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

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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 · 24/08/2026

The book came out 20 years ago 😅

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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 · 14/08/2026

This is exactly what we were discussing in the episode of ADB on the anniversary of Jetpack Compose. So much good can come from the journey that leads to shipping a feature.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 11/08/2026

Just saw this post, I'd been thinking of doing the same. How many parameters did you end up with?

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 09/08/2026

Off the top of my head, Vectorman uses this technique. I highly recommend this channel: youtube.com/@whitepointe... It explains tons of effects from various 90s games.

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Retro Game Mechanics Explained

A YouTube channel about video games & programming. For inquiries, please visit inquiries.rgmechex.com.

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 09/08/2026

The Megadrive had a special brightening/darkening mode. See the full explanation: youtu.be/1lHDsXMwBwk

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How TOY STORY displayed IMPOSSIBLE IMAGES on the SEGA Genesis (MegaDrive)

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

R8 unfortunately doesn't always do this as initialization can have side effects.

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

The overhead of companion objects is worse than it seems when you drop down to the arm assembly. When accessing non constants, having to access the insurance means doing an initialization check at each call site.

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

The latency in your video is killing me 😅

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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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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 05/08/2026

The originals use low compression so hopefully a slight downsample will be enough.

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 05/08/2026

My photos at flickr.com/photos/romai..., up to 100Mpixels, are all under public domain. They're JPEG not PNG but that should hopefully help?

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Explore Romain Guy’s 419 photos on Flickr!

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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 · 31/07/2026

I see all the episodes on Pocket Casts, including the latest ones.

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

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 25/07/2026

Every week YT ships an obvious UI bug. It feels like no one launches the app before release 😕

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 24/07/2026

The tl;dr is that it avoids using a ~64 MiB lookup table in RAM (which also means I don't need to ship a large LUT in tbe binary).

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 22/07/2026

I have Perfect Circuit credit to burn, so hoping they stock them eventually :)

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 22/07/2026

Are there plans to make the individual panels available in the US btw?

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 22/07/2026

This is subtractive mixing, not additive. i.e. mixing yellow and blue will give you green.

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

I should also write a blog post on how this library works.

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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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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 20/07/2026

When I had looked at his problem myself, I quickly realized it was like ray tracing and so many other problems: easy to make it work, extremely hard to make it production-ready. A day to get started, a lifetime to make it fast and robust :)

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 17/07/2026

Cet arc m'est complètement tombé des mains 🫤

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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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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 16/07/2026

The shitty screen kind of forced it 😀

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Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 14/07/2026

Gain-map based HDR formats are great for backward compatibility (jpeg with a gain-map in the metadata for instance).

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 12/07/2026

It almost feels cliché though 😅

Romain Guy @romainguy.dev · 11/07/2026

I was thinking about that indeed 😀

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That’s something our industry has a hard time with. It’s ok to call something “done”. It goes for libraries and tools too :)

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Lenses could just be masks for instance, and optics are stage I guess? Either way, cool library!

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

It looks great and extremely useful. I'm however feel like you're introducing a lot of new terms that don't seem necessary (lens, optic, etc.) and can actually be confusing to folks who are already familiar with graphics pipelines.

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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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Nan mais là quand même, c'est le Cervin 😂