New article! A user is reporting full system freezes while using Superluminal on Linux. What do you do? Cry? Well, we did a little bit. But we also dove into the kernel...again, fixing several issues in eBPF's spinlock implementation. Read all about it: rovarma.com/articles/a-tale-…

reading literally anything online in 2026

Due to popular demand, you can now browse all my recommended reading/viewing suggestions here: mariozechner.at/recommended-… Sadly, Space Karen's hard core engineered Twitter API is absolutey garbage, and I can only get tweets back to April. Will backfile with an export. Enjoy.

Me: we’re running into an issue on Linux with dbus, we think it’s related to <this> github issue Claude: <long, detailed, plausible explanation of why it’s a OOM issue> Me: what? did you even read the issue? Claude: You're right, I didn't read it. Let me actually look at it and revise. Claude: You're right and I owe you a correction. I didn't fetch the issue and made up an explanation that sounded plausible. Now that I've actually read it: agi is here folks, fear for your jobs

Today is a beautiful day for updates! On the Stable channel: rolling up a large number of features, perf optimizations, and QoL changes made over the past months On the Insider channel: support for our instrumentation API has been implemented on PS4 & 5! Go check it out!

I’m so absolutely freaking tired of waking up to a freshly rebooted machine because Windows, not me, decided installing updates I absolutely do not care about was more important than preserving my debugging state. Whoever is in charge of this at MS should be fired.

Me reading any technical blog post / article published after about 2023:

We solved this exact problem for Superluminal a while ago with a novel approach: superluminal.eu/efficiently-…

This is 100% true, but Linux devs were and are in denial about this. There’s a reason the install page for every cross platform app looks like * Download Windows installer * Download OSX package * Click here for Linux install instructions that may or may not work on your distro

New blog post! In "Quantizing tangent frames", we look at various established methods to represent tangent frames in the vertex data, squeeze a few variants into 32 bits per vertex and look at the resulting precision. zeux.io/2026/04/30/quantizin… Retweet, like and subscribe!

Ah yes, Wikipedia. Guess which “performance analysis tool” is not on the “List of performance analysis tools” page and probably never will be.

international day of corporations attempting to be funny in the most obviously corporate and sterile way

Related: I die a little bit inside whenever I see new devtools being launched with perpetual pricing. Been thinking about writing a blog post about the commercial realities of devtools, but I don’t know if people are ready to hear the truth :-)

People don't value their time enough when it comes to programming. But any other aspect of life? They do spend money to improve their life. Be it cooking, heating, clothing, DIY, other jobs, etc. And thank you for making Superluminal. You've saved me weeks in actual time.

I'm usually not one to write thought pieces without much technical depth. But here we go. Slow the fuck down. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0…

i'm clearly not as deeply technical as you, but i like to think of myself as some who cares about their craft. what i'm seeing is an industry wide change (and hype) that i want to understand as deeply as i understand other areas of my craft. only then can i know what actually works, craft-wise and what doesn't. a lot that's paddled to "work" by grifters and corps that need to sell you that vision does not. but there are things that do actually work and are helpful wrt my craft. a big part of developing my craft over the decades was to learn new tools and see if they help me in anyway at creating good code, be it directly, or indirectly by saving me time with non-coding or coding related tasks. this is another such tool. but it's a tool that hasn't found it's final form yet. and i'd like to figure out what it's final form may look like, just as i liked to figure out how to write a debugger or a compiler and all the nitty gritty details that entailed downstream. for me, this is about learning new things for my craft, not replacing me andy coding skills. that's a very thin line tho, which is super easy to cross without discipline.

Writing-on-the-internet-achievement unlocked: mean-spirited comment by HN commenter who has clearly not read the article 🏆

Showing this to my manager next time he asks me about my "production impacc".