Petition for @nprofile1q... to bestow the blessing of 1000 character post limit for the humble denizens of mastodon.gamedev.place

Open contribution models seem fundamentally incompatible with the desire to have an LLM-free codebase. You just ain’t spotting them all.

I also believe that for LLM-positive maintainers who care about quality, LLM contributions are useless too. Given a problem description and maybe a test, they can quickly implement a solution that fits project standards.

This might be different for LLM-neutral projects; but for anyone taking a stance on either side, open contribution appears to be dead.

The cleanest signal for contributions these days is the github history.

Right into the slop bucket.

In more uplifting news, clearing out the backlog I found a “small” codegen defect in meshopt_encodeVertexBuffer - clang doing stupid things; a couple lines to fix - and decided to rerun the tests Aras did in 2023 on floating point images again. “Encode+” is with the fix.

I probably posted something like this before but this includes the semi-recent advances in decode throughput improvements released in v1.2. Nice!

(this is SSSE3 path, AVX512 is ~8.8 GB/s; v1 is the default encoding since v1.0)

I sometimes wonder what the fuck is even the point now, when I get notes that end with this.

> thank you for your work, I learned a ton!

> What changed: lowercase and casual, [...], and the thank-you is specific ("learned a ton") rather than formal.

Why should I publish any code? Why should I write any blog posts?

I've been thinking about ideas for new projects, but every library idea I come up with ends with "... and people are going to vibe code their own anyway".

So many ways to skin a cat

Curious if people have a .PLY reader library that they have used and can recommend? (I can google just fine, but maybe someone has hands-on experience!)

Requirements: single-file, at most C++11, does not include iostream and other evil headers like that. STL is acceptable.

Most promising I found so far is micro_ply.h, which doesn't support binary files but I can probably patch that in, and miniply which is two files, but maybe I can concat them.

meshoptimizer 1.3 is out! Featuring a new voxel remesher, support for normal generation, several simplification improvements and various optimizations and fixes. GitHub stars and retoots appreciated!

meshoptimizer was started a little over 10 years ago; I'm a couple weeks late but let's call this an anniversary release. Very happy with where things are, and excited for the years to come!

https://github.com/zeux/meshoptimizer/releases/tag/v1.3

Dash — Emily Dash. Friends call me Em.

sloppery slope

some rough edges but hey

Shit that lands in your inbox after your blog post makes it to HN:

> Saw your post about optimizing meshes; did you want to take a crack at moving cpu side render to gpu on an old game? I can pay for claude to help you if you like.

Are you fucking kidding me.