Already in December, Valve has updated OpenVR to include support for Vulkan [https://github.com/ValveSoftware/openvr/tree/v1.0.5]. When using Vulkan instead of OpenGL with OpenVR/SteamVR, there are two additional steps to take: 1. To work at all, you need to create your Vulkan instance and…
Recently, I've been digging a bit into the new high performance graphics API Vulkan [http://khronos.org/vulkan], but found that comprehensive guides are still a little rare. Yet, quite a few people have invested incredible effort into creating tutorials, presentations, and sample code, covering various aspects and usages of…
I have an old 2008 Mac Pro sitting around that I recently wanted to upgrade with some more — and faster — disk capacity. Samsung's new SM951 or 950 Pro NVMe SSDs came to mind. Now NVMe is a rather new protocol that cuts out lots of the overhead that AHCI carries…
Being a big fan of using the keyboard for everything and not touching the mouse more than necessary, I went through different OSX helper applications for helping to move windows around, aligning them on screen, etc. Lately I've been using Magnet (formerly known as Window Magnet, App Store [https://itunes.…
With Windows 8.1, Microsoft introduced a feature called Windows-to-go which enables the installation of Windows on external drives. Only if you have a Microsoft-certified external drive. Only if you have Windows 8.1 Enterprise. If not? Bummer. Or? Actually, there is a way. Not wanting to "pollute" my internal…
Here's a short summary of things I have learned in the last months of OpenGL programming - sometimes the hard way (read: while destroying awful amounts of Club Mate and coffee). Some of these are rather subtle pitfalls and do not get mentioned in tutorials or books too often. * Textures…
Quite some time ago, I reckon it must have been around 2000, Intel decided to beef up the CPUID feature of their processors a bit: They added a globally unique, unchangable ID to the processor which could be read out by software - unless disabled in the BIOS. Public outcry…
@mdo [http://twitter.com/mdo] posted a nice list of HTML and CSS WTFs, common traps and pitfalls today - WTF, HTML and CSS? [http://wtfhtmlcss.com] My all-time favourite is still the box model of CSS [http://css-tricks.com/the-css-box-model/], which fortunately can now be remedied by the glorious…