Davo

Experimental UI. 2D/3D. Limited capacity. Work In Progress.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

It only has to work once.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@gavinmcfarland Thanks for the reply, Gavin... tell me what you think? Have you experienced something like this?

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Is anyone working on local-first development tools? Does it sucks for everyone or just me?

Between using symlinks & handling Vite's caching, I feel like I’m trying to build a number of utility libraries to use across projects and had to reason about this messy, brittle workflow.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@gavinmcfarland Too long for x... even writing this little explainer gives me a little hope that I might not be crazy. Maybe we need to build better local-first development tools.
https://t.co/eTQDiAd53Q

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@steveruizok This is the no. 1 reason I stopped tinkering on Framer. Everything else remains top-tier.

[Maxime @MaximeHeckel]

bringing the scene to life with clouds rolling through the landscape

ported some of my volumetric cloud work from 2023 to webgpu and made it run in screen space as an effect

on top of that I finally figured out the issue I had with normals, the terrain looks way better now

[mount inc. @mount_inc]

裏側その2）木漏れ日

理想の木漏れ日を目指し、
木の3Dモデルをパラメトリックに生成しています。

複雑なパラメータが絡み合い、
一度たりとも同じ木漏れ日が見られないようになっています。

#WebGL #Threejs

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@openpurpose Yes.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@DavidKPiano having a hard time understanding if it’s true or if your meta-commentary/sarcasm about the current state of tools is peaking.

In any case, keep going 🫡

[akella @akella]

i just learned there is matcapUV node in #threejs #tsl, makes it so easy to mix materials 🥳

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@guaschetti yo caí como un boludo 😅

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Why I don’t understand is how folks take all these agentic CLIs & code generation stuff to generate something as boring as UI… to generate dashboards & SaaS interfaces.

We have this new set of tools, that gives us extreme lateralization, to build almost wherever you want, and you use it to create the most boring, safest ripoff you could possibly made… are u joking?

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Adds a 3D scene, renders ASCII.

OffscreenCanvas on worker.
w/ FPS throttling.
w/ character & color controls.
Color analysis & perf. controls on a worker.

Rendered on a browser based terminal.

Made w/#threejs

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Runs at 60fps but I'm mutating entires rows... which is so irresponsible, but it kinda works.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Made an ASCII/ANSI Renderer for #threejs
No shaders... straight up characters on an XTerm instance.
Looks cool as shit.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@_baku89 @junkato Congrats to both of you! Coming from Baku, who has been so relentless at researching the design & engineering space makes it extra special 🫡

[麦 ⌇Baku @_baku89]

Super excited that our paper, co-authored with @junkato, on parameter-tuning widgets for creative software has been accepted to #UIST2025. It’s my first academic paper ever, which makes it way more special. #tweeqjs

https://t.co/pjwcjumLmF

[Davo @pixelbeat]

@rezaali I saw the report the other day and I thought about you.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

If you have a piece of Three.js or R3F that no longer works, send me a link.

I’ll run it with my workflow, and I’ll reply with a codesandbox or codepen. If it fails, I’ll put the plan and the code on https://t.co/0nyFr7PLOR

[Davo @pixelbeat]

Ok, need to share that I made a bunch of tools to work better with Claude Code…

One of the best use cases I found was using agents to outline a plan to refactor projects that I stopped working on because of dependency hell.

I worked on this issue for many months, developing strategies, techniques and data.

Yesterday I put it all together for the first time, and the refactoring and procedural update of the stack used on this app was completed in 2 or 3 rounds.

And I’ve been thinking about turning this into a proper agentic workflow, with a HTL to review, approve or request more actions.

[Davo @pixelbeat]

One trick that consistently makes aware how to write better code is this:

- Write pseudo code (scrappy & capture the data and main fns)
- Write the initial version as a skeleton and ask an LLM to fill the gaps.
- Try to identify if the code can benefit from using an established design pattern.
- Create a version a more complex version of it.
- Find a library that does that but 100x better.
- Realize that you need to remind yourself to ALWAYS check if someone already solved the problem before writing any code.
- Out of pride use your overly complicated version.
- Fall asleep while your laptop drains, only to wake up the next morning asking yourself why I was doing in the first place?