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turns out you can have multiple OpenGL contexts in the same window, with wildly different OpenGL versions, and they can all output frames. neat!

https://gist.github.com/hikari-no-yume/9ed05e64c8b967a4b0a1315368139942

Hey, does anyone happen to know how well GLES1 is supported in ANGLE? Officially it’s not listed at all, but I can see quite a number of commits related to it, so I assume it’s in some at least partially-working state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRltNxBvMDg

current status: relieved that [@(NAN) isEqualTo: @(NAN)] == YES

the emotional rollercoaster of

😨 oh god how the hell do you implement va_list
😌 ah it’s just a void * pointing to the stack
😱 but the first few args can be passed in registers
😮 oh, the callee can just push them to the stack
🤯 …and the arguments end up in the right order if you do!

Pizzicato Strings is the most MIDI instrument

you know what? fuck you

unarpeggiates your Prelude

https://hikari.noyu.me/etc/2022-12-28-unarpeggiated-prelude.mp4

ME: if objc_msgSendSuper is so good why isn’t there an objc_msgSendSuper2 😏
APPLE: you’re never gonna believe this

FSF may do a lot of harm to the open-source movement at times, but their insistence on copylefting everything lets me legally extract certain critical binaries from otherwise-proprietary systems and avoid ungodly amounts of effort, so, it’s impossible to say if they’re bad or not

god i love music from the era where game soundtracks had to be sampled that leans into the sampling. who says notes have to have a gradual attack and decay? who says sampled instruments have to even remotely sound like the things they’re sampled from?