iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

these ideas are about 23 years old, but i’ve never published. i do mention kdop but it’s not the essential point here, it’s just a convenience / gimmick

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

mcnett.org/bounding_sim... in this paper i question the primacy of the bounding box. if you like geometry stuff, give it a read and tell me how i can do better

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

my kids pronounce "Pokemon" a lot more closely to the Japanese than I do, though I've spoken Japanese for 34 years and they haven't ever

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Decades ago, "dollars to donuts" meant something expensive for something cheap. Its meaning flipped during my lifetime.

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

You'd have to assume that the old SGI workstations had something similar going on, at least on the GPU side

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It finally happened, after 30 years: my ability to read Japanese will save me $100 on the new Nintendo gadget. Now I can say it was worth the effort

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

No idea why my town is so obsessed with Initial D

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Life has gone full circle lately: my kid is pushing me to try Uncharted, and like my dad in the 80s I keep weaseling out. "But daaad, your name is in the credits!!" Uhh, ok kid I'm busy dusting the bookshelf

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A 1970s tech CEO, showing off the latest GPU

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I have never experienced existential dread, after having children. I figure it's their problem now, good luck

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Working at Apple on graphics these days

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Recently confused to discover that さつま揚げ in Taiwan is 甜不辣 ("tempura"?)

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

. @okonomiyonda.bsky.social I found a use for tessellation you could get behind

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

It's programmed for hagiography

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

As of today, I have left Unity after 6.5 years. Onward to the next adventure! (whatever that is)

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Wait until you hear about bokeh

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Patreon is for when you already have followers with whom you want no interaction whatsoever, except payment. You may be at that point, but I am not

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I stopped reading at O(N). We can do better than that!

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Switch was an XB360, and Switch2 is a PS4 - not in terms of raw specs - but in terms of which generation of TV games can be ported over without significant re-engineering

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Yeah, I've never heard of anyone trying to simulate stuff across 32 frames in parallel, in some cases buffering up all that data costs more than just recomputing it on the fly

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

I remember seeing that paper when it was new

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

But the bigger gains would be with NPC stuff, because it's more possible to engineer their actions to be predictable

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

When you predict N frames out and N/2 of them were wrong, you can throw those away and predict another batch of N. As long as the player doesn't spam unpredictable moves constantly, you come out ahead

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Thinking that the parallelization problem in games would be solved if we evaluated everything for N future frames in parallel, and then we'd have a misprediction problem instead. But that sounds like a more tractable problem to be stuck with

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Everyone dies two deaths: the first when your life ends, and the second - many years later - when high school acquaintances stop wishing you happy birthday on Facebook

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

You might be surprised how many bigcorp pro game devs with 10 years experience, haven't ever shipped a game

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Using $100 mini PCs on each TV for streaming, when I noticed today that one looked choppy. Whoops, it was set to 4K by mistake. Back to 1080p, and now it's smooth. Kid says it "looks better," too

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The Linux bullshit, at least, is not subject to short term marketing trends. emacs or vim from 1996 is roughly the same today; notepad recently changed radically and is now AI oriented, and in 4 years will be something else

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I've seen things "you people" wouldn't believe... Threadpools that created a new thread for each job... JSON parsers that malloc'ed each boolean value independently...

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Thinking about non-uniform scaling of Chakovian coordinates

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Bryan McNett @bryanmcnett.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

The kid is 16. I asked him, what's the square root of 256? And he looked back with a thousand-yard stare. We are on different paths

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