iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 28/08/2026

I'm working on vector editing in @papaya.io, and it's not as snappy as I'd like to be. So optimization time! I built a profile capture mechanism: An in-browser shortcut toggles profiling, then pings the local server which converts it into the Tracy format, writes to disk, which I view in the GUI.

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ceruleite.bsky.social @ceruleite.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Slides for SIGGRAPH 2026 Advances in Real-Time Rendering in Games course's talk on Adaptive Tessellation and Subdivision by John Hable are now online - enjoy!! advances.realtimerendering.com/s2026/index....

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 13/08/2026

Impressions on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Really great model. Asks clarifying questions, pushes back as appropriate, strikes a good balance between eagerness and parsimony. And it is supposedly ~39x cheaper than Opus 5.

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papaya.io @papaya.io · 01/08/2026

Some optimizations just landed on papaya.io, powered by WebAssembly SIMD. ⚡

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 30/07/2026

This is a super fun feature. You can just paste in most ShaderToy effects. What's a better way to add bling to your graphics programmer CV than literally add a shader in there, and then just export to PDF? 😅

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 29/07/2026

github.com/jj-vcs/jj is a shiny new thing that's calling to me, but I'm not sure that it solves problems that I actually have.

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GitHub - jj-vcs/jj: A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful

A Git-compatible VCS that is both simple and powerful - jj-vcs/jj

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Brian Graham @iroasmas.outgroup.social · 26/07/2026

openai announces that in a worrying demonstration, during a recent benchmark exercise requiring models to solve a math conjecture, their latest model broke out of a sandbox and gained illicit backdoor access directly to the platonic realm of forms

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Nicole Feng @nicole--f.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

At #SIGGRAPH2026, I presented "points as tori" (PAT) for fast pointwise evaluation of signed distance for point clouds. Some code (Python w/ C++ extensions) and demo up: github.com/nzfeng/point... Contributions from people/LLMs welcome. Explainer thread below for the project: 🧵

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Sébastien Lagarde @seblagarde.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hey everyone. A reminder that the deadline for graphic article proposal for GPU Zen 5 is approaching quickly. Sharing knowledge is the best way to learn!

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papaya.io @papaya.io · 01/07/2026

papaya.io ships new features all the time 🚀 Help us prioritize what comes next. You can now drop feedback right from the toolbar on the left. Takes 10 seconds. We read every word.

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papaya.io @papaya.io · 29/06/2026

papaya.io now has advanced image compression with a live preview.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 27/06/2026

Added rich text editing to papaya.io, powered by the excellent Skribidi library. :) This was a joy and a challenge to implement, and I'm sure there are still rough edges.

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Gabriel Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

The alpha version of my new book "Optimal Transport for Machine Learners" is out, with in particular an online version with interactive figures www.gpeyre.com/ot4ml/

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 10/06/2026

Claude Fable has a certain clarity of thought in English. It says stuff that sounds like a smart person, not a compressed AI shoggoth. Interestingly, it still isn’t very good at API taste.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 09/05/2026

Still having fun building papaya.io. Just implemented a pretty nifty compressed export feature, with swipe to compare. Supports JPEG, WebP and PNG compression for now.

Image export interface, image of two boats with a swipeable UI in the middle. The left half of the image is original, the right half is garbly and JPEG compressed.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 30/04/2026

I'm trying out zed.dev since they announced v1.0. It feels like a real labor of love, and had no rough edges in my first day of using it. Comes with batteries included, and things Just Work. Feels more suited to my agent-heavy workflow than VS Code.

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Pema99 @pema99.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

(🧵 1/6) Recently I've been working on an HLSL interpreter, which can execute shader code entirely on the CPU github.com/pema99/HLSLI... I used it to make a cute little interactive debugger demo. You can try it yourself at pema.dev/hlsl/

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 14/04/2026

Zig 0.16.0 is out, including the new IO interface, and a strong step towards incremental compilation: ziglang.org/download/0.1...

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0.16.0 Release Notes ⚡ The Zig Programming Language

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 08/04/2026

Implemented some fun stroke dynamics based on mouse speed in papaya.io in an evening.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 30/03/2026

I had an index variable that kept track of the latest processed element in a list. gpt-5.3-codex today named it `watermark`, and I cannot get over the beauty of it.

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Soufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Qaws (قوس) Arabic for *arc*, *bow*, *curve*. A dependency-free C11 library for creating, evaluating, sampling, traversing, and inspecting parametric curves and surfaces in 2D and 3D. A dependency-free C11 library for parametric curves and surfaces in 2D/3D. 1/13

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

oh that is awesome, well deserved! congrats @ocornut.bsky.social

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 09/02/2026

This was also my experience with Steve Yegge's Gas Town (steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-g...). Total jank, but there's a kernel of a really powerful idea in there.

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Welcome to Gas Town

Happy New Year, and Welcome to Gas Town!

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 09/02/2026

Tried OpenClaw to eval the hype. It's janky af; couldn't get it to work in an hour of troubleshooting in Docker. Pure vibes coding is still a trash fire, but someone's going to build a very smooth version of this, and it's going to be 🔥.

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Ben Golus @bgolus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I watch @smartereveryday.bsky.social ’s video on the nuclear power plant and there was one offhand comment by someone who works there about how “nuclear radiation” (specifically Cherenkov radiation) is blue, but “everyone thinks it’s green”.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 04/10/2025

New blog post: Stop over-engineering static websites apoorvaj.io/stop-overeng...

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Stop over-engineering static websites

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 01/10/2025

I feel that Claude Code + Sonnet writes way more tasteful Zig code than it does JavaScript. JS is littered with dumb defensive programming, with null checks or conditions where here should be asserts. My theory is that this is because of the delta in the quality of Zig vs JS human training data.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 18/09/2025

New blog post: Testing that works apoorvaj.io/testing-that...

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Testing that works

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 25/08/2025

This was an easy one to implement. Then I started on white balance, fell into a rabbit hole of black body radiation and color spaces, and then noped out for a bit.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 21/08/2025

Holy crap, #ziglang 0.14 -> 0.15.1 is quite the breaking change. This is literally 5% of @papaya.io's Zig codebase.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 15/08/2025

I'm really proud of this. 1. Unlike many other web-based image editors, papaya.io rasterizes text in WebAssembly. This means that text rendering looks the same across browsers or OSes. 2. This means that I had to re-implement a text box, which was not fun. ...

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Pekka Väänänen @pekkavaa.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

A new article on my site: Approximate first principal component It describes simple trick to estimate the direction of most spread of a bunch of points without running a full PCA. Includes my Python re-implementation and plots of some quick tests. 30fps.net/pages/approx...

A plot comparing the original PCA and a simpler approximation. Accurate (red) and approximate (orange) first principal components are shown. The approximation seems close to the original based on this experiment. The shown directions are aggregated over five random trials.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 04/07/2025

The Zig 2026 roadmap is absolute fire. Andrew and team are playing the long game, and it's really starting to pay off big time—incremental compilation, async await, cross compilation, fuzzing, and more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3hO...

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Zig Roadmap 2026

YouTube video by Zig SHOWTIME

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 20/06/2025

*Tin foil hat* Has Google added a special case for Google Docs in Chrome to show the MacOS accent menu in the right spot? It renders out of the window in Firefox, which is what you'd expect to happen when using a hidden textbox to get input. I cannot find a web API do this. Looks like an inside job.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 15/06/2025

Still long way to go, but got the beginnings of IME text composition working in papaya.io. I'm super impressed that @mikkomononen.bsky.social's Skribidi library even has this feature. Here's a video of me typing in '⌥-u' and then 'o' on Mac, which results in 'ö'.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 12/06/2025

Got simplified Chinese and FreeType variable font rendering to work in papaya.io.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 11/06/2025

Multi-script rendering in papaya.io is starting to come together. Here's glyph caching and retrieval across several fonts (including an emoji font)!

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 09/06/2025

Added intermingled rendering of Latin and emoji (from different font files) to papaya.io. (Also look at that automatic word-wrapping and left-alignment, courtesy of Skribidi!)

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 08/06/2025

Emoji font rendering in papaya.io with @mikkomononen.bsky.social's github.com/memononen/Sk... library. Next up: intermingling font and emoji rendering.

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Mikko Mononen @mikkomononen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

I just published the bidi text stuff I have been working the past months. It's called Skribidi (because all text and font related things need funny name for some reason). github.com/memononen/Sk...

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GitHub - memononen/Skribidi: Nimble bidirectional text stack for UIs

Nimble bidirectional text stack for UIs. Contribute to memononen/Skribidi development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 03/06/2025

Started implementing text rendering for papaya.io. Got FreeType and HarfBuzz compiling to WebAssembly. Here's a demo of kerning working with Roboto.

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Apoorva Joshi @apoorvaj.io · 22/05/2025

Just relaunched papaya.io — a web-based image editor I've been building on nights and weekends. What's new: - .ppy file format for local saves - Automatic browser persistence - WebP import/export support Building fast and shipping features regularly. Try it out — feedback very welcome.

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JCGT announcements @handle.invalid · 16/05/2025

An update, a bit of retrospection, and a call for you, yes, you, to help JCGT a bit: www.realtimerendering.com/blog/jcgt-is...

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JCGT is moving along | Real-Time Rendering

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