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Why The L System Trees Looked Wrong

36m ago · 4 min read · Introduction We wanted procedural trees. We kept getting trunks with leaf puffs. Pine looked acceptable. Oak. Birch. Maple. And sakura did not. They read like poles with crowns. The important lesson i

Nanite Explained: How Modern Game Engines Render Billions of Triangles Without Exploding

6h ago · 20 min read · Introduction I went into a bit of a rabbithole studying how Nanite works. Here are some of the things I learned and the write-up I wish existed. The Four Problems Every triangle you render costs somet

Next.js use cache: remote: A Distributed Cache in One Line

19h ago · 8 min read · Introduction I discovered this while digging through the Vercel docs and the Next.js cache components skill. I was trying to understand how caching actually works when you deploy to Vercel. What I fou

How To Implement A Level And XP System With Convex

19h ago · 6 min read · The goal A good level and XP system should do three things well. It should be easy to reason about. It should be hard to exploit. It should be flexible enough to support more than one reward source. T

How I Fixed Slow Convex Storage Assets With Convex

19h ago · 7 min read · The problem We had a simple problem. Query prefetch was working. Images and audio still felt cold. That meant the next screen could have its data ready, but still show an image pop in late, or start a