iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 29/04/2026

Graphics / Games students: Sign up to volunteer at @i3dsymposium.org! We're looking for student volunteers for the duration of the conference. Priority will be given to students local to the bay area. DM me or email general@i3dsymposium.org .

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

man claude can really go down some rabbit-holes trying to "verify" weird UE C++ idioms that would have been trivial for me to just test (in this case templated Cast<> functions where the types are all predecl'd and finding the actual headers/etc is quite hard). goodbye ~10% of session tokens...

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

It's looking good for SCA 2026 ! If all the abstracts submitted are converted into full submissions it will be the most submissions to SCA in the last 10 years !!!! Final submission deadline: April 17th sca.graphics

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Apr 2: The deadline for awards nominations has been extended to April 17th.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

For those submitting to SCA (sca.graphics) — the submission system (SRM) is back up after an outage yesterday. Remember abstract deadline is tomorrrow :) Submit here: srmv2.eg.org/COMFy/Confer...

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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A programming lesson that's been hammered into my skull is to not try to create a general system until you've implemented AT LEAST a handful of one-offs the system is supposed to support. Otherwise you waste endless time fighting with and refactoring your "general" system.

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you design a system and 50% of its users are using it wrong, that is not user error. You cannot blame users for that, you built a terrible system.

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Wouldn’t be surprised if every GenAI video service is hemorrhaging money (and Gen3D too). Despite all the noise, the market is just inherently small, and the content is not good enough.

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

the scale in the javascript ecosystem is mind-boggling... @zeux.io 's meshoptimizer.js npm package has 3 million weekly downloads. **weekly** (for comparison my C# geo library - which is relatively widely used, for a geo library - has total 1m nuget downloads over the past ~10 years...)

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

not sure I love it that steam has decided I am into "Inventory Management" games

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

My iPhone just autocorrected “you” to “noncombatant”…seems weird

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

assuming this applies to AI-generated code (no obvious reason it shouldn't), you can't even put an MIT license on it.

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

the robots ported my ModelGrid C++ library to Typescript today, and made a basic little in-browser editor. Thought this tech was going to be dead (it's trapped in an Unreal plugin) but now maybe not... (clearly some face-normal issues, though...)

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The Symposium on Computer Animation is Coming! BARCELONA, SPAIN. JULY 8 - 10, 2026! Papers Abstract Deadline: April 10, 2026 Poster Deadline: June 1, 2026 Website: sca.graphics Call for papers : computeranimation.org/instructions... Barcelona > LA (Come on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada...)

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The 25th annual Symposium on Computer Animation (SCA) will take place in Barcelona, Spain, from July 8 to July 10, 2026.

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

wrote a post about developing geometry libraries in this new reality where a robot can generate working code for damn near anything. www.rms80.com/blog/2026-03...

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Geometry Coding in the Time of Robots | rms80

Proprietary geometry libraries are cooked, and Open Source has a new purpose

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I refuse to do any amount of fact checking on this, I am taking it at face value

Twitter post:
“Autistic Arab @autisticarab
Duke Nukem fans, I bring grave news about his origin. In Duke Nukem Forever, you can see a photo of Duke when he was in the military. In it, he's not holding an M4. He is holding a C8A1. That's right, Duke isn't American. Its terrifying.
He is Canadian.”
Response
“BeBBeroni Bizza @BebberoniB
Can't even be explained as an american with a C8 either, that's the CAF tac vest in cadpat arid”

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

hearing AI company CEOs excitedly telling you how "we can now all finally become managers" without blinking makes me want to pack my bags and move to the moon

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

added Claude Coding Robots to this infinite-canvas app I've been noodling with, because I really don't love a CLI. Being able to be lazy w/ the prompts and use screenshots as context is pretty nice. Full vid on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-r...

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Claude Code put Claude Code into my web app so now I can live-edit the running development version without having to go over to a terminal.

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

didn't have a lot of spare time yesterday, so I only added PDF and textfile support to my gsworkspace app, and a CSV-as-Table view. Of course by "I added" I mean I Described and Claude Coded. youtu.be/RroSqDfZi2c?... gsworkspace.com

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gsworkspace AI Canvas - New Features (Feb 12)

YouTube video by gradientspace

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

roblox is hiring an entry-level geometry engineer in Vancouver, if that sounds like your kinda thing: careers.roblox.com/jobs/7558821...

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[2026 Canada] Software Engineer, Geometry - Early Career | Roblox

[2026 Canada] Software Engineer, Geometry - Early Career

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

made a vid about this app that the robots have been coding for me. It's on Github if you wanna try it. youtu.be/gJo4UDf73mk?... They made a website for it, too: www.gsworkspace.com

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gsworkspace: Building an AI Canvas with Claude Code

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

this website (blueprintue.com) is basically github gist but for unreal engine blueprints (a visual scripting language). Not run by a megacorp, so not able to implement a complex age-verification system. These laws are unbelievably stupid, and coming soon to a country near you...

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

You get this attitude a lot from UX/Product people and it's always mystified me. The premise is that all Engineers are lazy? They don't care about the product? Their job is to just shut up and do what they are told? But now we have robot coding... (1/3)

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

a significant challenge in claude-coding is just figuring out good ways to describe things in words. Abstract high-level concepts, very precisely identifying (eg) UI elements, explaining observed behaviors, giving things good unique names, etc. Perhaps time to bring back Technical Writing classes

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

used claude code SDK to make my app able to modify itself...

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Claude Code and I have built a client/server webapp. I ask it, could this be run locally and feel like it's a desktop app? Yes, it says it can launch Chrome in "App Mode" and run the servers in some hidden-but-attached console thing (??). Works. Now, can it be "installed" in ProgramFiles/etc? ...

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

soooo what’s the next IRC-in-browser we can all switch over to?

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

hmm not sure about this direction I seem to be moving...

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

zomg had no idea this existed why isn’t it the default

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

in-browser nondestructive video editing and video/gif conversion. Part of a freeform image & video editing webapp that claude code is implementing for me. Can store files locally or hooked up to S3. ~3 weeks of occasional prompting, ~300 commits...browser-only demo at gsworkspace.com/demo/

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I can’t believe Apple ships this, it looks like placeholder UI. This is what you have to click through to save a cropped screenshot on iOS. If you don’t do this, it silently discards the image!!

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

migrated my personal website off Squarespace w/ assistance from the coding robot. Compared to writing a web app it was not so great at this, but (a) I don't know how this site actually functions and (b) I won't ever need to again. Wrote a post about it! www.rms80.com/blog/2026-01...

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a new rms80.com on the WWW | rms80

Ryan and Claude Code make a website

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

"You just need to get Flinge 8.0 and compile a Kumbara script with ~imp.dd on a partitioned IRQ drive" WOULD YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOURSELVES? I want an icon to click and then it's Linux

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

ouch. I remember when Autodesk killed off ArtCAM, a 2.5D design tool that was used by Mints around the world to design coins (among many other things). The suggestion to abandoned users was “try MudBox (?)”

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I do not like that losing focus is referred to as "blur" in javascript. I get it, focus vs blur...it's just too cute

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

stumbled across meshmixer.org ... apparently an independent third-party meshmixer fan site (but you can still download a mac version there, which isn't available from the autodesk site anymore...)

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Meshmixer

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Apparently this is because of the new Google 60-second-walking-simulation AI video generator, that still forgets what was there when you turn around. So…maybe a buy?

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

My PhD student Abhishek Madan is getting ready to graduate and he’s looking for a postdoc or industry position. Checkout his website www.dgp.toronto.edu/~amadan/ He’s been an amazing student , basically does all his research by himself. Fantastic math and implementation acumen.

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Abhishek Madan

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

so weird that claude code can handle dealing with huge amounts of code in a programming project, but asking it to copy text verbatim from one webpage to another is beyond it. Seems like it just can't help itself, it's compelled to copy-edit my writing.

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qntm @qntm.org · 23/01/2026

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

interesting to see claude code struggling at a graphics thing...as a point of comparison, I've been using it (for ~8 hours total) to build an entire web app that generates tutorial/docs pages from images & text placed in an infinite canvas. It has basically worked 100%...blowing my mind a bit tbh!

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Ryan Schmidt @rms80.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Brick is really fantastic if you haven't seen it!!

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David Levin @diwlevin.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

For the first time in a while none of the SIGGRAPH papers I’ll submit have any ML (no neural nets no nothing) in them. Why ? The truth is that for most of my use cases those techniques have yet to show any practical benefit over good ol’ meshes and math.

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Michiel van de Panne @mvandepanne.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Regardless of what you think about AI, this is a thought provoking read.

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Omer Shapira @omershapira.com · 19/01/2026

The coming @i3dsymposium.org will take place this May on the Lucasfilm campus in SF. I will be serving as General Co-Chair. We rely on industry collaborations and sponsorships to keep the quality high. If you’re in a position to make I3D better, email: info@omershapira.com. i3dsymposium.org/2026/

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I3D 2026

ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games

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