I am the lead developer behind PMMA and Pycraft and here to improve application development in Python, with a bit of art and fun thrown in!https://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3maowjvsx6s2wMemory prices have gotten expensive But don't worry, I'm not here to spread more rumours about that. Instead it brings up a very important point about software development. What can we do to make our software use less memory? Let's discuss this in today's PMMA progress update!23 Dec 2025 23:44 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3maowjvsx6s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m7vndrdsdk2bIt's been a while! But we have been busy experimenting with different features that are coming very soon to PMMA. So, in today's PMMA progress update, lets take a quick peek into what 2026 will bring. Prepare yourself!13 Dec 2025 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7vndrdsdk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m5udvhcpd227PMMA makes 2D shape rendering incredibly fast. Instanced rendering is a technique used to make rendering very fast and efficient. So, why doesn't PMMA use this technique? Let's discuss this in today's PMMA progress update!17 Nov 2025 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5udvhcpd227https://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m5hq32mwbc2aPMMA is here to make application development easier and faster. Great, but how exactly do we make application development easier? Funnily enough, in today's PMMA progress update, we will be discussing this!12 Nov 2025 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hq32mwbc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m5hpzqrvn22aPMMA is here to make application development easier and faster. Great, but how exactly do we make application development easier? Funnily enough, in today's PMMA progress update, we will be discussing this!12 Nov 2025 22:43 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5hpzqrvn22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m4tnxkxlls2cSometimes we make choices that can lead to further complications later on. This was the situation we found ourselves in with PMMA for a while, limiting applications to a single window. Well in today's PMMA progress update, that's about to change!04 Nov 2025 23:13 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4tnxkxlls2chttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m4m7qbapic2hLet's talk about images. Along with text they form some of the most fundamental components needed for any application. In today's PMMA progress update we will be discussing image support and it's strange relationship to text rendering!02 Nov 2025 00:10 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4m7qbapic2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m42c7uujss2fModern computers have had multiple cores for a while now, to the point where smartphones and even smart watches also come with multiple CPU cores. But why is it so common to still see single core applications? Let's look at this in today's PMMA progress update!25 Oct 2025 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m42c7uujss2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m3nujx2zcs2xWriting the documentation for PMMA is a lengthy process. But perhaps it's supposed to be. If we rush it, we don't get the opportunity to do what really the point of documentation is really all about. Reflection. Let's discuss this today!20 Oct 2025 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3nujx2zcs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m3ge2syqm22hPMMA is all about bringing all the tools you need to make your application together into one place. Except there is one small outlier. Shaders. In today's PMMA progress update, lets refine our idea for the PMMA Shader Language!17 Oct 2025 22:46 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3ge2syqm22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m3bdr52fq22tPMMA is our project. It's here to make a statement and maybe also to push our programming limits. But where do we want to take the project in the future? Not the near future. In today's PMMA progress update, lets look far to the future!15 Oct 2025 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3bdr52fq22thttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m2xd732r2s2eIn PMMA we have our sights set on adding some very exciting functionality. Things like supporting 3D graphics with textures and materials, to animation and so much more. In today's PMMA progress update, lets discuss our schedule for all this!11 Oct 2025 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2xd732r2s2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m2pqzwrvqc2eGetting PMMA to the stage it is at currently has been a simply huge investment of time. But that's just the programming - and we aren't finished yet! In today's PMMA progress update we will be discussing how the documentation will be an even bigger task.08 Oct 2025 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2pqzwrvqc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m2i5h5ctpk24We are working on the documentation for PMMA! Yes, after much deliberation and restarts it's finally here properly, and here to stay! So, in today's PMMA progress update let's discuss how it's all going to work.05 Oct 2025 22:28 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2i5h5ctpk24https://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3m2alwwgu5s2zPMMA's rendering engine is fast. That is a statement of fact. However, we have fallen into a classic development problem, and in this PMMA progress update, we will be discussing the solution to this. And how to make PMMA even faster in the process!02 Oct 2025 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2alwwgu5s2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lzyzwtfr522xWhen working on PMMA, we always look at features that are good, and ask ourselves: "how could this be better?" Its this innovation we are currently focusing on the text rendering API. In today's PMMA progress update, lets elevate text rendering!29 Sep 2025 22:15 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzyzwtfr522xhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lzrjso5fw22iPMMA currently has no up to date documentation. Strangely this isn't actually a bad thing, but simply part of a now complete portion of PMMA's life cycle. So, in today's PMMA progress update let's look to the immediate future of the API.26 Sep 2025 22:38 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzrjso5fw22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lzjz57nc6s2jIt's been a while! That's because we have been very busy tacking text rendering for PMMA. Its done, its never looked so good, and in today's PMMA progress update we will be refocusing on what has been an unexpectedly tricky issue to tackle!23 Sep 2025 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzjz57nc6s2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lzcihylpbk24It's easy to cheat benchmarks by writing code designed for that specific scenario. But is this really cheating, and is there some situations where this is actually beneficial? Let's discuss this in today's PMMA progress update!20 Sep 2025 23:04 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzcihylpbk24https://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lz2zs5i2sk2sFor the last week now we have been troubleshooting a very frustrating issue with text rendering in PMMA. However, in the last few minutes we finally saw some progress, so in today's PMMA progress update let's give you the rundown on text rendering!17 Sep 2025 23:53 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz2zs5i2sk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lyvvcefuj224There is about to be a major shift in direction for the development of PMMA. Currently we are focused on 2D shape rendering, but will be moving to focus on text rendering from tomorrow. Let's discuss this in today's PMMA progress update!15 Sep 2025 22:49 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyvvcefuj224https://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lyqwr44ews2uWe have just finished the transition from OpenGL to BGFX in our 2D shape rendering API for PMMA. So, if you are interested to hear how it went, and most importantly how PMMA performs now, today's PMMA progress update is for you! Prepare yourself.13 Sep 2025 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyqwr44ews2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lyjex6dzq22pPMMA 5.1 is starting to take shape. We have been busy swapping out our graphics API, refining the API and fixing bugs! In today's PMMA progress update, lets discuss where we are at in this process (and where we are going next!)10 Sep 2025 23:24 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyjex6dzq22phttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3lyeai6wxsc2uGood news everyone! For the first time, we have managed to adapt PMMA's shape rendering pipeline from OpenGL to BGFX! Plus, we have been making lots of other changes - let's discuss this in today's PMMA progress update!08 Sep 2025 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyeai6wxsc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/pycraftdev.bsky.social/post/3ly4qgiad2k24We are now approximately half way through the transition from OpenGL to BGFX! So in today's PMMA progress update we will be discussing how we are finding the transition and how we expect PMMA to perform!05 Sep 2025 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:igjmucggy6hmn2lfuwwet52l/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly4qgiad2k24