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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 19/08/2026

Saw this the other day! It’s really great!

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 02/07/2026

I’ve never understood this. I’m someone that listens to properly weird music and whenever ANYONE says that one of these artists sounds good I’m just massively happy because it means I might be able to listen to music I like in public!

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 23/05/2026

100%. The thing I don’t get is: we know exactly the basis upon which llms work. If we believe this to be intelligence, that has terrifying implications for intelligence and philosophy of mind in general. Yet no one seems to talk about that at all… I wonder why…

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 21/05/2026

Yeah! They’re awesome IRL. Video doesn’t really capture it…

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 21/05/2026

Having an awesome time with holo displays!

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 21/02/2026

Ahh! All I can see is that after line 10 everything is going to be a space out of alignment and now my brain itches…

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 04/02/2026

Working on the guts of the Visibyl particle system! Here's a demo of the most recent change: modulate _any_ of the system parameters with either an audio signal or an LFO-style modulator... Music: EASE UP by the amazing EPROM youtu.be/isF8WrKfwS4

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Particle System Audioviz Test

YouTube video by Abandon Window

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 31/01/2026

Now *that* is a fun idea for a shader!

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 15/01/2026

I use this pattern at runtime to update module state in a hot path for my particle system and have not had any performance issues!

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 04/12/2025

I have literally no idea where that weird link came from! Sorry!

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 04/12/2025

I think this is a totally valid point. The trouble specifically with ARC Raiders, though, is that if there was a choice between pvp and pve modes the demographic of pvp would be altered. I think to the point where, for many players, the value of the game would likely actually change.

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 29/11/2025

They are starting to appear on the market so I guess it’s only a matter of time (nuphy.com/collections/...). I have an HE keeb and played around in qmk trying to make a midi mpe controller with it. You’re right though, very different to a standard synth or drum pad but interesting nonetheless!

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NuPhy Air75 HE

The world's first 75% layout low-profile magnetic switch gaming keyboard. With true 8000Hz polling, 0.125ms latency, 0.01mm RT sensitivity, and the low-profile Magnetic Jade switches, Air75 HE will re...

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 29/11/2025

Have you considered hall effect/tmr keys on the keyboard? Those can be set up for velocity sensitivity and double as regular keys!

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 25/11/2025

Love that game! Had it on the ST and seem to remember that it was on 4 disks that you had to constantly swap 🤣

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 23/11/2025

Been a while since I posted but I got custom volumetric shadows working with our particle system today and I'm pretty pleased with the results (posting the YouTube version because particles and Bluesky compression aren't friends...): www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgCW...

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Volumetric Shadows for the Particle System

YouTube video by Abandon Window

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…you’re gonna have a really hard time keeping that cool. Most radiators in space try really hard to avoid collecting energy. I’m not saying it isn’t possible to cool something in a vacuum, just that it’s not trivial!

True, objects will radiate heat without the need for conduction or convection. The trouble is that heat dissipation through what is essentially black body radiation is massively inefficient compared to conduction through another material. If you have a body continually producing heat…

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If you see this post a vampire who isn’t Dracula

Dichen Lachman as Rei in Altered Carbon after being revived.

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The problem is that this heat literally has nowhere to radiate to though. Heat transfer in vacuum is a really hard problem to solve. A satellite generates very little heat, so you can vent it as gas/liquid as it condenses. A datacentre on the other hand…

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 25/10/2025

I mean, yeah, he’s crazy. But the thing I really don’t understand is the “datacenters on the moon” bit. I mean, the whole problem with these is cooling… how do you do that in zero atmosphere??

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Jasper Stocker @jasperstocker.com · 17/10/2025

If you've not had a chance to sign this yet, please do

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 06/09/2025

Haha, ain’t no amount of money that would be worth me selling 19 years worth of games! 😆

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 06/09/2025

lol @steampowered.com for asking me to prove I’m over 18 **when my literal account is** 🤦

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 02/09/2025

“I want this transparent thing to appear in front of this transparent thing” is my personal favourite…

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 16/08/2025

Haha, I’m British so also don’t know! We just call it coriander here…

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 16/08/2025

So, what, Americans call the leaves cilantro and the seeds of the same plant coriander?? That’s wild! 😄

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 16/08/2025

Out of interest, what do you call the seeds? Are they cilantro seeds too? Or do they get to be coriander?

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 08/07/2025

Someone has been making my day on my morning dog walks lately! Thanks mystery person!

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A photo of a two tree trunks. Someone has added a pair of googly eyes above the hollow to make it look like a face

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 01/07/2025

I use Nobara for both gaming and dev. Definitely my favourite distro so far!

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 29/06/2025

I’ve used Magicavoxel in the past and found it to be great. There are .vox importers for Unity (and Godot I think) that let you pull out the raw indices as an array. The .vox format is also pretty open: here’s a vox reader for c# that should do what you need: github.com/sandrofigo/V...

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GitHub - sandrofigo/VoxReader: A C# library to read .vox files created with MagicaVoxel

A C# library to read .vox files created with MagicaVoxel - sandrofigo/VoxReader

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 15/05/2025

Copilot to help relieve RSI caused by typing the code you’re writing. I personally run a distilled llm on my local machine and compared to standard autocomplete it’s incomparable. I definitely don’t have an llm “code for me” and the vast majority of devs that use things like copilot don’t either!

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 15/05/2025

No. I’m saying that copilot is used by a large number of developers in the industry, as a tool that essentially works to autocomplete *your* code as you write it. I’m also saying that there is a big difference between having an llm generate code for you (a la Cursor) and using…

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 15/05/2025

Copilot or other fancy autocomplete is pretty much standard practise now. Having copilot suggest the third line in a series of boilerplate code lines is vastly different from vibe coding with cursor for example. But hey, each to their own.

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Trezy @trezy.codes · 21/04/2025

Hey #GameDev, do me a favor and boost this skeet from @bmann.ca! It'd be great to get the games industry involved in this early verification process. 🥰

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 27/04/2025

Making friends in Holyrood park this morning.

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 26/04/2025

When you reelize he just wrote the word “afforbable”.

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 22/04/2025

I think I know where you are with these. Trying to think of a clue without giving too much away… hmm was yellow always there before?

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 20/04/2025

This forced me to go look that up and… well! Who’d a thunk it! TIL

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 18/04/2025

If you happen to have a decent real camera. Then I highly recommend this doing this:

A photo of a canon eos m10 being used as a webcam

AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 07/04/2025

I am so unreasonably excited for the 10th

His Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 31/03/2025

What’s a game that is universally loved that just didn’t click with you? Spelunky 2. On paper, it's my perfect game. I've over 600 hours in Noita and I LOVE roguelikes. I just couldn't get into it - really tried, too. Over the years I put in, like, 30-50 hours but it just never clicked for me.

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AbandonWindow @patricknasralla.com · 29/03/2025

Oh, God. Should… should somebody tell them?

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