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Love a good graphics writeup - I've been working on similar things for my procedural space/planet generator. The cool thing with atmospheric scattering is you can combine it with v…

Just let people enjoy things, if you don’t like dark mode, don’t use it.

I’ve since done a bunch more on planetary cloud rendering, need to do a proper write up, but it’s a combination of volumetric noise, flow fields & atmospheric scattering. https://x…

The author dismisses cubemaps pretty quickly, but imo it’s the simplest solution & it’s what I did when rendering dynamic gas giants on my own personal project a number of years ba…

The story of how I rediscovered the first real project I built after teaching myself to program - an RPG written in QBasic and how I got it playable again 25 years later.

Great job explaning the whole process! I've been building some similar stuff recently for my procedural space-exploration side project ( https://www.threads.net/@mrsharpoblunto/pos…

There’s also OpenC1, which is an almost complete open source remake of Carmageddon. Jeff also has posted a ton of content around the internal workings and file formats etc on his d…

We have a new entry for the Dunning-Kruger hall of fame right here.

Hi bgirard! I support the FB team that works on this - it's on the roadmap to open source hopefully H1 next year :) It's continued to find significant leaks in other parts of our i…

Makes me wonder if you could effectively apply Chernoff faces ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face ) to make different hashes easier for humans to recognize. TLDR map part…

I used the 4000 for a number of years, but found that it was causing problems in my right shoulder. The reason is the inclusion of a full numpad makes the keyboard so wide that you…

Thats why you should also track other metrics when AB testing performance changes. During my time at IG, even small perf improvements almost always corresponded to stat-sig improve…

Why do you think its in the margin of error? I never mentioned the error bars on the statistic - We did an extensive AB test and it was a 3% stat-sig improvement

I added support for ES2017 bundles for compatible browsers for Instagram.com a couple of years ago - we saw a 5.7% reduction in the size of our core consumer JavaScript bundles whe…

Can we please stop overcomplicating the terminology around frontend architecture? The whole Isomorphism craze was bad enough - lets not make this stuff more complex than it needs t…

Well you're loading the main feed page of instagram, you expect your feed photos to show right? We don't push random junk - its the content that the page needs to render something …

Can't reveal the exact numbers, but yeah - a lot of people use IG on web :) Mobile web was always the big focus for us though - most people assume its just a desktop only web versi…

You're probably talking about the desktop web version I assume. If you check out the mobile web version its actually pretty close features wise, theres direct messaging, stories, c…

Might have been an earlier version we were testing before we built out the new posts pill, this feature went through several iterations.

Yeah, without constant focus on perf, things regress extremely quickly. We're building tight integration with perf budgets into our infra & dev workflows across both Instagram and …

(Author here) To clarify, we don't actually replace it automatically - we show a pill notification that new stories are available. You can either choose to tap it and see the new f…

If global sunlight conditions change drastically, we're probably screwed regardless of how we're generating our power. Think crop failures, ecosystem collapse etc.