Odd alien shapes have been passing in the sky since the day before, turning dark with foreboding. Now I detect a distinct wetness in the air, sometimes forming drops of a liquid substance which descends upon the land. What will these strange times bring? The Yorkshire Dales has not known such as this.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 2mo ago

GLFW 3.5.1 was released, skipping 3.5 due to my mistake which resulted in 3.5 being tagged [1]. This is primarily a bugfix release.

https://github.com/glfw/glfw/releases/tag/3.5.1

[1] I pulled a PR branch for an investigation which the user had tagged with 3.5, then deleted that branch. When pushing another branch I didn't realise 'push tags' was on in the tool (I had pushed tags for another repo just before). I also didn't realise tags could be pushed which were not on any branch.

github.com

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 6mo ago

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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place I don't have words for this. Why would anyone think this is a good idea?

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place @efi@chitter.xyz @kizu@front-end.social The video reminded me of Switzerland - the hills and mountains below the permanent snowline are very grassy. That's mainly because the Swiss cultivate every patch of land for grazing, even very high pastures.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 4mo ago

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@runevision@mastodon.gamedev.place I think this is related to HLSL optimizer having issues with code after a discard. I think you can get around this by using if() { discard; } else {rest of code} or by discarding at the end based on a bool set where you discarded.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 9mo ago

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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place I guess I'll just have to read all of these instead of doing my accounts. Oh well, such is life.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

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@TomF@mastodon.gamedev.place Intel had a DX11 tech stack for making samples, it's in the Occlusion culling sample and you could probably rip the sample code out. Sadly I can't find any docs though there must have been some. https://github.com/GameTechDev/OcclusionCulling

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GitHub - GameTechDev/OcclusionCulling: Demonstrates a software (CPU) based approach to occllusion culling using multi-threading and SIMD instructions to improve performance.

Demonstrates a software (CPU) based approach to occllusion culling using multi-threading and SIMD instructions to improve performance. - GameTechDev/OcclusionCulling

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 9mo ago

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@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place @neilhenning@mastodon.gamedev.place @benthroop@mastodon.gamedev.place "Run fast and free as a sheepdog in a beautiful but troubled world. Herd masses of lost sheep to a secret refuge." I am certain that this is literally the dream all collies have, certainly the ones I grew up with. Well that and the one about chasing the rabbits.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 5mo ago

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@Viviane_DPR@rivals.space Oui c'est terrible. Cartes et stats (en Anglais): https://www.health.org.uk/evidence-hub/health-inequalities/map-of-healthy-life-expectancy-at-birth

health.org.uk

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

@nothings I linked to it on our Voxel Vendredi thread on VoxelGameDev https://www.reddit.com/r/VoxelGameDev/comments/1r39u43/voxel_vendredi_13_feb_2026/ I've not watched your stream yet but hope to over the w/e (I presume it stays up for a while?).

Voxel Vendredi 13 Feb 2026

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Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 7mo ago

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@nothings Thanks! I've added the YT archive link to the post.

Doug Binks @dougbinks@mastodon.gamedev.place

· 8mo ago

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@hembrow@todon.eu I am not sure if they will be able to help your particular circumstances but it might be possible to move your pension to a company which can handle international clients such as https://www.invinitive.co.uk/ I've looked into this because I might be in a similar situation in the future, but don't yet have personal experience with handling this.

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