The Hacks of Life

HiZ tracing for screen space reflections is an optimization where the search is done using a hierarchial Z-Buffer (typically stashed in a mi...

Four years ago I wrote a short post describing a dumb race condition in our reference counted art assets. To recap the problem: X-Plane...

I just noticed this effect while I was brushing my teeth. The faucet in the sink is: Chrome (or stainless steel) or some other reflectiv...

A thing I have done is attempt to hard shut down my Mac using the shell (e.g. sudo shutdown -r) and accidentally taken down one of our serv...

Brent Simmons on ETAs for software releases : This is all just to say that app-making is nothing like building a house. It’s more like bu...

I am looking at performance on our latest revision of X-Plane Mobile, and I've noticed that the performance bottlenecks have changed fr...

OpenGL, Metal and Vulkan all have different ideas about which way is up - that is, where the origin is located and which way the Y axis goe...