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First result via MiMo-X-Pro-Preview. Instruction was "launch blender and create a scene with stylized, falling snow" (20 minutes)

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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is replacing DeepSeek V4 Pro.

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This is me, but unironically.

Just got an email from Xiaomi inviting me to join the MiMo Desktop beta, and confirming there are two new models on the way:

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“we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models.” It should be easy to check if Tristan’s conversations were ingested as training data. The fact that they’re not screaming that it wasn’t probably tells you everything you need to know.

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Another from this morning:

Whenever OpenAI put a usage reset on the table, I ask Codex to run wild and implement its own choice of shaders before the reset hits. This is from this morning:

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 04/09/2026

My experience with Astra so far is that it's a definite step up from Sol (particularly for vision & 3D tasks), and it's really great at finding bugs in large codebases, but it still regularly makes some truly bizarre coding choices like this:

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I’ll be a bit quiet for a few days, I’m on a short trip to Thailand (Phuket) with the family for a holiday.

Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 03/09/2026

Don’t worry guys, I’ve solved the memory shortage.

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Same webcam feed, this time with realtime depth estimation via DepthAnything

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Messing about by streaming webcam feed into a Thermion viewport.

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A lot of fuss about DLSS 5 at the moment; my 2c is that most just...don't look good. I can instantly see the tell-tale high-contrast/exposure you see in image generation models, like someone slapped flux/ZIT on top of an in-game render.

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If Threads has so many genuine active users, why is Zuckerberg posting on Twitter about Muse Code.

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 31/08/2026

Facebook Research also has a recent(ish) parametric human model. I did come across it a few months ago, but it was described as a "full-body model" so it didn't click immediately that it also includes face identity/expression too:

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Interestingly, I just had Codex give me a summary (possibly from compaction) in Chinese. A few possible reasons come to mind, but the most plausible is that I had switched my keyboard to Chinese input while working on something in Figma, which triggered some kind of event listener for codex CLI

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 28/08/2026

Echoes of Arrested Development.

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 27/08/2026

New YouTube video coming very soon! Stay tuned.

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 27/08/2026

I just came across the mold linker on Github, which claims huge improvements over GNU ld and clang lld. Anyone want to chip in with their experience?

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 26/08/2026

I've been working on a new Blender rigging add-on for a couple of months now, and it's almost ready for release! The fixed eye-gaze is working pretty well, though that's one of the simpler parts to implement.

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Nick Fisher @hydroxide.dev · 26/08/2026

Cooking up something new.