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Posts

Mar 21, 2025
I want a good parallel computer
Jun 12, 2023
A note on Metal shader converter
Apr 18, 2023
Simplifying Bézier paths
Apr 1, 2023
Moving from Rust to C++
Jan 7, 2023
Requiem for piet-gpu-hal
Dec 31, 2022
Raph's reflections and wishes for 2023
Nov 8, 2022
Minikin retrospective
Sep 9, 2022
Parallel curves of cubic Béziers
Jul 15, 2022
Advice for the next dozen Rust GUIs
May 7, 2022
Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust
Feb 24, 2022
piet-gpu progress: clipping
Nov 17, 2021
Prefix sum on portable compute shaders
Oct 22, 2021
Swapchains and frame pacing
May 13, 2021
The stack monoid revisited
Apr 28, 2021
The case of the curiously slow shader
Mar 11, 2021
Fitting cubic Bézier curves
Feb 19, 2021
Cleaner parallel curves with Euler spirals
Jan 18, 2021
An interactive review of Oklab
Dec 16, 2020
An Old New Adventure
Oct 26, 2020
Text layout is a loose hierarchy of segmentation
Sep 28, 2020
Rust 2021: GUI
Sep 25, 2020
Towards principled reactive UI
Sep 13, 2020
The compositor is evil
Sep 5, 2020
The stack monoid
Jul 8, 2020
Seeking truth in a time of misinformation
Jun 27, 2020
xi-editor retrospective
Jun 13, 2020
Fast 2D rendering on GPU
Jun 12, 2020
A sort-middle architecture for 2D graphics
Jun 1, 2020
piet-gpu progress report
Apr 30, 2020
Prefix sum on Vulkan
Apr 21, 2020
Blurred rounded rectangles
Mar 14, 2020
Covid-19 resources
Feb 12, 2020
GPU resources
Jan 18, 2020
The Soundness Pledge
Dec 23, 2019
Flattening quadratic Béziers
Nov 22, 2019
Towards a unified theory of reactive UI
Oct 31, 2019
Rust 2020: GUI and community
Aug 21, 2019
Thoughts on Rust bloat
Jun 21, 2019
The smooth resize test
May 10, 2019
An update on spline licensing
May 8, 2019
2D Graphics on Modern GPU
Apr 26, 2019
Skribo progress update
Apr 4, 2019
Font fallback deep dive
Feb 27, 2019
Low level text layout kickoff
Feb 20, 2019
More small updates
Feb 14, 2019
IIR filters can be evaluated in parallel
Jan 4, 2019
Followups
Dec 28, 2018
How long is that Bézier?
Dec 21, 2018
A new spline
Dec 16, 2018
My thoughts on Rust 2019
Dec 8, 2018
Secrets of smooth Béziers revealed
Nov 4, 2018
Small updates
Oct 19, 2018
Towards fearless SIMD
Oct 11, 2018
A crate I want: 2d graphics
Oct 1, 2018
Announcing the xi-editor github organization
Sep 19, 2018
Synthesizer progress update
Sep 5, 2018
A Few of My Favorite Sigmoids
Aug 28, 2018
A New Adventure
Aug 17, 2018
With Undefined Behavior, Anything is Possible
Jun 23, 2018
Notes on “Lost in Math”
May 10, 2018
Towards GPGPU JSON parsing
May 8, 2018
Entity-Component-System architecture for UI in Rust
Apr 25, 2018
A sketch of string unescaping on GPGPU
Apr 8, 2018
Smooth resize in Direct2D
Oct 12, 2017
What I’m working on at Recurse Center
Oct 3, 2017
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