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Shading Motion - The Blog of Maxime Heckel

A deep dive into detecting, extracting, and stylizing motion with WebGPU and TSL, covering motion masking, blob tracking, optical flow, and velocity-based motion blur.

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Tsampi BFT: Leaderless One-Round Voting with Parameterized Finality

Tsampi BFT is a leaderless Byzantine fault-tolerant state-replication protocol with one Vote round per Proposed Block and exact-lineage finality in as few as two later Blocks. Its dual-linked Vote chain records both Block-lineage causality and each...

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Encoding vcmpps and vcmppd

The x86 / x86-64 instruction sets have many instructions for comparing IEEE754 floating-point numbers. Casey Muratori recently asked about two of them:

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Your Finances — made simple | Actual Budget

Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.

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Selective Applicative Functors

Theyʼve been longing for a better description, to help explain what should be allowed and what should be disallowed, beyond “hey, here is a function select that seems to do useful things and enable us to write interesting code”.

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The benchmarkpocalypse

There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse.

Topics: Security

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Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full

In the mid-90s the coolest thing to buy for a PC, besides the incredibly expensive Intel Pentium, was a CD-ROM drive. With their capacity of 640 MiB (three times the storage of PC HDD at the time), CDs allowed enthusiasts to step into a world of multimedia,...

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Retrofitting a build system into a compiler

Over the summer, Lucas Ma has been investigating ideas surrounding using effects in the OCaml compiler itself. He’s blogged some of his discoveries and adventures. The technical core of this work leads towards being able to use the OCaml compiler as a...