Wednesday, Jul 8
xi-editor retrospective
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
A look back at Raph's experiences building Xi, a novel text editor written in Rust.
~Raph
Raph’s posts on Joy of Computing
Bio: I'm an independent developer working on a music synthesis game. A lot of my focus these days is making Rust a great platform for creative work.
Saturday, Jun 20
Fast 2D rendering on GPU
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
An overview of a new architecture for high-performance, 2D vector graphics rendering on the GPU.
Sunday, Apr 26
A Taste of GPU Compute
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
A detailed overview of how GPUs work and approaches for effectively using GPUs for general purpose computing.
Saturday, Feb 22
GPU resources
made by Raph, submitted by nicholasbs
A collection of resources for GPU programming.
Thursday, Jan 16
Flattening quadratic Béziers
made by Raph, submitted by porterjamesj
Raph explains how to render Bézier curves by turning them into a sequence of straight lines.
Saturday, Nov 30
Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
made by Raph, submitted by porterjamesj
An overview of how different frameworks implement reactive UI, their similarities, and sometimes surprising differences.
Thursday, Aug 1
CIE HLC colorspace explorer
made and submitted by Raph
A little interactive explorer for the CIE HLC colorspace, which has been suggested (by the freiefarbe.de people among others) as colorimetrically sound colorspace that's also well suited for communication.
Monday, Jul 1
Xi, a fast, native text editor
Xi (pronounced "Zigh") is cross platform, but it has a native UI on every operating system that it runs on. Text is rendered on the GPU, so it's blazing fast.
Sunday, May 12
2D Graphics on Modern GPU
made by Raph, submitted by davidbalbert
Original research on implementing a performant 2D imaging model on the GPU.