Felix Bade

Computation is beautiful

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

I made a colored game of life running ultra fast on WebGL.

I have never managed to setup up GL boilerplate myself, but with the help of GPT-4, I got this done in 2.5 hours. There’s even fancy stuff like multiple buffers.

https://t.co/8WXlzzMuLM

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@dimitrov2k An internet round-trip is like sailing over the Atlantic with a wooden ship.

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@dzhng read the markdown.

pay close attention to repeating bugs. obsess about edge cases. understand the irreversibles. talk with the LLM about technical tebt. think like an attacker. have a good smell when something is slow or wrong. and just *care* about engineering excellence.

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

testing the world gen stuff in a voxel game

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

more worldgen tests

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

cementation vs no cementation

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

here’s a version before, which used just a height parameter rather than the material stacks. you can see the initial artificial perlin noise much more clearly

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

managed to vice code this and now I’m trying to figure out why it’s so good and how to replicate.

some key methods:
- using material stacks that can wear out and deposit the material elsewhere
- several processes that use the same resources but operate at different time scales

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

playing with map generation

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@yacineMTB we are *not* in the singularity – perhaps past the event horizon, but like falling into a real black hole, you wouldn’t realise it. AGI here? perhaps. but singularity is where the future stops existing.

there are still events ahead ∴ not singularity

[Alex Harri @alexharri_]

Hello! It's about time I started posting here.

I'm Alex Harri. I write technical posts -- typically deep dives -- on https://t.co/GAr0uPNMaq.

I joined @paper recently. I built their pen tool; lots more in the works.

Excited to share behind-the-scenes videos and ideas here!

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@jpschroeder qwen3-coder-next seems surprisingly good for coding specifically, didn’t see it mentioned yet. I’m getting 40~50 tps on m1 max.

however tools like web search and automated tests make a bigger difference than the model

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

I know it’s just two optical illusions stacked, but my eyes think this is some 3D media hacking like HDR https://t.co/N0j70WU1k8

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

立体運動効果と色立体視

[Peter Walkington @perlinwarp]

Hacked my Oura Ring to play Flappy Bird

[Peter Walkington @perlinwarp]

Hacked a camera for cool effects, ended up in hospital 🧵1/3

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@eloffd Come to Finland we have good showers and locks

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

I partly agree but there are some important details:

1) early or late, regularity is good for sleep

2) the main difference after that is social stuff and sunlight

3) no distractions is fun AND refreshing

4) but team comms is very important

5) sunlight and computer screens don’t mix

6) it’s hard (but not impossible) to radically change the schedule of social non-work activities (very important to have those as well even if work is #1)

7) the idea that inherently work must be after sleep and before leisure/self-care is BS, can be reversed or mixed up as well in my experience and it can feel even better sometimes. any guilt ”I should/shouldn’t be working now”is a separate issue.

In general people are different and it’s valuable to question social norms – and then work extra hard to maintain/improve social *integration*.

Also remember Chesterton’s fence, but no risk no gain.

Just be useful and take care of yourself, nothing else is a given.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

2pm-4am is the optimal maker schedule and I won't be taking any questions

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@DrYohanJohn Hint: there are 4 frames, not 2

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

@ilyamiskov Yes there is: nothingness

The perfect software is no software

The perfect button is no button

The perfect login is no login

The perfect design is no design

The perfect summary is no summary

The perfect time is never

The perfect action is inaction

The perfect tweet… wait

[Felix Bade @felixbade]

Good: ”I could do that.”

Better: ”I will do that.”

Best: ”I will do that with my own style.”

If something seems easy, it might be.

There’s only one way to prove it. Either way, you’ll learn on the way.

[LOREM @loremdeloop]

Next time you think, "I could’ve done that," just remember: you didn’t. 👀

As a creative director for many years, I've learned:
Having good ideas is the easy part.

The real challenge? Bringing those ideas to life.