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secret | REMOTE | Contract to full time | Any country I need an experienced Unity graphics specialist to reboot a beloved and unique simulation game IP as part of a small dedicated…

Here is a thought experiment (for devs who buy into package managers). Take the hash of a program and all its dependency. Behavior is different for every unique hash. With package …

The world falls into two categories for me. "Must be fast" and "I don't care (much)". C/C++ is ideal for the first one, and C# is awesome for the second. My argument isn't that C# …

It is, but it isn't quite the same as C, either. That is to say, there is some semi-unknowable stack of stuff happening under the covers. I will predict the future: you will pull u…

I increasingly wonder if writing and binding performance critical things in C/C++ would be less overall effort. Performant zero-alloc C# vs C/C++ is backdoor magic vs first class l…

I was a developer on that version! We got the team back together and did a spiritual successor, Marble It Up!. If you are still enjoying the original I’d recommend checking it out …

Is there an example of this? A skybox with depth is only marginally better than a skybox for any sort of 3d experience. Using the depth for occlusion would be kind of cool.

I would not expect much, but you'd have to measure to be sure. If you actually have a million of something you're better off writing a custom manager thing to handle the bulk of th…

Really interesting analysis of where the data lives… cutting 3-4 textures would save you more memory even in the 100k actor case, though.

As someone on the hiring side, I strongly agree with GP. I can think of a specific example where someone with experience and strong qualifications pushed for a higher salary - whic…

I have a product that does exactly this. E-mail me at ben AT theengine DOT co, I'd love to show it to you and see if it would help.

This is stuff is such a PIA to parse. I assume it's just different teams doing different features over the years, and being alternately repulsed/seduced by each format. Probably fe…

Given what's there today, especially the sizzle reel, I'm pretty dubious. If the author drops an amazing generative text-to-sim system on top of this... THAT is impressive - but ef…

I wrote a tool to do automated QA on internet video (HLS/DASH, tech used for Netflix, YouTube, Twitch, etc.). It evaluates streams against a database of 100 or so "quirks" that ide…

The code signing process has sucked and always been deeply cryptic, even on macOS - getting something usable and improvable that's cross platform is a fantastic win.

I'd label Warden an "AI maximalist" approach. Also has a lot of merit and is very interesting, but much harder to have fine control or tweakability, and much much harder to do full…

Writing comedy is really hard! Great concept for a show, tho. TBH a good example of something that could be interesting and viable with a tool like On Screen but never make it as a…

I agree, BTS is definitely very interesting. But I had 8 kids 5-15 watch all of Ep1 _AND_ choose to watch Ep2 afterwards last night. They actually sat and watched, too, instead of …

Good call on the playlist. I'll do that soon. I agree, ep1 is rough. I shot you an e-mail on a v2. (An MVP would be less; I realized I sent you the pitch for a full v2.) There are …

Great feedback. Thank you Mike and HanClinto. I am planning on doing some more articles/director commentary as it goes along. I have a number of episodes in the queue and each one …

Yeah - I think you don't necessarily (or only the best) go to a Netflix or MGM, but you could see success like a lot of smaller podcast content creators do. 10,000 screaming fans c…

For those interested - you can see actual episodes here: https://www.youtube.com/@OnScreenShow It's interesting to consider "AI as its own genre" rather than "AI replacing mainstre…

I wrote an autonomous AI space opera tv show generator. It takes a short topic phrase on one end and spits out a 10-15 minute 3D animated and AI voiced video suitable for upload to…