Lesley Lai

@lesley@mastodon.gamedev.place
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Computer Graphics & Programming Languages person.

I twoot about languages like C, C++, Rust, JS/TS, and OCaml.

I organize @graphicsmeetup

he/him

websitehttps://lesleylai.info
githubhttps://github.com/LesleyLai
noteshttps://notes.lesleylai.info/

CUDA RAY TRACING 3.6X FASTER THAN RTX: MY CUDA RAY TRACING JOURNEY

https://karimsayedre.github.io/RTIOW.html

Karim Sayed - Rendering Engineer

A showcase of my projects and portfolio.

@vittorioromeo There seems to be a slop site typosquatted your domain (under `.info` top-level domain rather than `.com`). I somehow added the fake site to my RSS feed 😮‍💨

Just added a “microblog” section to my site for crossposting social media content. I’ve also imported some older posts from here and from old Twitter archived (before I deleted the account). Now I finally don't need to worry about platform decay.

https://lesleylai.info/micro/

#indiedev

microblog | Lesley Lai

microblog

A nice intro for color science. It is useful even if you're not interested in CSS, and the same ideas apply to graphics programming as well

https://css-tricks.com/color-everything-in-css/

Color Everything in CSS | CSS-Tricks

An introduction to "Color spaces", "Color models", "Color gamuts," and basically all of the "Color somethings" in CSS.

CSS-Tricks

After searching, I found this Reddit post in which people suggested that using custom tags is not a good practice.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/18h44of/custom_html_tags/

This article is clickbaity, and I am not sure I agree with the conclusion, but it is pretty informative. TIL one can have arbitrary HTML tags (even without js custom element)

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/css-classes-considered-harmful

#webdev

CSS Classes considered harmful

If you've used CSS, you know what a class name is. They're a very poor proxy for the web today. Let's stop using them.

Keith Cirkel

I resonate with this article a lot. I started creating programs simply for the joy of making things, and maybe out of a bit of intellectual curiosity.

A lot of people around me ask "why make things people have done before," "what's the point," and "can you commercialize them?" Of course, it will be a good thing if I can make something useful to others, but that's not why I am doing it.

https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy | Joshua Barretto

You should write more toy programs

Fellow AI skeptics, please slow your roll on the "your brain on chatgpt" study and please think about base rate fallacy a little bit here.

If you, like me, do not know anything about what typical EEGs look like, then citing a bunch of EEGs that appear to prove our point is not science, it's argument-from-anomaly conspiracy theorizing. "A-ha! This thing, that I know nothing about, looks weird to me!"

Repost with alt text (thanks, @GeriAQuin!) #Cat #Cats #CatsOfMastodon

I wrote a review of 'toy' software projects I've built and why you should write toy software simply for the joy of it:

https://www.jsbarretto.com/blog/software-is-joy/

Writing Toy Software Is A Joy | Joshua Barretto

You should write more toy programs