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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 27/09/2026

And like... part of me does feel bad. Wayland _can_ do this kinda stuff (again, KDE wayland on my laptop is fine). It's all open source, mostly volunteer work, I love y'all for that, I don't want to come off as giving flak to y'all there. Just... I don't know. Things feel weird when Wayland […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 27/09/2026

I want wayland to work, really - it's nice when it does and coming back to X11, yeah the jank is noticeable, even if picom can do a mostly-okish job at covering it up. Heck I already do use wayland on my laptop, running KDE. But.. outside of that, yeah it's still too rough for me. Running […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 27/09/2026

For some reason I figured I've give my annual try at #Wayland.. aand it's _still_ too rough for me >.> * QTile.. had some pretty bad mouse lag (in fairness, they do warn you that Wayland might be rough) * Sway.. didn't? despite both using wlroots? but still felt like the cursor was a frame […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 02/09/2026

it only takes uhhhhhhhhh _six and a half gigs of memory oh no_ (I do not know why, I estimated...still a lot but way lower than this)

A screenshot of a Java memory profiler (VisualVM to be specific).

I'm showing what types are using the most bytes of memory. Float arrays are by far the largest consumer of memory, taking up over 6.5GB, followed by byte arrays at 379MB, and int arrays at 61MB.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 02/09/2026

temperatures (I have a command block continually injecting heat in the middle of this) #Minecraft #ModdedMinecraft

A screenshot of modded Minecraft.

There is a debug "3D heat cloud" visualization visible, with bright red/hot temperatures in blocks near middle of the screen, with blocks further out being less intensely red/having cooler temperatures.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 20/08/2026

doing goofy things toying around with minecraft modding again

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 23/05/2026

Here to make up for feeling bad about self-promo, have something useful :P Blender script to exactly frame a dimetric cube.. because I'm toying around with game dev again and it's surprisingly hard to find info on this that isn't just eyeballed. gitlab.com/-/snippets/5994851

A screenshot of Blender. There is a cube projected diametrically, perfectly framed within the bounds of the camera.

Another dimetric cube in Blender, again perfectly framed within the camera bounds.Tthis time it looks like a grass block (a chunk of dirt with grass on top).

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 23/05/2026

I did another video thing, steam frame was delayed so flip it wiimotes :P youtu.be/eOjah2JmWb4 (and now to go hide in my own anxiety wheee)

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 01/04/2026

...getting trolled by the Linux dynamic linker today, whee Trying to return a function pointer to a function in my own .so, but I guess that got relocated to an identically named function in the OpenXR loader. Cue the OpenXR loader trying to forward function calls into my .so, instead it […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 26/11/2025

@kartingkoopa.bsky.social ~~one of us~~ :P Nah but the com/sona is great heh .^

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 12/11/2025

So I'm not usually one to get excited before things release but... _could the steam frame be the thing that convinces me to get into vr? eheh_ :P Kinda lost a lot of interest when Meta kinda took over that space a lot, not to mention Linux VR being a bit of a kinda ??? for me.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/11/2025

in other news I've been doing A Silly like - _what if raytracing in OpenComputers_ (a Minecraft mod that adds Lua-based computers) - could do with some more shades of blue.. or maybe dithering heh. and then realizing it's slow as heck so making a way to […] [Original post on furry.engineer]

Screenshot of Ocelot Desktop, an OpenComputers emulator. A 3D scene is being rendered (raymarched) with a cuboid, a sphere, and a torus, with very simplistic lighting.

Screenshot of Ocelot Desktop, an OpenComputers emulator. A 3D scene is being rendered (raytraced) with a sphere on a floor, and a blue sky texture.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/11/2025

Learning that the notes software I self-host, TriliumNext, seems to be really leaning into genai >.> ...or at least, noticing a new "ai/llm" settings page after updating it, and GitHub issues/PRs having some llm bot replies on most of them now idk, I get there's something here about open […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 14/09/2025

it also does the kagi thing of letting you uprank/downrank certain sites and I can rewrite twitter I mean x I mean twitter links -> nitter, and etc. too so that's nice

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 14/09/2025

Well I'm trying self-hosting SearXNG for now. It's..surprisingly nice so far, though can be a bit iffy at times. I tried some public SearXNG instances earlier and initially discounted it.. but I think maybe they just tend to get pretty heavily rate limited so I was surprised how well kinda […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 08/09/2025

Kagi's tempting me but.. I feel torn on it >.< From what little I've tried so far - looking up some obscure PC-98 stuff - it actually feels quite good and not trying to bs me or stuff but ethically.. between the AI focus and Brave/Grok partnerships... eeeyeeaugh >.< ..but it's not like the […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 07/09/2025

getting thoughts of building maybe a kindof steampunky area now, and trying not to go toooo much into _analysis paralysis_ with like.. blackstone might be nice, which I can farm from a piglin bartering setup, which I'll want a gold farm to feed that, and I haven't even been to the nether yet […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 07/09/2025

it's a chill vibe though when I get into it, kinda making me focus more on building than I usually do

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 07/09/2025

I've been kindof getting back into vanilla(-y) Minecraft as of recent I'm so used to modded quest packs so this feels a bit weirdly _oh gosh what and how do I do things_ heh :P

Screenshot of a Minecraft world at night, by a lake. There is...
- A small crop farm growing wheat, carrots, pumpkins, and sugar cane
- A wooden abode extending out from a pier
- Another wooden house further inland on a hill

A close-up of the first wooden abode from the previous image, floating out in the lake.

There's some seating on a porch, an open - mostly empty ground floor, and a small pier extending from the house with a boat floating beside it.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2025

August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard. github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523 Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion. August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 03/06/2025

`git commit -m "Add robots.txt to suggest most (nicer) GenAI bots to sod off"`

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 02/06/2025

I remembered I had a blog too and wrote some stuff so I will be very self-conscious but here's my descent into being confused by frontend mostly and not wanting to use javascript craftedc.art/blog/new-site-2025

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New site, new toys

Overengineering my website for the heck of it

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 02/06/2025

...d'ya ever just start a project, and end up writing a mini programming language... and redoing the entire site it's based on because _wow it's due for a tidy up_ eheheh..

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 02/06/2025

so I just redid my website.. uh I basically wanted to do easings.net, except you can play with the expression and you get more than just JavaScript code (ok well you don't get any CSS bezier curves because heck if I know how to do that) craftedc.art/web-tools/easings

A screenshot of the easing tool on my website. It is showing the "out elastic" animation curve, described by some expression code. That expression code is transpiled into several different programming languages below - generated Rust, C, C++, and GLSL/HLSL/OpenCL C code are visible here.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/05/2025

Yes, subtitles are important and I'm not trying to argue that it's not worth the effort or anything. It's just like... for my first time authoring them, and then trying to get it through some intermediaries then on to YouTube - wow so much stuff here feels jank or broken.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/05/2025

Resolve can export subs but they only contian positioning info if you use regions and know which formats to use Trying to copy subs with ffmpeg seems to result in them drifting out of sync, or it just forgetting positioning info when it does work Extracting subs as ssa with ffmpeg results in […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/05/2025

re: last toot Gosh subtitles can be a heck to work with huh. Not authoring them, that's fine - but just the different file formats and converting between it all and tooling and what not.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 05/05/2025

Well flip it, let's make this public ehe I made osu!.. within Trombone Champ.. entirely in a shader - and here's how it all works: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3lRxh1HQcQ

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 27/04/2025

Today in GTK... being confused at submenus that don't expand anymore when hovering over them.. because submenus replace their parent menu now on click, except when they don't >.>

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 26/04/2025

Ok Graphite is pretty cool huh, just in search for a foss vector editor that doesn't make me want to tear my hair out. Still quite rough, but gosh I've wanted a node editor for vector graphics.

graphite.rs

Free online vector editor & procedural design tool

Open source free software. A vector graphics creativity suite with a clean, intuitive interface. Opens instantly (no signup) and runs locally in a browser. Exports SVG, PNG, JPG.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 14/04/2025

Hm wondering if Davinci Resolve's GPU-compute language, DCTL, is just.. a pile of macros and functions that get thrown into OpenCL/MSL/Cuda code. That's a horrifying thought. I've just been.. treating it as OpenCL but a little weird, and now I'm wonder if the reason a pile of keywords are […]

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 09/04/2025

..realizing Resolve has a character limit on expressions sooo... how about working around it by writing code in a sticky note, and eval-ing that :P

A screenshot of Davinci Resolve Fusion's node editor. There is a text node, and a sticky note node, which contains Lua code. The lua code appears to be making rotation matrices.

A screenshot of the inspector in Davinci Resolve Fusion. There is a text box with three numbers in it, populated from the expression:
loadstring(DotVectorsScript.Comments.Value)()

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 23/03/2025

Welp, today in shader programming... Assigning a variable to itself to workaround some bug where a var gets the value of a different, unrelated var

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 22/02/2025

Some more fancifying things

A screenshot of a custom menu in Balatro. It's graphing how many chips I scored per hand, the number of chips I need to score, and my money over time. On the side is additional info for a single hand, including the cards I played, jokers used, and the blind.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 18/02/2025

Some tidying up.. moved the options to the top and all the graph labels are nice and aligned now

A screenshot of a custom menu in Balatro. It's graphing how many chips I scored each round. The UI has been slightly re-arranged and neatened up from the previous toot in the thread.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 17/02/2025

Been toying around with #Balatro modding as of recent - thought it'd be an idea to graph stuff :P

A screenshot of a custom UI menu in Balatro. It's graphing how much I scored for each hand.

A screenshot of a custom UI menu in Balatro. It's graphing how much I scored for each round, using a logarithmic scale and more compactly than the previous image.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 10/02/2025

Tinkering on that raytracer's getting a little tiresome when I'm forever at odds with performance now - struggling to get it running decently on anything that isn't a _very_ high end graphics card. F16 support (to reduce register pressure) doesn't seem to […] [Original post on furry.engineer]

A raytraced voxel scene of a train platform. In the corner is a debug UI showing performance metrics.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 10/02/2025

One of these days I should get back to crafting interpreters. Ended up stopping midway through chapter 3 and heck if I can remember it that well. ...but for now I'm getting sucked back in to Balatro so :P

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Crafting Interpreters

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 31/01/2025

I'm looking at trying to save registers for shader code. Some of the stuff you can do here is (cleverly) whack. Like, storing bools in the sign bits of floats you expect to always be positive. `abs` is basically free anyways.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 30/01/2025

It always felt kinda strange how the conventional way of doing post-pro with renderers is.. draw a tri (or two tris) that cover the whole screen, and shade that triangle.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 29/01/2025

As much as I would like to profile the shader code itself too.. uhh.. That would require me to try figure out how my shader code maps to RDNA3 assembly. There's no fancy debug symbols here.

A screenshot of Radeon GPU Analyzer, showing decompiled assembly code for a compute shader.

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CraftedCart @craftedc.art · 29/01/2025

Hm, apparently I'm being bottlenecked by register counts on that raytracer now - and looks like naga (shader transpiler wgpu uses) doesn't support half-precision floats for now - wanted to try 16-bit floats to try save on vector regs. Trying to get this performing better is.. an ordeal alright.

A screenshot of Radeon GPU analyzer, showing a graph of wavefront occupancy. The majority of the time is spent at around 60% occupancy, and colored blue to signify it's bottlenecked on VGPRs (vector general purpose registers).

A screenshot of Radeon GPU Analyzer, that reads the following:

Per-wavefront-resources
Vector registers: 72 (72 allocated)
Scalar registers: 128 (128 allocated)

Theoretical wavefront occupancy
The occupancy of this shader is limited by its vector register usage. This shader could potentially run 10 wavefronts out of 16 wavefronts per SIMD.
However, if you reduce vector register usage by 2 you could run another wavefront.

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