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I find it frustrating when people talk about memory safety as “a spectrum.” Yes, there are safer patterns in unsafe languages, but at the end of the day, not having memory safety a…

Take care here though, because shaders are almost always working in linear sRGB colors, while color codes are almost always defined in gamma-encoded sRGB. This property makes it mi…

It's the StackExchange model! This has bootstrapping issues, is hard to break into the community, and risks creating moderator cliques.

I bought the same keyboard when I was a teenager as my first "real" keyboard! These days I have a ZSA Moonlander. I adore it! I love how easy it is to program it without any softwa…

In my career, I've found that this problem crops up the most when a team is unable to make impactful changes to a system that they depend on. It's so much easier (and requires less…

Years ago, I introduced Flow gradual typing (JS) to a team. It has explicit annotations for type variance which came up when building bindings to JS libraries, especially in the ea…

I've long felt that I am face blind. I took the face blindness test with my girlfriend. I scored right in the middle, but she scored better than nine out of every ten people. How a…

This is very disingenuous: we don't know how much spare time Sascha spent, and much of that time was likely spent learning, experimenting, and reporting issues to Slang.

Once upon a time, Flash, Java, Silverlight, ActiveX, etc. ruled the web. I think the world is _much_ better off today, with a common language and platform. I don't think those big …

You might be getting “sampled textures in a single call” with “total textures loaded” mixed up. Sampled texture limits affect complexity of your shader and have nothing to do with …

gfx-rs hasn't been maintained for several years. The successors are definitely wgpu or Dawn, which are championed by browser vendors.

It's very funny that you used Bower as an facetious example. It's been deprecated for almost 6 years!

The CPU-specific intrinsic stabilized a little while ago for cases where you need SIMD on a specific platform at least. A lot of crates like glam seem to only support SIMD on x86/x…

This is incredibly funny and also brilliant: toss/return is an implementation of algebraic effects!

This has nothing to do with scrolling. They're fixed CSS rules. They remind me of the tricks we used to have to use for vertically centering things. It seems like these rules are f…

There's nothing on this site using calc as part of scrolling the content. It looks like the background image is fixed in place with some JS, which is probably the source of the per…

You can combine the approaches! KTX2, for example, supports "supercompressing" GPU block compressed formats with LZ4 or Zstandard. The project I have been working on ships BCn text…

There are lots of places, including many national forests, where you can cut your own firewood for free. If you live near the Flathead National Forest in Montana in the US, for exa…

I am a big fan of unicode.link[1] for inspecting existing strings, searching for codepoints, and comparing how strings get encoded. [1] https://unicode.link/

Requiring user sign-ins is a little bit different than banning all mention of other social media websites existing.

Like... the sun?

Containers are not a great solution for programs that need graphics drivers (games) or quick startup times (command line tools). I've been wrestling with glibc versioning issues la…

This is needlessly condescending.

New JS frameworks always make for compelling hello world examples. Can you branch on state or use loops over data in Solid.js? The reason _why_ React has a virtual DOM is to enable…

Compare this to the error message you get from Rust with the same program though: error[E0277]: cannot add `[{integer}; 2]` to `{integer}` --> src/main.rs:2:7 | 2 | 1 + [2, 3] | ^ …