DirectX 11 is to be presented at NVISION 08, click here for details.
Looking at the few mentioned features on the page (tessellation, multithreaded rendering, compute shaders, Shader Model 5), I’d say OpenGL is in big trouble if they want to catch up.
In December of 2023, due to carpal tunnel, I switched from my Happy Hacking Keyboard setup to a Kinesis Advantage 360. It’s been two years and change, and I haven’t looked back. Well, kind of.
The latest version, v0.10.0, of the mkdocs-alias-plugin is now available here. This new version adds the ability to use aliases in Markdown footnotes, a great way to keep links short and organized.
mkdocs-alias-plugin is an MkDocs plugin allowing links to your pages using a custom alias such as [[my-alias]] or [[my-alias|My Title]].
In a New Year’s resolution-driven attempt to un-Microsoft-ify my life, I’m moving all of my repositories over from GitHub (owned by Microsoft) to sourcehut (owned by some dude). This blog was the first repo to make the switch and was previously hosted via GitHub Pages, and now uses sourcehut pages instead. Here’s the config I created to make the CI-driven deployment work:
This year I read a surprising (to me) amount of books: 21 according to my notes, 6 more than last year. Here they are, listed chronologically in reading order. I’ll also list my favorite reads towards the end of the post.