John Austin / is on Nostr

Engineer, Game Designer, Tea Lover; in no specific order | Made The Last Clockwinder | Founder @hellopontoco | Prev: Lead XR Eng @Funomena | Research @ Google Brain

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2025-03-27 21:38:07

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@nprofile…cfuw 😂 But so much better than the 100 different options before with floats and centering and tables.. T.T

2025-03-27 17:52:01

Look I have no idea who invented flexbox but they absolutely have not gotten enough credit. Wild how we used to struggle with this.

2025-01-18 19:55:16

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@nprofile…z4fl Funny, I was thinking of moving my site from Squarespace to Hugo recently. Kind of getting fed up with the awkwardness of squarespace. But I think I would miss being able to quickly edit articles from any web browser with their GUI. :\

2025-01-14 20:00:07

I recently discovered that CIELAB and other perceptual color spaces like Oklab don't handle brightness correctly for strongly saturated reds and blues. This is called the Helmholtz–Kohlrausch effect.
This can actually meaningfully impact operations like desaturation, if you care about accurately showing the perceived brightness of an image.
I wrote a blog post on it: https://buff.ly/407qnYM
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2025-01-08 00:46:22

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@nprofile…3kf4 Thanks! Yeah, there's a weird dynamic where more people seem to have heard of Clockwinder than have actually played it. It's always the headset as the bottleneck. :|
This game will be different in a lot of ways, but I'm hoping it'll scratch the same itches. We'll see as it develops. :)

2025-01-07 22:11:24

Some news! We've recently been working on a new project called The Infernal Parade. It's a bit of a spiritual successor to Clockwinder, but for consoles/pc! Build factories out of your own clones to cook food for an endless parade of horrors.
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2024-04-09 22:54:22

Do you eat and breathe compute shaders and want to do a one-off graphics effects project with Pontoco for our upcoming game? Drop me a message.

2024-03-14 19:07:19

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@npub1mc3…nkdg I have a backup Comcast pay-as-you-go modem in the closet, because last time my CenturyLink went out it took them a week. 😐

2023-07-14 16:48:54

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@npub1mc3…nkdg @npub1w5s…etnc 🙃