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)
I should do that more too. It makes my day!
“The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you’re passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated.”
I made a simulator for the math puzzle shared by @3blue1brown.com in his latest video. It stumped me! Try it out:
austinhenley.com/blog/ladybug...
2026 is the year we ship!
I canceled my book deal. What do I do with the draft now?!
austinhenley.com/blog/cancele...
Teaching track boosts research metrics.
My December project: Implement a programming language and then use it to make a game. I’m calling it Langjam Gamejam.
Thanksgiving Day goal: Get below 20 open tabs.
The last day of Techstars. It was 12 weeks of building and learning every day. Highly, highly recommend.
Link to the blog post by @krismicinski.bsky.social: kmicinski.com/functional-p...
I know what I’m doing this weekend: building a compiler in five projects
So that’s how it works.
For sure. Kept it vague while we narrow down the MVP and get feedback. It’s been fun trying to figure out that answer ourselves and also not over promise anything…
The urge to move off grid and make gameboy games in assembly.
Read the original paper by Sam Lau and Philip Guo: lau.ucsd.edu/pubs/2025_an...
The design space of AI coding assistants based on an analysis of 90 tools.
They identified 10 design dimensions covering where the tool lives, how you ask it, who starts it, etc. I wrote a blog post summarizing the findings…
Today’s coding session.
This weekend’s fun project? A baby type checker for Python.
austinhenley.com/blog/babytyp...
Another semester begins at Carnegie Mellon.
I want to get back to my 2021 productivity.
New course coming this fall where we apply the latest and great AI dev tools to all aspects of development.
You know it’s going to be good when there are typos. Taught by the esteemed @abegel.bsky.social and me.
How would you grade students knowing that ChatGPT can ace most assignments?
austinhenley.com/blog/aihomew...
Projectional editors—different information displayed for different situations
