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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 25/09/2026

Proof of concept Spine support. Dabbled a bit animating 2D in-tool, which would work but goes quickly out of hand as well...

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 18/09/2026

Interactive gizmos landing in my demo tool 🎉 Below you can see the handling for an overlay operator with move, scale, rotate and pivot. Drags go through the same port-edit path as manual entry and so undo and keyframing come for free.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 08/09/2026

Weeks of work later, I can now make colorful cubes in new and unexpected ways! Unity calls this "Prefabs" and I’ve become much more appreciative of how much stuff has to go right before any of it works.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 30/08/2026

Got the Burnside engine running in headless mode which got me thinking about doing some basic golden patch render tests on CI. A weekend later, each build now produces this new tab. It's my first time ever doing something like this but my feeling is that it'll pay off in the long run.

Shows a custom 'Golden Renders' tab that's produced by rendering a patch from a sub module and comparing it to a pre-stored expected image.

The patch renderings are produced with each commit and should only cover my bases. A separate nightly build will then test each operator in a more comprehensive fashion.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 13/08/2026

About time I got some funny dance moves into my engine...

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 12/08/2026

www.youtube.com/@standupmaths just shared this gem and you know what? That doesn't look absurd to me at all.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 02/08/2026

Added multi-viewport integration to Burnside. Dear ImGui's implementation of this feature will never not amaze me. Just look at it!

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 29/07/2026

The patch. Admittedly somewhat obtuse unless one's familiar with the individual ops.

A Bns patch that creates the effect from above.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 29/07/2026

Playing around a bit with SDF text, simplex noise, feedback rendering. Only OldEngl.ttf makes it possible! 😊 #Burnside

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 26/07/2026

For now I've scoped the old behavior to the main loop. I'm wrapping ImGui's Push/Pop calls into C# IDisposables which makes state changes safe one liners. Regarding the tool: it's an as of yet unreleased tool for PC demoscene productions called Burnside. Big demo still todo :D

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 25/07/2026

Sure, in the context of my application it's probably in the interest of the user to have live input values reflected instantly. I realize that there will be many use cases where it's absolutely the other way around.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 13/06/2026

Built a thing that does a thing

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/06/2026

I also tested timelines animation which worked out pretty well. The UI is a copy of proven patterns including Cables.gl and Premiere. Too late I realized I could loop the demo perfectly with the tune, but fixed it by moving all keyframes forward in dope sheet view.

A screenshot of the timeline UI in Burnside.

Each track can be expanded to allow inline editing of keyframe values, otherwise the dopesheet view is made for rearranging keyframes over time.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/06/2026

Anecdote: At one point I had 3 shaders rendering at once. I needed an op that manages transitions, only triggers needed subtrees and forwards transition data. Codex wrote it, wired it up, took screenshots and told me: good to go!

Close up of the scene render router.
The red circles say: this port is keyframe animated.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/06/2026

I was also curious how well LLMs can help arrange operators in a patch. The system is designed to be as self-descriptive as possible: LLMs can find all ops, inspect and edit the patch, and take screenshots over time.

This is it: the patch for the thing I've been building.
Since I don't know what I'm doing I'm sure any pro would have strong opinions on it. The patch does not use subpatches as integration of subpatch extraction and keyframe data is still an open area.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/06/2026

The demo tune is a MOD file called 6581-mycopcar by Jazz^Hjb. Since the player is written in C#, the main challenge was getting it to work on the web, desktop and inside the engine. Luckily, the WASM tools allow native references that are handed over to clang during WASMification.

Really just an "atmospheric" screenshot showing the .props file I used to wire up LibXmp-Lite.

The only thing that's cool about it: it's all done in the project, the demotool has no built-in mod support, only an audio service that accepts floats!

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/06/2026

Took Burnside for a test drive and made a tiny birthday demo to see how it's going. I think pretty good! An English anonymized version is available at paralax.at/vibe-demo1/ Random demo tool musings below 👇

A screenshot from my tiny birthday demo showing a kaleidoscope-style effect and some scroll text.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 27/05/2026

I basically just slow-wished a plasma effect into existence. #burnside Web site export: paralax.at/gpt5mini_pla...

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 25/05/2026

Last few days in a nutshell: 1. Integrate @mariozechner.at's Pi coding agent into my demo tool 2. ??? 3. Profit! Maybe.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 19/05/2026

An early version of my dopesheet + curve editor. Still missing are proper Bézier keyframes, tangent handles, and a fair amount of stability work - but it’s slowly starting to feel like a real animation tool instead of a collection of UI experiments held together by stubbornness.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 12/05/2026

This one was burning under my fingernails for a while now #burnside

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 10/05/2026

In-development dope sheet editor for Burnside. Still lots of work ahead but I'm reasonably content with where we are right now.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 04/05/2026

No idea if this is a niche feature or not but I've just added it into Burnside anyhow ;)

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 02/05/2026

Dear ImGui running inside a C# node graph, in the browser. Authored with Burnside, published to WASM via Emscripten + Clang. I'm amazed myself that this works and I just wrote it. paralax.at/imgui/ Image: In-tool node graph

Image of the node graph that was used to set up https://paralax.at/imgui/
(Obviously, one may prefer using sub patches to make this more readable.)

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 26/04/2026

Got a bit carried away and now my node graph got not only C# scripted, hot reloadable operators but also "ghost links"!

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 17/04/2026

Perks of an immediate mode UI - no explicit state management, the widget just builds up from the data we have. Never had this solved so easily with other designs:

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 15/04/2026

I've borrowed the trigger-based execution semantics from Cables.gl - it's such a cool project and my appreciation for it has grown since I've studied their code. My UI still needs a lot more work but then again, most of this new approach has been done in a fit of possession in the last two weeks ;)

Here's a screenshot that shows a node graph, an inspector with some properties and a tool render result. Not shown: two publishers I've prepared to make standalone executables or a website out of it.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 12/04/2026

That's as good a reason as I can think of for opening a bottle on a Sunday evening🍷🇭🇺

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 09/04/2026

I’ve been wondering how long it would take people to start citing 'They Live'. Cute idea, I'm all for it. badtastegoodcause.com/they-live

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 25/02/2026

Back from Das Ich who gave one of their best concerts in memory. The band had fun as well, so much was clear.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 07/02/2026

Disney released a Muppet show special that's trying to replicate the tone of the original show from the 70ies and... they actually succeed? No reboot, simply doing more of it while keeping it light hearted and silly. Really hope this test balloon gets encouraging feedback!

Promo image from The Muppet Show (2026)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt37969426/

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 28/01/2026

It's good though! Try it sometime

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 27/01/2026

From e-waste to MIPS Linux!

A neofetch billboard for an old NetGear router still running on MIPS (end of line) with pretty nice 128mb of RAM.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 25/01/2026

Bononi also did the voice acting for the famous 2D animated show La Linea - his grammelot performance gave a lot of joy to lots of children and adults.

A blue background with a white line that shows the guy from La Linea pointing at an interruption in the line drawing. A classic scene.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 22/01/2026

Macron should keep the shades in his repertoire. It's nearly impossible to score more Internet points than that:

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 11/01/2026

A *follow up* video to the random video I just found in my temp folder

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 11/01/2026

Random video I just found in my temp folder

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 23/12/2025

Same warning as every year:

A red black image with text in old German letters: "Caution! It's Jesus' birthday again!"
The image shows half a head of someone wearing a santa hat with hot glowing eyes. The other half is only red black rays that could also signal an atomic emergency or some such.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 17/12/2025

Vienna, Obelix tower - nomen est omen

A photograph of a building called Obelix tower with distinct blue-white stripes.

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 07/12/2025

To be fair, there were hints before...

Musk doing what looks like a Nazi salute, but can we be *really* sure?

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 05/12/2025

Not gonna lie: this year's presents are all cheaply pimped by AI (And ofc. the receiver is not here on Blue Sky)

A longish box with a super long picture of a dachshund glued on top for comedic effect

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 21/11/2025

Could not imagine that one by around 2000...

German advert by Microsoft from 2000

It shows penguins with swapped out body parts from other animals (a zebra, a frog with horns, a pig with an elephant trunk) and some extra text below:
“An open operating system does not only have benefits.”

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Paralax^Speckdrumm @paralax.at · 28/09/2025

Gave my Slack bot the ability to pin emojis to other messages. It also can search on the web and a myriad of other tiny things all while having a somewhat opinionated oldskool coder personality. It's fun! I'm still betting on an emergent trajectory. Each feature adds to the whole more than itself.