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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 11/09/2026

Donated as promised and requested an employer match to 2x the impact. Get your card before they sell out! #RDC26 You can help provide life-saving services by funding The Trevor Project’s mission to end suicide among LGBTQ+ youth. give.thetrevorproject.org/boatbomber

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 16/08/2026

This #RDC, DynaDex is selling boatbomber trading cards signed by yours truly! The proceeds of all 17 signed boatbomber holos go to The Trevor Project, and I'm matching that. $50 card = $100 donated. I slipped some extra goodies in the bags too🤫

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 25/08/2026

My #Roblox liquid glass effect is open sourced on my blog! www.boatbomber.com/blog/liquid-... I break down how it works, the decisions I made, plus there's cool visualizations that make it easy to understand. No math/code, I swear. Pretty demos and fun problem solving. Give it a read!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 13/08/2026

I found some great resources that helped me make my liquid glass even better and look closer to Apple's style :)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 12/08/2026

Liquid glass in #Roblox! Frosted glass is just so 2007. Total control over the material. (Shape, chromatic aberration, displacement, specular, lighting, etc.) Should I release this? It's a neat tech demo (ran at ~190 FPS in this video) but isn't viable for real games.

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 10/08/2026

I revived my old GlassmorphicUI to use the latest EditableImage APIs and make it a lot more performant. #RobloxDev github.com/boatbeaker/G...

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 15/07/2026

Occlusion culling in CullThrottle! #RobloxDev In this stress test, everything is throttled since our update budget can't update thousands of visible blocks. By skipping occluded objects, we spend our update budget more wisely, leading to much higher refresh rates!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 30/06/2026

I made a dataset with thousands of questions about Roblox/Luau for evaluating LLMs, but it's surprisingly fun to evaluate your own knowledge instead! Take the quiz and show off your scores in the replies 👀 www.boatbomber.com/roblox-quiz

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Zack Williams · boatbomber

Portfolio and blog of Zack Williams (boatbomber): games, plugins, open source modules, and websites.

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 26/03/2025

I built a leaderboard that tracks LLM knowledge of Roblox concepts and APIs! huggingface.co/spaces/boatb...

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Roblox LLM Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by boatbomber

Evaluating Roblox gamedev knowledge

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 09/03/2025

I've become a daily Claude Extended user. I write quick+messy code until I've proven my idea, then I have Claude turn it into neat classes and unit tests. This allows me to focus on the real logic and ideas, instead of focusing on writing clean+performant code. Huge velocity boost.

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 22/02/2025

I'm building a synthetic reasoning dataset using the open Luau corpus from Roblox! I want to fine tune reasoning models to generate Luau code. I will open source this dataset, the code used to build it, and the model weights if I get a good fine tune model.

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 28/01/2025

It's so fun to watch old scifi and realize we literally have so much scifi tech irl now A fun example is this great joke from Star Trek will land totally differently for the next generation of kids who grow up with AI assistants youtu.be/hShY6xZWVGE

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Star Trek - Hello Computer

YouTube video by Phil Jahner

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 15/12/2024

Benchmarker v7.3.0 is out! #RobloxDev - Adds BeforeAll, AfterAll, BeforeEach, and AfterEach functions - Profiler usage inside of iterations will now display meaningfully in the flamegraph

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 08/12/2024

The first release candidate for CullThrottle is now available to try! #RobloxDev Please send me any feedback or bug reports! Github: github.com/boatbomber/C... Wally: wally.run/package/boat...

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 08/12/2024

The first release candidate for CullThrottle is now available to try! #RobloxDev Please send me any feedback or bug reports! Github: github.com/boatbomber/C... Wally: wally.run/package/boat...

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 30/11/2024

CullThrottle now has dynamic render distance! #RobloxDev (Can be disabled if you want specific control) It will adjust the distance to ensure you're staying within the allocated time budget and desired refresh rates!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 28/11/2024

CullThrottle will find the optimal balance of visuals/perf in the current scene for your hardware. Give it a budget (ms) + a minimum & target refresh rate, and it determines what to update each frame for the best visuals in the budget. It'll even go above your target if it's in budget.

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 02/11/2024

You work your hardest when trying to prove someone wrong- so I made Roastjo, a Rojo fork that roasts your changes as you sync them. #RobloxDev #Roblox 🔊

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 27/10/2024

CoD BO6: Pick up cash you find on missions to upgrade The Rook base CoD BO6: On this mission you'll rob a vault full of cash but none of it can be picked up. On this mission you'll break into a palace full of priceless art and gold but none of it can be picked up. O

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 21/10/2024

@ozone.birb.house May I have the Game Dev badge? Thanks!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 21/10/2024

@ozone.roblox.social May I have the Roblox Dev label? Thanks!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I hit my video upload limit on bsky for today 💀So I guess that's all the tweets I'll be reposting here. That should be plenty, anyway. My profile doesn't look so dead anymore!

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Decided to attempt a dynamic fluid simulation! It's far from perfect (or even correct, tbh) but I still enjoyed making and playing with it. Fun weekend project! #RobloxDev #Roblox (Arrows are flow, color is pressure, black arrow is obstacle) (Originally posted Apr 9, 2023)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I love open source. I needed AWS header signing in Lua so I looked around to see if someone else made it- they did, and credited me. Something I open sourced years ago enabled others to build things that came full circle to help me now. What a beautiful ecosystem. #RobloxDev

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Fun fact: @lualearning.org is in the 0th percentile for monetization. You're damn right we are. (Source: new Roblox analytics dashboard)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I waited a few days to post my #RDC24 photos so that they can lift you from the post-convention-depression ❤️

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

RDC Red Carpet photos are the best thing they've added to RDC 😍

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I'm working on CullThrottle, a system for efficiently handling updates to thousands of objects. #RobloxDev Built on the tech that makes WindShake possible, it makes it easy to run your effects at high FPS by managing which objects you should update each frame. (Originally posted Jul 28, 2024)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I made a "fish eye" lens effect on #Roblox! #RobloxDev Details and open source in replies 👇 (Originally posted May 24, 2023)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

It had to be done. #Roblox #RobloxDev You can now check the $RBLX stock from in Roblox. 😎 (Originally posted March 11, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Another fun horror menu! #RobloxDev #Roblox This is my version of the menu in Welcome To The Game 2. (Originally posted Jun 25, 2019)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Dynamic real time water interactions and simulation. Jokes aside, this was so painful to do. Took me nearly 2 hours to make this useless thing. 😅 #RobloxDev #Roblox (Originally posted Jul 14, 2020)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Joining the #Roblox trend Avatar vs Owner

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Here's the result of today's #RobloxDev Twitch stream @ www.twitch.tv/boatbomber Roddit. (Originally posted Feb 15, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

ViewportFrame replays. #RobloxDev #Roblox Made for fun, no actual use. Module supports going to frames or percent of the recording. Demo slider uses :GoToPercent() (Originally posted Aug 5, 2019)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Here you go, open source and easy to use! #RobloxDev Now your #Roblox experience can look like a #retro game! Model & Instructions: roblox.com/library/7798... (Originally posted Oct 21, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I DID IT! I FINALLY DID IT! I BROKE QUADRUPLE DIGIT FPS IN LUA LEARNING!!! FPS : 1058.1/s #Roblox #RobloxDev #Optimization (Originally posted Oct 3, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Google Docs? OneDrive? Sorry professor, I store and share my documents as #Roblox models 🙌🏻😤

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

All Roblox devs have this inbox

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

WindShake Version 2 is released! #Roblox #RobloxDev 🔊Sound on! (Originally posted Jun 19, 2023)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

I was bored in math class so I made a raycast renderer that runs in realtime at 60+ FPS! It achieves this by intentionally terminating after 1/60th of a second (hence the "screen tear" effect) and making use of parallel Luau. #Roblox #RobloxDev (Originally posted Oct 19, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

My Bloxy Award trophy for @lualearning.org has arrived!! It. Is. Gorgeous. I am so overjoyed and grateful! This is a huge moment for me. ❤️ #Roblox #RobloxDev (Originally posted Jun 24, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

This is your fault. #RobloxDev Quote Tweet from @onogork.bsky.social: Time to add screen shake, and sparks on every keystroke for the really intense programming sessions. (Originally posted Jul 30, 2023)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

RTX On? Mirror in #Roblox at ~200FPS. #RobloxDev Made with ViewportFrames, of course. Shoutout to AstroCode, EgoMoose, and EmilyBendsSpace for help with the math! (Originally posted Mar 7, 2022)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Simple 2D GUI physics in #Roblox, based on Impulse Engine by Randy Gaul. I had a lot of fun writing this! The best kind of work is work where you learn in the process and end up with a satisfying result when you finish. #RobloxDev (Originally posted Jun 6, 2021)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Fun little "sonar" concept utilizing some rendering quirks of Forcefield and Bloom #RobloxDev Game: www.roblox.com/games/100228... (Originally posted Jun 25, 2022)

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 20/10/2024

Inspired by @acerola.gg's work, I decided to test some ideas for smooth animation. The results were pretty satisfying, so I ended up writing a whole system for handling hundreds of bobbing objects with motion controls, distance throttling, and view culling. (Originally posted Dec 18, 2023)

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