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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/09/2026

They do! Although it'll be hard to top the 25th anniversary linking book (one of my prized possessions...)

Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 27/08/2026

I heeded @steveruizok.bsky.social's advice and made a little friend to help me monitor my homelab, plants, fish & integrated drone system. Getting (faux) 3D rendering on a potato was tricky!

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/07/2026

@yiningkarlli.bsky.social 'a elaborate man-in-the-middle Renderman hackery to simulate scientifically accurate black holes is probably the most mind blowing thing I've seen at SIGGRAPH this year

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 20/07/2026

Today at Pixar's Open Source BoF at SIGGRAPH I'll be introducing USD Web View: an OSS webapp built for meaningful OpenUSD stage access and interaction. The project enables OpenUSD inspection, composition arc access, MaterialX support, Gaussian Splats and more, in one web-native environment:

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 05/07/2026

For a good minute I thought this was a food order joke

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 15/05/2026

Wrote up a quick note on Gaussian splat capture using Blender, Gauss Cannon, Lichtfield, and SuperSplat. Interesting realization: arbitrary mesh geometry becomes a capture instrument. Each face becomes a camera position, directly shaping training coverage! michaelybecker.com/notes/gauss-...

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/01/2026

It's fine to not like the same things. I'm saying your criticism here is misplaced and untrue even at a surface level reading of the original post.

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/01/2026

Literally two paragraphs down:

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/06/2025

This will be a fun double feature

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 12/04/2025

Feels like a desk boom arm + minimal amount of modding situation?

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 12/04/2025

The one I ended up going with!

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 10/04/2025

this pattern needs to GO. You can autosave on click, outlook. You have the technology

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 07/04/2025

Love bogleheads. Such dad jokers

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 06/04/2025

I've never had Kimura Fijusan cider but it feels like the perfect beverage to be enjoying during my first FFX playthrough

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/04/2025

for several years I've enjoyed knowing that the Renderman addon for Blender was called Blenderman but I'm beginning to think I hallucinated that word all along

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 31/03/2025

new type of rejection unlocked

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 30/03/2025

Balatro finally arrived! Never ever using any other deck

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 24/03/2025

Help my workers have taken control of the means of production

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/03/2025

confused by the choices made here

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 22/03/2025

When visiting ILM thou shall splat the Master to demonstrate your reverence. I don't make the rules

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 22/03/2025

Ain't no party like a Pixar party

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 19/03/2025

I don't do this on a regular basis but it's nice to do occasionally, esp when you feel crummy about the state of the world, or to celebrate the Autodesk proxy battle

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 18/03/2025

(my contributions to the festivities)

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 16/03/2025

Love to see a mad max war rig in the kids' indoor playground. Tres educational

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 16/03/2025

the only effective meditation app

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 14/03/2025

there's a guy who code-reviews open source ports of legendary older games and one of the highlights is always the Sourcetrail view into the architecture

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 13/03/2025

Was replying to a very kind German seller on Ebay and through no fault of theirs suddenly stopped in my tracks

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 10/03/2025

Is this an ad for techbro enslavement culture or claustrophobic insanity

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 07/03/2025

business purpose: sustenance / corporeal survival (file under section 34 clause C)

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 05/03/2025

we're 6 issues away from the mark of the devil in terms of OpenUSD issues. y'all know what to do

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 05/03/2025

This is also a meme about Flow of course

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 04/03/2025

Loving this game and watch desk clock - although now I want these immaculate sunsets in actual Mario games

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/03/2025

It's not actually that top shelf but I'm obsessed with the look of my new fountain pen

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/03/2025

and not for nothing, this is the first time I've seen Ramsey outright *lie* to justify his emotions (not facts). The Yahoo coverage is being kind - Ramsey didn't "confuse" anything. This is simply what propaganda looks like. The lies start around the two minute mark: youtu.be/5-an7POj7mA?...

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/03/2025

the not-insignificant upside is that YouTube - Dave's main stomping ground - has a zero tolerance policy for this kind of nonsense

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 03/03/2025

interesting case of negative self-selection in that anyone who uses "heck" will not enjoy White Lotus

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 02/03/2025

an instant classic. My copy suffers from "too many important/insightful/quotable paragraphs I'll need to revisit" syndrome

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 02/03/2025

Thinking of De Chirico, bullied by the surrealists to change the names and meanings of his Metaphysical Paintings

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 26/02/2025

not AI slop - the AI is correct. This is just slop.

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 25/02/2025

I like my chocolate the way I like my ex machina/hereditary/civil war: distributed by A-fucking-24

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Michael Becker @michaelbecker.dev · 23/02/2025

I guess you're also in a position to do this

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