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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 17/09/2026

@mmalex.bsky.social Just got my Plinky12! Very excited to finally play with it 😀

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Brice Dutheil @bricedutheil.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In 2023 I "played" with #Swing professionally. I discovered the Filthy Rich Client book by @romainguy.dev and @chethaase.com, examples required NetBeans, dead repos. Back then, I started migrating it to @gradle.com, and modernized the examples to be runnable again. I finalized my quest this summer.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 21/08/2026

Things I enjoyed reading and watching this week. It's all about graphics this time. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/t...

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 14/08/2026

Some more things I enjoyed reading and watching this week. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/t...

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 07/08/2026

Some things I enjoyed reading and watching this week. Maybe you will too. www.romainguy.dev/posts/2026/t...

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 06/08/2026

I really miss apps that would do ridiculous things in their UI, like Disco. If you've never used this ~2007 CD burning app, it would show a real-time smoke simulation coming out of the window when you were in the process of burning a CD. It was interactive too! www.youtube.com/shorts/zklSr...

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Disco.app quite literally ... burns ... CDs and DVDs

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Huyen Tue Dao @queencodemonkey.dev · 03/08/2026

The first official episode of @nicoleackermans.com and my show, @technicaltea.show just dropped on your podcatcher of choice + YouTube. Please enjoy moments like this where we hope to bring you women perspectives, STEM insights, and whatever you want to file "vibranium boobs" under.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 29/07/2026

We recorded a special episode of Android Developers Backstage to celebrate 5 years of Compose! youtu.be/HEqXwUm6vd0?...

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The inside story of Jetpack Compose

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 27/07/2026

Fascinating optimization work done by the R8 and Compose teams to optimize coroutines: android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/07/how-...

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How R8 made Kotlin Coroutines on Android 2x faster

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 21/07/2026

I published vibrance-0.1.0 on Maven, now with support for Compose for Desktop (JVM). The APIs let you mix colors yourself, or draw gradients as modifiers or Compose brushes. Next steps: refine the model training to improve some color transitions, better alpha support. github.com/romainguy/vi...

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sinasamaki @sinasamaki.com · 17/07/2026

In case you missed the phenomenal @mdevcamp.bsky.social conference, here is a link to the talk I gave there. I had such a great time there, and thank all the organizers for making it happen 🙏 🙏 slideslive.com/39082850/ele...

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 12/02/2026

How was one of the most loved programming languages - Kotlin - created, and what is next after it? This is a rare and special conversation with Kotlin creator Andrey Breslav, with so many fascinating details on how Kotlin became the global success as it is today. youtu.be/ZggUn2mNqMU (cont'd)

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 02/07/2026

I just added Brush APIs to Vibrance. You can now use pigments mixing based gradients with any Compose API that accepts a Brush. See README.md for code examples. github.com/romainguy/vi...

Screenshot of an Android application showing 3 examples of the new Brush API. From top to bottom:
- 3 lines of text filled with a horizontal yellow to blue gradient. The gradient goes smoothly through green in the middle.
- The same 3 lines of text, filled with a vertical cyan to magenta gradient.
- A heart shape filled with a vertical gradient from yellow to red.

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Alan Wolfe @demofox.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

What To Learn To Be A Real Time graphics Programmer blog.demofox.org/2026/07/01/w... I wrote this up over lunch and it's surprisingly popular so sharing over here too.

A real time render of spheres using physically based rendering lighting formulas

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Soma @somartist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A dream was always to make a "cloud" tool. Now over the last 1-2 years I tried to build smth on and off. Now I made it work in the browser. WARNING! Depending on the settings it can take a lot of GPU power, so be careful. Only for people who know what they're doing. artbuddy.urlich.ch/cloudbox/

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 16/06/2026

Vibrance now has radial and sweep gradients. github.com/romainguy/vi...

A screenshot of an Android application comparing gradients rendered with paint mixtures vs traditional sRGB gradients. There are 3 pages to showcase, from left to right, linear, radial, and sweep gradients. There are four rows in the first page: the first row shows an orange to red vertical gradient, with the paint mixture version on the left, sRGB on the right; the second and third row show a yellow to blue gradient, with the paint mixture on top, and the sRGB on the bottom; the fourth row shows a white to blue gradient, with the paint mixture on the left, sRGB on the right. The second page shows radial gradient comparisons as three rows. Each row has the paint mixture on the left, sRGB on the right. The gradients are, from top to bottom: yellow (center) to green (outside), magenta (center) to red, and white (center) to blue. The last page shows sweep gradients, with 3 rows (same layout as before). The gradients are from top to bottom: yellow to blue, magenta to yellow, and white to blue.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 15/06/2026

I've been working on a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform to interpolate sRGB colors as mixtures of paints/pigments. It can produce results that are more appealing than the traditional sRGB interpolation that Composes uses (see screenshot). Not quite ready for release yet. github.com/romainguy/vi...

A screenshot of an Android application comparing gradients rendered with paint mixtures vs traditional sRGB gradients. There are four rows: the first row shows an orange to red vertical gradient, with the paint mixture version on the left, sRGB on the right. The second and third rows show a horizontal yellow to blue gradient: the top one is a paint mixture, the bottom one is traditional sRGB. The paint mixture version shows that the gradient becomes green in the middle. The last row compares a white to blue vertical gradient, with a paint mixture on left, and tradition sRGB on the right. The paint mixture version show a blue becoming brighter/lighter, whereas the traditional version becomes purple.

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Red Art Games @redartgames.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Gobliiins Collection is AVAILABLE NOW digitally! 📢 Revealed moments ago during the AG French Direct, we are ecstatic to announce that the legendary puzzle-adventure series is making its console debut TODAY 👇 Play digitally or pre-order your PS5 physical copy bit.ly/m/GobliiinsCollectionRAG

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Jacco Bikker 🎦 @jbikker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Very interesting. Has SIMD support too. And shaders.

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I3D Symposium @i3dsymposium.org · 15/05/2026

Naty Hoffman just wrapped up a career-spanning keynote on lessons learned from game development and beyond. Now underway: a fireside chat with Naty Hoffman and Eric Haines, joined by Omer Shapira - celebrating two remarkable careers in computer graphics. #I3D2026

A fireside chat with Naty Hoffman and Eric Haines, joined by Omer Shapira

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 30/04/2026

This is a great example of why even small optimizations can matter at scale. Modern apps and systems can be affected by this kind of "death by a thousand cuts".

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Xavier Chermain @xavierchermain.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Hello Bluesky! I'm a Computer Graphics researcher at Inria Nancy. I work on physically based rendering & material appearance, and on computational fabrication / additive manufacturing - from glints and anisotropic BRDFs to non-planar FFF toolpaths. xavierchermain.github.io/publications...

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LaurieWired @lauriewired.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Modern DRAM is based on a brilliant design from IBM. But, we're still paying for a latency penalty that's existed since the 60s! In this video, I'm introducing my research project (Tailslayer) that immensely reduces p99.99 latency on traditional RAM!

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 02/04/2026

meshoptimizer 1.1 is out! github.com/zeux/meshopt... Featuring two new major features, meshlet topology compression and opacity micromaps, as well as a few smaller features and improvements! More information in the infographic and release above :) Boosts and repository stars are welcome!

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 01/04/2026

It is sadly true - androidx ktx libraries have been killed today and it is all Jake Wharton's doing. Details here: jakewharton.com/an-update-on... #androidx #androiddev

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An update on Android KTX – Jake Wharton

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 31/03/2026

Interface — Osaka, Japan www.curious-creature.com/posts/2026/i...

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Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

My erosion filter is out! Video, blog post, and shader source. It emulates erosion without simulation, so it's fast, GPU friendly, and trivial to generate in chunks. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4V2... Companion blog post: blog.runevision.com/2026/03/fast... #ProcGen #vfx #GameDev

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Andrei Shikov @shikasd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

In the next version of AGP - R8 makes coroutines 2x faster

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Pablo Zurita @pzurita.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Here is a preview of the results for my next post in the series on micro-shadowing. Hopefully people that value craftsmanship, deliberate art direction, and attention to detail will find it more interesting than the AI slop being pushed.

Screenshot of face with micro-occlusion.

Screenshot of face with generic VNDF-based micro-shadowing.

Screenshot of face with BRDF-based micro-shadowing.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 15/03/2026

Parting — Kyoto, Japan www.curious-creature.com/posts/2026/p...

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Soufiane KHIAT @soufianekhiat.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Qaws (قوس) Arabic for *arc*, *bow*, *curve*. A dependency-free C11 library for creating, evaluating, sampling, traversing, and inspecting parametric curves and surfaces in 2D and 3D. A dependency-free C11 library for parametric curves and surfaces in 2D/3D. 1/13

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Inigo Quilez @iquilezles.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

A little shadertoy of my favorite song+film www.shadertoy.com/view/t3cfWf

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

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Mike Turitzin @miketuritzin.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Highly recommend this video, which is a super deep dive into the techniques used to create a 64kb demoscene-style '90s FPS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qht6...

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How I made a shooter game in 64 KB

YouTube video by daivuk

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Yiğit @yboyar.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Really nice episode on the history of Kotlin and the future of programming languages by Andrey Breslav & @pragmaticengineer.com pca.st/episode/8d6081d6-3419-4e9a-b…

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Fabien Sanglard @fabinou.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate: fabiensanglard.net/quake_asm_op...

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How Michael Abrash doubled Quake framerate

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 08/02/2026

Filament used in Toyota's engine. I'm glad this is now public! www.phoronix.com/news/Fluorit... fluorite.game

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 31/01/2026

Follow the Sign www.curious-creature.com/posts/2026/f...

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 29/01/2026

Me taking a photo: this is a great shot! Me editing my photos: this is shit, it's all shit, I don't deserve a camera. 😅

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 28/01/2026

This is a fantastic update to the tracing library that enables much easier and deeper understanding of your code, with extremely low overhead.

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Rahul Ravikumar @rahulrav.com · 22/01/2026

PSA: Starting Android Gradle Plugin 9.0 (or the latest stable version of R8): R8 will automatically optimize all Intrinsics.check* APIs in Kotlin automatically ! This should greatly help improve app performance (especially Compose given the large Kotlin library API surface).

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 10/01/2026

Grand Canyon Sunset www.curious-creature.com/posts/2026/g...

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 10/01/2026

Alone in Tokyo X www.flickr.com/photos/romai...

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Sebastian Aaltonen @sebaaltonen.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

My "No Graphics API" blog post is live! Please repost :) www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap... I spend 1.5 years doing this. Full rewrite last summer and another partial rewrite last month. As Hemingway said: "First draft of everything is always shit".

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No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen

Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...

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Aurimas Liutikas @liutikas.net · 12/12/2025

Who wakes the knocker uppers?! A post on how to validate that the tool that is meant to download your Gradle distribution is actually built by Gradle and not by a too friendly malicious contributor! www.liutikas.net/2025/12/12/K... #gradle #security

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Knocker-Uppers - PGP Validation of Gradle Wrapper and Distribution

Many moons ago I wrote a post on Gradle Security Considerations that discussed various ways to protect yourself when using Gradle. We now have a new layer to...

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