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Software Engineer. Shipped a bunch of video games. Currently working in VR research land. Blog: https://www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/
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Some people say the bird site is pro-AI and this site is ravenously anti-AI. Is that true? I wonder what percent of programmers don’t use an LLM at least once a week. Whatever the number it has to be rapidly approaching zero. Like asking what programmer doesn’t use Google or StackOverflow.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I wrote about The Last of Us television adaptation during the first season, more than two years ago. Watching the new season, I don’t have anything to correct about my take (gift link below). The story is boring when you are unburdened with the task of killing zombies.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

never surrender

submitted 84 days ago • 129 comments

New dithering method dropped I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG... Source repository: github.com/runevision/D... #gamedev #vfx

submitted 142 days ago • 49 comments

it is very annoying to see people act like they're somehow championing art by reflexively discarding squid game s2 as a cynical cash grab based on Netflix cynically capitalising on it. I'm sure artists feel very empowered by you dismissing their work based on economies they have no control over!

submitted 168 days ago • 33 comments

My feed on the bird site turned to crap. But I’ve yet to get traction for much of anything here. Please share your gamedev hot takes so I can like and restore sanity. Tell me how you feel about Rust, Linux, debuggers, and more! What spicy opinions are on your mind? Respond and I’ll engage!

submitted 169 days ago • 6 comments

Does anyone know how Luau perf compares to HavokScript/Kore? We used the latter once upon a time. Looks like Havok discontinued it, shame.

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Merry Christmas everyone. I’m playing, for the very first time, Chrono Trigger. I kinda hate JRPGs but it really is remarkably good. What are y’all playing?

submitted 170 days ago • 0 comments

Oh cool the titty spam accounts have come to BlueSky. Oh well it was fun while it lasted. Kinda.

submitted 185 days ago • 1 comment

The bird site algorithm hates me now, but maybe Blueskiers will enjoy this! I built “goto definition” for functions based on PDB files. Which has the neat perk of working for *any* language that can generate PDBs. Motivating use case was Jai. www.forrestthewoods.com/blog/languag...

submitted 191 days ago • 0 comments

Solved the first two days of Advent of Code with Odin. It seems... fine? I guess? In the past I've used AOC to learn Rust(👍), Zig(👎), and Jai(👍). Not sure I'll stick with Odin. No complaints. Feels like I've already seen all there is to see? C but sliiiightly better? Dunno

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Comcast xFinity whatever is so scammy. They’re trying to offer me a “free” iPad that lowers my monthly bill by $10. Of course they don’t tell you it comes with a $50/mo monthly mobile bill. Scam scam scam scam.

submitted 194 days ago • 1 comment

Tried to use Advent of Code to learn CUDA. Knew it wasn’t a good fit. But failed to figure out how to sort and array and couldn’t get past day one. 😭 May pivot and try out Odin.

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

Think I’m gonna participate in Advent of Code but this year I’m gonna use it to learn… CUDA. Which is totally a mismatch. But I don’t actually know anything about GPU programming so this seems like a good way to learn what works well and what doesn’t.

submitted 195 days ago • 0 comments