhance.com/p/am-i-crazy

@rfleury @SanderSkjegstad As someone who is currently trying to understand better what art is, exactly, for myself, and the implications for my own projects, I find this article very helpful.

Reposted this excellent article by @SanderSkjegstad recently, but it’s so good that it deserves another. codexnorth.net/arts-and-dark-…

@wookash_podcast I find it even difficult to do proper reviews of peer code on the same project: Often I would do things very differently. But without having it actually done, it is smtm difficult to make a good judgment. Also, even if I would always be "right", I would completely stall progress.

To people who are *good* at reviewing code (or claim to be hehe) - how is that possible? To what extend you can properly review the code with low familiarity with the codebase? Eg. New project, you jump in, Claude Code PR - 500 lines changed - review now What's the strategy?

The new Dell XPS Linux battery test and HOLY COW, the battery life is EXCELLENT. A little background: Intel + dell + omarchy team worked together to get everything working perfectly for the new XPS. I am honestly shocked that I am having a "mac" experience with linux as far as battery life goes. Here is my test timeline: Saturday: 99% - 10:07am computer fully charged and on, walking to gate, suspend mode in backpack 99% - 11:00am - compiling rust, running agents, MiMo running on youtube, writing this tweet 80% - 2:00pm - forced to shutdown due landing the plane :( No more work, almost done setting up my machine! Very excited. Vim is there and so is tmux and zsh, but not my wall paper :( And i want to try Aether 75% - 2:30 - 3pm - i watched the new moist critical videos on the guy who threaten to kill people via ring doorbell. woah that was weird. Sunday: 5PM 75% -> 62% - Sat in suspend mode in my back pack for ~14 hours. I wanted to see where I was at, will open back up in another ~14 hours. Monday: 7AM 55% -> 5% - Monday: 3 hours of work. Agents are coding, neovim motions flying, youtube playing MiMo. Even took a 40 minute discord team video call and the microphone worked FIRST TRY?? Did... Linux just get a computer where you don't have to worry about battery life? It honestly felt better than my way back in the day Mac Air experiences. ---- Things I did not like: * when the computer wakes up from suspend, its "chunky" for about ~30 seconds. * the touch pad is annoying. the right click seems like its ~95% of the touch pad and i have a bit of a trouble getting left click regularly. The new Dell is actually good. I am shocked right now. Omarchy also took 3 minutes to install and I was up and running in 5. The primary reason why I am using omarchy is because 2 reasons: 1. everyone on my team is using it, makes certain aspects of life easier when everyone is on the *almost* same distro 2. intel + dell are working with each other and omarchy has a seat at the table to make things happen. this means i am using the super latest hardware with it perfectly integrated. pretty awesome. Thanks Dell for sending me the computer for Omacon! I am genuinely stoked for the computer.

Excited to give this a try! VCS software has been quite a stagnant field IMO.

J.R.R. Tolkien in a letter to his son, who was fighting in WW2. How appropriate for our own days... (credits to @the_culturist_'s newletter)

Don't fear making a 2 week game. Those 8 months will be the most fulfilling 2 years of your life!

We're happy to announce both @cmuratori and @EskilSteenberg will be returning as speakers for 2026, along with other new and familiar faces like @LubaRaphael, @jimmy__lefevre, and @Wassimulator!

@pikuma I hopr you ship to SEA 😂

This month's book *giveaway* is The High School Study Guide's Big Fat Notebook on "Pre-Algebra & Algebra 1." [Retweet this post to enter the draw] 🙂

@SebAaltonen If I use a 64 bit pointer and load from a vertex/instance offset (like data from a vertex array), is that still 1 trip? Or does the vertex/instance index need to be fetched first?

Bindless with 64-bit pointers is just 1 trip to memory. Don't need to fetch a buffer descriptor from the descriptor heap (using a 32-bit index). That's how CUDA and Metal operate. Available also in GLSL using Vulkan BDA extension. DX12 has no pointer support.

From simple keystrokes to one of "the best known pieces of music literature" via the win32 API for ABI compatability on linux. (bg: every time I rewrite smt in my engine, I have to create a few toys for that part. this time it is audio, so a small ascii-synthy seemed appropriate)

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: youtube.com/watch?v=r4V21_… Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast-a… #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

@runevision @lisyarus Absolutely love this!

Are people aware that programmers usually use the expression "PhD-Level Coding" is an insult?

@Jonathan_Blow I am interested to your thoughts on this, but unable to find the life stream on twitch or youtube. Was there a recording of it?

As someone who programs game ("simulation") engines, I have a long-term project where I want to explain why the "simulation hypothesis" is nonsense in like 5 different ways (while pointing toward what a sensical version would look like). So this Saturday at 10am Mountain Time, I will do a livestream that is the first in the series of Simulation Saturdays. To start with, I just want to lay out the framework in a not-organized, random-discussion kind of way, to just make an outline of what all the relevant topics would be. Then on later Saturdays we can go to various subtopics and talk about them. (Unlike #screenshotsaturday, the first Simulation Saturday will be at a time that is widely recognized as Saturday by many people, though I make no promises about subsequent Simulation Saturdays.)

Gosh I love programming. I'd just write programs all the time if I could. * * I actually can. And I actually am writing programs all the time.

@ThePrimeagen The definition of "AGI" is "Whatever I can say to hype the thing".

sin(x - 0.4) is technically a sine.

some of us actually like programming and know how to do it!!