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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

giants causeway vibes! lovely pics

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering A new rendering algo that lets you merge a whole bunch of ShaderToy and raytracer-style techniques right into your existing bone-animated triangle mesh rasterisation pipeline. New longer technical details video: youtu.be/SA2cXydaq1A

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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - technical details.

YouTube video by Tom Forsyth

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i have found a wifi network(*) so bad that it doesnt even manage to fully load the hacker news front page. thanks shit wifi, you saved me from myself! (sent from my cellular device) * london's south bank centre

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thankyou, good sir/madam

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tho actually this is think break isnt it? which is even more ❤️

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Jagā · Inter Alios/We Once Knew · Song · 2020

im such a sucker for rolling amen + old fashioned dnb 'plonk' subbass (i refuse to call it an 808 for some reason) open.spotify.com/track/09eYAN...

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We Once Knew

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no no magpie is right, its gotta be a quill now. with little sort of secondary motion as you swoosh it around. and... and... occasional ink splodges and splatters... and

Granular Sampling with Plinky 12

another brilliant tutorial from @electricbirds.bsky.social - daring to dive into the mixed web/on-device sampling workflow on plinky12 . thanks nathan! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGTZ...

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YouTube video by Nathan Plante Synths

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yeah its tested as determinstic so far! 🤞

its transpiled to c code, so its kinda c order. then as it runs it renders its own state, but with most edits writing back into the source code as the source of truth. and it has some hot reloaded bits, and some vm bits (for mininotation) aka total hodgepodge :)

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i have a few screenshots and vids in my bsky history over the last month or two but im still figuring it out! will keep posting as i go. and feel free to ask any qs :) love discussions!

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omg 🥹🥰😍 no more words

(what a gorgeous floof!) shes in theory siberian, but looks nothing like her half sibling and everyone asks if shes a ragdoll! so now we just say shes a ragberian :) shes incredibly floofy and blue eyed. and your baby?

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to your code point: yes! because its a DSL, (that compiles to c), i made it so that any function (well, I call them modules as they can have state), also can present an imgui style 'draw my ui' function, and another 'draw a passive viz in the left gutter' and that... unlocked everything basically.

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re goal: good q. it is: make music with it! its actually a key thing that driving it. 99% of the tools ive ever made in my life (including lbp, dreams, plinky) i rarely actually use to make the thing. like i dont use them. this has bugged me for years. so this one, i am gonna keep going til i use it

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thanks! one of the routes i went down had blocks of code you could move around a 2d surface, but I found myself spending too long 'managing' the space. I think if i had a projector/multitouch setup it would rock (per your ref), but on trackpad, it sucked and i backtracked.

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all of the above :) and photos. phew, im not going mad. or not the only mad one. :) high five

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hah that would be... cruel? the bottom one is plaster over silver foil, gesso and paint :)

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oh damn i do appear to be making a code-centric daw. still enjoying making it, slow/incremental as that process is. i do find that the more i visualize stuff, the more i like it. really makes me wonder why we didn't historically integate live data viz into more *code* editors.

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big ginkgo and baby ginkgo

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the 'ruin a book by adding one word' thing is hilarious. too many good ones... bsky.app/profile/did:...

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ishi has the aerodynamic properties of a sack of dough- but Z down sounds about right :)

do any other households have to post 'cat updates' to temporarily absent family members, or are we just irredeemably down some kind of pet obsession rabbit hole

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

ishi got his matrix math wrong and now the cat wheel doesn't seem to work

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'all of the above can be true'

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

hm, maybe. intermingled for sure :) climate emergency has been happening and documented (exxon docs etc) for 50+ years in some sense; but maybe you're saying empathy sucked 50 years ago. maybe, but it feels less now (to me) than 20 years ago. idk, nitpicking. 'it all sucks' :(

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mmalex @mmalex.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

the 2020s are full of grief eh. from genocide to climate emergency to entire professions imploding / at best transforming; and on and on! yet were also in the least empathetic culture i can remember. 'you so cooked bro'. sure, yes, we probably are, can you just, not be such a dick about it?

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Anthony Martin @lightinganthony.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Blender 5.3 sort of kind of supports gaussian splats. Not perfect, but the best implementation so far. I made this as a test. Warning: I might make more

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hold the thought, sure itll come to fruition one day :)

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thats what we did with ragdollkungfu on steam! for midgame join too. not using any malloc is a magical superpower :) just marked first and last global variable with linker trick, memcpy zip and send over network/save. dynamic memory was a mistake :) (not kidding). also see many ps1 era games :)

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very cool! fits the chip energy :)

Forth (programming language) - Wikipedia

forth is an old and bonkers language, one layer up from assembly :) mr lottes has a crazy x64 assembly environment thnig that is... ultra minimal. but it has some clever restrictons that make tooling around it potentially quite fun. he doesnt need live reload tho. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(...

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moar sliders! (with leds). inspired by okyeron's <redacted secret>, cross bred in my brain with @tomwhitwell.bsky.social's 8mu, I wanted it, and suddenly it was in kicad and whats a boy to do.

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its kinda mesmerising! it started from 'oh i cant find my transparentish filament' and escalated to 'well whats better than transparent? holes. thats what' and at no point have i stopped to consider my life choices but hey its friday

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(one of the bits bottom right went all stringy, im gonna blame some grot on my print bed. uhu)

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status: printed. deep into the ? phase now, which apparently entails 'waiting for the pcbs to arrive from jlc'

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everyone over here is tired today

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