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Kai Sassnowski and 3 others

@sassnow.ski

I build stupid things with code. Writing interactive blog posts (veeeery slowly) at: https://sassnow.ski

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I just flopped on my bed and took a sip of coke and my fitness band excitedly told that I had just reached my calorie goal for the day. Alright then.

03.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A little shadertoy of my favorite song+film

www.shadertoy.com/view/t3cfWf

01.03.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 86 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
Screenshot of five different styles of rendering SDF (signed distance field) fonts

Screenshot of five different styles of rendering SDF (signed distance field) fonts

I've written up my understanding of SDF and MSDF fonts, and how to use them with msdfgen+webgl: www.redblobgames.com/articles/sdf...

(I'll post it on my blog soon too)

22.02.2026 04:39 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

It's the denim shirt, I'm telling you

19.02.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wow ok

19.02.2026 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I misread this as "I'm still routinely intimate [...] some people in tech". Not gonna lie, I felt a tinge of jealousy.

19.02.2026 14:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

FYI, the site should be back up again. Let's hope I don't get any more fraudulent takedown requests πŸ₯²

19.02.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail of a man playing guitar that looks suspicously like Joe Tannenbaum

A screenshot of a YouTube video thumbnail of a man playing guitar that looks suspicously like Joe Tannenbaum

@joe.codes Dude, first you play in Vulfpeck without telling me, now you randomly show up on my YouTube frontpage again. You're a man of many talents, Joe. Or should I say NICOLA?!

19.02.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Part of the magic of people building stuff pre-AI for me was that no matter how silly the project, someone actually had to think about it and spend their own time building it. "Claude spit this out in 3 minutes" really doesn't hit the same.

19.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The problem with all these AI projects is that they're all so fundamentally .. uninteresting (to me). "My agent built an agent harness so that my agent can agent even harder (with AI!!)". Yeah, cool bro.

19.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My biggest personal annoyance with AI is how no one seems to be building interesting things anymore that aren't AI-related. There's really only a handful of accounts left that I follow which feel like the pre-AI hacker space I used to love.

19.02.2026 07:04 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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ksassnowski/utgars-chronicles.app Source code of https://utgars-chronicles.app, a free web app to help you play Microscope online. - ksassnowski/utgars-chronicles.app

I put some more info in the issue on GitHub github.com/ksassnowski/... tl;dr: I've sent an appeal to my hosting provider and am waiting for a response. Unfortunately nothing else I can do at the moment :(

18.02.2026 22:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I dunno, Marty. "My cats love it" isn't really the strongest selling point to me πŸ˜‚

14.02.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Heisenskew

13.02.2026 17:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In Germany, we call it β€žsaltβ€œ 😢

13.02.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So I tried Vegemite for the first time recently and have a question for all my Australian friends: this is a giant practical joke y’all play on the rest of the world, right?

13.02.2026 17:24 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I noticed. This might take a little bit to resolve because apparently the server's IP got blocked by my hosting provider for some reason 🫠

13.02.2026 07:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Diablo 2 just got a new expansion. The world is healing.

12.02.2026 08:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Longsword Profight: Armored MMA
Longsword Profight: Armored MMA YouTube video by ARMORED MMA

I'm just gonna leave this here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E25-...

08.02.2026 23:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats! That's a huge achievement!

05.02.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I swear, drawing that stupid square at the end of a mathematical proof has got to be the most satisfying thing ever.

04.02.2026 11:31 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I am happiest and proudest of my work when I am building things for other developers. I'd love to begin contributing to a meaningful, open source project, but I'm not sure where to even start.

01.02.2026 04:16 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

I stayed in contact with him for quite a while after he got a job so that wasn't the trigger.

I appreciate the vote of confidence (kinda)

30.01.2026 10:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I'm not sure what happened to Jacob. I actually became quite good friends with him but one day he simply stopped responding. I hope he's doing well

30.01.2026 08:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm doing this part time while still working a full-time job. I end up getting up very early and get all my studying in before I go to work. I don't really have the mental capacity to do this after a full day of work.

30.01.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I still remember when I built the PoC for what became the shader property in Motion Canvas. It was much more primitive than what actually ended up being implemented but it was a real "Holy shit, this changes everything" moment

30.01.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My maths studies start on April 1 (no, seriously) and I'm unbelievably excited for it!

29.01.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The speedruns are going to be *wild*

27.01.2026 09:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Currently working through a book about proof writing

14.01.2026 08:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"Day before your actual day" is a really good way of putting it. Part of what I love about really early mornings is this feeling of the entire world still being asleep.

14.01.2026 08:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0