Andrew Meggs
Rendering, game engines, scalability, gratuitous over-engineering || 💼 Avatar Perf & Visuals @ Meta || ⌛ Skyrim, Vampire Bloodlines, Warhammer Online || 🌃 Tiny retro/indie toys in 🦀 || 👫 shannonin3d.bsky.social (Slang/Vulkan/WebGPU/Khronos)
- 2026 is (yet again) probably not the year of the Linux desktop. But it IS the year of me getting so sick of my OS constantly trying to upsell me that I'm finally willing to try.
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- “Dark role-playing masterpiece/dropped bag of spanners” is kind of my whole IRL personality, so that would totally track. @pcgamer.com www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/22...
- A study in quit points: Joined the #ArcRaiders playtest pre-coffee. Typo'd the Embark screen name in way I find too embarrassing to be seen in public. Can't change for 30 days, thus won't play Arc Raiders for 30 days. By that time I'll have missed any real chance to onboard, thus likely never.
- TFW the Google Photos AI generates a "Sand & Sea" album containing your family beach pics and some in-engine video of a water shader that you wrote a few years ago.
- Nice to finally decloak. Here's what I've been working on. There's much more to do, if you're into making these sorts of things. www.roadtovr.com/meta-horizon...
- Expectations are everything. If they'd just called it something like "VtM: Blood & Phyre", everybody would have been super enthusiastic to see how Chinese Room did their own modern take on WoD. Hope folks give this a shot for what it is, instead of raging at what it isn't — so there'll be more WoD.
- No reason.
- Currently sitting in an airport with a laptop, using a phone hotspot to VPN into a data center to control an on-demand devserver to orchestrate automated testing on a rack of VR headsets. I am still blown away that we've somehow made this future Just Work.
- Aw shit. Here we go again.
- OUR son, now. I've adopted him.
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- The total unification of scholarly talks at respected conferences and "Check out my 64k demo". Real-Time GPU Tree Generation; Kuth, Oberberger, Faber, Pfeifer, Tabaei, Baumeister, Meyer; HPG 2025 diglib.eg.org/items/93fc78... youtu.be/DZlJ4bHx1OQ
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- Imperial units as a cautionary case study in letting your DSL grow beyond its original scope.
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- Am I the only one out there who... actually really loves leetcode? Seriously my dream job would be to hang out with a colleague at a whiteboard, optimally solving tricky but completely self-contained CS problems, with no integration or maintenance requirements. I'm sad that's only the interview.
- This is a disturbingly-substantial keyboard.
- OK hear me out. What if we used AI to generate a scene out of triangles because they were efficient to render (trianglesplatting.github.io), but then we used AI to render the triangles (microsoft.github.io/renderformer/)?
- Friendship ended with Gaussian Splats. Now Triangle Splats are my best friend.
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- My favorite DC-weird thing is the way the Venn diagrams of “lifestyle poly” and “poly lifestyle” just barely brush against each other at the same party within the same circle of friends.
- This morning I woke up with a bad hangover, and my cruelty, malice, and will to dominate all life was missing again. This happens all the time. I forged it into a ring of power.
- High point of work today: An art/lighting review where the specular lighting equation on avatar lips divided the room into two camps, depending on whether lip gloss was in or out of style when you came of age.
- When your renderer has a job system and you wrote some code to set up a rim light... 🤦♂️
- Minding the build tree for test failures is nobody's idea of a fun oncall rotation, but I have to admit that "Avatars Sheriff" is an amusing job title to hold for the week.
- I remember ~15 years ago arguing with a fellow dev that "Dark Souls is an incredibly fair game in exactly the same way as Guitar Hero: No tricks, no surprises, you're told exactly what to do and it's up to you to execute." Yet it never connected to me until today that it could be a *rhythm* game!
- The most enshittifying thing about April Fools’ Day in 2025 is the long tail of recommendation algorithms that continue to intermingle outlandish nonsense with serious news for weeks afterwards.
- Now for a bit of light PC Setup music. @masterbootrecord.bsky.social
- There is so much in this dense yet wide-ranging interview that I can't grab one quote. Gatekeeping, capitalism, Musk, Gibson, the relationship between author and audience and society... just go read it. techcrunch.com/2025/03/30/a...
- Dammit. Anyone want to buy one lightly-used perfectly-working but-not-chroma-teal PS5 controller?
- Does it sound like your idea of masochistic fun to push player counts way up while also improving visual quality in the no-compromises hitch-free environment of a VR headset? Do you like Vulkan profiling, hand-optimized shaders, and fine-grained dynamic asset management? Come do stuff with me.
