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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Recently scored Catherine Wheel's Chrome on vinyl, and it's the most solid throughline between my 90s sensibilities and my modem metal stuff. Yet also a throughline to the goth and 80s things I sometimes listen to. Almost a skeleton key.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

SIGGRAPH-posting: Joining for the Slang BOF (or any of the other Khronos BOFs) today? We're in the JW Marriott, but have been moved from where the SIGGRAPH program lists us: enter via the lobby and keep right, follow the breadcrumb trail of signs up to the Diamond ballrooms! Slang's up at 1:30pm!

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

As someone of a certain age, it feels really weird to be preparing for a trip to LA and looking forward to the dramatically better air quality there versus home, at the moment. See y'all at SIGGRAPH imminently! Slang will be... a LOT of places: shader-slang.org/landing/sigg...

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Slang at SIGGRAPH 2026

Meet the Slang community at SIGGRAPH 2026 in Los Angeles.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've grown accustomed to dystopian shit from Gibson novels showing up in real life, but I think this is the first time something dystopian from my OWN (unpublished, melodramatic teenaged) writing has come to pass.

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Jordan DeVries 🔜 NYCC @jordandevries.com · 30/06/2026

a widely-known meme comic of a dog wanting a ball to be thrown without giving it up, but it's edited to read: "hit videogame? no studios! only hit video game"

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Do you like shaders? Do you hate shaders? Do you use shaders frequently? Khronos wants your tasty shader feedback. www.surveymonkey.com/r/LKWFQ3M

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2026 Shader Ecosystem Survey

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Software engineers and adjacent (anyone who does management roles closely attached to the actual software output), how much of your careers have you worked on products you chose, vs were assigned?

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don't think bsky gives enough characters, so a selection of the most interesting: empanada, agility, figure 8, Deadpool, octopus, yeti, harness, taco. (Several of those are the names of his toys, which he does distinguish between.) Total words he knows, at a guess... 100?

A red merle Australian Shepherd is curled up against a purple and gold checked pillow, on a slate blue sofa, looking especially cozy and soft. He is looking at the camera with a calm expression. It won't last.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Sockenpaarzwiespaltsfreude: the satisfaction of finding the mate to one of your odd sock pile immediately followed by the despair of adding two more odd socks to the pile as you finish putting laundry away.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

For no reason I am remembering the time I was on a business trip with a colleague I didn't really mesh with, to the LA area. Every dinner was some chain like Applebee's, and one dinner he said the sentence "I don't really like music" and I don't think we spoke to each other the rest of the trip.

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Twitter thread from Thomas Dietterich, reading "Attention
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If generative AI tools generate inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content, and that output is included in scientific works, it is the responsibility of the author(s). 2/
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We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/
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The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/
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Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I'm cheating, because this isn't past, but my alter ego is a ~* musician *~. (Actually maybe it's my primary ego? I was raised by musicians, so maybe this whole tech thing is my alter ego...)

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

You'd think that you wouldn't be able to tell when people deeply immersed in idiomatic corp-speak start using LLMs to produce their idiomatic corp-speak emails, because it's all leaning on the same very anodyne, soulless vocabulary. You would be wrong.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Conference season has been a blur, but one of the things I'm most excited about is the work @enduringgames.bsky.social showed at GDC -- Slang compiling for consoles! youtu.be/dfRownfn6NY?...

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Slang Shading Language Demo & Single-Source Graphics Pipeline Explained

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Me: Wow, I feel really drained, like at a personal nadir The universe: LOL. Like, LMFAO. Me: ...oh.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It is March 2026. I'm in the Bay Area for work, under heat advisory, while @meggsomatic.tv is holding down the homestead under tornado watch and area power outages as it transitions from 70F to snow. Boo.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Oh hey, I've been remiss in communicating my schedule on here: I'll be at FOSDEM (not presenting, but definitely showing up for the AI Plumbers room!), then Vulkanised, then GDC+GTC. If you want to catch me for a 1:1 Q, the next two months are a good chance!

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

I've received a 2025 LinkedIn "Wrapped" style summary, and I think it's safe to say that "Wrapped" style summaries have jumped the shark.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Did not do my annual Thanksgiving spreadsheet, because I was "just doing something quick and easy" since it was just the two of us. Took three hours instead of the forecast 1.5, sustained cuts and burns. Never again will I forsake the Spirit of Thanksgiving TPMs.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 27/11/2025

the only time i ever gave back to my community (cinephile dorks whose parents claim they can't see it but we suspect are messing with us a little)

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Hey Graphics Bluesky! I'm in Breda to give a talk on Slang-- I'm up Wednesday at 16:00. This one will cover Slang's features for making large shader codebases a breeze to work with, and avoiding #ifdef hell. Check it out, or catch me at the conference if you have Slang Qs!

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

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Daniel Dreher @deescacha.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Great blog post! On a related note: If you attend GPC in Breda next week, I highly recommend our talk "Neural Shading for Real-Time Graphics" (www.graphicsprogrammingconference.nl/2025/#neural...)

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Graphics Programming Conference

The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I'm giving a talk on Slang's autodiff in just a couple minutes! (8am Pacific) -- Join us using the registration links here: shader-slang.org/event/2025/1...

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Getting Started with Slang: Automatic Differentiation

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Coming up tomorrow: I'm giving a talk/walkthrough of autodiff in Slang! These virtual meetup sessions include time for Q&A, so bring your questions! We'll kick off at 8am Pacific/11am Eastern/5pm CEST.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

My cat's main means of interaction with the world is "teeth".

Snippet of a Slack message reading "to push the. re view ETA back for those for a. few days
Apologies for all the spaces, the cat is currently trying to eat my spacebar."

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The next Slang Virtual Meetup is coming up on October 21 -- and I'll be covering everything you need to know to use automatic differentiation! Details and registration here: shader-slang.org/event/2025/1...

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Getting Started with Slang: Automatic Differentiation

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Recordings for all of the Slang-related sessions at this year's SIGGRAPH are now publicly available on YouTube! Check out the Slang blog for links to recordings and session materials here: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/10...

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SIGGRAPH 2025 Materials Now Available: Recordings and Resources from Our Events

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Slang Shading Language and Compiler @shader-slang.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Join us this morning for the next Getting Started with Slang webinar. Today, we will be focusing on Modularization. Register and join us!

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Want to organize your shader code better *and* achieve faster compile times? Check out the upcoming Slang virtual meetup session on modularization, Tuesday Sept 9, hosted by Yong He! shader-slang.org/event/2025/0...

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Getting Started with Slang: Modularization

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

It's almost time for the Slang BoF at #SIGGRAPH2025 ! Join us at 2:30pm PDT today in the Fairmont Waterfront, Waterfront Ballroom.

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The Khronos Group @khronos.org · 13/08/2025

Today, we are having our Birds of a Feather sessions at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel starting at 9:00. Come to hear updates from 3D Commerce, ANARI, glTF, Machine Learning Council, OpenXR, Slang, Vulkan and WebGL! Get the full schedule on our website: www.khronos.org/events/siggr... #SIGGRAPH2025

Join us at the Khronos Group BOF Day at the Fairmont Waterfront Hotel

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

It's almost time for the @khronos.org Fast Forward! I'll be giving a tiny preview of what's on deck for the Wednesday @shader-slang.bsky.social BoF. East Building, room 15, starting at 10am. s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation...

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Presentation - SIGGRAPH 2025 Conference Schedule

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

The Introduction to Slang lab at #SIGGRAPH2025 is standing room only-- but if you're not able to get in, you can still take a look at the materials, including our interactive examples, linked from our SIGGRAPH landing page: shader-slang.org/landing/sigg...

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Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I'm headed to SIGGRAPH later today! A quick summary of where you can find Slang, and what's in our latest release, here on the Slang devblog: shader-slang.org/blog/2025/08...

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Slang at SIGGRAPH 2025

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Tired: AI is untrustworthy because it can't figure out how many B's are in "blueberry" Wired: AI is untrustworthy because it does not appreciate my darkly whimsical sartorial sense.

A Google Gemini prompt and response reading:

User: I am attending SIGGRAPH next week for professional reasons. I will be packing a button-down sleeveless shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. Should I wear this shirt:

A. When assisting with a computer lab
B. When presenting at a Fast Forward session
C. When leading a Birds of a Feather session
D. When meeting with professional associates
E. All of the above

Gemini: None of the above. You should not wear a shirt printed with Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights at SIGGRAPH, regardless of the setting.

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

SIGGRAPH is almost here, and there's going to be a Heckin Lot o' Slang there. We'll put up a full post on the devblog with more info, but if you're already building your schedule, here's some stuff to earmark! (1/6)

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Been a little while since the last one, but I'm back with installment number three in my neural graphics intro series. This one covers using wave intrinsics to get a speed boost-- a traditional compute technique that's just as useful in the neutral graphics space. shader-slang.org/blog/2025/07...

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Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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Neural Graphics: Speeding It Up with Wave Intrinsics

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Brandon Jones @toji.dev · 16/07/2025

Mozilla put out a blog post about shipping WebGPU in Firefox 141. And with Safari '26 shipping it later this fall, the API will be available ~everywhere! Great to see WebGPU support reaching more people! mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/s...

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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Me: Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational monitor setup! @meggsomatic.tv : ...did you put your 43 inch monitor in *portrait mode*? Me: 🤗

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Shannon Woods 🦡🖥️👾 @shannonin3d.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This session is TOMORROW! Please join us for a "getting started" session on the Slang reflection API! Registration info at this link.

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