Martin Wickham

Rendering engineer at Armature Studio. Also works on Zig. Sometimes incorrect. Opinions are my own.

[Martin Wickham @cachecoherent]

@anorangeduck Of course in many cases this drift is fine and won't affect anything, in which case such solutions work great!

[Martin Wickham @cachecoherent]

@anorangeduck One benefit of the standard approach is that summing deltas over many frames will converge to the actual total real time elapsed. Error in frame N is cancelled out in N+1. Simple workarounds like the rounding up you mention don't have this property, so they can drift over time.

[Daniel Holden @anorangeduck]

Today I have a short blog post on something in game development that took me far too long to realize: that DeltaTime is a frame behind.

https://t.co/dm6TUruHlB

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

... annnnd it's up: https://t.co/4V1T7ymlzR

[Neel Bedekar @neelbedekar]

Hey Quest devs/community: Connect 2024 is finally here and I'm really excited to be co-presenting a talk!

The session is at 3PM today, and we'll cover several graphics/perf wins that we've made, and most of these can boost your FPS by a few percent. Here are some of the topics:

[DirectX 12 @DirectX12]

🚀 Exciting news! DirectX is adopting SPIR-V to enhance cross-platform compatibility. This shift allows Microsoft and hardware vendors to focus on features that will power the next generation of applications.
Read about it here: https://t.co/Pzy3uIH0LN #DirectX #SPIRV

[Keenan Crane @keenanisalive]

If you missed @nicolefeng_'s brilliant paper on generalized signed distance at #SIGGRAPH2024, here's a 20 second summary. 📺🎧

In short: nice SDFs even from "garbage" input geometry.

You can read all about it in her nice blog-style writeup here: https://t.co/FjyipSVC7M

[Martin Wickham @cachecoherent]

@nektro I use this command at least once a week, and often more than that. When managing a fork, you can also use `--not upstream-branch` to make it stop at the end of your commits.

[meghan 🌻 @nektro]

`git log --oneline --first-parent` creates so much cleaner of a log with that last option

[Kevin Naughton Jr. @KevinNaughtonJr]

the one software engineer at your company who actually understands the legacy code

[WhiteBox @whitebox_sys]

Builtin strings are an obvious shortcoming in C... but you can make your own!

There are 2 main alternatives: dynamic arrays & slices.

Slices are the best approach for general-purpose, largely because substrings are free: you can iterate lines in a file without extra allocations

[Daniel Litt @littmath]

a collection of set theorists who are so excited that they cannot contain themselves

[Nic Barker @nicbarkeragain]

@matiasgoldberg

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

I am unreasonably proud of how smoothly my CrowdStrike joke went on @ThePrimeagen's show:
https://t.co/qt8lOR90GC

[Giliam de Carpentier @decarpentier_nl]

Enjoying the fruits of my labor now that I finished my 12-legged 'Carpentopod' table project. See
https://t.co/NdDNDVp4xo for project info, or see it live at @EHVMMF this 13 & 14 Sept.

[Erika (rrika9 on 🦋) @rrika9]

✋ vertex buffer
👉 corner store

[Loris Cro ⚡ @croloris]

The talks from Software You Can Love Milan 2024 are now available on YouTube!

https://t.co/XzFuaJGgox

[Jace Cear @JaceCear]

Ah Microsoft, never change...
(Please do change, actually!)

cc @cmuratori
This blog entry might amuse / sadden you.

[Chandler Carruth @chandlerc1024]

And the fourth amazing edition of the Carbon Copy, your newsletter for #CarbonLang, is out! https://t.co/BaAJI9s5vz

[Jeroen Pixel @pixelprotest_]

This would make the best VR game evar.