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

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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

At the end of the blog post, you'll find the links to the playground place, the GitHub repo, and Wally package. Here's a taste of some of the visualizations. Go check it out! (bsky can't use multiple videos, so I can only show images here. There are even cooler video visuals in the blog!)

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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 · 16/08/2026

Not attending RDC this year, or want to chip in beyond the cards? You can donate directly here: give.thetrevorproject.org/boatbomber I just made a $300 donation to start us off. Let's make a difference for someone who needs it.

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

Shoutout to Charles Yin's liquid glass studio project liquid-glass-studio.vercel.app

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Liquid Glass Studio

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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

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

I might do a technical writeup on www.boatbomber.com/blog in the future that breaks down how this works with some peeks behind the curtain

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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

Annoyingly, Roblox does not let you create EditableImages from public assets like it did originally. This means it will complain and fail loudly even on the default skybox since it has to be assets that you uploaded.

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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 · 18/07/2026

Great question! It's far too much to fit into a tweet but I documented it all in section 8 of this document. TLDR: it does as little work as possible and reuses as much as it can across frames github.com/boatbomber/C...

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

It's also *faster* since this allows the search phase to skip occluded regions. In the above example, search goes from 0.73ms to 0.56ms when occlusion culling is turned on, even though the search phase is now doing occlusion checks!

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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 · 09/06/2025

My primal instinct is to stay far far away

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 09/06/2025

^^^^ People are complaining about corporate greed, not about fair wages

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 16/04/2025

Satisfactory took over my life for a week so I had to stop cold turkey Once the novel aspect wears off, I'll try playing again and see if I can regulate

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 07/04/2025

This popped into my head and I had to make it

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 03/04/2025

Analyzing what about them? Your mileage will vary greatly depending on what features you're trying to extract

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 03/04/2025

Made without coffee version versus made with Adderall version type shit

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

I'd like to add a Luau coding proficiency evaluation to this in the future.

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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 · 19/03/2025

> Over 2.4k employees > Couldn't possibly have engineers working on different products simultaneously, clearly everyone dropped everything for AI

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 12/03/2025

Really disrupting the industry with innovative new technology here Madi

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 12/03/2025

Locked In and Center of Attention 😛

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Zack Williams @boatbomber.com · 10/03/2025

This work would have wasted over an hour of my time, and now it took 2 minutes to generate plus another 10 to check the work. Anyone still doing grunt work is wasting their time. LLMs are absolutely good enough to do the grunt work (at least in popular languages like JS and Python).

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

I still don't ever use AI to write things from scratch. I do all the real work, and use LLMs to do the annoying typing work. I love the thinking side of my job, I just don't enjoy typing thousands of lines of neatly commented and structured code.

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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 · 03/03/2025

I wheezed when you swiped and it flew off the top of the screen 😂

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

The funniest part of this project was trying to convince models to output reasoning that links the prompt to the existing code from the original dataset. My solution is to gaslight them and tell the model that it already wrote it but it needs to be rewritten.

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

This will take about a week to run on my single 7900XTX, but hey- it'll be cheaper than paying for cloud compute.

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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 · 30/01/2025

I use Claude to write SQL and it's good at that. I find it's also not terrible at basic Python The real key is to never ask an LLM to come up with a solution, just to write one that you've described in detail

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

Feel free to add your own examples of the scifi tech in your life below :)

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

Also this morning a little robot vacuumed my entire apartment using lidar and computer vision, entirely autonomous and automatically. It does this daily and I don't even think of it as impressive anymore

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

I just posted this from the supercomputer in my pocket by speaking to it and having a machine transcribe it for me in real time like a secretary. Then I shared it with the entire human race through a global network of cables at near lightspeed

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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