AlphaPixel

06/13/2026

https://alphapixeldev.com/eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-part-2-porting-to-sdl/

Eric Graham's 1987 Amiga Juggler raytracer (Part 2): Porting to SDL In Part 1 of this blog series, we recovered the disk image, extracted the source files, and received permission to publish Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source. At that point, we have a snapshot of history that can be viewed....

06/06/2026

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260401-00/?p=112180

What are we reading about here?

06/05/2026

https://www.404media.co/the-u-s-military-quietly-turned-gps-into-a-global-numbers-station-evidence-suggests/

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

06/02/2026

https://alphapixeldev.com/recovering-eric-grahams-1987-amiga-juggler-raytracer-source-code/

Recovering Eric Graham's 1987 Juggler raytracer source code AlphaPixel often gets involved with modernizing and updating old performance and graphics code. Sometimes that means client work under NDA. But sometimes it means a fun side quest in the mystical realms of curiosity, preservation, and the p...

06/01/2026

https://alphapixeldev.com/how-alphapixel-uses-and-doesnt-use-ai-in-development/

How AlphaPixel uses AI coding tools: where they help, where they fail, and why human engineering judgment still matters.

05/27/2026

Open source maintenance is often a stressful and thankless job.

I'm doing Open Source primarily because I love it. The social aspects, the for-the-good angle and for the challenge of engineering this to work for everyone. I also do it because it is my full-time job and getting food on the table and provide for my family is not unimportant. It may come as a … C...

05/19/2026

This clock composite glyph is entirely built in Slughorn and rendered in OpenSceneGraph. The animation is done by individually transforming layers (eg the clock hand).

05/16/2026

Did I mention GRADIENTS?!!?! Slughorn now supports multi-stop linear and radial color gradients and COLRv1 gradient specification.

05/15/2026

https://www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-graphics-api

Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve performance, and prepare for future GPU workloads.

05/15/2026

https://github.com/FrostyLeaves/nsight-graphics-analyzer

CLI wrapper and Claude Code / Codex skill for NVIDIA Nsight Graphics 2026.1+ — capture GPU frames, export GPU Trace, and drill into bottlenecks via compact JSON. - FrostyLeaves/nsight-graphics-a...