Software occlusion culling in Block Game

My GPU is the integrated Radeon Vega 8 that comes with my AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU. I tell you this so you know that my workstation is not a graphical computing powerhouse. It is, in fact, quite weak. To its credit my integrated GPU shows up as 48% faster on UserBenchmark than the GPU in my low end hardware target; a laptop I bought in 2012.(Side note: I’m aware of accusations of inaccuracy surrounding UserBenchmarks, but it’s not that serious. I just think it’s funny that an iGPU I picked up recently doesn’t compare more favorably to a 14 year old laptop GPU that wasn’t considered that great even at the time.)That, and the fact I want my game to run well even on a potato, is why I recently decided to try my hand at writing a software rendered

The systems that no one will test

This happened to me in 2020, and it has been on my mind again lately. During the worst of the pandemic, I found a vulnerability in a system that gave me access to the Brazilian federal system, and with that access I was able to retrieve information on any Brazilian (think of 200+ million people

Tank Body Problem

AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]

Using any C++ library in Godot

How Godot's GDExtension system and the godot-cpp bindings work, and how to use Conan to bring C and C++ libraries into a Godot game, with a flecs example that simulates 100,000 particles.

Simulating Airband AM Radios

Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.

Pirating the Pirates

Notes from the underground of film preservation.

Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display

One of nature's beautiful patterns captured in dancing lights

MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser

Run Q4 small language models entirely in the browser with WebGPU. Chat, benchmark, and compare PetitGPT, SmolLM2, and friends on-device.

Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream

The long way around to screen sharing.

Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)

Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, estimates that close to 80 percent of the system is original.

Startup Nights 2026 is comming up on 5-6 Nov. in Switzerland

Startup Nights is the annual meetup of the Swiss startup family. Expect two packed days full of keynotes, workshops, pitch

New Cyber-OSINT model released

The Cyber-OSINT model that You can run locally. - MoE (26B total, 4B active, 262K ctx) trained on 6,500 OSINT/CTI instructions. - SFT for cyber threat intel and investigative work. - Threat-actor attribution. - IoC pivoting. Geolocation. - Admiralty source grading. - 262K context.

ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model

7-node ESP32-S3 cluster running a 0.4B LLM via 1.58-bit (BitNet) ternary quantization over SPI daisy-chain - Low-Zi-Hong/ESP32s3-LLM-Cluster

California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops

Many California growers can’t find buyers as the industry produces more wine grapes than the market wants. Wine consumption is declining globally as people drink less.

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

Two intact Göbeklitepe burials help explain how human bones became scattered through the site's monumental buildings.

Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms

Fine-tunes of Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 for zero-shot classification - firelex/jeff

Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent

Nvidia says its new software could have prevented OpenAI's Hugging Face incident.,Nvidia says its new software could have prevented OpenAI's Hugging Face incident.

Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah

Google Maps has been updated to show Zionist-holocausted Gaza. This is part of Rafah.

Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a clear upgrade over Claude Sonnet 5, runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work.