Today's #ThreeJS PR - Specular Reflection Probes - For fast specular reflections on low end devices. Per pixel, box-projected, and build on WebGPU's cube-array textures. https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/pull/35046
Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 458 - October 11th, 2026 https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-458/
Picked up a multimeter today to help diagnose my kid's broken scooter. Did not anticipate that I would have to go scouring the internet to find instructions on how to *install the batteries*. Am I crazy for feeling like this is kinda insane, especially given that there's no instructions in the package?
I did LOL pretty hard at a character admitting that The Pact was AI written with some light editing.
Finished all the episodes of Silo so far. Been a while since I read the books, but I can tell it's a pretty loose adaptation that reeaalllyyy stretches things out. Still, it's enjoyable to see the world of the books brought to life!
(Juliette's amnesia was stupid, though.)
Maybe I'm the weird one. When I write a PoC the entire screen turns red with a flashing message saying "THE BUG HAPPENED" when the bug happened, and the entire screen turns blue and plays Final Fantasy battle victory music when the bug is fixed. 🤷
AI-filed bug: If the error is present then the PoC program will output "cycle=0x8B01, phase=false" to the console in the middle of 500 lines of gibberish.
Dev: And if the bug is fixed?
Bug report: It will lock up your machine, looping endlessly to provoke the error.
Dev: Awesome, thanks for that.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jaffathecake/117444808515680090
Fantastic comparison by Jake on JPEG XL vs. AVIF with many interactive examples!
I've seen multiple posts recently that jump scared me because at a glance "LLVM" and "LLM" are easy to confuse.
11 years (!!!) after I could run the last experimental WebVR Chromium build for the DK2 on Linux, we are getting official #WebXR support in Chromium on Linux again! Not yet in stable but the latest snapshot 158.0.8104.0 has it.
It requires a command line switch for which there is apparently no UI setting:
chromium-snapshot-bin --enable-features=OpenXR
But it works, here with #monado.
Beat "Well Dweller". It's a nice little Metroidvania that leans into creepy fairytale vibes. Short, took me a little over 9hrs, but that made it perfect for the pair of cross-country flights I took this week.
Worth calling out the unique movement mechanics. For example: There's no double jump. Instead you get an ability early on that turns your weapon into a springboard when you stick it in the wall. It makes navigating the levels a bit more puzzle-y.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3699590/Well_Dweller/
2026 California ballot measures are like:
1) Tax billionaires?
2) Ban ballot measures that tax billionaires? But maybe also you poors, I guess.
3) You sure that a tax on Californians with, um, *generous* incomes, is what you want?
4) Can we at least make it harder to tax billionaires in the future?
The agenda for the Nov 5th WebGPU Paris Meetup is live!
We'll have many exciting talks covering rendering, AI, native WebGPU on mobile devices and more. I'll also give updates on the spec and browser highlights.
Check out the detailed schedule and register here! https://rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/webgpu-meetup
Aaaand we'll disable WGSL @depth for now because we found an unexpected issue when using it with @builtin(position) when targeting HLSL.
Check out what's new in WebGPU for Chrome 155-156, with a special guest appearance by my blog!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tojiro/117394365119385598
Brandon made the first ever use of bindless in WebGPU!
Making things look simple takes a lot of effort: I've been iteraating on the design for 1.5 years at this point and so it's really cool to see it running for real in the browser (and not just Dawn unittests).
The API isn't final yet but should keep the same general shape and add support for additional bindless types and more control over memory barriers.
My new WebGPU demo, https://emojigraffiti.com, uses bindless texture sampling (when available) to let you decorate the walls with emoji "tags".
Wrote a blog post about using WebGPU's upcoming bindless texture sampling feature, with an accompanying demo!
I always wanted to write a computer graphics book--one that explained graphics techniques for people like me that don't have strong academic backgrounds but want to know how it all works. After poking away at it for a long time, I'm pretty happy with how it came out. Instead of a printed book, I wanted to make it interactive. I learned a lot from writing it, I hope it's helpful for others, too.
Is there any way to read this ad that ISN'T ominously dystopian? Right down to the company name... 🪳
