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List of freely available resources to study computer graphics programming.

Getting Started

Graphics Programming – Where To Start? Article
What Is A Graphics Programmer? Video
Self-Starting As A 3D Graphics Programmer Video
How Do I Become a Graphics Programmer? Article
How to Start Learning Computer Graphics Programming Article

🎥 How to record a video with JavaScript [demo video available]

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This article describes how to shoot a video from JavaScript using the MediaStream Recording API. The related resources are shown below.

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

How to install game-porting-toolkit (aka proton for macOS)

You also might wanna just use Whisky which does this automatically

This guide works on macOS 13.4+ using Command Line Tools for XCode 15 Beta!

What is this?

In the recent WWDC, Apple announced and released the "game porting toolkit", which upon further inspection this is just a modified version of CrossOver's fork of wine which is a "compatibility layer" that allows you to run Windows applications on macOS and Linux.

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# run this on the remote terminal machine, as auser with sudo powers, probably through a remote ssh shell

	# this will overwrite all the settings it touches

	# the name of the user to run these commands as
	TARGET_USER=jane

	# we need an inlocked desktop session. we can either start a new autologin one or unlock an existing one

	let championByIdCache = {};
	let championJson = {};

	async function getLatestChampionDDragon(language = "en_US") {

	if (championJson[language])
	return championJson[language];

	let response;
	let versionIndex = 0;

	-- gct: get chrome tabs
	-- save FRONTMOST WINDOW of Chrome (or safari, but definitely not firefox) tabs into a file
	-- optionally (by uncommenting) CLOSE the window
	-- modified from http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/2012/10/saving-browser-tab-sets/
	-- ------------------------------------------------------------
	-- cce
	-- 2012 nov- rev 0.2
	-- - why do i punish myself with applescript?
	--
	-- ------------------------------------------------------------

	//
	// AdvancedToolbarWindow.swift
	//
	// Created by Stephan Casas on 3/17/23.
	//

	import SwiftUI;
	import AppKit;

	class AdvancedToolbarWindow<MainContent: View, ToolbarContent: View, TitleToolbarContent: View>: NSWindow, NSToolbarDelegate {

	# Compute elastic constant tensor for a crystal
	#
	# Written by Aidan Thompson (Sandia, athomps@sandia.gov)
	#
	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# The editor of this script is Nikidis Efstratios, a member of the COSSPHY lab in the Physics
	# department, Solid State Section, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
	# Date: 2023-5-8
	# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# This script uses the following three include files.

	# First let's update all the packages to the latest ones with the following command
	sudo apt update -qq

	# Now we want to install some prerequisite packages which will let us use HTTPS over apt
	sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -qq

	# After that we will add the GPG key for the official Docker repository to the system
	curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg \| sudo apt-key add -

	# We will add the Docker repository to our APT sources