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5 Lessons I Learned After 5 Years of Technical Writing

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Domains as "Internet Handles"

A little while ago I cam across a post by Dan Abramov, a name that until then didn’t ring a bell, but who appears to be a former Meta employee and member of the React core team. The post links to a website made by Abramov, that addresses the issues of how, quote, every time you sign up for a new social app, you have to rush to claim your username, how, quote, if someone else got there first, too bad and how, quote, that username only works on that one app anyway.

The website goes on:

This is silly. The internet has already solved this problem.

There already...

Why WinQuake exists and how it works

disable-javascript.org

With several posts on this website attracting significant views in the last few months I had come across plenty of feedback on the tab gimmick implemented last quarter. While the replies that I came across on platforms like the Fediverse and Bluesky were lighthearted and oftentimes with humor, the visitors coming from traditional link aggregators sadly weren’t as amused about it. Obviously a large majority of people disagreeing with the core message behind this prank appear to be web developers, who’s very existence quite literally depends on JavaScript, and who didn’t hold back to express their anger in the comment sections as well as through direct emails. Unfortunately, most...

Notes about VK_EXT_custom_resolve

Vulkan 1.4.333, released on November 14th, includes VK_EXT_custom_resolve, an extension that is closely related to the work we have been doing at Igalia to help Valve release the Steam Frame. It’s an extension that allows you to use a custom fragment shader to specify how to resolve a multisample image into a single-sample image, typically so the latter can be presented on screen. CTS tests for that extension were written by yours truly in close collaboration with Turnip developers, and are now public.

When using classic render passes from Vulkan, the extension only adds a flag that you can use to mark...

Quake Engine Indicators

JavaScript Input Buffering: a simple project to show delayed keyboard events

In this post I’ll show you a simple but powerful JavaScript experiment that visualizes keyboard input in real time and with a one-second delay. It’s a small project built with pure HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, designed to teach essential concepts like keydown/keyup listeners, precise input timing, and requestAnimationFrame loops; the same fundamentals used in games, replays, and input debugging tools.

How quake.exe got its TCP/IP stack

OpenAI employees… are you okay?

You might have seen an article making the rounds this week, about a young man who ended his life after ChatGPT encouraged him to do so. The chat logs are really upsetting.

Someone two degrees removed from me took their life a few weeks ago. A close friend related the story to me, about how this person had approached their neighbor one evening to catch up, make small talk, and casually discussed their suicidal ideation at some length. At the end of the conversation, they asked to borrow a rope, and their neighbor agreed without giving the request any critical thought. The neighbor found them the next morning.

I...