Brandon Jones

Just discovered that at the start of October my solar batteries switched to "full backup" mode in response to a heat wave and then just... never switched back? So I've been paying PG&E to send me power every night while 15kWh was strapped to the side of my house just chillin. 😭

The only iPhone Duo review that matters just dropped. Spoiler: Apple has not invented a way to magically make folding phones more durable. I still can't fathom anyone that lives in close proximity to children choosing to buy a folding device.

Been playing the new Castlevania and it's really good! But Any time I try to recall the music from it Phantom's Theme from Silksong plays in my head instead.

4️⃣🫡 (idea by @freyja-lynx.dev)

English language "features" that just need to go away: having to ask my kids if their teacher is married or not (which they don't know or care about) before I can write a formal message to them. Unless the teacher is a guy, because then who cares, right? 🙄

Picked up a multimeter today to help diagnose a broken scooter. Did not anticipate that I would have to go scouring the internet to find instructions on how to *install the batteries*. Am I crazy for feeling like this is kinda insane, especially given that there's no instructions in the package?

Fantastic comparison by Jake on JPEG XL vs. AVIF with many interactive examples!

I've seen multiple posts recently that jump scared me because at a glance "LLVM" and "LLM" are easy to confuse.

2026 California ballot measures are like: 1) Tax billionaires? 2) Ban ballot measures that tax billionaires? But maybe also you poors, I guess. 3) You sure that a tax on Californians with, um, *generous* incomes, is what you want? 4) Can we at least make it harder to tax billionaires in the future?

The agenda for the Nov 5th WebGPU Paris Meetup is live! We'll have many exciting talks covering rendering, AI, native WebGPU on mobile devices and more. I'll also give updates on the spec and browser highlights. Check out the detailed schedule and register here! rsvp.withgoogle.com/events/webgp...

Check out what's new in WebGPU for Chrome 155-156, with a special guest appearance by my blog!

Is there any way to read this ad that ISN'T ominously dystopian? Right down to the company name... 🪳

My son has never seen Avengers: Infinity War. He's currently at a theater watching Endgame with a friend. Kid must be so confused right now. 😂

"Fast blur with animated radius", examines various blurring techniques with an emphasis on varying blur radius and non-uniform horizontal & vertical blur. Includes WebGPU sample to showcase the techniques. aras-p.info/blog/2026/10...

Searching for a virtual joystick library for a web page that I'm building and discovering that easily the most robust one is called Nipplejs. yoannmoi.net/nipplejs/

Ah, and that would be why there was no mention of the Meta VR glasses FoV yesterday. (From the Tested hands on)

Had a dumb idea for a 4x3 puzzle: www.hankgreen.com/fourbythree/...

User: This site is so janky. 😡 Web site: Use our app, it's better! User: I'd rather no- Web site: USE OUR APP! IT'S BETTER! User: Okay, fine! [Installing...] Hey, this is literally just a web view to your janky site? App: I didn't say who it was better for. Now can I have your contacts and GPS data?

Oh! It's apparently Steam Frame day! $1059 is unfortunately steep but also not unexpected given RAMpocolypse.

Doodling with my kid. He brought home a book about drawing "cute food" (which all seemed to involve animals curling up on/in said food), so have some mouse boba.

Two years later, this probably possessed sign near me has been replaced. I don't know if it's an improvement, though.

A distressing amount of my (and my coworkers) time lately has been spent on "No reasonable program would ever actually try to do this, and in fact Vulkan and Friends forbid it, BUT the GL spec technically allows it AND it blows up real good on driver XYZ, so it's a WebGL problem now."

"Insomniac's Spider-Man games were great! I loved swinging through the city, helping random people, taking down bad guys with webs from the ceiling, and using all Spidey's gadgets!" "Excellent! What if we told you Insomniac made ANOTHER superhero game that had exactly none of that?"

I have no interest in folding phones, regardless of which company makes them, but I gotta admit that the frosted glass transition Apple does when you open or close the phone is real slick. Give the engineer who wrote that shader a cookie.

Yeah, sure, there's an Apple Keynote, but let's be honest: we're all just waiting for JerryRigEverything to get his hands on the new foldy thing, right?

"Dear, why is that child staring at us?" "Shh! That's a Main Character! Ignore it and maybe it'll go away." "How do you know?" "Just look at him! Kid's hat has more texture resolution than the two of us combined! His shield has more polys than half the townsfolk. He. Has. Actual. HAIR!"

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

I've had this mouse for 21 years, pulling it out of my parts drawer whenever I needed a wired device, and tonight it finally gave out. Pressing [F] to pay respects. 🫡

Having more fun on this little WebGPU side project than anything I've worked on in a while!

I’ve alway’s thought it’s a shame that WebAssembly has the word “web” in it. Gives it a connotation that it’s “only for browsers” or something.

 Meanwhile, NASA’s over here with a flight-compliant derivative (SpaceWASM) intended for spacecraft!

After a bunch of work on invisible code architecture, my current personal WebGPU project has finally hit the point where I get to mess with the fun graphical techniques. :)