✍️ I wrote an article on programming blur shaders... for beginners. You do not need to be adept at either math or programming to understand how it works :) Going from the most basic/straightforward type of blur, to what you see below, and more! Lots of pretty pictures, media, and interactive code to learn from. -- Box blur, with clipping and radial weighting. (So, no longer really a box blur...?) 🔍 #gamedev #indiedev #unity3dshow more

Hello my dear game developers. Do you make glass... that will blur what's behind it? If you work with Unreal Engine, there is a node SpiralBlur-SceneTexture. Do you use it? I tried and now I think I need to make some of the windows like this #gamedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 #tipsshow more

Coming this week to Base App: Base Pay support... out of the box for mini apps!! With just a few lines of code, you can auto connect to the user’s wallet and initiate an onchain payment — no hassle or extra setup steps, it just works There’s more where that came from, stay tuned!show more

Took me an hour and a half just to... learn this basic BNB from Yasuo. It’s going to be a hell of a rough ride LOL How do I spruce this up with a super/assist?show more

Code Interpreter in ChatGPT is incredible! Took me 5... mins to make this game. You can make your own game assets with any AI generator and then ask GPT-4 with Code Interpreter to write code. If you have any problems you can ask it to fix the errors. 1. Write this prompt: "write p5.js code for Asteroids where you control a spaceship with the mouse and shoot asteroids with the left click of the mouse. If your spaceship collides with an asteroid, you lose. If you shoot down all asteroids, you win! I want to use my own textures for the spaceship and for asteroids." 2. Go to Openprocessing website create and save sketch (you'll need to save it before uploading any texture files). Copy paste code from GPT-4 3. Generate texture files and remove backgrounds, for example in Clip Drop 4. Replace names of files with your filenames 5. Run the program 6. If something doesn't work ask GPT-4 to fix it (you can copy an error and paste in GPT-4) like you would ask a human programmer 7. To learn a bit of programming write these prompts to GPT-4: "Act as my programming teacher. Tell me an algorithm of Asteroids game in detail and make names of functions and explain what each of these functions will do. Don't write the code just yet." and then " Can you describe the algorithm overall for a 10-year-old child"show more

Simplicity is at the heart of great software. This... is one of the reasons why Claude Code has been sticky for me. As a builder, I love planning and brainstorming, and this is now a key focus of Claude Code. I use Shift + Tab a lot to cycle between brainstorming, planning, and execution. This functionality provides the appropriate interface for me to either be very involved or less involved as I please. This works particularly well when building out new and complex features or entire new projects. This saves a huge amount of time. It allows me to tune Claude Code to execute and build more effectively. It also builds a loop of trust, and I often (surprisingly) find Claude Code asking for clarifications when it's confused. Coding agents don't normally do that. I have shared before on the power of brainstorming with AI for longer times. Try it and you will not be disappointed. Vibe coding is fun, but pair it with intentional development cycles, and you watch how far you can take a project with coding agents today.show more

You may have seen a video of an alleged... regime supporting Iranian woman in the UK scrolling through monarchist telegram channels and doxxing people while threatening their lives. Sharing her full unblurred video - even with the purpose of warning others - still spreads the doxxing material. I've seen MANY of you post the whole 3 minute long video with no censoring at all, and you all should delete it immediately. Please do report her to the police, report her social media, tell everyone to do the same. But stop posting her entire video which only puts Iranian dissident lives in more danger. At least blur and censor it, or crop it. Don't be reckless.show more

i made this 2D traffic racing game with Raylib... and C honestly I have never felt this kind of joy from programming before there is something different about game development your code is not just returning values or moving data around you can see the logic move on screen feel the physics and watch every line of code come to lifeshow more

How to prompt with Grok imagine : You have... at least, two complementary ways of learning. 1. You look at an image you like, you click on it, and you see the prompt. This way, you can understand how to create an image you like. 2. You know what image you want to achieve, so you write the prompt yourself. Describe what you want in simple terms. Be clear and concise.show more

Q : Unnies, you are so pretty! Is there... any secrets of how to achieve beautiful pictures? 🐶 : Honestly, our member Jihyo knows how to take pictures of me really well. The pictures I uploaded on my IG feed are all taken by Jihyo. SY : So the secret is leave it to the other person (to do it for you)? 🐶 : Leave it to the other person. I'm not good at taking selfiesshow more

Trump, in response to a question on the Epstein... files: "I think the way you ask a question with the anger and the meanness is terrible. You ought to go back and learn how to be a reporter. No more questions from you."show more

Universities and High Schools have not moved rapidly enough... to guide students to have skills for the next decade. THEY HAVE FAILED. It is a massive crisis that can be averted by understanding what AI and Robotics will bring about. Solutions are knowing how to use these tools and new industries that will rise. But this situation is also on ALL OF US. No “job” is safe from founder to entry level in most industries. You and I, by what we do, will be “replaced” ultimately. What to do? AI and Robotics are tools, the next decade is owned by those who know how to use them expertly, but this is also temporary. We have to understand that what we do for “work” will change giving ultimately a greater value to those that are: Creative Flexible Always learning Willing to be wrong Love being human Love being alive Know history Covet wisdom Knowing all tech has downsides Building strong family and friends Realize many institutions have failed The first four are required for you to be able to live through this period with your sanity intact. The rest will allow you to thrive. There are no true careers at this point anymore. There are advocation and vocations which will either earn you money or give life meaning. We will learn that we are not “what we do”, just like we knew for 99% of human existence. Let that sink in. — You and I are far, far ahead of knowing this and we can do two things: 1) Laugh at the “clueless” 2) Help people understand with grace Go to Reddit if you are 1, in fact don’t follow me because you will not like this next decade and what I post. You are 2 and thank you. Even if you and I have not solved this issue, we can help people understand what is ahead and with determination and creativity bound together to solve it locally. Or human family has done this millions of times. The evidence is: you are here. The Neo Luddite movement has not even begun and it will potentially rip apart society even more than all the fashionable moment in the recent past has. These Luddites will have a good point with the wrong answers cooked up by dying academics that cling to labels, “virtues” and victim hood. It will be readymade for some governments to enter in as “big daddy” to “help us”. You will not like what they do, but you will only know when it is too late. It will include YOU “volunteering” to “leave” by 60, to “help out” CanadaPod style. “Brian, I’m 24 what do I do?”. I hope to do much more here to help. But I do know this: 1) Learn a trade or vocation because it’s valuable. It may also be free to low cost if you do it right. 2) Learn everything you can about USING AI and TRAINING YOUR AI. Your expertise will be in the top 1% for a decade. But not forever. 3) Understand Bitcoin and how it will rise while other things sink. This is a short list for now. We will know more moving forward. When you see videos like this posted below, know one thing: Many of these folks had no real family of mental and physical support. Maybe no parent or one parent. Maybe only a broke system to prepare them for—nothing. This was not their doing. Now it is not your “job” to help them, it is your survival to help them if that is what you need. See some day after the dust settles these 20 year olds will be 40 year olds and running YOUR world. And at some point you may need them more than you think you do. You will need them, as they need you now. THIS IS WHAT PAST WISDOM KNEW. The elders of the past never found the need to piss on the youth and hope for the best. THE YOUTH ARE OUR BEST, let us all find ways to change it, even if every aspect of “the system” wants us to berate them into the ground.show more

karun: you seem to be the most popular driver... with the crowd here. good luck for tomorrow. carlos: thank you very much. thank you, yeah, and thank you for the crowd, because being there in the grid and feeling so much support, i think, it means a lot to a driver, and i think people are jumping on the train of williams and myself, following me from ferrari, and it's really nice to see.show more

Akinsanmiro came on at half time. He played really... really well. Just like I described him few weeks ago, he did lots of box to box run, controlled and stabilised the midfield to a great extent. He should have gotten an assist, I wish he did. He will be a good addition to our squad. AFCON is a good time to see him.show more

Start frames made with Google Nano Banana. Videos made... with Seedance. Video upscaled w. Topaz (on Freepik). And then post-processing to get a more cinematic look in Premiere Pro - 24 frames per second - Color-grading for that teal/orange look - Motion blur I had to speed up most clips to not make it look too slow-motion. What do think? All made with Freepik #nanobanana #NanobananaAI #ByteDanceshow more

After 3 incredible years and 1.6M students later, my... journey at ALX Africa has come to an end. It has been a life-changing experience, during which I made a lot of friends, worked with an incredibly dedicated team, and met so many talented students. A few numbers. We scaled from a few thousand students to 1.6M students on our platform. Students loved it and many of them took more than one course: 4M total! For the famous #ALX_SE Software engineering program, our SE students made an average of 2,000 commits and our checker reviewed 180M of their projects. That’s 2B lines of code… and that was before Claude Code. They actually wrote these themselves (unless Kimba said otherwise :) A big thank you to all my SE team mates, I am so proud of what we have accomplished, and I will really miss you all. Thank you to Fred for the trust he put in me and always supporting my crazy new and disruptive ideas. Thank you to my students. It was an honor to work with you, watch you struggle but relentlessly move forward, no matter what, until you got this job. To those who are still struggling finding this job, keep pushing forward. Don’t let go. You got this. You all have worked so hard and I am so proud of you. You are the greatest thing I've ever been part of and I can't wait to see what impact you will have on the world. It’s your turn to shine now, and hopefully for some of you to give back to the community whenever you are in a position to. I hope you’ll keep sharing the good news with me when you get this internship, this job, or when you launch your company. These messages are everything to me. In any case, I’ll be watching you from afar, and you can count on me to continue answering all your LinkedIn and X messages. Can’t conclude without ALX Africa’s signature: continue to “Do Hard Things”. Remember who you are, where you are coming from, and where you set out to go. I’ll see you there soon. With love. J PS: Want to know what's next for me? Drop your email here:show more

NEED SUGGESTIONS for community, do drop in your suggestions😊... We are trying to improve the readability of articles. At present most of the blog DSA sites have lengthy articles which you read via scrolling. It looks daunting when you start with it. At TakeUforward, we are trying to change this, and help out users with an easier way to navigate and read. We want the logic to be something as you can see in the video.. the design is just a rough one, and is no where close to what we want it to be. The typical article will have problem statement, examples, followed by this sticky bar, which helps us to navigate, and ease out reading.. You can feel free to suggest more changes we can do, or some design recommendations. We can hire someone for this, but I will prefer recommendations from people who use it rather than someone who does not. RT for good Karma ♥️show more

This is the video that has taken social media... by storm. It appears to be from बड़ा खाना in a unit in army, which is simply an event being celebrated, whether it's winning some sports or professional achievement by the unit, or perhaps a raising day celebration. This is the way of life in the army. I am impressed with the confidence of the young captain, who happens to be a lady, participating with enthusiasm and fervour without inhibition. The officer eats the same food and drinks the same liquid as the troops do. Though liquor is best avoided, but not just because you are a lady. I hope no one brands it as a colonial tradition. I am sure with more lady officers getting chance to command units, the gender discrepancies will further blur in times to come.show more