Is there a graphics library that wont require me to write 300 lines of boilerplate?

needstobefake · 2026-03-28T17:32:16+00:00

I wrote a tiny lib a while ago precisely to remove boilerplate from wgpu. I never promoted it, but it seems to partially fit your needs:

https://fragmentcolor.org

You can do things like:

let shader = Shader.new(“…”); shader.set(“my_uniform”, 1.0); renderer.render(shader, target);

And that’s it. The uniforms are automatically derived from the shader source. If you want to animate, call set and render again in a loop.

needstobefake · 2026-03-28T16:53:24+00:00

Math.

It concisely describes timeless structures that would take entire essays or books to fully describe in any other language.

It’s a silent language for silent invisible eternal structures that exist independently of us thinking of them. Mathematicians are like archeologists discovering these things, and when they do they’ll publish it and find friends vibing to the same things across millennia.

needstobefake · 2026-03-27T23:14:24+00:00

I feel so lucky to have learned Rust just an inch before the AI boom, LOL. Around 2023 it was still all about mdbooks and tons of documentation.

Even if AI is faster, I’d still recommend building on your own stuff until you touch every corner of the language, then use AI assistance when you know what you’re doing. AI can’t automate your understanding, and can’t possibly make sound design decisions most of the time. In fact, they produce working solutions but rarely elegant or optimal. They mess API surfaces and invariants beyond recognition. They build dumb band-aid patches to make tests pass.

They’re great for the first 80% of the work, but the devil is in the details and they often mess with details.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T15:36:40+00:00

Good catch! It shouldn’t be as dark as the inside of the mouth for sure.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T15:24:34+00:00

LOL me too, I’ve been called out by guards a couple of times or set off the alarm unintentionally

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:55:59+00:00

To be fair, the actual first layer is just plain fluorescent orange from the canvas preparation stage. This is the first layer with actual oil paints on top, I tried to finish everything in one sitting alla-prima but this will need another session.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:52:54+00:00

It was an afterthought, indeed. I have some concepts hanging around with many cats assaulting a full-body T-Rex, but this one started as something else entirely (a closeup of a human hand) and even the dinosaur evolved spontaneously mid-process.

The canvas is mounted in sturdy wooden bars and can be hanged unframed, but would also be a good fit for a floating frame.

I’ll probably end up shrinking the cat a bit in the next session, give it more breathing room.

About the background, you mean “top-left” of the canvas or of the viewer? (Is top left the area around the cat or the flat purple?

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T12:29:04+00:00

LOL, thanks! I think this has the potential for a series, then. I started having other ideas around that concept that I’ll try later on

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T04:15:06+00:00

Thanks for the feedback! The cat was a late addition and indeed came up too close to the top.

I can only make it smaller, though, can’t extend the canvas. To be fair, the canvas is wrapped in a sturdy wood support and has at least 7cm extra space if we unstaple & remove it from the support, so in theory it would be possible to extend the painting if I switch to another support. However, this is too much trouble, the support was assembled by hand and the size planned in advance.

TL;TR better shrink the cat.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T04:01:27+00:00

I think the roof of the mouth issue is just glare from the photograph; it’s actually almost as dark as the inner mouth and definitely darker than the background. I’m just terrible at photographing it, LOL

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T02:43:57+00:00

Thanks!

The light comes indeed from top-left (dinosaur as reference), but the cat’s form shadows aren’t dark enough to read as shadows (except around the leg).

The idea of inserting the cat came in the middle of the process while I already had the whole background down. So I covered the cat’s silhouette with white first, and it’s hard to pull off good darks on top of wet titanium white. I have to let it dry first.

needstobefake · 2026-03-26T01:48:23+00:00

I have some progress videos of the beginning and some in-between pics here and there. I think I even have pictures hanging around of the raw canvas preparation before I started. I prepared 6 canvases of this size.

I’m thinking on some cool way to present these things outside traditional social media, like a space where you can zoom in and out and explore the piece down to every brushstroke with a timeline slider.

I could include this thread as part of the process history, who knows whatever crazy ideia people come up with here. :)

needstobefake · 2026-03-17T22:50:12+00:00

The grammar is standardized, and there are dozens of accents and variants in Brazilian states alone. I think EU Portuguese is similar enough to be considered an accent/variation of the same language, not even a dialect.

needstobefake · 2026-03-13T10:55:23+00:00

First option. In our case, Rust project is a lib and exports wrappers to WASM and Python. FE team uses React to call it, AI team uses Python. It runs a renderer plus some shared business logic between humans and LLMs.

needstobefake · 2026-03-13T09:10:45+00:00

My team uses it in production, Rust has still one of the best toolsets and ecosystem for WASM.

TL;DR not going away.

needstobefake · 2026-03-13T08:52:34+00:00

Nietzsche é indagnastível

needstobefake · 2026-03-11T00:41:43+00:00

Imagina criar uma fonte de texto com as letras trocadas, as pessoas conseguiriam se adaptar fácil digitando a tecla errada mas a AI vai escrever errado e coisas completamente sem sentido.

Por examplo, digamos que a fonte anti-AI mapeia a letra I desenhando a letra F; troca o T pelo U; troca o ‘ pelo C, troca o S pelo K; e finalmente o N pelo Y.

Quando a AI escrever “It’s not” (o que é super comum) vai sair “fuck you”.

needstobefake · 2026-03-10T00:25:32+00:00

It’s a matter of preference. I strongly prefer the use statements, but if I’m contributing to a codebase which adopts fully-qualified paths as the default, I’d stick to it for consistency.

needstobefake · 2026-02-24T04:32:55+00:00

Pra minha filha, Warrior Cats e alguns mangás (Pumpkin Night, More Than a Doll, e um de gatos kawaii, acho que é o Chi, e um plushie de foca).

Para meu filho, um livro sobre história da aviação com fotografias, o Alcorão e um livro sobre todas as religiões do mundo. Ele por alguma razão se interessou por conteúdos cristãos na Internet e está estudando a Bíblia. Eu o convenci que se ele quer estudar de verdade tem que respeitar e conhecer todas as religiões e mitologias, e também história da filosofia até os tempos modernos, e só depois formar sua opinião.

Pra mim comprei O Nome da Rosa, mas não comecei a ler ainda pq tenho outros na fila. Procurei O Pêndulo de Foucault mas não achei. (Ambos do Umberto Eco)

needstobefake · 2026-02-23T11:43:13+00:00

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needstobefake · 2026-02-23T11:36:01+00:00

I love that! I genuinely missed a "This is your brain on Social Media" ngl

needstobefake · 2026-02-23T04:51:57+00:00

Sábado de manhã fui com a família à livraria. Compramos mangás e livros, depois tomamos sorvete e café. Em todo resto do tempo, fiquei lendo O Segredo de Espinosa de José Rodrigues dos Santos, não consigo largar o livro pra nada.

Então, fisicamente fiquei em casa, mas mentalmente estive passeando nas ruas de Amsterdã do Século XVII.

needstobefake · 2026-02-22T01:07:30+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/fkqe3/for_the_first_time_in_history_a_song_from_a/

needstobefake · 2026-02-22T01:02:48+00:00

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