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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has a unique approach to terrain rendering that includes using a translucent material and soft blending with objects. This surprising technique is achieved by rendering the terrain after all opaque objects and in the depth buffer. The article explores potential problems with the approach, including sorting issues and potentially rendering opaque […]
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In this article, Duncan Lock expresses his appreciation and admiration for David Peter, an unsung hero in the open source software world, whose software Lock uses on a daily basis. Lock highlights three projects by Peter that he personally loves and uses frequently: bat, fd, and hyperfine. Bat is a cat clone with syntax highlighting […]
Meteksan Defense is upgrading its development environment to use newer versions of many tools and programming languages, including an upgrade of its C++11 codebase to C++17 for its embedded applications. C++17 has many features for the embedded world that can be helpful such as attributes and enhancements to conditional statements, which improve code development. C++17 […]
Wikipedia’s mobile site experienced performance issues due to a piece of JavaScript that could take over 600ms to execute during page load. This resulted in rage clicking, increased bounce rates, and lower search engine ranking. Google considers any task that takes more than 50ms a “long task” that can affect the page’s responsiveness to user […]
Libuv has introduced support for io_uring file operations, which provides a significant increase in throughput on Linux systems. The io_uring approach is used if the kernel is new enough, otherwise, the traditional thread pool method would be used. All file operations are run on the thread pool by default, and the thread pool size can […]
This blog discusses container runtimes on the Arm64 platform and showcases benchmarking between WasmEdge and Runc. WasmEdge, a WebAssembly runtime, has advantages over container technology, such as smaller binary size, faster start time, and less reliance on the host kernel. However, it is still an immature technology with limited syscalls and unimplemented features. The blog […]
Media queries are a CSS language feature that allows an author to conditionally apply CSS rules according to characteristics of the device or window in which an application is being viewed. Responsive design can be accomplished through a combination of techniques including conditionally applying CSS rules with media queries and choosing layouts which are flexible […]
The author reflects on the importance of receiving feedback, but cautions that not all feedback is helpful or constructive. They categorize feedback into three groups: 1-2 star feedback comes from people who don’t understand or relate to the project and should be avoided, 3-4 star feedback comes from people who get the vision and can […]
As the physical data format on the Commodore 1541 5¼-inch floppy disk is defined in software, this article explores different strategies to fit up to 246 KB (compared to the 170 KB defined in the original disk format). By utilizing all four speed zones, increasing the number of tracks on the disk, minimizing gaps, and […]
Archive.org experienced an hour-long outage due to tens of thousands of requests per second for their public domain OCR files launched from 64 virtual hosts on Amazon’s AWS services. Despite the efforts of engineers who worked on the holiday weekend, joy was short-lived as another 64 addresses started the same activity and caused another hour […]