02.09.2026[ 2BA02F ]
techwriting
Guests, prototypes, and the price of attention
AI made the faith-based OSS prototype cheap. It did not make the maintainer's attention cheap. On guests, slop, empathy, and why "nope" is still the contract.
// DIGITAL HOMESTEAD
Where half-baked ideas go to become slightly-less-baked ideas
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Breaking the chain. Kids, chaos, zero regrets, infinite laundry.
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02 / TRANSMISSIONS
23.08.2026[ 2FF7CA ]
techwebgpu
Stealing 1613 shaders from the WebGPU CTS with a fake GPU
The best corpus of real-world WGSL is locked inside a test framework that refuses to hand it over. So I gave the framework a GPU that does not exist and wrote down everything it showed me.
22.08.2026[ 59DA85 ]
techzig
The only shader cross-compiler that renders its own output
SPIRV-Cross checks golden files. naga asks you not to run generators. zioshade renders every backend* on a real GPU and pixel-diffs it. Here is the oracle stack, and the day the oracle was wrong.
21.08.2026[ F5FD41 ]
techzig
Why my terminal needed its own shader compiler
To draw its first frame on Windows, my terminal had to ship two C++ projects and spawn a subprocess per shader. Four months and 2400 commits later, that entire stack is one pure-Zig module. This is the origin story of zioshade.
19.08.2026[ C5B2EA ]
tech
My first Show HN flopped on schedule
I predicted my first Show HN would flop and the internet obliged: two points. The thing I launched it for, a local stunt double for 95 APIs, does not care.
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