Personal | Engine programmer | Tinkerer of triangles | 🏳️‍🌈 💼 - Activision, Central Tech 📌 - Manchester, UK 🐀 - Keith gang 💭 - Opinions are my own 🌐 - https://sharkwithlegs.com/https://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mqwauumyec2oFuck! Denshattack! is really good, my brain loves the moment to moment gameplay loop! I’m multiple hours in and they are still dropping mechanics on me and every time it’s like oh this makes combos flow even better!! I do wish restarts were faster on steam deck for when I mess up a starting combo18 Jul 2026 12:21 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqwauumyec2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mq5iljgpys2bGod superluminal may just be the best piece of software I have used in years, just absolutely amazing. Buttery smooth, amazing tooling for timings, finding duplicate calls, distribution, histograms & amazingly a in text code breakdown of how long func took. Makes me want to profile everything.08 Jul 2026 16:02 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq5iljgpys2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mpxfyotdis2lSo started writing a cursor based immediate mode gui for my home engine based on a prototype I made in raylib. Was absolutely losing my mind that my gylphs were blurry no matter what I did, eventually I found it was window dpi awareness being off causing my rects to render at a different size . . .06 Jul 2026 06:00 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpxfyotdis2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mpimeckcqc25Absolutely brilliant, a really approachable algorithm I loved that a bunch of difficult problems for fonts are precomputed away, every step is like yeah obviously we should be doing that! And huge fan of it calculating the coverage even if this means that post effects will need an additional step [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jun 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpimeckcqc25https://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mp4xi7cvrk2fDecided now it’s time for me to continue my 90s console/PC thing. (As if I don’t have enough going on) Been designing a mode 13h vga display adapter that double buffers pallet indices. I want that second esp32 core doing some fucked up deferred software rendering instead of just vga emulation.25 Jun 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4xi7cvrk2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mmpsnmwrdc2pNeed advice, What’s good for VK frame pacing w/ low input latency? I was seeing bursts of frames I wrote a feedback system that consumes stats from the last frame, then waits for the projected time it would take to run the update +10% to have minimal swap latency Works well, but feels like a hack26 May 2026 01:09 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmpsnmwrdc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/beardyking.bsky.social/post/3mlnus43afc2eAbsolute banger fonts & signage! [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 May 2026 13:17 +0000at://did:plc:tbbkrguydwcdktxr4vhtdajl/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlnus43afc2e