The Hacks of Life

If you develop apps for the Mac or IOS, there may come a day when code signing fails mysteriously. When this day happens, mix in a boiling ...

There are two kinds of programmers: those that download a brand new version of X-Code on the very first day, and those that laugh at them...

The distribution of precision in the default Z buffer configuration is not ideal. Precision is distributed via a 1 / x curve. This means m...

One of the standard solutions that has emerged for physically based rendering (PBR) is to use pre-filtered mipmapped radiance environment m...

Here's some really good code: if(atomic_dec(&my_ref)==0) { StLock take_lock(&global_asset_lock); global_asset_table.e...

I've been meaning to post this: this is ASAN (Address Sanitizer) in X-Code 7 catching a memory scribble in an X-Plane beta. I don...

The novel trick deep in this post is the use of morton-number pixel addressing to generate mipmaps in parallel; I was surprised to not see ...