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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Weekend project. Now I can enjoy a good tv show while working out.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's a rainy day, and I haven't done anything in a while. So, I coded some tiny transition animations on the Workbench manipulators. Low effort, kind of fun.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Does he bring it back? My first maine coon did, the one Ihave now doesn’t.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So apparently ChatGPT invites people to generate 80s pictures. I wasn’t one of the cool kids, so I thought this generated alternate take was fun enough to post.

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claire. @supitszaire.com · 03/09/2026

if a grid misaligns with a grid right behind, that's a moiré

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So is it good or bad luck to cast a right handed dice with your left hand?

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

One of the problem to me is how to minimize test overhead code and compile times, and most frameworks I have used adds a LOT to the project making them unsuitable for white box testing. And with agentic workflows, tests arguably become one of the most important aspect of your system.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I haven’t developer much lately, too busy at work. But perhaps I could post some light reading about some of the stuff I have done in the previous year… Anyone interested in how to design a good unit testing framework? One for lightweight white-box testing (my favorite style).

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Cheers, i need a night sleep, tomorrow will be better.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Today is that day where nothing I am doing works…

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Definitely use it. To me that should be foundational knowledge, not some confusing obscure construct one is forgiven for not knowing. It wouldn’t even cross my mind not.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I got charged extra because I forgot to rewind the rental VHS.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It’s not even that. Old films had huge technical constraints, so the film maker was using smart cinematography to limit what the spectator saw, letting the imagination do the rest. Modern movies do the opposite: show everything and leave nothing to the imagination. Huge negative!

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

TinyBVH has just been 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝟭.𝟴.𝟬. For CPU ray tracing, it is now the fastest option in most cases - Outperforming Intel Embree and Madmann91 for BVH build time and single-ray performance. On GPU, performance exceeds 4B rays per second - 4 rays per pixel at 4k/120Hz. github.com/jbikker/tiny...

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Very nice!! When I’ll find some time and energy, I’ll try to replace the home grown CPU raytracer in Workbench (my hobby project) with TinyBVH.

Yes, it was like that for me at AL, and at Pixar to some extent. At AL someone was calling me at their floor to show an issue, I was going back at my desk with a guess of what it could be. Maybe 2 hours later I had a patch ready and deployed, everyone happy. It was very intense work, but fulfilling.

What helps me is to know who I am coding for, the user. And I don’t mean the profile of the typical customer, I mean the actual person, like a TD or a lighter who has a problem I want to fix. That is the best motivation to me.

Tom’s is an interesting take. For instance, I do enjoy implementing my own ideas, because it feels an extension of the thought process, so to that is like writing. But a lot of work doesn’t benefit of that. It’s like saying, I like writing… a novel, yes; but not the phone book.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I like using tools when they are good. Some times commercial tools aren’t great and that’s the motivator for me to open an IDE and start typing… Otherwise I don’t like coding, even less to read or review code.

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People who bought SpaceX thinking what they bought is an aerospace company 🤦🏻‍♂️ What they got instead is a tiny share of xAI, and a minuscule one of aerospace sector.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I mean, the 5D mkii still takes really good pictures, perhaps not in low light… still.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I should check that. Compact cameras never clicked with me (I guess pun intended?) so, it’s either a replacement for the 5D, or I know it’ll go in a drawer in no time… But probably I should get back in the habit of carrying around the 5D, and take pictures with that… and see if I find joy in it.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I still have a Canon 5D mkii with a handful of lenses. I haven’t used it a long time. If I’d have to modernize the rig, what should I go for? I used to know these things but I have been out of the loop for to long now.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Well… they say “trying to”, didn’t they?

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

I don’t know much on the subject. But look at the networking capability of the box. My eyes popped when I saw that. It’s really advanced gear. Makes it hard to draw comparison.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Have you looked into Heat Recovery Ventilation systems?

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Do they need to have tried and failed? To qualify, I mean… Does music education at school count? My literature teacher told me many times I will never write anything in my life. I guess the music teacher thought that too.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

My and Cri looked at the pictures in the press release, we come from quite different angles when it comes to automotive design… (and we owned 3 generations of Prius over the years…). We looked at each other with the same big question mark face.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

That sink is every AI vibe coded application, if you review the code. Hey, it passes all unit tests though…

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Maybe I see this in rosy retrospection, but I feel that the work I did many years ago to create the Glimpse production renderer still feels to me the most insane project I ever started.

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So, like you adjusted gradually? Or it just happened?

Hi there! I tried that, but technical books tend to keep my mind churning on work related stuff, sometimes they give me ideas, or my mind start spinning around how I disagree with the author and “this” is the way I would do it… I guess I should try to read about markets performance, or tax code

Maybe I should try with very boring books 😆

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I always had some envy about people who can read books, novels before going to sleep. If I read something I find myself immersed in, goodby sleep, I won’t be able to sleep at all.

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I am not sure I understand. I suspect you are referring to the paragraph that summarizes like “with AI you ca do this and that and it’s all good”. Don’t take that literally as examples. It’s just there to say “you can find good use for it, but…”, and what that may be can change person to person.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Good on you. But if you are not using AI, If you haven’t tried hard enough to leverage the positive aspect and managing the shortcomings of the new tools, then likely you don’t understand the subtleties of what I am talking about. Mine is not a black and white take.

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I all fits, until the big push becomes “pure agentic”, “dark factory” scenario, “specifications and tests are the new source code”, at which point I feel I’d enter a generational loss.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Thank you for your words. I think we are all trying to figure things out. The chance of atrophy is what worry me the most about this. That’s why I have been working on side projects, to not forget what I can do. But will that become irrelevant?

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

It's a thing. Now every time I sit at my project and start coding, or debugging, there is a part of my brain that screams, "why are you doing this, push the button! It'll be easy, why are writing this loop here?".

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

That’s right. I recall phong was sharper at grazing angles.

Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Makes sense. I’ll better start replacing my beloved rainbow cubes with something better then :)

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Max Liani @maxliani.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I am sure, but if you don’t trust me, here is a link www.britannica.com/science/What... Or you can ask an AI. But if you still don’t, ask yourself, have you ever seen that on a cold day? or was it always sunny and scorching hot on the road tarmac?

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What Causes Mirages? | Optics, Refraction, Air Density, & Temperature | Britannica

While it is commonly thought that mirages result from people’s imagination, the phenomenon is actually caused by mere optics. Mirages are optical illusions that appear when light rays bend, or refract...