Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame, like playing ‘correspondence chess with a shotgun’ — nearly 14 million substitutions to render a frame at 80,000 substitutions per second

Daring coder gets Doom running with regular expressions at 180 seconds per frame by using one text string to the machine, engine, and video output

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Former Epic director is building a European rival to the Unreal and Unity game engines — ‘The Immense Engine’ dev sees opportunity for AI agents to ‘do the work of ten or fifteen people’

A heavyweight games industry veteran says he is building a fully European alternative to popular games engines from American and Chinese companies.
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Developer creates a basic first person shooter game using Gaussian splats, and you can play it for free in your browser

It’s not much of a game, but it’s an impressive proof of concept for the novel technology.

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Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS — no Javascript, no WASM, just stylesheet computing

Enterprising developer somehow writes an x86 CPU emulator in plain CSS

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Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently
 Low-Vision Programmers Can Now Design 3D Models Independently

Most 3D design software requires visual dragging and rotating—posing a challenge for blind and low-vision users. As a result, a range of hardware design, robotics, coding, and engineering work is inaccessible to interested programmers. A visually-impa…

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