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Understanding how to use Mulberry32 to achieve deterministic randomness in JavaScript
Randomness is rarely truly random in games. This article explains how Mulberry32 turns a single seed into a fully reproducible sequence of values, with a minimal JavaScript demo and real-world videogame applications.
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Year-end donations round, 2025 edition
One more year, one more year-end donations round before reaching the next one. As every year, I highly encourage you to do the same. Please think about organizations that make a difference to you and software that you may use every day. Your contribution may make a difference to them in return.
This year I went with:
Signal because I still use it every day. In reality, I’ve promoted this donation to a monthly recurring one and I’ve been donating throughout all the year, but I’m still mentioning it here.
KDE because I’ve recently switched to it on my personal computer, just to...
Grub no longer detected my Windows installation
Christmas Eve 2025. It’s late at night and I should really go to bed because Santa is coming tonight. I’m installing a new hard drive in my computer to replace my existing Fedora Linux drive. The new one is larger and faster, and I decide to start from scratch with a new Fedora 43 KDE Plasma Desktop Edition installation. After the system is installed (super-fast!) I copy data over from my old drive into my new one. Mostly the home directory and a few other bits. Grub is showing me the kernels for the new OS installation, as well as options to boot several kernels from...
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...