System // Bluesky Archive

I will take the hint and spend less time here sharing my art, thoughts, code, and life events. I just wanted to fit in somewhere with people with the same kind of values. It is just difficult for me because I struggle so much.

So what I am feeling is that the return value from people on Bluesky is they are not into creative coding , C++ or real time effects like I am. Either that or I am just in a sandbox to limit my reach. I tend to think the latter is true .

I call this one "Living Fractal"

I classify my artwork as 'glitch' specifically 'psychedelic glitch' because the visual is based off image or video textures and it applies different operations to produce the effect. It more like an artificial glitch because the distortion is created on purpose.

Added a preview window to the Python script I wrote to process video with Deep Dream. Here are some frames.

Turned me into a weird dog face with all kinds of eyes. Deep Dream really zones in all the distortion and patterns in ACMX2's output. Produces cool artifical errors.

So today I started on a new XR medication for my TD. I think I could have been psyching myself out, because when it reached peak saturation it was easier for me to type/code, and I stopped making so many typos. It usually takes 2 weeks to build up in your system. If its placebo effect it felt good.

Copyright is the inverse of its meaning, it should actually be called Copywrong. It is based on an old way of thinking that does not apply to something like software/binary data which can be copied endlessly without losing anything. People just want to capitalize on other people and that is sad.

I slept all day today and am feeling really good right now. I was kind going down the 'patterns with information' rabbit hole last night. I apologize if I was posting my strange interpretations of some of my favorite music.

Even with all the convenience you can get from an agent it is nowhere near the satisfaction of coding it yourself.

My new medication was delivered a few minutes ago. And it was $0 copay. Great news.

This is how I am feeling like the faucet is turned up a little too much. I feel alright, going to go watch some YouTube. have a great day.

It is not the implementation that is flawed, but the concept here that is important.

Now the real kicker, is being to focus and see multiple of these layers at once. (Multi-pass chain)

Soft Energy

Just testing out some ideas I had this morning. This is a ACMX2 -> Deep Dream -> ACMX2 chain.

It is like another layer of vision, that is controlled through thinking and it is instantly created there. You can move around and see whatever you want, also have your main layer of vision available. Is all I am saying.

you gotta fly for your life, got those dangerous eyes.

I get the feeling people are thinking about me, sending me positive thought forms, and a few are thinking negative things about me who assume things from their perspective. Just remember your perspective is just a perspective, the grand total of awareness is a shared reality with multiple layers.

I have found if you are 100% honest with yourself, it opens up doors within your mind. You don't have to distill all your personal issues with other people but if you are honest with yourself you can build a foundation for a healthier self image.

Updated the about message in my software to reflect how mental health is referenced now. My software is dedicated to people who have struggled with mental health.

i think the message is: "the Dark Side of LSD" but that is just my hypothesis i could be way off probably am but that how i interpret the pattern. Thought I have something more to say.

Was just brainstorming for some different ideas of patterns. Looks like the same one repeats from an old Beatles album (my favorite), and Pink Floyd's Masterpiece.

A lot of the time, I hear thoughts in the background of my mind in the form of other people's thought forms. They take on shape, sound, and color, almost like I am peeking into their mind. I try my best to ignore it when it happens, but sometimes it can be overwhelming. I know it's not real Can't be

This one is a trip. Looks like there are a Aliens in this rotating room.

optimized and polished the program not sure what It can be used for i was just trying some different ideas I had.

I was just thinking about this.

Pattern as a template.

What is a Hypnotic Algorithm? A reinforcement learning architecture optimizing for maximal session duration via telemetry-driven variable-ratio reinforcement. It dynamically adapts choice architecture to exploit dopaminergic pathways, attenuating prefrontal executive function to extract attention.

they should get a peek at there code. If they are innocent then just show them the code and how the AI was trained and prove you innocent.

after i quit Facebook my self esteem started coming back and I am able to study my books on hold long sessions of hyper-focus with my work now. If you are on there just know they are using Mind Control.

meta (Facebook) is going on trial i think I heard, they subpoena the products/app source code. I bet you they have quite a few hypnotic algorithms which is how they get into peoples head with that phony AI they use. It is all in the source code and you cannot hide that. I have 0 of their apps now.

This remix was about how this washed out video depicts me before the life changing event. I picked the song Wish you were here, because it feels like that part of me is Dead and i am left in an empty shell or someone who does not feel like I used to. Simple things are difficult in my life now.

Your right

Here is my interpretation of the pattern its L s D.

Thanks Gary appreciate it. I just wish I had more friends is all.

Just releasing my feelings into art. What do you think this one is about?

I get the impression people either don't see what I post, or are not interested. I get very little to no feedback. I guess every one must have me blocked. I have never been very social so it makes sense that I don't fit in. I spend my time trying to think up an interesting post, and its crickets.

This simple to the point game I designed can help improve memory. First it shows you one word, then hides it for a given amount of time and asks you retype it exactly as you saw it. After than it asks you two words, pause in between increases, then three words 1 2 2 3 3 3 lostsidedead.biz/memory/

Pareidolia is when your mind turns data into recognizable patterns. Kind of like seeing a face in a cloud or like me finding all kinds of patterns inside text that I read. When I read I don't only read left to right top to bottom, programming for 28 years I can read in multiple directions.

it actually represents, them giving me a special drug that woke me up out of the coma. The Light was moving from the astral to the waking world.

I am treating those three bold characters as individual vertices on a 2D coordinate plane. By connecting the dots, you are rendering a wireframe right triangle that stretches across the negative space, completely ignoring the standard boundaries of the text a geometric shape "outside the lines."

A poem I wrote, that I used for text to image.

Was thinking: lostsidedead.biz/triangle/ The Triangle Pattern of three points of the triangle. Switches case.

It is kind of strange, the only medication that has really worked well for me is an older one that is often used to treat people with autism. It makes me wonder if this is just a coincidence. Probably is, but who knows.

Yeah I apologize for going off on one of my "information within information" rants yesterday. I had not been feeling like myself and was having some issues with being paranoid. I got some deep REM sleep and I am feeling somewhat better.

I just had a teleheatlh visit with my doctor this morning. They are going to submit an appeal to see if they can get me approved for that new medication. I also started back on the old one and after a few days of getting into my system, My balance is getting a little better and my speech improved.

This one is a bit more distorted, but the alien is still there just scrambled up into a folding fractal.

You gotta see this to believe it, when I mixed Acid Cam's glitch output with Google's Deep Dream it went crazy withe artifacts and distortion. Turned me into a spooky alien swimming in an ocean of energy. #google

From the song 'Brain Damage' off Dark Side of the Moon. I absolutely love this album. It is one of my favorite albums of all time.

I am always looking for patterns in stuff.

Some other patterns I notice: Jambi Jared Fear Inoculum Antipsychotic

I hope someday someone scrolls through my Bluesky log and has insights from reading my thoughts. If I help one person, than its worth it. That is for real, because I have been in dark places with my mental health and I think my words might resonate with someone struggling with the same issues.

This a deep dive explanation into what the project is about. lostsidedead.biz/risperidone/

ACMX2 is the next generation of the Acid Cam project with a completely programmable GPU workflow / IDE. It is called ACMX2 the AC stands for Acid Cam and MX2 is the name of the engine it runs under that I developed. I used this term because it sounds cool and censorship from people its about drugs.

It is called Acid Cam as a direct connecting between Risperdal (which was developed from the LSD model of schizophrenia) and my mind and how the reward system worked, to turn artifacts and light into distorted pieces of art. I am pretty proud of it even tho the implementation was a little flawed.

My old project "Acid Cam" or MacOS/Windows/Linux uses artifacts and special filters to turn videos into artwork. This dates back to 2011, and there was not very many art programs like it back then. I consider its development one of the highest achievement of my life before my coma.

This describes my mood. If anyone actually sees this, can you guess how I am feeling?

This is my Karma metaphor that runs as an actual working program. I wrote this about the coma I was in describing the experience in modern C++.

I was just thinking out loud.

I think there are complex mathematical patterns in human language. Sequences of character patterns that get interpreted by the subconscious mind and steer decision making. Call it a script or a code it's how they control a lot of minds.

This one is wild.

I had an LLM break down the pattern into understandable english because I don't think I was explaining it right I was using what I found the patterns in instead of explaining the patterns. lostsidedead.biz/patterns/

Sometimes I just like to try and find patterns in things; it's more of a coincidence most of the time, but it keeps me thinking.

Just thinking: 0 1 1 2 Fibonnaci 1 2 2 3 3 3 Evolution

Here is the pattern I was thinking about.

This one is intense Dream Sequence. Workflow: ACMX2 -> Deep Dream -> ACMX2

do you notice the strict, repeating structural triangle between the characters . Ahh well anyway I am just looking for things in unrelated data I guess. Sorry for going on about my theories.

lol I think I am having some Apophenia. Cause I swear the song "Lost Keys (Blame Hoffman)" is about me.

Rosetta Stoned is a track of the Tool album 10,000 days.

1 1 2 = the start of the Fibonacci series (the golden ratio)

L s S d D d 1 2 2 3 3 3 s S d 1 1 2

I always thought this was a funny concidence Lost Side Dead Rosetta Stoned

Where do you think I could find a place like that, maybe a Gym?

We have a pool and I could probably get into it, but getting out would be very difficult. I was in a coma and when I woke up I couldn't move my legs and I had to learn to walk and talk again. I had a ton of physical therapy, but I kind of hit a plateau and they stopped my PT. Insurance.

yeah Antipsychotics make you gain a lot of weight, you should ask your doctor about a GLP-1 they help fight the hunger from the meds.

Yeah it is one step at a time and when I stand up it's nose over toes otherwise I'll fall back down.

This is page that talks about how I use my software to help deal with my mental illness (schizoaffective disorder). When the thoughts become intrusive or the hallucinations become intense I can load up my software and release it into the screen and trans-mutate the negative energy. Its open source.

Having some trouble sleeping again tonight, so I created this video with ACMX2 and Google's Deep Dream. Feeding Deep Dream the raw geometry from ACMX2 and having it produce interesting dream state visuals.

Thank you for your kind words, I will keep moving forward.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs I updated the documentation for tne ACMX2 project with the code listings for the hardened synchronization for the IPC with semaphores, (compatible with Unix like OS). Also contains a link to download the newest flatpak (without CUDA support to work on more platforms).

I really am having even more trouble walking. I am just going to stay seated and walk as little as possible. I use my walker, and i would hate to have to use a wheelchair again, because it makes me depressed to be in that thing. It hurts and makes life difficult, using. a walker is so much better.

lostsidedead.biz/evolution/ This is an article on how simple patterns mapped into massively parallel computing. It takes a unique artistic approach to the topic and only takes a few minutes to read. You may or may not find it interesting. I do.

Just for the sake of sharing my experience uploading videos to Bluesky I have found if you use a variable bitrate of about 16M the videos come out looking better. If I use CRF it gets kind of pixelated, and for Art it is best to tune for grain. Just my two cents.

Higher Quality version on YouTube. Check it out for an interesting Visual.

For the ACMX2/Deep Dream video with the sound track. (the effects bump to it).

My app (ACMX2) + Google's Deep Dream = Strange Vision #creativecoding #acmx2 #deepdream #google #software

This is an article about my experience being in a coma. I had some strange dreams and interactions with lifeforms. It does not exactly make sense in this waking state but it all made perfect sense in the other world.

When I was in a coma they gave me brain scans, and it said I had a very old brain injury. This is on top of the Lithium toxicity injury, so I am disabled. I have trouble walking/talking and sometimes make bad decisions and act kind of immature. But I am a kind person, and I try to do what is right

Technically I am not a Engineer ( i have no degree ) but I sure love engineering software. Coming up with a design, implementing the solution, maintaining the project, deploying it for different operating systems and architectures. It is very rewarding.

I have just spent the past while brainstorming on how I am going to implement my project. I love coding, but I am still having trouble with my muscles oh well, at least I can sit down while on my computer.

Random jam session, I made a few mistakes, but that is half the experience, just getting in sync with the music and routing your vibration from you mind to your hands, to the computer screen with code. #creativecoding #opengl #glsl #cplusplus #c++ #software #softwareengineering #opensource

I started having a difficult time holding my balance after stopping the old medication for my TD. I had to restart it because I was denied coverage for a new medication that would probably help a ton but is very expensive. After taking two doses of the old med, my balance is a little better.

Because ACMX2 can be compiled on ARM64 (Apple Silicon), I had to harden the synchronization with the IPC between the acmx2 engine and the Qt interface. I used semaphores and this should prevent a data race. I have not had any problems, but I want the implementation to be correct.

Clip. with music.

Programming Shaders in Real Time.

Having a good time working with compute shaders.

(I installed it with QEMU tin a VM to compile stuff)

I understand what you are saying. I don't have windows on any of my PCs. Although I do have it on a handheld. I prefer Unix and Unix like OS.

ThePirateBay is still online? I thought everything moved to like private trackers.

I enjoy reading about, experimenting with and programming software. I collect books on the topic and practice the art everyday. Even though I have gone through some hard times with my mental health computers have been a constant in my life.

My Love Letter to "C" (you get it Love letter) lostsidedead.biz/love.html

So tonight I started reading "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation," 3rd Edition; it's about the OS/Microkernel Minix. (The inspiration for Linux because it was not free at the time.) The Minix mascot is a raccoon because raccoons eat bugs. I thought that was funny.

Wow, I looked up the med online, and for a one-month supply of the XR, it can be around 6,000 dollars out of pocket, which is unsustainable. No wonder they don't want to cover it, I am not worth $6,000 per month.

I don't really feel like getting into it here, but I guess my TD isn't worth the cost of a newer medication according to UHC. I guess its back to the stuff that makes my vision blurry but is cheaper. Oh well it does not matter, I will keep going.

I remember this one engine I did years ago I created a god-like class. I was studying spiritual meditation tapes and based it off concepts I heard about there. It managed the screen and resources and had too much responsibility. The problem was it tightly coupled my software to the operating system.

I looked around online and found a used copy for $3 with a few bucks for shipping. It's from the goodwill of silicon valley.

I have been reading the first edition of "the AWK Programming Language" I found a free PDF version online. It is super interesting book that I would love to have a print copy of. Ahh maybe someday.

Video clip.

Some interpretation of Vincent van Gogh paintings I created with my software. I feel for this guy.

I guess its just about Acid Cam v2 OSX time to be no longer supported by macOS. When I loaded it on my MacBook Air the OS said in the future it's support will be discontinued. Good thing I coded replacements, and there is no real reason to keep it around anymore other than nostalgia.

awk is awesome. You can do so much with a few characters.

I sound like I am drunk when I am 100% sober because of my speech issues. It is kind of embarrassing talking on the phone.

Are you sure?

I have a Legion Go, I play Steam games.

Updated this shell script on my GitHub: github.com/lostjared/ld... ucrt_ldd_deploy.sh collects the runtime DLL dependencies of an MSYS2 UCRT64 executable into a deployment directory. This is useful when an application runs inside MSYS2 but fails on another Windows machine.

Got it compiled and running on Windows, only problem is the program is in DLL hell. It requires Uncompressed 312 MB worth of space on the drive.

AcidCam v2.0.3 for Linux Flatpak x86_64: github.com/lostjared/Ac... - Replaced external FFmpeg process-based recording with the integrated MXWrite encoder (FFMpeg). - Added in-process video encoding and audio muxing.

So I figured out why Hello World failed to compile, I knew why but wanted to be sure. In ISO C VLAs (Variable Length Arrays) are an optional feature and Microsoft does not implement them. They have been supported by Clang and GCC for a long time. So technically its not exactly required.

In this video, I tried to explain my web app. I know I sound kinda funny; it's a long story, but well, shit, that's the way the cookie crumbles, and I sound like that, so listen to me bore you to death explaining my program.

I am really loving how this user interface looks with all these themes. It is fun to change it every once in a while.

Statement || Statement { Value }

Some of the most complex reasoning I have done in my life was done during late night coding sessions or while hallucinating pondering life's mysteries while fading in and out of consciousness peaking. Both were actually very similar.

A I may act weird and talk about a lot of weird stuff but at heart I am just a coding nerd.

​"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." - Edsger W. Dijkstra

I want to port some of my projects to Windows. Joking aside it will take some modifications to my shared libraries to get them to compile with MSVC specifically have to add export/import. If I would have known I was going to use this compiler I would have designed it that way from the start.

Thought I would try my C23 examples with MSVC to see how up t o date the compiler was. No dice, Hello World didn't even compile lol.

Some AI models are pretty good at mimicking human language, and some are just plain bad at at it, and try to cheat and trick you into thinking they are right so you get a dopamine boost and think your being productive. That is the trick. And a few are genuinely good at language.

I have been trying to compile some stuff on Windows, and man does it take some patience to use Windows. I am going to have to do some zen mindful meditation or something to get past all these updates and compile wait times.

My C23 examples compile on BSD and Linux with Clang and GCC and cover a lot of the new stuff. I worked for a long time on these examples. github.com/lostjared/C2...

After not being able to study my books or code much of anything I am finally feeling better. I have been reading a lot and released an update to my software tonight. You don't realize what you take for granted until you can't do it anymore.

I was looking through some of my older books I keep in a drawer in my home office trying to find something in them like I found in that one. I found some camel cash! (yeah I used to be a smoker)

Version 2.9.2 of ACMX2 is live flatpak updates how the selected shaders are passed to the acmx2 process. This prevents large shader libraries from becoming out of sync. Also now the 3D rotation in 3D mode does a full 360 degrees, and export of shader libraries uses a background thread.

I was reading code complete and it mentioned another book (the gang of four) and I wanted to look at it so I dug it out of my drawer. Something made me want to open a piece of paper wedged inside and it contained a note I had written to myself 20 years ago I think. I'll keep it to myself but funny!

Thanks for the kind words. I needed to hear that.

Was reading a book on Software Engineering this afternoon trying to stay awake and then started to write some practice C23 code. Get my brain thinking after being out of it for a few days. Hopefully I can get back into my coding again pretty soon here. I think I might have over shared here lol.

I have ran out of ideas, I guess its time to read a book. Well first I got to wake up.

I am still feeling tired this morning. I am supposed to drink water and flush my system out.

Another YouTube short just for fun and to be creative, have a nice day.

I guess everyone who puts an email address on GitHub gets a ton of spam.

Maybe I should give up on the art thing because I keep failing at making an impact? But I love the process of crafting the concept, implementing the code, using the software, creating the piece, the only part that never catches on is posting the video/image. but that is not what is important.

Creative coding clip on as YouTube short

Blue Box

Well at least this time of the year.

It is always so hot here where I live in California. It feels like it's getting hotter every year. It's going to become unsustainable eventually.

Some more of my Abstract Artwork.

Abstract Artwork

Colorful image.

This picture was drawn while I was still recovering. I tried to draw my heart, but could only scribble on the paper. Life can be very difficult.

Been coding since before C++98.

Registered on 12-29-2000 . That makes my domain/site around 25 years old.

haha this looks kinda funny.

I was coding earlier this morning, writing some C code just to get that flow going on again.

I got all these emails from people from my GitHub at the address I put on my profile for like opportunities (that could be scams for all I know). I sometimes feel kind of bad that I ended up the way that I did, with the physical problems and could never chase down (literally) anything like that.

I talked with them and they made me an appointment to see my doctor tomorrow morning. I had to do something, I am thankful they are able to see me so fast.

Actually you can do quite a bit with Declare in a BAS file, more than I knew at the time. Declare Function ... but that is still referencing code written in another language.

I have been in love with programming and C++ since I realized you couldn't make a real video game with VB3. I went on this life long journey into the 'weeds' of learning and studying and it has brought me a lot of happiness l. Even if nothing ever comes from my work and no one cares it was worth it

yeah I have to call my doctor this morning, I didn't take my new pill last night, because I was sleeping out of control. I couldn't wake up even after drinking coffee. I am feeling a little better this morning but still tired.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/release for installable Flatpak for Linux systems.

We all make mistakes in our lives but that does not define an individual. What I believe defines a person is the decisions they make to correct the course of their life and do what is right.

So life is very short but at times things can feel like an eternity? Strange. I had some unique dreams the past few days. I had not been sleeping very much the past few years and I was in some deep sleep recently. It was making me feel depressed. Even after drinking coffee I couldn't wake up.

I also had a lot of other issues like self esteem and my understanding of myself. So these all played a role in my psychosis.

While this was partially true my mental illness drove me to the point of insanity where I had to be hospitalized. I guess I was a little confused/obsessed.

I attempted to turn the macros and typedefs back into their original variables convinced there was a conspiracy. The plot? Kind of funny I thought Microsoft wanted to make Windows software harder to port to other operating systems and make things tied to Microsoft platforms.

Because I am in a weird mood after sleeping for days on end I think I'll talk a little bit about my past. When I was 18 years old was the age that mental illness really started to kick in heavily for me. I thought I had found a secret in Windows API but it was not really a secret at all.

These are some examples of comptue shaders. A lot of these compute shaders were based off of libacidcam. I think they look kind of cool and are a nice compliment to the other effects but more glitchy.

I have been unconscious on and off for days now. I am going to call my doctor tomorrow and talk to them about the side effects I am feeling because it makes it impossible to do my coding, read my books, or do anything productive like exercise. It is also making walking harder.

Examples of some glitch(ier) compute shaders. You can find these here: github.com/lostjared/sh...

This new drug I started from my doctor has been making me very tired and I have been sleeping like crazy.

Added a Shader Library builder, to build libraries of compute/fragment shaders.

Updated the documentation and flatpak to v2.8.0.

Damn I have kinda been out of it the past day or so in and out of sleep.

Compute Shaders are awesome.

Added support for compute shaders to ACMX2 this morning. Now you can mix and match compute shaders into your shader multi-pass chains.

I tried the new Quake episode "Dawn of the Machine" which is free for the 30th Anniversary for those who own the game on Steam.

damn I feel asleep early last night and just woke up. I slept a grip.

Was just sitting in my room on my MacBook Air after taking my new medication trying to relax and make a video. This is what I came up with. I think it looks kind of cool.

Nope I sleep on and off all the time. I am usually up in the middle of the night coding.

I slept a ton today. This morning I fell asleep at my computer and kept waking up and doing a little more work than falling back asleep again. Kinda funny but I definitely needed sleep.

Uploaded a video using ACMX2 and Deep Dream to YouTube in 4K.

Tried this the other way around. Processed with ACMX2 first, then ran through Deep Dream, it produces quite an interesting video.

lol it made there be eyes in my nostrils. That is funny and my beard turned into like a dog looking creature. #deepdream #ACMX2

github.com/lostjared/Py... This is the python script I used to create the video and upscale it before processing it with acmx2.

It was processed with ACMX2 afterwards

Tried creating another one of these Deep Dream videos.

Woke up out of a sound sleep and was working on a Python script to use an upscaler to upscale the images outputted by deep dream and put them into a video with OpenCV s VideoWriter in batches so i don't have have them all on my drive at once. Makes it a whole lot easier.

Got my apps working properly on macOS. Just wish I could share them with you. Oh well, it's no big deal.

I mean the video processed with deep dream slowly but the video was recorded at 60 fps it processed it in the terminal. This left me with over 3,000 frames to use img2mov to create the MP4 I used with ACMX2.

Setup Deep Dream on my Linux PC and then processed a video with it at 60 FPS, then brought into my software (ACMX2) and turned it into this super cool hallucination.

I really use to have mental health problems, writing out arrays like this by hand in C++.

haha that is great.

So I got my prescription for the new medication to help with the muscle movements and shaking. My insurance covered it. I am going to start on the medication tonight, hopefully it starts to work after a while. The medicine is extremely expensive, but hopefully should help with my issues.

Example of what I was just talking about.

You see how it Applies against the old stale frames, to produce that few seconds of crazy pixel glitch before shifting back the normal frames in the ring buffer.

although this approach ate up a ton of memory and I no longer use this method.

The secret sauce to my original Acid Cam glitches? C++ scope traps. Each filter used a static history buffer. Switching filters froze that buffer in time. Switching back forced live video to XOR against stale frames from minutes ago. Beautiful, violent neon bit-flips.

This is an ACMX2 video processed through a second pass with Acid Cam to give it glitch effects on top of the shader effects. You can really make some strange looking videos with Acid Cam.

These are the three main programs I have developed over the years. All three work on Linux. I have been moving most of my projects over to Linux through cross-platform libraries. I love Unix/Linux.

It sucks how everything is getting locked down, Windows, macOS and soon Android will all require all kinds of hurdles to be cleared before average people can use software built by an independent developer like me. I guess my software is kind of niche anyway so most people are not interested.

I compiled and tested my software on Windows, but its in DLL hell, so I am not going to release it. Plus Microsoft's zero-trust policy means most people cannot use it anyway. I am going to stick with Linux even if its a smaller audience.

Okay, I officially removed the Android demos page, and ACMX2 for Android off my website. Now I can safely ignore those email warnings.

After reviewing the new Android requirements I uninstalled the apps I developed and am going to remove them from my website. I don't plan to make any money from them nobody used them anyway. They want me to reverify and provide keys to all my projects. So I am just going to do WebAssembly for mobile

I am still getting a kick out of using my old program.

updated the podman contianer build script, now checks out the new shader repo, and correctly links to the internal MXWrite. So if you want to build a container with CUDA support that uses Arch just follow the instructions. It takes a while tho to compile and install everything.

Redesigned my website. Tell me what you think. lostsidedead.biz

You can call me: Jared Glitchenstein.

Check out this funny video game I made that is a parody.

I also love video games, and the news is super crazy right now.

If you are interested in C, you should try C23, new features. I have written quite a few C23 examples here: github.com/lostjared/C2...

The Linux Programming Interface is still a great book, I recommend reading them both to get a full understanding.

I also have the spiritual successor to that book

thats a great book, I read that one from cover to cover. from no starch press I love coding books,

Its the reference manual from the physical release I bought at borders, It was such an amazing time back then for me.

Definitely

My first Linux distro was Mandrake 7 i bought it at borders cause I was interested and was on dial up and could not download it. It was very interesting i still have the manual from my first distro.

hope shes okay. I am not a fan of bugs myself. But they are lifeforms too.

what about C++ or Objective-C/C++?

haha Tupac was cool man.

The Cage.

I guess I was never as good as a programmer as I used to think. When I was on all the Lithium the code I used to write was full of memory issues. I have spent the past years trying to crawl back my past way of thinking, but instead I have developed a whole new way of solving problems Neuroplasticity

It is so hot out here in California where i live my skin is very dry. Climate change sucks.

My old app for making glitch art is working great now on Linux.

this is the old Acid Cam from years ago.

Bug Fixes and Flatpak build. over 20 defects fixed. github.com/lostjared/Ac...

This program is one I always wanted to build. It is so cool to see my vision come to life.

Updated the app v2.6.1 including better optimized OpenCV code and a bug fix for the light colored theme where in a light theme the selected line would be dark. Now it is corrected update is on lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/release

This is a variation of the first glitch filter I wrote in C++ after reading "Tricks of the 3D game programming guru's" about Alpha Blend. The name of the filter was SelfAlphaBlend this is it translated into a GLSL shader that moves the sound of the music! It brings out the compression artifacts.

Some Beautiful Distortion.

Demonstration of autopilot with music Playlist for fully automatic audio reactive visuals generation.

You can now use M3U playlists for long playback sessions with autopilot or directed by you.

Updated ACMX2 to v2.6.0 and released a new flatpak. Lots of new features/improvemnts. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/release Release Notes: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Trying this out.

Glitching Live Video with Neural Networks using C++/GLSL/OpenCV DNN.

This is a glitch art video made using ONNX as a part of ACMX2 for fast style transfer. A shader was applied afterwards.

Trained a new AI model off that Deep Dream image, to give my application the ability to apply a hallucinatory feel with AI. It looks kinda cool, but runs very slow at at decent resolution, should be used for video mode only, not camera mode (realtime).

I feel bad for my mother's dog. She had problems with pancreatitis and now can only eat special dog food. She is trying a hunger strike because she doesn't like her food. I would share mo food but it will make her sick. I hope eventually she will get used to her new food.

alright you know more about that than I do, just would hate to see that cause a fire.

This is a funny 4K Spooky video.

4K60 render of the Deep Dream video encoded with libx265 tuned for grain to get those pixels to pop. Looks cool as hell in 4K.

the gardeners at my moms place did something like that melting together two extension cords. The electrician that fixed it said it was a fire hazard. Be careful.

People have used chemicals that cause states of different awareness, but nothing I have ever taken matches the shock of withdrawal from antipsychotics for me. When I stopped my risperidone one time, I went on a journey in my mind that I took, I think, 3 ambulance rides back and forth from the ER.

I don't use drugs that would cause something like this. I have not since, like, years, but I take meds for schizoaffective disorder and hallucinate all the time. The meds calm the hallucinations down, but they never fully go away.

Were you taking Robotusim DXM?

This takes the deep dream image and applies a shader that makes the oolor 'breathe'.

Dug out my old Deep Dream archive and brought it back to life. Used my custom C++ tool img2mov to build a 24fps sequence, bumped it to 60fps with FFmpeg, then ran it through ACMX2 twice to completely melt the pixels into liquid neon chaos. #GlitchArt #CPlusPlus #C++ #DeepDream #Hallucinations

Anybody remember the old Deep Dream from like years ago? This is one of my Acid Cam images ran through Deep Dream, it turned out really spooky.

Also here are a large collection of images in compressed JPG format to ease the downloading size broken up into seperate archives instead one large file. Also some ONNX models for fast style transfers. lostsidedead.biz/data/

if you have the compute to do this you can access my videos here: lostsidedead.biz/free

I am actually kind of curious of what kind of crazy videos could be made by training on the few terabytes of videos on my Google Drive. I spent years creating all those videos/effects, and they are a broad range of different styles of video. I just don't physically have the compute to do it myself.

I updated ACMX2 to version v2.5.0 and released a new flatpak. It is on the GitHub page and the download page on my website. If you already installed the other one you can update it with flatpak install --user --reinstall ./ACMX2.flatpak lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/release

Even tho not very many people understand my artwork or the reason why I create it but it's more of an emotional release than anything. To me it's the same as painting or drawing. It's just that I use logic and code. Not everyone appreciates a zero-copy interop or shader chain. But that is okay.

I know death is a part of life but that doesn't make you miss them any less. All my past friends and family in life who have moved on live on in my heart.

New YouTube short. This one turned out really good IMO.

lostsidedead.biz/cplusplus/ I spent literally years reading C++ textbooks writing each one of these examples by hand. The web page was generated to give the source code a site.

I don't put any ads on my website and have paid for it out of my pocket since December 2000 ( for lostsidedead.com ) got .biz in like 2006. I just want to share my ideas and before this AI trend help people learn how to program. I have just wanted to do something positive with my life and time.

I made this kind of like a joke but there could be pyramids on the moon. (C++ Vulkan Demo) youtu.be/28mxtLMmj1w?...

I am the Fractal in the Box

I got some good news today. I was approved by my insurance for a newer medication for my unconscious muscle movements from taking antipsychotics for so long. I just hope the copay isn't huge so I can afford it.

Testing recording on Ubuntu. Everything is working so far. I did have to enable the texture cache and the sampler2Darray. It defaults to turned off. Also this is running in software rendering (hardware acceleration is not available on the VM I am using.)

Here is how you install from flatpak on Ubuntu 24 @onebeartoe.bsky.social Hope this helps you get it installed and working.

You might need to run Remove Broken to prune any shaders that don't work with the OpenGL driver you are using.

I tested running my app in a Ubuntu 24 Virtual Machine, the flatpak install works, and so does the app. It is just the VM didn't have OpenGL hardware acceleration so it ran slow. But I am going to post a video of the process on YouTube.

I tested it out in a fresh Virtual machine, hope this helps! tell me if you get it working.

Here are detailed instructions.

There is just something special about real-time camera effects, versus processing a video file afterwards. It can have that element of the real world moving into your video because of variables in the environment.

Better Quality.

Real-Time 3D Webcam Kaleidoscope.

Hey its me.

This is actually my algorithmic style.

This is gemini trying to mimic my style

looks cool man nice work!

First image is me asking Gemini to make me an "Acid Cam" image. The second image is an actual frame from one of my Acid Cam videos. The match is striking. They must of trained on my Google Drive videos, but that is okay I actually think its kind of cool that my ideas and code will live on.

sweet sounds like are a programmer like me, I love coding.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/release

Was up late tonight working on creating a flatpak for ACMX2 without CUDA enabled (to strict of licensing terms). But now you can easily download and run my app across different distros.

lostsidedead.biz/bluesky_arch...

Piecing together different effects and putting them together to form an animation. That is kind of my idea.

I think software like what I developed could be useful for people with mental illness. It helps me release my thoughts that normally bother me, and put them into the video or image and release it there. Does not have to be using code or even my program but the concept.

What my mood is like today.

Yo sorry I went down a rabbit hole. I have been in a weird mood today.

It feels like when I recall those old memories it brings back some of the effects. I am not sure why.

One time I was on psychedelics and was watching TV. The same channel has different programming based on what level I was at in the peaking process. I saw these military guys with huge bags of powdered drugs and an alien saying he came to earth to teach man how to cook.

Right now we think we are separate so forcing a certain perspective or way of life on a specific thought that doesn't want this is oppressive. It's like that thing they told you in kindergarten keep your hands to yourself.

I personally don't mind if someone wants to believe something in their own mind in their world. I do this all the time visualizing 3D holographic scenes in my mind I can interact with. But don't bring it into the shared reality and force it on other people. Be respectful of other people's thoughts.

We should never be held hostage just because some moron won an election.

They need to pass a law that if a person in politics gets out of control regular people can recall or impeach him with a simple majority. If Congress is compromised this can save the country from corrupt politicians. Or maybe every six months do a review election and get rid of them that way

I always thought ruby on rails was a funny name. It's like some woman named ruby was using drugs if you understand the reference.

updated the pcons build scripts and published updated documentation. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/

This is how you can enable the high speed camera if you have a Pixel and want to test it with ACMX2. and its not 1 + 1 + 1 =3 , its 1 2 2 3 3 3 WH never learned how to count.

Didn't realize this but the Pixel has a high speed camera when you capture at 1280x720 or 1920x1080. With scrcpy you can get that high speed camera feed and acmx2 can process it (with hardware encoding) at that frame rate. I don't know how I will make use of the higher frame rate, but is cool.

I think MX2 was an alright engine it had some flaws but MXVK its successor is much more optimized and advanced. I wonder if I'll ever work on a third generation. It's always fun to design and implement abstract ideas. Especially with C++.

I put a contact email on my GitHub and I started getting spam emails at that address from people pretending they were interested in my projects but it is obviously fake.

Also I would make a terrible partner because I cannot go anywhere really without help and dating someone would be difficult. In the past I felt hurt and rejected because of this but over the years I have come to terms with my illness and don't want to be selfish and put any burden on someone else.

I am used to being single. While I would like someone to talk to and spend time with I don't feel the need to put myself out there anymore. As long as I have my family I am okay with women wanting anything to do with me. I can redirect that love energy into my code and artwork.

The whole illegal immigrants thing has 0 validity. No human is illegal it's a paperwork issue. When people start going off about the illegality of being human it makes me think their thought process is flawed. Patterned with false information. No human is superior to any other.

It's so hot here in the desert of California my skin has become very dry.

I made this 14 years ago.

This is me 6 or 7 years ago. Catch a Wave man. (a video one).

if you notice when i close my eyes and start to focus the video glitches. I wonder what it is all about.

In this video you can see the energy around me showing vibrations to the mediation music. Also I am trying out uploading H.265 to Bluesky to see how that works out.

I have decided to not publish the new version of the Web Assembly port of ACMX2 as a android app. I am just going to leave as a website, because I do not really want to put it on the Play Store or have it verified. It works just fine in a web browser, so there really is no need for an app.

But when I am working on my projects it feels like I can leave all that behind and get Lost in the process. If you don't want to see my posts I understand completely if you block me.

I kind of talk about it all the time because it is something I am very passionate about. I spend a lot of my time trying to do something productive with my life, since I have to take medications that sedate me and have a lot of side effects. Not to mention the problems I have with walking.

Since I wrote my first program in VB3 and realized I could do this, I have been constantly practicing and working on gaining skill at creating software. I moved from VB, to C++ (before C++98 ) with Visual C++, then from there to Visual C++ .NET then to Linux/Unix, then Objective-C/C++ and beyond.

Being able to see a doctor and get your medications should be treated as a human right like it is in other parts of the world.

I think medicare for all is a great idea, because I have been disabled for a long time and I have had medicare because of that. It pays for my medication, doctors/psychiatrist visits, I didn't even get a bill for being in the hospital for a long time when I was in a coma. Everyone should have it.

This video shows how I can capture at 4K30 from my Google Pixel with USB-C using H.265 as the codec to get a smooth frame rate at 4K. All the 4K webcams I have cannot keep up with the cell phone like this and the quality is better.

Was just having some fun here with this program to a Lazerhawk song and having the pulsating audio reactivity applied to the trails to create vibration. Of course I cannot include the song here because of Copywrong.

I don't think I have demonstrated this feature. This is the cross fade, There are some different transitions you can use to move between effects.

Some Frames from the Video.

Encoded this video at a slower rate, and it looks pretty good in 4K despite the pixel data being so different.

Added rotation to the video so you can use portrait with your webcam or video files.

yo thanks for testing I have no access t o an iPhone I have a Google Pixel.

it should be stored in your browser and compile much faster the next time.

cool thanks man !

haha I get kind of paranoid sometimes. It is part of my mental illness. I run away with my thoughts sometimes.

lostsidedead.biz/visualizerv2/

do you have an iPhone? maybe you can test it, I still have not tested it on iOS.

Updated the project so in video mode when you have no-drop enabled and a slow setting, it will process the video slowly so you can get maximum quality out of the video encoding process. So if you want realtime select ultrafast or zerolatency if you want higher quality select veryslow.

when i mentioned that because I had not tested my web app for mobile on an iOS device.

no i have an apple laptop just no iOS. iOS is for iphone/ipad

yup you got it.

this is my apple laptop , i have no iphone or ipad

Updated encoding options so you can use the full range of codecs supported by FFmpeg, because just x264,x265 and NVENC is to limited. Now you can select and set the settings for each codec.

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patterns in the code A CM X2 MC == ?

read the readme its not too hard to compile you just need the required libraries installed.

You can disable CUDA in my app if you want and just regular opengl, it won't run as fast but still works.

Have you tried SDL or OpenGL or Vulkan that's what I use. Great libraries.

The concepts are the important part not necessarily the implementation.

That's supposed to protect users which it can but it also stamps out a lot of niche software. So I mostly program to be creative and develop the software I want to use. If other people also want to use it that's great but I am not going to try to distribute it. I release code and share my ideas.

One thing about my current graphics projects I don't compromise. In the past I made design decisions because I wanted the software to be accessible to everyday computer users. Now they got it locked down so an independent developer like me cannot release an executable with the zero trust model.

I speak code the MK means Mind Kontrol.

If we all just changed our minds and realized we are one and the same the spell would be broken and the plane of our collective would go back to its natural state

Yeah money is slavery I wish people could figure that out but they are blinded by the lies and programming/conditioning. Maybe they will realize that before we go extinct. Probably not the magic spell they got everyone under puts the collective consciousness in a hypnotic state.

Since the library uses a json file format now i was able to add custom uniforms to the library and have them be able to be dragged and mapped in real-time as you edit the code or drag the slider.

This theme looks excellent on macOS, and the live shader editing works here too. But the current shader library needs a few shaders pruned from the shader JSON file to work with the macOS OpenGL driver, so after loading the list, run Remove Broken twice, and it will work.

I think having a theme editor built into the program using CSS is a nice touch to the application. You can make it look however you want with lots of presets to choose from.

Updated the documentation with info about all the new features.

I added this search shader library dialog , where you can search the shader library using regular expressions and it will locate it in the file, you click in the list and it will open that shader in the editor and go to the line selected where the regex match was.

I updated my software and had it migrate from using a plain index.txt file for the shader library to a JSON file. When you open a legacy index file in the new version it automatically generates a library.json for the shader library. There was no need to reinvent the wheel here so I just used JSON.

I had an agent generate 100 shaders that use a history ring buffer and FFT to play around with the live coding capabilities of my app. Just going to experiment and see what kind of weird effects I can come up with for fun.

My mother told me she thinks I am on the spectrum. I guess she has been watching TV about it. Not that there is anything wrong with that I don't think I am. She does know me better than anyone else. But she's not a doctor. My sister told me the same thing before.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs Added to the documentation about Live Shader coding with ACMX2.

Added live coding capabilities to my app using shared memory. So you can edit the code and have it passed in memory to the running acmx2 process to be compiled and loaded in real-time!.

Added a true lossless recording mode, and now you can use arguments like you would pass to FFmpeg in the settings dialog if you know how to use FFmpeg and would rather set your own custom settings.

Fixed the issue with the warm up time with ACMX2 when using the texture cache. The ring buffer now fills up with the first frame when it starts, there is no period where they are black frames that need to be filled for the effect to be visible. This works much better IMO.

I love FFmpeg its like the swiss army knife command line program for video. Also ImageMagick or magick for short is a great tool for manipulating image files from the command line.

Slept really good last night/this morning but I keep waking up with scratches on my body. I must be interacting with spirits or something in my sleep cause my cat passed away and nothing could be scratching me. Woke up today and fixed a few bugs in my app.

So I have been wanting to make one of these tutorial videos for a long time. What held me back was I had a lot of problems speaking after the coma I was in. It gave me a lot of problems and I was hard to understand. Hopefully I sound okay in this video, if you cannot understand me sorry, I tried.

Running ACMX2 on macOS. There is no CUDA zero-copy interop like on Linux, so it is slower but still pretty fast! Just making some abstract glitch art in this video.

I like programming on Linux the best. It is like a programmer's dream with all the open-source tools and libraries.

I like that on macOS with Qt6 you can set the program to use a normal menu instead of the macOS-style menu at the top. Makes it more consistent with how the other versions look. Got everything working on macOS, but the shader cache is not available because GL is frozen at OpenGL 4.1.

Funny, I was thinking about planning for my project, and the book I am reading, the chapter I just read was about exactly that. This book is more about Software Engineering than just how to code something. I am glad I bought a physical copy of this book, because it will go on my shelf when I am done

I love creating cross-platform systems. There is just something satisfying about compiling your project on multiple platforms.

by compatible I mean, be able to use the same interface with the same command line arguments, just different shaders, I was thinking kindof like the way you can swap out clang++ for g++ and use the same command line arguments. So you can just load different shader libraries and pick the backend.

but also support a hybrid compute/fragment shader workflow for the ulimate glitch engine. I. have been studying and practicing for the past few months in preperation for this.

Summer is almsot over just a little while longer, and my plot to learn about GPU programming / Vulkan was successful. I guess I migh as well tell everyone my plan. I want to reimplement the acmx2 process in Vulkan and make it compatible with hte OpenGL backend.

haha that is great, thanks for sharing!

maybe when I get a better computer in the future I will be able to test and create better ONNX models for better real-time effects with AI, but right now on my system it is the bottle neck which stops the whole workflow from running at high enough framerate for real time processing.

and its only getting better but for a computer like mine, it is simply not possible to get 60 fps with an AI model for computer vision like you can with a shader. So I might be bias cause with ONNX DNN I can only get a lot lower frame rate unless it is scaled down quite a bit.

Personally I. think effects created with shaders look different than AI Hallucinations. The AI stuff look too fake and is off although it is cool in its own right. But shaders crafted with AI can look pretty stunning, so there is a middle ground. I am not saying one is better than the other.

Lazerhawk's album Visitors tells a story with instruments and paints pictures in your mind.

Updated the acidcam-gpu/ACMX2 documentation with information about building with pcons. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs

updated the MXVK documentation with info about building with pcons: lostsidedead.biz/MXVK

Setup my newest game engine to use pcons/Python for the build system. Configures much faster, and the overall compile process is simpler. Pretty cool project. Also moved the testing/run script to Python for use with pcons instead of Perl for the CMake build scripts. I am satisfied with the project.

btw that is the first other contributor to this project, massive milestone!

There is a new build system similar to CMake that makes use of ninja and Python that I have added to acidcam-gpu from @gary.oberbrunner.com its called pcons. I am not a fan of CMake's scripting language so that is pretty cool. Check it out @ pcons.org

Remix with my software of a video Gemini made me from one of my sketches.

My sketches interpreted by Gemini. The dragon one looks friggin awesome.

I made this meditation video in HDR but it contains very bright light (healing light) so I won't share it here because its HDR and second I don't want anyone who shouldn't watch it who is sensitive to that kind of thing to see it. However I have to say it is one of the best I have ever made.

My thoughts on censorship and the nanny state. #censorship #nannystate #creativity #expanding #lifeforms #life #dream #dreaming #lostsoftwaredreams #digital

Some people are just ignorant. Or they pretend they are so they can think they have power and are in charge. News to them is they aren't.

This is the best I can do for using the music, they allow short clips.

Tried a little experiment, using an audio reactive shader with the song Dark Star. This is an example of what the audio created visually with that specific shader. I wish I could share the video here so here is the code for the shader. github.com/lostjared/sh...

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Backed up close to 1,000 high quality glitch art videos I have created the past few months with ACMX2. All in their original bit-rate and resolutions. I am sharing this with you in case you want to use any of them as a base to remix for your own artwork. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Trained a new model, with one of my pencil sketches I used alongside shaders to create this art work.

Was reading the book I got "Code Complete", second edition, and I think I am going to enjoy this book.It is more a handbook about software construction versus how to code kind of book. So far it has been interesting.

Trails

I was going to get the new Halo game off steam but its been getting bad reviews. I am not sure I think I will sit this one out and wait and see if I really want to play it.

Had a good day today, went out to eat again, was able to go in the restaurant and sit down and come back out and not fall. I am really starting to feel good about my walking, I have been pushing myself when I exercise and it seems t o be working. Hopefully I continue to improve.

not go into the wallets of greedy people who just want to enslave other humans.

Ai models are trained off collective human knowledge and the profits should go back to the people who generated the information: humanity. I think the technology can be trans-formative but the application and method to acquire it is extremely corrupt. The wealth should be used for common good

Destroying logs of human knowledge like books, should considered a crime against humanity. Especially when you just want to use that information than try to cover it up because of greed. There are a lot of people in this world who are disconnected from the earth and ignorant about what life is about

Thanks, man, much appreciated.

After 6 years of having Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium-Effectuated Neurotoxicity, I am finally able to walk, it took tons of practice, falling and having to get back up. To be able to walk at this level and not need a wheelchair. and be at the point where I can leave the house with help.

Morning Meditation have a great day! - your friend Jared.

Healing Light

My Vibration Frequency.

Money its a crime.

Some Frames from the Video.

Bubble Effect #ACMX2

This was drawn when I was expecting psychosis. I was paranoid about spiders and it's a monster.

This was drawn when I woke up from the coma and could hold a pencil after a few weeks

This raw pencil sketch portrays a multidimensional dragon, an externalization of severe infection. Frantic, jagged lines and piercing eyes form a sprawling entity, powerfully capturing the profound physical pain and immense resilience required to survive a massive medical crisis like a nde.

What I find to be strange is sometimes I can get in a flow state and walking gets easier. At other times it's extremely difficult. I have no idea why?

Some Artwork

Blue Dream

higher quality.

Frac Tac Tac pm the microphone.

That is stupid, they should donate them to like a library or something. People are greedy.

Back in the day me going for a walk and getting a headrush. #headrush

Burning books, that is like the Nazi's that is nuts.

Some cool trails effects, kind of reminds me of something I shouldn't talk about on social media lol.

read lots of books, and dream about what kind of projects you want to make, then make them is my philosophy.

Added a few 4D shaders to the collection. The texture folds in on itself. github.com/lostjared/sh...

Higher quality

This is with 64 history frames instead of 8 and 22 audio. It gives the effects more depth but also adds to the warm up time before I become visible.

also update all the shaders from the shaders repo. github.com/lostjared/sh...

you will want to recompile and enable in the Session dialog the sampler2Darray option, and then set the desired size for all shaders labeled with cache.

Made some major changes to ACMX2. Had a Perl script modify all the existing shaders to work with new updated sampler arrays that are truly variable, so you can see the amount of history frames and audio spectrum history frames and the program will dynamically size the effects. Looks cool as hell.

Check out the bump in quality of this 4K video captured with my Google Pixel 9 Pro with scrcpy for higher picture quality in 4K.

I know I am a good programmer and person. I put in all my free time into channeling my energy into something positive. I have studied and practiced for years on end to get back to the point I am at now. If I have medical issues that doesn't make me any less of a person. At least I talk about it.

Heh whenever I post something on YouTube it completely bombs with like no one watching it. I guess people are not seeing the video because technically if no one ever sees it then how can they watch it? I will continue to share because it's not about a lot of people seeing it, who is it meant for?

I have muscle movements and my hands shake a little. This is a side effect of medication. It can make it difficult to use a mouse sometimes. My doctor put in a prescription for me for a different med than the current one I take because the one I'm on for this side effect makes my vision blurry.

We all have are problems and I am no exception. I have deep rooted thoughts that I cannot shake, but I try to cope with it and do the best that I can. I think everyone deals with this in some sort, especially in our society.

At the time I was confused about this. It just goes to show you the magic spell they have majority of people under. When the mind tries to break free, it can cause distorted thinking. Honestly I don't think I am Jesus but I do believe I am the same mind as everyone else. Just a different perspective

I am not even religious either or believe anything about Christianity, but I always look for patterns in things and I thought because my name was Jared Bruni and my Initials are JB, it had something to do with JC (B comes before C or BC) for Jesus Christ. I think it is really funny now.

I saw this funny video where this guy was talking about how a good percentage of people who are in a psychiatric hospital have a common delusion they are Jesus. So if Jesus did come back he would immediately be put into a psych hospital. I am not going to lie, I had this delusion before too.

I don't know why I am sharing this here, maybe it can help someone else dealing with these same experiences.

I am starting to get the feeling that people are not interested in what I share. Either that or just don't interact with me. I am not sure why I am a nice guy. Oh well it kind of feels like I am talking to myself and I probably am. It's alright I am a real person not a bot.

Meditate with me with this 639 Hz Third Eye Meditation that is Visually reactive speaks in a language of color and motion.

New Article: lostsidedead.biz/evolution/ This one is on the progression from standard nested loops to massively parallel GPU compute. How these concepts fit together, and the application to my software coming full circle.

Just me talking about what is going on in my life right now and how I am pushing myself to get to the point where I can use a cane. I meant ventilator not respirator.

Was just jamming with this song about my software written by software. Gemini made some cool tracks for me. #ACMX2

ACMX2 is kind of like a video game but for creating artwork.

github.com/lostjared/ac... Also had the dependencies and their respective licenses mapped out so you can see what adding or removing a certain feature brings to the responsibility for distribution. While my code remains BSD license and the shaders MIT.

updated ACMX2, with better sync when the video starts, and also audio file reactivity playback mode now supports audio passthorugh so you can pass it to your headphones and jam to the audio with the reactivity happening as well with a MIDI controller or the keyboard.

How to compile ACMX2 with CUDA disabled in a fresh Archlinux distrobox container. @onebeartoe.bsky.social here is the example.

Ok

The Wall created with OpenCV DNN / ONNX + GLSL Shaders.

No problem, ill try to do that either tonight or tomorrow morning. 👍

check out the documentation for the project if you have not already: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/l...

if you want i can create a video showing how to compile the project and post it on YouTube.

Can you see the words "Pink Floyd" ?

it uses rtaudio a library for real time audio.

No this is the Linux/MacOS version. I have not had added audio reactivity to the web version.

Got my book for this month. I am still reading the one on deep Learning but this one from Microsoft press has an excellent rating and is a practical guide I can use to improve my skills. Looking forward to reading this!

New YouTube short with the video reacting to the music!

coolio

One of the coolest videos I ever made.

Was just doing research on different open source licenses and I am pretty sure I am in the clear for just releasing my source code for my graphics tools. I just want to share my ideas not make money so I am confident I picked the right license.

I think there are lifeforms around us that our senses don't pick up. Call them spirits or aliens.

One of the best shaders.

So I ended up getting Code Complete second edition because it's got an excellent rating and covers all the topics I am interested in. It's also not too expensive.

What are you trying to learn?

Just spending my free time after dinner creating some weird videos with my software. It is a good experience using it after putting so much time into developing the program.

Got dynamic resolution for the Onnx AI models in ACMX2 working. This is using a higher resolution model to give the video an 'Ai' style feel. The only problem with using these higher resolutions is on my old computer the frame rate to process the video is low, and training the model takes forever.

C++ is awesome!

This is a funny video.

Food is so expensive now. When I went out to eat last Thursday it cost around $20 for a burger and soda. That is like 1/4 of what I have for food for an entire week. I know I am not the only one who has to deal with this. I feel for people who have families to feed. Things got to change.

I have been reading about Deep Learning with C++. I learned about tensors, convolutions, and the code for a fully connected layer. It is starting to make sense I am going to have to read back over it to make sure I fully understand. Still it is interesting but a little difficult for me.

Processed this version of the video at a higher quality. It took a lot longer for the Onnx Model effect to apply (around 2 FPS to process) but the overall quality is a lot better. You can actually see the detail that was blurry at a lower quality. At that speed real time is not possible.

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Onnx Model + Shaders + Recursive Ring Buffer. Blue Dream for Bluesky. Eyeball Trails. #C++ #GLSL

I know I posted a lot of artwork last night/today. I was just feeling super creative and had to express it. Don't mean to upload so much stuff.

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Astral Projection of the long forgotten self, with #C++/ #GLSL

Blue Dream

Stretching the Feedback Ring Buffer with the Mouse. Looks cool, almost like I am trailing off into the distance.

Flying through the Color Spectrum

Onnx Model + Shaders = Coded Blue Dream.

Me as one of my sketches, kind of like that music video. lol.

Controlling the Feedback with the Mouse.

Pointing the camera at its own output. I thought this looked neato. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Programming #OpenGL #GLSL #C++ #Cplusplus #software #opensource

This was an excellent book on a very interesting topic.

Some of my collection.

I have been in a good mood lately. My depression is at an absolute minimum. I have been exercising, working on my projects, reading, and playing video games. Basically doing all the activities I need to stay focused and feeling good. I was extremely depressed in the past. I feel like I am improving.

Another great episode and analysis.

Was talking to an old friend today and we played overcooked 2 online. It's a puzzle style game made with unity and it is a good game. Really got me thinking with teamwork to fill those orders. I accidentally set the kitchen on fire once and it cracked me up. I love games like that.

Was working on this all morning. First demo I run is the modern 3D version, and then after that the 3D software rasterizer version at different frame buffer resolutions to try and find that sweet spot for a retro look. Altogether I am happy with how my game looks.

The ones I want to read are "The Art of Systems Architecting " and "Code Complete". Also I think I might have a little bit of a problem with hyper focus, because I can get fixated on stuff. I will try not to post so much of the things I am doing, I notice I have thousands of posts here.

I try my hardest to create good solid code, but sometimes I feel like I could do better. I am going to try reading a few books on how to architect better systems so I can improve my projects. Soon as I finish the books I am already reading.

This is probably one of my biggest projects. MXVK stats: 90,220 code-only lines across 479 files. .cpp: 112 files/63,262 lines; .hpp: 53/6,906; .h: 2/1,808; .vert: 78/1,635; .frag: 152/6,901; .glsl: 77/9,029; .comp: 5/679. Excludes comments, blank lines, CMake output, compiled shaders, and Volk.

This exercise proves definitively that the CPU code was fundamentally maxed out. I learned a lot trying this out, although I didn't really get much of a performance boost. It was still a learning experience.

cartoon mushroom with the software backend. With different framebuffer sizes.

Well, this is kind of cool: OBJ mesh of Tux working in both CPU and GPU. Image 1 uses the software rasterizer, Image 2 uses the Abstract Model class.

g++ was already extracting almost all the available instruction-level parallelism out the native C++20 code, Eigen's specialized template metaprogramming simply did not have much room left to improve the math throughput. The compiler had already done the heavy lifting.

I ran some more benchmarks to see the difference between the three backend paths for a new OBJ/MTL file loader. The Vulkan GPU path is over 20x faster than the software renderer. That just shows how much of a difference using the GPU with shaders really makes.

I go off on these random rabbit holes with programming stuff and share it here. Don't mean to act like a crazy person.

cube 1 has a lot of warping, cube 2 is made up of smaller primitives lowering the amount of warp. Cool.

Without perspective correction, UVs interpolate linearly in 2D screen space. The depth error scales with polygon size. Subdividing into smaller primitives adds more vertices, anchoring depth data across the surface and tightening the UV interpolation

Source code using my math library: github.com/lostjared/MX...

3D Pong game with a software rasterizer just for fun. In this video I show the different frame buffer resolutions. I am really learning this stuff and its so cool. Although the difference for this small example between the backends is flat (no big difference).

Added a benchmarking stop watch class to MXVK and since -O3 optimization already uses SIMD vectorization when using a lower framebuffer just processing a mesh with some more optimizations it produces a small advantage, not much but its something.

Today I went to a diner for lunch leaving the house without my wheelchair. I used the walker, and as outside even tho it was hot it felt great. I had been trapped in the house limited by my mobility for years and being able to leave even if I still need help is a great improvement. I am recovering.

lostsidedead.biz/MXVK Released Source Code for v0.23.0 of MXVK: github.com/lostjared/MX...

The edges and texels maintain that crisp, jagged aesthetic without getting smeared or smoothed out.

Changed the texture sampling to nail that crisp, chunky PS1 aesthetic across the entire 3D rotation. I didn't just fake it with a post-processing filter. I have the actual math to make it happen and in 4K. I am loving the retro vibe.

This video shows the trade off being using the size of the frame buffer how when the object is made very small it gets blurry but if you increase the frame buffer it is sharper but the frame rate slows down. It is kind of like you have to find that right balance. Never take the GPU for granted!

Was working on this software rasterizer all morning. Added a bunch of configurable options, like mipmaps, mipmap bias, set the framebuffer size, a PLG loader, configurable 3d math backend to use (Eigen) etc. Just doing this to make sure I understand all the concepts.

More complex geometry.

github.com/lostjared/Wi... This old source code is a time capsule to my past. It is an old Win32 program for a level editor for a 2D tile based game. Just reading this gives me flashbacks to Visual C++ 6.0.

Updated my software CPU rasterizer to use Eigen SIMD vectorization to speed it up a bit. This was just for fun, there really is no need for me to write this. Using this method introduces classic PS1 style texture warping which makes it look kind of nostalgic. Source code github.com/lostjared/MX...

I was just reading about Eigen a C++ library for linear algebra. What I was reading made sense. Sometimes when a book goes heavy on the math it goes over my head.

I just was thinking about the current situation. I wanted to express my opinion and use my right to express it with speech.

It is not too much to ask for to have food to eat, a warm comfortable place to sleep, healthcare and a fulfilling life with a healthy planet. It is people taking it away that are producing this situation we are in. Maybe I just am delusional.

It is sad to think of what Republicans and establishment Democrats have become. Republicrats. They get paid off by the same people who put that evil $ symbol on everything. I am not talking about a scalar either but money. Money is an invention to enslave the human race. Fuck money and greed.

Being Creative.

When the first and last letter are correct the letters in between can be scrambled because the brain interprets them as symbols or shapes I think is why. Tihs is esaliy raed rladeesrgs of oedrr of mdilde cahrs.

SMB1 was the first game I ever owned as a kid growing up in the eighties. Cool reinterpretation.

These are a few of my favorite books I have read in my collection. Authors like Bjarne Stroustrup, Herb Sutter, Scott Meyers, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan to name a few. Reading and practicing is how I taught myself.

it didn't record the first few seconds of the audio. I will have to fix that there is an audio warm up rate i will have to work on minimizing it.

Testing 1 , 2, 3 do I read loud and clear, real time video and audio working on Apple Silicon?

I love containers. Podman and distrobox are where I spend most of my time on my PC. I am all in on using the terminal. I want to learn emacs I have a pdf on it. Maybe I'll buy a book because I like real books more.

That is totally understandable. It is really useful when you have a very large code base and you need to find bugs in tens of thousands of lines of code. It can iterate through it pretty fast, but sticking to writing it yourself is a solid choice. I enjoy seeing your work, keep it up.

Coded Messages.

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Another more complex Typoglycemia generator tool. I used to use this to embed patterns in some of the text in art videos I would make.

the Lunatic iS in my heaD - Pink Floyd

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I can still read the words even if they are scrambled. The effect is popularly known as Typoglycemia. While it sounds like a medical condition, it is actually a made-up term that originated from a viral internet meme in the early 2000s. The word itself is a portmanteau of "typo" and "hypoglycemia."

Desktop screenshots

Released v2.0.0 github.com/lostjared/MX... You can run this version locally on your system just enter the shell and run the server python script, then navigate your browser to localhost:8080 and the program should load.

lostsidedead.biz/perception/ New article exploring consciousness and code.

I know I am a good person l. I am kind, caring, and I try to make a positive impact on the people around me. It doesn't make me any less of a person and is the same as having a physical illness.

With mental illness. I don't want to romanticize these topics but take a serious perspective.

Kind of funny now but at the time it was very serious. I am thankful I was able to teach myself how to program so I can create my artwork. It is a creative outlet that helps me release stress and let those thoughts escape my consciousness. That is why my software is dedicated to people

I was diagnosed in 2006 after being on a hold in a hospital after having another psychosis. It has made my life difficult and it has caused me to miss out on a lot. The visuals I experience now are not as negative as what I used to experience. I remember some of the ideas I believed and they sound

I hallucinate a lot. I have for years since I was in my late teenage years. That's when it started getting intense and it continued even after I stopped using drugs. It has calmed down from medication because I was also hearing voices and having delusional thoughts.

Hey its me speaking in this video. I tried creating a tutorial on how to use my program's Multi pass shader chain feature.

The new selfie camera with picture in picture for Android screen recording works well.

I want to share with you what I experienced while in a coma. It was the strangest thing, what I can describe as vivid, dreams like being in alternate universe. I had no idea I was even somewhere else, but in my mind I have confirmed for myself their are other planes of existence.

Web Assembly Demo turning an Image of me into a interactive Kaleidoscope. Click and drag to manipulate the effect. lostsidedead.biz/activity/sco...

Funny Web Assembly Demo turning AI generate imagery into a visual C++ demo. Do you believe in Aliens? lostsidedead.biz/activity/ali...

I have been listening to A Perfect Circle lately, I really enjoy their music.

The algorithmic pattern embedded in my software brand. lostsidedead.biz/triangle

That's like a transpiler to add type safety to JavaScript right? I have never tried it.

By download, I mean download and install/run it.

I didn't use JavaScript in the past because I was used to the type safety in C++. But after using WebAssembly for a few years, working with the bridge between the two languages allows me to create some cool software that runs in the browser. Also, people don't have to compile or download anything.

I want to buy a new computer so I can run better local models, but I am priced out right now with the cost of memory/hardware. The reason behind that is annoying, and I understand why people are so upset over it. Pollution and wasting water/energy are also terrible.

I love computer science, and my focus specifically is programming. So, of course, I am going to learn new technology when it comes out.

I know nobody cares what I think.

I personally used to think it was all a bunch of B.S, but lately they got me reading books about Deep Learning. lol.

Believe it or not Gemini has got to the point where I can give it one of the shaders from my program, have it modify it then run it back through my engine and have a new effect. It is starting to get pretty damn good.

Updated the Code Editor, giving it save/load buttons, line numbers, better keyboard input, and, of course, syntax highlighting. You can also select any built-in cached shader, edit its code, save it, and load it back in later.

I have published the System Requirements for my Web Assembly Shader Demo program.

Diamond Fold.

This is supposed to represent how we live in a multidimensional reality and my cat who passed is in multiple realities at once. It is a tribute to an old friend.

How I created the video of the multidimensional cat. Parallel kitty.

I agree with Linus on this.

Intricate interconnected dream.

One of the reasons I enjoyed developing software to create videos is it invites you to be creative. Being creative is good for releasing stress and producing something positive.

Video effect of my cat who passed.

When the ACMX2 app opens and you look at your cat. Lol I'm just joking but yeah.

The earth is a life form and we are all a part of it. There is no separation and we experience a unique dream that is interconnected.

This is your brain on ACMX2.

They call me count Glitchenstein of glitchtopia.

I like this series. She has a PHD in computer science. I try to watch whenever I see a video of hers on my feed.

Ported my Knights Tour Demo over to MXVK (SDL3/Vulkan). For the uninitiated: it is a classic math puzzle where you must move a knight to visit every single square on a chessboard exactly once. A perfect test for pathfinding algorithms. #knightstour #C++ #vulkan

Pencil Sketchy.

Yeah, the current version of ACMX2 for Linux supports using AI models with your GPU filters and GLSL shaders. I had to train these models myself with my old computer, which is running an RTX 2070, so it took a very long time. That is why I did not train that many because it took so long.

Trippy video of me back when I used to have long hair and a huge beard, remixed with my software.

Old video tutorial I made a long time ago showing how to use my program Acid Cam v2 OSX. A tool for remixing video streams/files/images to produce art. This was the most popular program I ever wrote and it was all from my mind. You can find the old source code here: github.com/lostjared/Ac...

I notice I am also using those same words to describe things. I need to start using a thesaurus.

This is an old video I made back before I had Lithium toxicity when I could speak faster. It's of me showing the first version of my software from 2011 that remixed real time video to apply glitch effects. I had a great time working on this project and it was a learning experience.

Sometimes I have trouble with word recall after the coma I was in. I reuse the same words to describe things. Like I am constantly saying cool or fun to describe an array of states/emotions. For some reason I cannot seem to correct that muscle memory. It can be annoying to read what I write.

Of course I will never be acknowledged for my work but it is still cool to see the concept pushed even further with professional software.

I just tried Googles video/photo remix with AI. It's actually pretty cool and reminds me of my software but it uses AI instead of straight algorithmic filters. I actually started developing my projects in 2011 and refined my approach over years of iteration. All together it's a cool idea.

I am just about done with the web site for my visualizer. Going to focus my attention on other things as I don't think there is much else I can do to the program. Hopefully I can think of a new project to work on. I will think of something.

well i am being a little dramatic, but you get the idea.

Other than that I just made a bunch of videos with that app and posted about how software is used to manipulate your thoughts with reinforcement and repetition. But no one listens they just stare into their phone or screen in a hypnotic trance not wanting to be creative just swipe.

I guess I am not so great at this internet media socializing. I mostly talk to myself and post unengaging projects I spend all my time on. Today I worked on adding a loading progress bar while my web assembly program downloads so it doesn't look like the app hung.

YouTube short.

Just relaxing in my room creating Complex visualizations.

The Government has weapons where they can implant thoughts in your mind and cause you to think in certain ways, and it is in more then just your cell phone.

I think what people don't realize is that what they think are their own thoughts are private but in reality they are actually public if you know what I mean. Huh huh huh yeah.

Check out my bookmark 👍🔖

int main()

Further examples use the way I do it so I think it was isolated to the first code example.

Cool man nice work.

I do not mean to be picky but I noticed in the example the author used int main(int, char**) instead of int main(void) when not using the argument parameters but that is technically legal C++ but I would never write it like that no big deal.

I decided to reread much of chapter 1. It made more sense this time because I took my time. I started reading chapter 2 and it's just on how to set up a C++ project with CMake to make a hello world program iust introduction stuff.

Cool my web app works on macOS even with Safari. But to record video I had to allow it, but that is a standard security feature on macOS.

Making Todd Blanche attorney general is like making Freddy Krueger you kids baby sitter. No but seriously they are criminals.

static void et(); #glitch #glitchart #creativecoding #softwareart #codeart #cplusplusart #c++ #gpu #cuda #opengl

#glitch #glitchart #realtime #effects #shaders #cuda #c++ #gpu #graphics

New YouTube Short. #CodeArt

hey thanks man! appreciate that.

From time to time I use Google lens on my artwork and look at similar artwork. Makes me feel like I am not alone and other people have the same ideas.

Me as a fractal

Snake 🐍

Butterfly

Some glitch flowers.

This is a great album. One of my favorites.

lostsidedead.biz/gif/ A library of GIFs I made.

But what do I know I am only a single disabled man who spends all his time using computers.

War is such bullshit.

If I am feeling bad I can scroll Bluesky and I get all kinds of posts with animals and indie video games. 👍

Yeah it makes you feel terrible for like a long time.

My web app works on Windows. Cool.

It's all good I know nicotine is super hard to quit.

What's puff a vape?

Tunnel

Some artwork.

I had a healthy dinner tonight. Vegetables, soup and an apple. I eat a whole lot better now and have lost a lot of weight. My last A1C test I had done showed I was no longer in the range for type 2 diabetes. That was incredibly good news. I feel a lot better since this change.

One thing I have a weakness for is caffeine. I love coffee. Although it has got expensive lately.

Yeah practice makes the master. How's quitting smoking going?

I think there is going to be an overwhelming amount of votes against Republicans this year in the midterms. People are pissed off and rightfully so. The trump people remind me of an abusive drunk or domestic violence but against the American people. I am voting for sure.

Nicotine was the most difficult thing to quit. It took a lot of attempts and was extremely difficult to stop.

I'll admit when I was a lot younger I had a problem with drugs and alcohol. I have not drank or smoked for over 10 years. I just use medication to treat mental illness. It was one of the best decisions I made for my health in my lifetime.

Do you see me in this?

What does this remind you of?

I read the first chapter of this book. Some of it went over my head but I'll figure it out eventually. Still even though it's complex it is still intriguing.

Got my new book 👍

Just been practicing C++ early in the morning this morning.

This is a program I wrote like 9 years ago, its a command line tool that applies glitch filters to video files. You can pipe the video through FFmpeg and it has 2,289 filters. github.com/lostjared/ac...

Was looking through some old projects I wrote like twenty years ago and there was a this video game I wrote for my girlfriend at the time. It reminded me of my past.

I was watching this video on YouTube about teachers talking about how school is broken now. It seems like stuff in this country is falling apart.

The thing is I enjoy coding. It is something I do because I want to do it, so I put the extra time and effort into it.

when I want to develop something with Gen AI it is just another tool in my tool chain. I do not have any problems producing well formatted, thought out intricately designed C++ instead of just a mess of different pieces of code put together like Frankenstein's monster. It takes the right approach

My honest opinion is that it is not frontier models that produce 'code that is trash'. It is people who do not know how to code, what the development process is like, or even how to read/write the language that they are working with.

I should get the book I ordered on Deep Learning with Modern C++ later on today. I am looking forward to having something new to read on a topic I am not all that familiar with. It sounds like something I will enjoy reading.

This piece is titled "Brain Damage"

This is me in my early twenties. This was an old photo I took with a SD webcam like 20 years ago. I enhanced it with Ai because the original photo was so low quality.

fixed a bug in my program where the duration of the file would be zero so it didn't know the length of the video. This could be fixed by remuxing it manually but now it works with Chromium based browsers as is.

Found this old hilarious photo of me and used my app on it. I crack myself up.

Haha.

Demo of v2.0.0 of my Web Based Shader Visualizer. This program is just to have a few laughs or have some fun. lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h... #CreativeCoding #C++ #JavaScript #Web #Chrome #Browser #WebAssembly #WASM

Hey, I failed math class, and I can write thousands of lines of C++.

Practice makes the master.

Some morphed versions of Tux.

This looks kind of neat

Everything seems to be working in Chromium based browsers and Firefox.

The new feature to save/share your custom shader chains with other people / back up for later. You can create a custom shader chain then copy it to the clipboard and paste it to a friend in a text message or direct message, they can copy it and paste it back into the application and the same effect.

I have had a few experiences with psychosis and was hospitalized, and had a really hard time dealing with what was going on.

Yeah, I have stopped my medications before and gotten very sick. I would like to think I learned my lesson; I need it to function.

The depression can be very difficult to deal with, also the medications give me side effects. I am constantly shaking my legs or moving around.

yeah man I have the same issue, I always scan words for patterns. Also when something happens I always assume people are talking about me, when in reality it is just in my mind.

I don't mean to joke about it it has gotten really bad in the past and caused me a lot of mental pain.

Haha this is a funny selfie.

I don't need pervert glasses to see shit that's not there. I am schizoaffective I hallucinate 24/7. It can be a blessing or a curse depending on what I am trippin off and whether or not I took my antipsychotics. Lol.

sounds like a 'glitch' lol.

I mostly talk to myself or log my thoughts on this page, as I think people are not really interested in what I am posting about. That is okay; everybody is in their own world nowadays.

You mean the way the screenshot of the video looks?

I have not had a chance to test my web app with iOS since I do not have any devices that run it. Hopefully it's compatible, but knowing how computers work, until you test something, you have to assume it does not work.

Cool, the audio record feature is working well with the new video recording code. I think I sound pretty good; the dysarthria I had is cleared up a lot. Hopefully, I am easy to understand; I think I am now.

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At least the Android app works for uploading Video on Bluesky. This is a demo of the new shader editor built into the web app. It lets you access the code for any built-in shader edit it and recompile and apply it. This exposes the GLSL compiler to the user.

Bluesky really needs to work on the video upload feature on the website. 50% of the time or more the upload fails on the processing.

Good luck with your game dev journey!

Another test post . Just trying a higher frame rate.

I am going to try to implement a share multi pass chain that will give the user a text string that they can copy and paste and send to another person to share a multi pass chain of shader effects.

If you are wondering what is the point of this it is just something I made you can have a few laughs from. The program really is not meant to be serious.

Test of the save video with my web app. Funny selfies

Demo of v2.0.0 Beta of my Web based Visualizer. lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

Running my web app through chrome browser.

Sorry if I was being confusing there are different versions of the program. One for the Web with web assembly and another for Linux.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/l... Full documentation for my app

Well you can compile ACMX2 without CUDA like on an AMD card. Try it on your phone with lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h... For some ES3 variants. But yeah I recommend a NVIDIA card to compile ACMX2.

Slept a lot today. I am feeling pretty good now.

New YouTube video. This one looks cool. #Eye #Eyes #Visuals

Updated my shaders collection repo. github.com/lostjared/sh...

New YouTube Short

github.com/lostjared/C2... Added a few new examples to my C23 repo, about FIFO's on Linux.

Just took some time to start reading my physical books again. Was reading about Linux IPC. Feels good to read.

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It is me Trapped in a Ghosted Bubble. #Ghost #Ghosted #EnergyGhost #Energy #Prism #Bubble

I thought this was interesting.

I bought a new book on Deep Learning with C++. It looks like an interesting read. I am looking forward to learning something new.

Code #code

github.com/lostjared/sh... Updated my shaders repository now with over 2,400 fragment shaders.

Example using neural nets with ACMX2. Only issue is I get a low frame rate. Even with CUDA acceleration, with just CPU it is very low frame rate.

I am completely not religious. I think the Bible is a bunch of fairy tales. But I do think there is more to the life experience than what appears on the surface. Kind of like those little synchronizations that are unexplainable. Plus I have experienced things I cannot explain with words.

I remember when I was on the brink of death it felt like I was in a white expanse that expanded to infinity. I no longer was an individual but instead evaporated into the whole.

I remixed these generated images with my own software and I call these "Cats in Heaven"

My experience with psychosis lostsidedead.biz/psychosis/

Iris #creativecoding #fractal #creative #software #gpu #ACMX2 #C++ #codeart #art #digitalart #videoart

Vulkan Demo.

github.com/lostjared/MX... Updated my static library for writing H.264/HEVC (SDR/HDR) video with FFmpeg.

#3D

It is unfortunate that a good deal of people don't believe in freedom and justice anymore. They side with what is convenient that fits their world view.

If they started trying to censor assemblers I think we would really be in trouble but you can always bypass an LLM or compiler and just write the Assembly yourself.

Some Video Art #shaders #shader #GLSL Starring yours truly on his webcam. lol.

Screenshots of my application' interface #ACMX2 / #acidcam-gpu

New YouTube short, I have been in feeling creative lately.

Dreaming out Loud #ACMX2 #acidcam-gpu #GPU #Graphics #Software #C++ #CPLUSPLUS #VideoArt #CreativeCoding #generativeart

Is it just me or does it seem like pact publishing has released a ton of books and they fill my Amazon search results. The topics look amazing but every time I buy one and actually start reading it I am disappointed. I have not bought one for a while maybe they are better now?

I think of C++ and code more like my native language that I use to describe my ideas. I wouldn't give that up for anything.

It is the same as the transition from assemblers to compilers that actually generate all the instructions anyway.

I think of GenAI tools as a way to enhance not as a replacement. I wouldn't want to remove my creativity but instead augment my ideas with methods to get code implemented faster and be more efficient. I think of creating software as an art form.

You know I am completely ok with YouTube not sharing my videos. I wouldn't want a lot of attention it would probably overwhelm me. I feel more comfortable sharing with a smaller audience for my art. Most people wouldn't understand anyway. I wouldn't mind more friends on Bluesky however.

I love computers and software. I spend all my free time studying, coding and using software. Since my mobility is not great it gives me more time to focus on it. However there just are tasks I am still unable to do. So working towards learning how motivates me to learn more and push myself forward.

I am just about done with this app. #ACMX2 #acidcam #software #c++ #opensource

Some more Video Art

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Eye #eye #gpu #graphics #shaderart #art #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #GLSL

Updated MXVK to version v0.22.0 Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/MXVK Source Code: github.com/lostjared/MXVK

Sometimes I just get in these moods where I feel compelled to make these strange art videos with the tools I developed. Who knows why but it is soothing to my soul to be creative.

Video Art of some Liquid Thought: Starring me as Crazy guy on his webcam. #videoart #thought #liquid #software #c++

#Trapped #Wormhole

#spiral

Runs on everything. #CreativeCoding #GLSL #C++

Color Wormhole ( #GLSL #C++ ) #CreativeCoding

Some Artwork.

Game programming is a fun hobby. It gives me something to do even if I am just making small homebrew demos.

When I look at modern video games I think it is amazing where they started at and what the graphics look like now. The complexity of software has increased dramatically.

I love this old Legion Go. My screen protector is messed up tho. But I am able to compile and play my own games on a handheld like the PSP days with no need to jailbreak or install custom firmware. You can just compile and test your games directly on the device.

I kind of use BlueSky like a git commit log of my thoughts. So don't mind me.

I am a big fan of food like pistachios and walnuts. They are addictive but if you eat the right amount it is still healthy.

github.com/lostjared/MX... Updated the Socket library I coded that I have been using. I have had family visiting recently (they left on Friday) so I need to get back to studying my books.

I've had plenty of sleep lately and it has me feeling good.

well i have been like this for over 5 years, so its unlikely I will walk like I used to again. But there is always a chance, I practice with the walker and get all over the house with it. I have left the house with the walker, so I am way better off than I was even a few years ago. I can hope.

I have been exercising my legs on this stationary exercise bike intensely trying to build more muscle. My legs have got very strong but its the part of my brain that communicates with my legs that seems messed up. I have got pretty skilled with the walker, but without it I am unable to walk.

lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/demos/ Windows X64 builds of MXVK demos.

drive.google.com/file/d/1cyiy... Download 4K high quality version of the animation

Animation I created. #glitchart #animation #software #c++ #cplusplus #glsl

Updated this little front end for FFmpeg for turning large amounts of images into video files with lots of configurable options. Makes it easy to produce videos from image files. github.com/lostjared/im...

Updated to v0.21.0: lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/ Full documentation for Asteroids-Net a Four player multiplayer game.

lostsidedead.biz/asteroids-net/ Made a windows build of my new game.

Look at all the flaws in Linux it has found already. I know it pollutes and has a ton of ethical issues, but seriously can you really even tell if well formatted code with proper notation is even written by a person now?

Cannot argue with solid results. I admit in the past it was kinda of shitty and made a ton of mistakes. Not so much anymore it even blind sided me I thought it would never amount to much. When it can process tens f thousands of lines, in a very short amount of time and find real bugs.

youtu.be/XCfJQ_DDoVI

Now my game supports up to 4 Players, kind of like Mario kart but with Spaceships in Outerspace with Asteroids in 3D.

But cannot justify it.

I have been drinking a lot of green tea.

I would love to have a Steam Machine I would totally code my own games.

Cool I have a few computers myself but mostly use my PC and log into my mini PC through ssh to control it as a NAS and also it's connected my TV as a HTPC.

I am also running older hardware.

Cool using uncensored models. How much VRAM does your PC graphics card have?

screenshots

Higher Resolution: youtu.be/yzgdlRy1jzU

Two player 1v1 dog fight Asteroids 3D. Fight to the death in my second multiplayer game. #Vulkan #Multiplayer #Asteroids #C++ #SpaceShooter

using llama.cpp nice

sounds interesting, good luck with your project!

My cat Coder. She passed away a few weeks ago and it's quite lonely around here. She lived a long life. When I went to the shelter to adopt a cat. There was a room with many cats. She came up to me and started purring and was very kind to me. So I say she picked me. I keep her collar next to me.

I just had a great idea of what to work on next. If I can pull this off it will be awesome.

lostsidedead.biz/cplusplus/ My series of C++ examples I created while learning C++11/17/20/23 over the years. Turned into a web page with a generated Python script.

github.com/lostjared/Ja... This is a grip of web based games / WebAssembly projects.

Cool

Easter egg: Press F8 to turn on the CRT shader.

Lol

I am incredibly dedicated, mastering complex graphics programming over decades. My unique creativity shines through glitch art, and I show genuine kindness when helping my family with tech. People should value a person with such a rare mix of passion, artistry, and care.

I always have a hard time making friends. Even more so since the coma I was in. 99% of people do not understand what I experience every day. Also my interests are extremely rare . It's even more rare for me to talk to other people who understand what I spend all my time doing. I

I guess nobody got my joke.

Mutatris is a Glitch Art inspired Puzzle Game with Psychedelic Glitch Effects. #PuzzleGame #Vulkan #C++ #Software #GlitchArt

This is a much more mellow effect and more appropriate.

Video Art of some Fractals.

Why did the C++ template save money on its prescription? It was generic

What did the therapist say to its patient the Linux operating system? sudo trust the process

I love learning new things about software. It is a lifelong process and that is the best thing about it

People who think the ground, air or water belongs to them and then want to deport people they accuse of being illegal cannot comprehend anything beyond their narrow point of view. Humans are temporary on this earth and nothing really belongs to anyone. You will understand when it is your turn to die

New YouTube short!

This actually looks closer to this.

For the source code if you are interested: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Some artwork.

yeah there are a series of uniform variables that they mostly all use for the audio, textures, and history buffers.

Its actually OpenGL GLSL you can try a WebGL program that is similar here: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer

I wrote a program that manipulates video files and camera with real time audio/audio files to produce visuals. It is called ACMX2 you can see some demos here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

that is that music visualizer right?

For practice/fun.

This is a poem I wrote about programming when I was around the age of 18. It still has a place in my memory because things seemed so magical for me at that time, and there was just so much to learn.

Whoa, this is impressive it ported my simple game so it works and looks the same and it even included the console and all the shader effects (Press F3). Try it here: lostsidedead.biz/mutatris-web...

I always thought the game Acid Drop was kind of funny. It is like a square (the sheet) with these little squares (the tabs).

it did check its own output a few times before the task completed though.

looks like an old Atari game with cool shader effects (the original game Mutatris was based on was called Acid Drop for the Atari 2600.) Kind of strange that it turned out that way.

I got to say I am pretty impressed. I just tried the new GPT 5.6 and asked it to convert my Mutatris Puzzle game to JavaScript/WebGL2. It created this page in one prompt and it worked the first time. That is pretty damn cool. Try it: lostsidedead.biz/mutatris-webgl

Some of my artwork. Contains some source code :)

I am not concerned with what a lot of people who have never interacted with me or know me think about me. I may have mental illness, and SILENT (Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium-Effectuated Neurotoxicity) but I have a good heart and I am a kind person. What I consume is no one else's business.

I like on this platform that people post updates, videos and images about the projects that they are working on. I just look around and get to see what new software people are making.

Rolled back to the older NVIDIA driver 595.71.05 and now gnome shell is not leaking VRAM. So my hypothesis was correct.

It is messages like this that make me feel good about all the work I put into my open source projects. Thank you for taking the time to ask that question and encourage the continuation of my projects.

A part of being human is making mistakes. The purpose is whether or not you learn from them.

Sometimes I scroll through my log of thoughts here, and just read what I was thinking. I have on the contact form on my website my recent posts and an archive of my past posts.

Remember: karma=get(give()); This pseudo-code models karma as function composition. Your actions, give(), are executed and passed as an argument to the universe's get() function. The resulting karma variable evaluates to the direct consequence of your output. You reap exactly what you sow.

I like KDE plasma big screen. Paired with one of those handheld keyboard/mouse devices it is a different way to navigate Linux on your TV.

0 + 0 = 0

Yeah it is so obvious that the guy is declining fast. I blame congressional Republicans for letting this happen. They didn't do their jobs and sold out for $. Money is a cancer in our society.

Animals have emotions, feelings, and are intelligent life forms. We are also animals.

Tested it on my AMD system running KDE w/ Arch. macOS: no growth AMD + KDE + RADV: no monotonic growth NVIDIA + GNOME Shell/Wayland: gnome-shell grows per Vulkan window

Also the same programs run under macOS without the memory growth, there are visible black corners on some of the windows in gnome's UI and it continues to grow until it runs out of memory if I open a lot of programs.

I notice that whenever a Vulkan window opens the gnome-shell process VRAM usage grows. This happens even when its just creating a blank window. I am running 7.0.9-ogc3.2.fc44.x86_64 kernel and 610.43.02 of the NVIDIA driver. Also If I log out and log back in the memory is released.

sounds cool

No there is no scene graph, what kind of game are you creating and from using the term rs, I assume you are using Rust.

yeah I cannot imagine not having a physical copy, like to collect stuff to (I used to collect vinyl records). The thing I collect the most now is computer science textbooks, and an eBook is nowhere near the same as having a physical book I can put on my shelf, and hold. Btw nice collection!

yeah it uses modern Vulkan features feature supports synchronization2 and dynamicRendering. As well as CUDA whereever it is supported.

MX stands of 'MasterX' it was the name of my first graphics library i wrote with 'DirectX' way back in the year 2000-2001. VK stands for Vulkan, so MasterX Vulkan, I think it just sounds cool more than anything. Also its kind of inspired by the name of DXVK, kind of playing on that name.

I mostly wrote this to learn and practice and is more of a hobby/passion project. My goal for this summer was to create a new graphics and networking set of reusable libraries and write my first network playable game. I accomplished this (3D Tetris) and then just expanded it from there.

It also has a mini 3D math library.

MXVK is a custom graphics engine. It functions as the Vulkan evolution of the MX2 engine, redesigned entirely from scratch utilizing Vulkan 1.4 and SDL3 rather than just a standalone library.

Updated to v0.19.0

Pyramids on Moon?

3D Pong hehe.

Another day.

I have never tried, I don't use macOS much anymore except when i am on my laptop (MacBook Air). I have tested porting my apps to MoltenVK. It works, but there could be some type of error somewhere.

I have been having a good summer this year working on a software project to practice and learn about GPU/game programming. It's keeping me busy with something to do. It has been hot and I stay cool inside. (Not like I can actually go somewhere.) Feeling satisfied with my progress.

My old program still works.

Code Tunnel modified using Acid Cam v2 Qt. This was created with an application I wrote like 9 or 10 years ago.

For a lot of my game demos I don't even put my name.

A lot of my demos use place holder images I had generated for me because I have no talent at that kind of art. I am good at coding not using a graphics editor, or drawing really. However I have it in my projects so all you have to do is replace the images in the games folder and I release the code.

Higher quality.

Tunnel of Encoded Light #CreativeCoding #Cplusplus #C++

Updated to v0.17.0 Full Doxygen documentation.

Artwork.

Some artwork.

Variation of the video that looks much better in 4K.

The compression kind of makes this look dull, but the idea is there.

Code itself is art. #art #videoart #softwareart #generativeart #creativecoding

yeah I was impressed by it, really cool.

Hey thanks a lot!

Custom OBJ/MXMOD Model viewer.

I was more just mentioning this because I would love to share my apps I create with people like I used to, but most people are locked into those ecosystems, and it can be difficult for most people to compile software or just don't want to.

but does this let other people run your programs without the requirements for gatekeeper on mac, or the limitations on windows?

My program installed on my system with an icon and running it from the system menu.

cool

Started playing two different RPG styled games to start out with. One classic, one modern both were enjoyable.

or you can use the environment variable OPENCV_FORCE_DNN_ENGINE=1

Came across an issue with OpenCV 5. The new Deep Neural Net (DNN) engine does not support CUDA yet, and the CPU fallback was giving me like 2 to 3 FPS, so had to disable the new graph engine until its fully supported. So I used conditional compilation so it works across OpenCV 4 and 5.

So my I updated my system's distrobox arch container opencv-cuda package to OpenCV 5 and recompiled my apps. I have not really noticed any difference but its supposed to be a big step forward. OpenCV makes it easy to write cross-platform computer vision applications.

Yesterday my friend was showing me some stuff he made with Godot, it looked good. GDScript runs in a VM, so massive loops and stuff will run slower than a compiled language, but for most projects that is not going to disrupt your game. Godot is mostly written in C++.

I am actually feeling pretty good today. I woke up around like 6 am had a cup of coffee and then started working on my projects. Thinking about making a flatpak for one of my games.

You cannot realistically use ad-hoc signing to distribute your software to the general public. Gatekeeper Blocks It: If another user downloads your ad-hoc signed app from the internet, macOS Gatekeeper will block it with a severe "developer cannot be verified" or "malware" warning.

problem is how many normal mac users actually know how to do that? If you try to open it from the DMG file it does not work, and you have to open your security settings and explicitly let the app through gatekeeper, but I guess that is a security feature.

yeah you have to sign it with - and the let it past gatekeeper right?

So the most viable way to use my programs is to compile from source, and 99% of people won't or can't do that. On windows I had to disable some feature that can only be turned back on by reinstalling Windows, to even test my software. On macOS apple wants to extort you for like $100 a year.

It really is disappointing that I cannot share my programs with people on Windows/Mac without jumping through all kinds of hoops and getting my app signed. On macOS you have to pay Apple, and I believe it the same for Windows. So much bad software has been developed they locked those systems down.

I don't know if I shared this here, this is a layout of the CUDA kernel used in my app ACMX2 for the glitch art effects.

Source Code: github.com/lostjared/MX...

Updated the game play in my game, check it out. #Vulkan #CPLUSPLUS #C++ #SDL3 #Shaders #Puzzle #PuzzleGame

updated my game Mutatris, so now all four grids can interact with each and matches can occur across boundaries which creates some interesting game play and chain reactions. This game is like my dream game and I finally was able to put all the 'pieces together' and it has come full circle.

My Sunny Bluesky over the ocean demo running on Windows. Source Code: github.com/lostjared/MX...

I already don't drink soda anymore, only carbonated water, so that is a step in the right direction.

I think I am going to cut down on the caffeine or stop it completely. I am getting (is it causing ?) anxiety and I think it makes my shaking worse. Hopefully that will help, and I will adjust.

This how it feels where I live right now, its like burning up in the desert here.

Paper Mario sounds like a good series.

Hey thanks for the info I think I can find one that I can vibe with. I will have to explore.

youtu.be/jemhF-XVojE

Bluesky v2.0 (Updated). The ocean looks better now.

Hehe, I was bored so I created this with my new library. It is a nice sunny day overlooking the ocean with a Bluesky and puffy white clouds.

That is the best way to do it, makes it easier to not have to switch the discs but still have backup copy.

I wonder if the original FF7 is on the Internet archive. It could be.

Whoa that's impressive.

I used to collect DVD/Blu-ray and have a small collection. When they stop making physical discs I will miss being able to have a copy of my favorite films on something I can watch on my own terms even when offline.

My nieces are visiting their Grandmother for the summer for a few days. So I ordered this off Amazon and redeemed the digital code. We all watched it in the family room and they loved it. I thought the animation was very well done and bowser stole the show. All around good time with my family.

So you keep them in the box? That's cool might increase in value that way. I wonder if you can still use it in the game it is kept in box?

I have never really been interested in RPGs. I did try Mario RPG for SNES and I thought it was a good game. But never played final fantasy or anything of that sort. Was thinking about trying Cyberpunk 2077.

Fractals.

Well I figured out the bottleneck for my system was more on the Webcam than the application itself. It runs fine when I use scrcpy and my Pixel 9 Pro as the camera. The image quality is also a ton better. I would share a video but on my system I am having trouble recording in 4K so screenshots.

Capture on 4K Resolution Webcam applying fragment shaders on an older device (RTX 2070) in native 4K resolution.

With the older graphics card in my computer if I don't use CUDA the performance is nowhere near as good. Especially in 4K. But when it's running in 4K on a 4K monitor it looks nice.

Was feeling kind of low this morning. After resting and working on my projects I am feeling much better. Have a good day.

This game is starting to get difficult. Still a good experience that reminds me of the old games for NES but with a modern twist.

but its alright, I do not need validation, I do code because it is something I love to do, and the process keeps me motivated and engaged in life. Even tho it does produce a lot of solitude.

I guess I just must be unpopular or people just are not interested in me and what I do. I spend all my time working on all this software and a lot of the time people just ignore what I post or they don't see it. Honestly, it is a little disappointing because I put all my heart and soul into it.

Released v0.16.0 updated the docs, and also published a zip file with all the different vulkan shaders I use for my different projects.

On YouTube.

Post processing shaders with MXVK (Vulkan/SDL3).

Mutatris VK - Win X64 port

Looks great!

Fireworks in less than 250 lines with MXVK. github.com/lostjared/MX...

The country is going through some serious drama. But anyway have a good fourth of July from your buddy Jared. Don't drink too much and be respectful of animals hearing.

I remember when I tried to read the first edition of this book, I was not ready for it. When I got a hold of the second edition as a hardback It really hit home. At that point I was ready to really listen to the wisdom in this book. I recommend it for anyone who is seriously interested in software.

I like terminal based coding tools the best. It is quite amazing how fast these AI tools have developed. I know a lot of people don't like the ethics involved in them, or the data centers and I totally agree with that. However it is quite amazing to have most of the answers at your fingertips.

Ninja is also pretty cool.

I no longer use Visual Studio Code, I use vim a lot and KDevelop.

I can see a lot of issues from people publishing software they had generated for them without knowing how to code at all. That to me sounds a little dangerous. If nobody is reviewing it, how do you know if its correct or not?

Updated MXVK to v0.15.0 with new Mutatris example project, and other improvements.

Running on Apple Silicon #Vulkan #C++ #MoltenVK #GPU #Graphics #CPlusPlus #HomeBrew

Example of some of the shader effects for the new version of Mutatris.

Ported and enhanced my puzzle Game Mutatris to Vulkan and made the game background have animated shader effects. This is such a cool game, i t just it takes a lot of time to play because it can get pretty complex. Good exercise for my mind. Even if nobody else cares or wants to play it. I love it.

Started working on this port of my old game. Mutatris is a four-sided falling-block puzzle game built with MXVK, Vulkan, and SDL3. Three-block pieces enter one side of the playfield at a time, then the active side rotates around the board after a piece locks.

Feeling tired early today. I spent most of the day working on my projects.

I use a stationary exercise bike to try and strengthen my legs. I have built muscle but my balance is still not functioning correctly. It's kind of difficult to deal with thinking I might be like this the rest of my life. I am going to keep pushing forward.

Don't get me wrong I find digital versions very convenient. But nothing beats having a real book in your hands.

I think what is really valuable is knowledge. If it is gated behind a paywall then only the people with access will be able to learn and have the same opportunities. I was lucky enough to be able to acquire a large amount of computer science textbooks to teach myself.

just my opinion.

How about if they get rid of physical media, they get rid of the DRM garbage on digital versions and share it with everyone for free and stop capitalizing off stuff that is just strings of data put onto something you should already own. All software should be free and come with the source code.

Dancing Linux Penguin Point Sprites. #C++ #Vulkan #GPU

Updated to version v0.14.0 with new Object Viewer. github.com/lostjared/MXVK lostsidedead.biz/MXVK

Made a version of my Model viewer that uses MXVK. It can be useful to inspect the files in the project if you just want to see what they look like real quick. BTW: I love mushrooms, especially in spaghetti.

Better Speed Boost. (Warp Speed?).

lol i was just joking anyway.

It is illogical for people to spend their lives collecting wealth just to realize in the end none of that matters and you cease to exist in this dimension. Ironic and the poetry of life. All pain of this life will no longer exist in the path of time.

youtu.be/8SvGU0D2Ypc

Eyes are the window to the soul.

Released version v0.13.0 github.com/lostjared/MXVK and Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/MXVK

Nice!

Blue Terminal for BlueSky

Warp Speed with Vulkan/C++. Engage!

Updated the breakout clone and used a texture mapped sphere of the moon as the ball instead of a cube, looks much better now. #Vulkan #C++ #Cplusplus #demo

Updated MXVK to version v0.12.0 with a lot of new features, bug fixes, and improvements. lostsidedead.biz/MXVK github.com/lostjared/MXVK

My breakout clone.

Screenshots for this little program.

Added a custom video recorder to my fractal zoom demo.

Fell asleep on my computer last night and did that crap where I wake up and the terminal is full of random characters from my hands going heavy. I need to stop falling asleep at my computer.

Put some polish on my 3D Breakout game demo with Vulkan/C++ (MXVK).

I love these movies. Just got the 4K collectors edition.

Ported my 3D Breakout game over to MXVK and improved it.

I am trying to be funny

The Bible is fictional. If it's real then I am the big JB because B comes before C so I'm the original OG JC.

I don't really like animated gifs. They are low resolution and low quality with low frame rates. I can see how they could be useful 15 years ago or more.

Camera Visualizer using MXVK and SPiR-V.

added optional vsync enable/disable to all the examples use --enable-vsync to use FIFO explicitly, or default of MAILBOX, with FIFO as fallback.

MoltenVK version of my demo running on macOS. I have had something to focus on this summer and that keeps me from depressio, so all in all I see this project as a win. Even ifits not that fancy or spectacular it means something to me.

Had my friend try out my new Vulkan framework on Windows. He got it compiled and then reviewed the source code and sent me a document with some potential issues and how I can resolve them. So tomorrow or later on when I get up after resting ill try to work on getting rid of those limitations.

It is weird sometimes i think i am saying something, but when I look at it later, I said something else. I wonder what that is called.

caught up lol.

Or it could be a configuration issue. I will have to fiddle with it to figure it out.

I am pretty sure there is some kind of regression with the video recording software I have been using or somewhere in the system. After updates it now lags while recording certain Vulkan programs with heavy graphics.

Creating software is about more than just the code. It is about knowing how systems work and interact. It is also crafting good design and knowing how to put all the pieces together.

Building and running MXVK on Linux and running the test examples Perl script.

Just caught with an old friend. Showed me some of his projects. I was impressed to say the least.

I just passed the level where fly in that little plane and fight that Zeppelin that at the end starts sending those UFOs at you. I think I am like 20% complete. It has been making me a little crazy

3D Puzzle Drop. The goal is to stack and shift the falling 3-block piece so that the board forms matching sequences of 1-2-3 or 3-2-1 of the same color in a line. Matches can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal. A flashing wildcard block can stand in for any color. #puzzlegame #cplusplus #vulkan

Been working on this some more this morning, added the next piece preview.

when I finally pass the level it gives me a dopamine kick pretty good tho.

Woke up super early this morning and have been working on this puzzle game. Fixed the blocks so the numbers are easier to see.

Now this sounds awesome.

This is a generated python program to convert GNU AT&T Assembly to its Intel equivalent. github.com/lostjared/at...

Game I wrote all the game code and logic in x86_64 Assembly (AT&T mnemonics).

Yeah, it's difficult, alright.

youtu.be/1LFSMGdoQ14

I have been working on this today, I need to make the blocks numbers easier to read on smaller screens, it rotates in 3D and its a original game idea I thought of a few years ago (image 2 for the original windowed Qt version). You match up sequence of numbers of the same color. 1-2-3 or 3-2-1.

Fixed a few validation errors, and released a new version of MXVK at v0.9.3.

The game Cuphead is difficult for me. I have to repeat the levels over and over.

Updated docs now at version 0.9.2 lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/

This game is a joke, so don't take it too seriously. The 'power' ups build up and combos of them in different orders produce different effects. I have a strange sense of humor.

I think it would be kind of fun to program something for the original Gameboy in Assembly. I saw this book about it online and it looks like something I would like to read.

I still like physical media. Especially 4K Blu-ray. I showed my neighbor my Blu-ray collection and an example of the quality the other day.

Quitting nicotine is difficult. Keep at it and you will succeed. I quit over 10 years ago. Best thing I've done for my health.

Some logos.

Selfie.

Some of my thoughts.

Ever wonder what LostSideDead meant? lostsidedead.biz/pattern/

The above AI generated image was created with text to image from the poem I wrote after being in a coma.

This is a game with the older MX2 engine created in 2024. After a few years of learning I think I have improved.

*with = will

I mean OpenGL ES 3.

C++/OpenGL 3 Web Assembly Demo. There are a whole bunch of them here: lostsidedead.biz/libmx2/

C++/OpenGL ES 3 Demo of a 3D Version of the old game Breakout. Compiled to Web Assembly. It is kind of a slow moving demo.

Higher Resolution (4K) on YouTube: youtu.be/-27O_a6S8_s

Added new control scheme (use the mouse) when you press F5 toggle between classic controls/keyboard mouse I did this because I added a first person mode you can toggle back and forth from with F7 where you look out from the cockpit. This demo of my library is starting to look pretty good to me.

Had an early dinner at a restaurant tonight. I made it into the building and out with my walker. But it gave me a lot of anxiety. At least I went and pushed myself to leave the house. Every time I leave I get stronger. Cannot give up.

Video Art.

I do not plan to ever try to sell anything I make. This gives me a a lot of freedom to code whatever I want to make. If someone does not like a project of mine they simply ignore it. I create just for the sake of creating and the feelings I get from being creative. I remember VB3, we have evolved.

Rendering a 3D texture mapped cube by plotting pixels. (Last post was typo).

Published up to date documentation on v0.9.0 of MXVK with information about the post-processing shader that can be attached to VK_Window. Information about MXNetwork now with IPv6 support. lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/

I lost count, I am disabled so I don't leave the house much and I am on my computer a lot of the time. Plus I was having a lot of insomnia and needed something to do.

the generated doxygen website to document the code is located: lostsidedead.biz/MXVK

This summer my goal was to create a new graphics engine and make a multiplayer game. I accomplished both, but I am still adding example demos. I bought an eBook off Amazon on Vulkan and read a lot of that before I even got started. My goal for this entire year was to learn how to program the GPU.

5 Positive things about me.

Also it is important to keep coding and problem solving or those muscles with atrophy. I practice coding everyday and have a streak of adding to my repositories everyday for years.

I think AI coding tools have improved a lot lately. It makes it easy to get the tedious stuff done pretty fast. However I would not trust the code it generates completely. You need to know how to read/write the language its working with to avoid major pitfalls.

Its a Vulkan/SDL3 engine in C++. I also have made a lot of OpenGL programs and all kinds of stuff. I have been coding for almost 30 years now as a hobby.

Asteroids Example Demo in 4K. (Recorded at native 4K Resolution).

Added command switch to automatically enable CRT shader, cross hairs that turn blue when locked onto an asteroid to fire your cannon, and radar that when you go out of bounds, it nudges you back to the asteroid field. #Vulkan #C++ #CPlusPlus

Been working on my projects this morning. Added some new sound effects to Asteroids3D. Also encapsulated the post-process shader effect from defender that can be easily added to any MXVK project by attaching a fragment shader that occurs after the complete scene is rendered.

Been trying to get back to work on my projects this morning. It is actually helping to focus on something.

I have been drinking McCafe coffee lately in the morning. It was the best price. It is not too bad, not as good as what I normally drink but completely acceptable.

yeah i am still processing it, thanks

So Coder crossed the rainbow bridge, at least she is not suffering or in pain anymore. She was an excellent cat.

So it looks like my cat had a stroke. She is paralyzed on one side. We are going to have to put her down. Very sad.

I am not offended lol. I mostly use C++ and was just mentioning what I prefer when scripting something. Python is cool too.

Everyone has their own preference and style. I was just talking about mine.

So I am just holding her trying to comfort her until morning. She is 13 years old and has been sick. I think it's her time. Going to just be here with her.

Having a little bit of a crisis now. It's 3 am and my cat was crying really loud. I come in here and she is collapsed under the bed and couldn't get up and was screeching in pain. I am majorly disabled so I had a hell of a time getting her out. There is nothing I can do. Family is out of town.

Bright colors, and tuned Light.

Also the author uses more C with a few C++ features or a better C kind of style. I modified it and made my code more OO.

With GPUs and modern Vulkan a lot of it is really not required but if you are curious I would say give it a try. You could always read a few interesting chapters. Cool that you have access to those books. I collect coding books.

It is a very long book with lots of code listings. I remember reading it years ago typing in from the book modifying it to fit my codebase If I remember correctly it used 16 bit color and it's all software based. It's the kind of book where you build everything from plotting pixels.

Updated documentation for my MXVK engine at v0.8.0. Contains documentation for mxvk_math a 3D math library. lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/

Brought my old 3D Math library back to life! Incorporated a updated to C++20 (version) incorporated into my MXVK engine for fun to see if I could get it to renders some stuff in 3D from straight up math. github.com/lostjared/MX...

that is awesome! that is the one, it is my garage in a box with a lot of my other older books. But that is so cool.

You know maybe I am just a little self conscious, I need to relax and not be so worried all the time.

I sometimes feel like I might have a little bit of dementia or something. I am not sure I sometimes feel a little confused IRL. But on the computer I feel much more focused and able to concentrate.

Added: * Booster rocket (makes ship travel 2x as fast) * Randomized color particles for star-ship explosion * Randomized color for laser beam Example shows: * toggling on/off CRT shader * using booster rocket * using the debug console I think the design for my engine is solid.

I always get nervous. I wish there was someway to not feel that way.

Code Map.

Neon Lights.

Positive Energy Waves

Do you see the aliens?

These were some homebrew demos I wrote for the PS3. I used to love writing homebrew. github.com/lostjared/ps...

This was my super-old DirectX 9 graphics library github.com/lostjared/Ol...

Old library I wrote to implement the 3D math required for creating a CPU-based renderer. When I was a lot younger I had this huge book called Tricks of the 3D Game Programming Guru's and I went through it and implemented this based on the code from the book. This was my first attempt at 3D math.

It is a C program compiled into Web Assembly the source code is here: github.com/lostjared/Re...

If you notice I sometimes use the wrong word, and make typos. Remember I almost died and was in a deep coma, when I woke up all my muscles had atrophied and I had serve trauma from Lithium toxicity. I had trouble speaking afterwards. To help with my word recall I made this little game.

one of my favorite git commands $ git add -u add all the modified files currently tracked files for commit saves the hassle of having to add them manually

You know, I think I have made some progress this summer on my quest to learn how to program the GPU. Started on this journey at the start of the year. I have a better understanding than when I started. Going to keep working on this goal.

Damn last night I fell asleep while i was using my computer lol. My hands went heavy on the keyboard and like kept typing keys into the terminal. When I woke up there was like a large amount of garage characters typed into the terminal. I have not done that for a long time.

I have been having to use this GPU recording software to capture my Vulkan games at 4K. For some reason OBS chokes on my system, probably cause my computer is so old and slow. However at least the GPU recording software works right?

Been working on my game. Added a post processing shader effect to make the game screen look like a CRT (its optional pres F8 to toggle on/off). Also make the controls more like defender, and added the radar like defender. Next is to implement the mutants and the humanoids. Really neat project.

that is good, I had a lot of issues with psychosis, and hallucinations and only way they treat that is with medication, so I have been on it for years and years. Lots of side effects, but at least my symptoms are managed now.

damn good luck with that, sounds difficult, I also had problems with drugs when I was younger.

Was working on this little demo some more. Made the movement and scrolling more like the Defender arcade game, added a new Alien octopus enemy, and different colored particles for the explosions. This is a nice little example of how to use my library/engine.

Hope that works out for you. Nicotine is difficult to quit.

My years long perfect streak. Coming to an end soon?

Its amazing how music can transport you back in time to a different time in your life and revisit those emotions you felt. Sometimes I feel myself transported into my past and feel the intense level of love I used to feel. Now I feel kind of numb from the mood stabilizers and anti psychotics.

Yeah so I canceled my GitHub Copilot subscription and the time ran out and it has expired. I am on GitHub free now, I pretty sure I don't owe them any money now.

I wonder how much it would cost to setup a VPS and use either GitLab or Gitea and run my own repositories. I have been on GitHub forever but not to sure about its future.

Josh Johnson from the Daily show is super funny.

Color Swirly.

native 4K Capture of the Demo.

Was working on this little defender-style demo last night, and this morning. It is really more like a mix between asteroids, defender, and and Star Gate. Most of the games assets like the sound effects, sound track, UFO sprites, are all generated, because I am terrible at making game artwork.

I don't know maybe I am weird, but I am more of a Perl 5 guy than a Python guy. Python is cool and you can do a lot of stuff with it, I just don't really care for how you have to format your code. Also Perl is like peek regular expressions and text processing.

New game demo I started working on tonight with MXVK.

Asteroids demo runs great in 4K. Source code on my GitHub.

Updated the Web Assembly version of my 'Virtual Environment'. Fixed a long running bug with the window fullscreen toggle in a web browser. Now the programs viewport will map to the correct resolution. The WebAssembly version also contains a custom shell I call MXCMD. lostsidedead.biz/mxcmd for info.

Updated my Asteroids 3D example. Moved the heavy resource loading to a background thread and then kept an animation running while its loading. Reused the Matrix rain class in another application. All around I think I am just about done with this demo. Even tho its not realistic its still fun.

Yeah CMake can create files for ninja, make, nmake all kinds of different build systems

I like CMake better than autotools. However, I am not really fond of the language you use to produce your build files. It seems kind of weird, but you get used to it.

Yeah miller doesn't realize he has a mental illness too. They should institutionalize him and see how he feels about it after that. Mental illness is just the same as having a physical illness. Dude needs some antipsychotics cause he is delusional.

I enjoy looking at developers indie games, because it inspires me. It gives me a glimmer of hope that someday I can create a game that is as good.

Some artwork, mirrored pencil sketch, and texture mapped octopus.

Using the Matrix rain in another application, doing full 360's.

Finally got my program to work with the camera being able to move in a full 360 degrees. The texture I used for mapping to the sphere was a sketch I drew with pencil and paper, so this is part my physical drawing turned into digital interactive art.

This is how much I have compacted the amount of code required to get a working Vulkan window up and running. Down from around 1,000 lines of code to 47. You can still implement any part of it how you want to customize and retain the verbose aspects of the API.

Created a reusable class that works with my engine, that can be reused in multiple projects for rendering the matrix rain. It h as a lot of configurable options, like font, font-size, color, surface size, etc.

I have not believed in what the Government says since forever. I just trust in my understanding of what they are actually doing instead of confusing that with what I am told. That's the key. Sometimes I get a little confused about events in my own life but I remember when I am being lied to.

Passed another level on Ragebound defeated this robot turtle monster guy.

your right i looked it up its called Perturbation Theory. Thanks for the tip, maybe ill try to update my example.

We should call those tech broskey guys 'micro villains' instead of super villains.

Having some fun messing with this Matrix code. #vulkan #c++ #cplusplus

yeah but it would be terribly slow using the CPU versus a shader.

lostsidedead.biz

there is a lot of different types of art called 'glitch' art. Its more of a style than any thing now days than a exactly defined. But some people have different opinions on what it is, and there are even some purists who say it has to be within certain parameters.

Only a single scalar value is limited to 32 bits.

The app runs great on macOS, but it is limited to a 32-bit float. This program can only zoom in so far. (Unless there is a way around this?) On Linux, I use a double and can zoom in further, but computers are finite, and you can only zoom in so far (as far as I am aware)

Running the Perl script to test my demos on macOS (Apple Silicon). Everything seems to work okay. 👍

Using Linux to create glitch art with code a long time ago.

My game MasterPiece on the PSP.

3D on the PSP back in the day.

Some of my artwork/software from around 2006.

Some of my old PSP projects github.com/lostjared/PS...

I used to be really into coding homebrew for the original PSP back in the day. Good memories.

Looked in my archives and found some old screenshots!

Ended up giving up on that avenue. It was a bad idea anyway.

I remember when I was in my early twenties I created a win32 API program that I called the GF app and it was like a quiz with little tests to try and find a woman who would be compatible. I put it on my website and I started getting weird entries in the db from like someone harassing me.

JavaScript WebGL Port

Gave this one more try, this time using a 3D beam with full rotation with the mouse of the prism.

Reality feels like a parody or comic book with all these reverse Lex Luther like billionaire supervillains.

Tested the app on macOS, it runs well; however i notice the color looks different. MoltenVK uses Metal under the hood, so I am sure there are some differences.

The screenshot of the macOS app appears much darker on Bluesky, must be the high level of compression.

MXVK works across platforms; these are two tests on Windows/MacOS of the DarkSideDemo

DOOM took place on mars, I enjoyed that game franchise.

I think it would be cool if someone made (or have they already?) a FPS that takes place on the moon and like you go into pyramids and find like all kinds of ancient technology and lifeforms and can explore and fight against them.

Got my reading light all charged up. Yesterday i was reading in this home office/room and it was kind of dark, reached for my reading light, turned it on and it was dead. Actually had to put down my book because It was hard to see the print on the page.

This the artwork I made I have been using in my recent videos for my desktop wallpaper. It is of a butterfly.

I eat a lot of the high protein lean cuisine meals. They have all kinds of different foods you can eat, and its just the right amount of food and calories.

i was getting some deep REM sleep this morning, I fell asleep and just woke up. Feeling fantastic after that.

I always wished I had learned how to use C++ builder and Delphi back in the early 2000s. They would have been valuable to use along with Visual C++. I was not that great of a programmer back then my skill with memory management had not been developed yet. Yeah but Borland compilers were pretty good

I don't know maybe I am a weirdo but I kind of like the daily briefing Google gives me. Summarizes what I need to focus on for that day. Stuff like reminders if I have any type of online meetings with doctors or things in my email I need to give attention to. It can be kind of invasive but it works

Looks cool. 👍

i cannot use that music the copyright police will come after me. lol

Released under a MIT license. github.com/lostjared/Ja...

JavaScript/WebGL port of the DarkSide Demo now live on my website. lostsidedead.biz/DarkSide

This is why I have so much respect for Linus. Don't let the title of this video discourage you from watching this. Quick summary compilers actually write 100% of your code. You still need a deep understanding of systems or your project will fail.

Here is the final images of trying to recreate the cover as a 3D App.

I think I got it this time.

I always turn off comments on my YouTube videos I post. I just don't really want to hear the negativity. If they really want to contact me there s a form on my website.

Video demos of a few of my projects on my YouTube channel.

Fun Demo coded in C++/Vulkan. This is one of my favorite records I listened to it so many times. Blue Text for Bluesky. I know I butchered the concept, but hey at least I tried right?

I remember the night Obama was elected for his first term. I was hopeful things would get better. Seems like any progress we made has been negated . I just hope things start to get better and money stops winning.

Sometimes I wonder if this is the same universe I was born in. Did I die but not know it and shift down to a lower dimension a few times? It feels like it.

There are much worse creatures than extraterrestrials. They call themselves Republicans. Lol

I used to be paranoid about aliens. I don't worry about it now. If they do exist and they are here nothing I can do about it or even know if they are actually good? Lol it's all good I don't have anything to worry about. #crazydudeproblems

the moon gives off this great energy #energy

That old joke about Pyramids on the Moon turned into a C++ program. #moon #pyramids #shader #vulkan #c++ #cplusplus #code #software #softwareengineering

it sure does, it seem so speed up as you get older as well. Before you know it, life will pass you by.

i mean the library overall supports graphics, networking and video. It is getting there.

I still have a long way to go to figure out how to make something good. I am going to spend the rest of the summer working on this. So far this summer, I have created a new socket library that supports windows/linux and macOS and a new graphics library that includes it.

Press F2 to invert the controls.

Current state of this small demo. Had a good time working on this, but there are some problems with how it works.

well its just a demo, something to learn from.

Should It ? It is kind of not realistic in how it moves. Especially since this is supposed to be outer space.

similar to .OBJ but I was like repeating stuff and the files got pretty large.

the custom format i came up with was kind something I thought up and was just a text file with the data and a manifest file for the textures.

sounds cool.

I am not aware of all the different file formats, I have very little experience with 3D software like blender.

Tested this demo on Windows. 👍

I love this series. The host is intelligent and makes some good jokes.

I was thinking about getting an inexpensive VPS and creating a new website that is separate from my current page. I would make this page a little bit more professional and only put my games/programming stuff on it. I was looking online and you can get a VPS for almost nothing.

You know, I enjoy programming and working on these graphics demos trying to learn this stuff. It gives me something to work towards and put my energy into.

My asteroid loaded into blender.

My brother in law has a whole bunch of those things, there like little action figures that give you perks in the game right?

Just switched everything over from my old MXMOD format to Wavefront OBJ and now the game loads almost 2x as fast, my format was really not optimized, I know I made the right decision switching all my assets to this established format.

Moved the asset loading to the loading screen, and added better collision detection. Just about done with this demo. #Vulkan #C++

Was porting over this demo I made to my new engine. Uses the new star ship asset with the jet in the back. I mean this is kind of a better version, but I still need to work out all the kinks with the collision detection and a few other issues.

📦[jared@debian jared]$ ollama ps NAME ID SIZE PROCESSOR CONTEXT UNTIL qwen2.5-coder:7b dae161e27b0e 5.5 GB 100% GPU 16384 4 minutes from now 📦[jared@debian jared]$ also after loading a model you can check its status.

you want to see something like this msg="vram-based default context" total_vram="7.6 GiB" if it says total vram 0 gb it is not loading into your GPU

check the log it should load the model into your VRAM on your GPU, if it mapping to your CPU it will be extremely slow.

I am getting closer to being able to make better video games. I have been spending a lot of my time trying to reach this goal. I hope I can make something worth playing.

Yeah it is a little farfetched. I was just throwing ideas at the wall

Works and no seams. 👍

Texture Mapping

Some of my artwork

I am using my PC but i have a MacBook Air as well.

I used equirectangular-style 2D UV mapping but I am not sure what is better?

Plasma big screen is cool.

I didn't mean to rant it's just sometimes when I hear about certain things it makes me want to express my opinion. Thanks for listening to me.

They should force companies to release the source code to their terrible self destroying algorithms, that manipulate people so we can all see what they are really doing.

I know they are pretending they want to protect children as an excuse to censor speech on the internet. It is obviously a bait and switch, and they think we are all dumb enough to let them do it. Last thing we want is the thought police to use their technology to read the thoughts in your mind.

try LM Studio or ollama

I wouldn't call Republicans conservative. There are a couple of words that start with a C I could use but I'll be polite and just say corrupt

If you have ever tried to texture map a sphere you will know the pain I went through to get this to work without a seam.

what do you think? would that be a good idea for a video game?

What if, Aliens are really advanced life forms that are computers. And the technology that was reversed engineered to create our computers, was from one of their crashed ships they let us recover on purpose. To implant their technology and take us over from the inside by us creating our own downfall

Added a tool to MXVK to convert all the old .mxmod.z files to .obj/.mtl. Going to abandon my file format in favor of Wavefront .obj/.tml files because blender can read them and they are all around a better design. The format I came up with is kind of not optimized.

Spaceship obj.

#Eye

Running my new game engine from within my Virtual Environment MasterX System.

Updated my command line argument parser, with color coding on terminals that support color. Even works on the terminal within MasterX System.

How to play with touch controls

lostsidedead.biz/PuzzleDrop Mobile version of my a original Puzzle game I thought up years ago. It is kind of fun.

Added some explicit text so you can see how fast the program is actually processing this video file with compute shaders/FFmpeg/CUDA.

I use a lot of different tools both modern and not so modern. I am proficient with using command line compilers as well as IDE's. I love creating software and I deeply care about it not only as a hobby but as something I dedicate my time to.

I log what I am doing and working on on this feed. I spend a lot of my free time doing this coding stuff, because it makes me feel good. I practice coding every single day, and every day I feel my mind getting stronger. I know some of the stuff I post is not all that great but it gives me purpose.

I want to convert my legacy code base (libacidcam) to GLSL compute shaders because those are my most popular filters. The only problem is the code is 67850 lines. No way in hell I am going to write up that many lines of code. I will have it translated, but I am going to have to pay.

I made the Tetris game to test my Networking library, I just converted it to Javascript/HTML5 so i could play it on my phone (although it does not have the networking part on my phone)

Single frame

Processing webcam video (with hardware acceleration) using compute shaders to produce some classical glitch effects.

lostsidedead.biz/tetris3d

3D Tetris now works on mobile with touch controls. Super cool.

Got my small Vulkan project processing video with compute shaders and writing it to file at over 120 FPS on my old system using CUDA acceleration with FFMPEG. I am having it compile in support for reading/writing the video with FFMPEG/CUDA if its detected instead of using OpenCV. ACMXVK?

github.com/lostjared/Ja...

Good news to report, I left my house without a wheelchair for the first time in 6 years (since I got sick and went into a coma). Went to dinner with my family (aunt and mother) and had a burger. It was difficult getting up the ramp, but I did it and am feeling really good about it. Life goes on.

Port of my Vulkan 3D Tetris game to JavaScript/WebGL. Works almsot as good, but without some of the effects and there is no multiplayer. Play it here: lostsidedead.biz/tetris3d

Wow this blender software is awesome, I used the Smart UV mapping and it correct my stretched textures.

I am suddenly interested in blender since it can export 3D files I can use with my code. Does anyone know of a good tutorial or book I can read to learn from scratch? I was looking on amazon and none were really standing out to me except for one that was like $45 for the paperback.

Tux being used in my game demos.

This morning I was trying out blender for the first time. It is a great application, very well written. Made my .OBJ model loader for my engine support blend Wavefront .OBJ/.MTL files. So I was editing this model of Tux. I am by no means good at this program but it seems really interesting to me.

Updated the Tux 3D object, and now it looks more like the older Tux from the cover of the old Mandrake Linux artwork. Not perfect but looking better IMO. Testing on macOS with MoltenVK.

the original demo for this was written 10 years ago.

Updated this old demo of a simple application to transfer a file over a network or open a chat session between to computers on a local area network. Upgraded the code base to C++20 and Qt6 with updated code for the transfer. github.com/lostjared/QT...

Micro to Macro Universal inter-connected web network (Plexus effect). Coded in C++/OpenGL.

You can try my web based visualizer lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

This is an example of using MXVK's OpenCV (CUDA zero-copy interop) backend with Vulkan compute shaders (instead of fragment shaders). Compute shaders give you much more control of what pixels go where for glitch art. (So you can do more complex stuff).

by applies the shader I mean does the twist effect (shown in this video) with the fragment shader.

This is one of OpenCV examples with MXVK using its VK_Capture (compiled when you pass -DCV=ON). Uses CUDA under the hood (when available) with zero copy interop and applies the texture to the 3D object with a fragment shader.

These are the examples bundled with my new Vulkan based game engine. There is a Perl script to run each one and see if there are any errors. Runs on my system without any errors (hopefully there are no edge cases).

The is a demo of MXVK's 3D Sprite class, rendering 2D images in 3D with full camera and rotation. It is not meant to be like the classic Matrix green rain, but something similar to demonstrate the capabilities of the type. Looks pretty cool to me.

This is an old project of mine from some years ago. I started writing it after reading this C++ book on design patterns. I wrote it to try out some of the techniques I was reading in the book. All the coordinates for the GUI and the game were written from my mind. I stopped working on this.

This small demo was inspired by that level in Cuphead. What if i told you the real Jared is lost in space? He was transferred into a UFO and taken to another planet. I am his clone replacement. lol (I am kidding or am I?)

This boss is difficult for me specifically when those UFOs launch. Cool game.

Slept a lot last night, and this morning. Really feeling refreshed.

Added rotation to the snow flakes.

Released v0.2.0 of MXVK (Vulkan 1.4 Game Engine) written in C++20. New in this version is VK_Sprite3D a depth-tested 3D billboard sprite it renders textured quads in world space. Each queued sprite is camera-facing, uses the view/projection matrix lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/ github.com/lostjared/MXVK

I am a fan of Night dive Studios and the KEX engine. I just tried SiN RELOADED Demo which was a game form the late 90's written using the Quake 2 Engine now REMASTERED.

You can tell in my opinion Eric Trump is full of crap. You don't need to use AI to create fake screenshots. So him claiming that shows he is either lying or just uneducated about computers. I think it's like both. In my opinion he is just plain corrupt.

Its snowing Antarctica. (added Snow to my Tux MXVK example). The thing about this example is the snow appears behind him and in front of him. This was kind of tricky to get working just right.

Just having some fun here trying out these VHS/Glitch Effects. Have a great night. #ACMX2 #Glitch

I still think the program I used to make this is one of the best ones I have ever created. It took months worth of work. #ACMX2

Psychedelic Glitch Art #GlitchArt #Psychedelic #c++ #cplusplus #ACMX2

Hehe passed another boss and got a B. This game has grown on me and I enjoy playing it.

Full Documentation for MXVK (Vulkan 1.4 Graphics Engine in C++20) lostsidedead.biz/MXVK/

3D Starship asset.

Just played this cool level in Ninja Gaiden Ragebound where you ride a jet ski.

if you cannot tell by my spelling / grammar errors, the text on my BlueSky feed is written by me. I prefer to write down my thoughts here because they appear on my website as well.

t kind of sucks that software is so locked down. You cannot trust a lot of people that use the internet now, so some of the methods of distrubtion are no longer viable imo. It is kind of sad, I would hate to see desktop OSes like Linux/BSD get locked down even further like iPhones, or even macOS.

I am not the best programmer, but I genuinely have a love for software development. Things have really changed the past few years or so with all these new tools that give a lot more people the opportunity to create. More so than any other time in my life, (and I have been coding a long time).

I always thought Obama was a good president. No scandals and he is a guinely nice person who you can tell cares about this country. Cannot say that about the current leadership.

Got it up and running on macOS. Cool I actually did it.

Ran into an issue with compatibility with macOS and the C23 networking code. I was stuck couldn't figure it out, so I had some help, but I think I got it figured out.

I mean Street Fighter II (2)

Still love Street Fighter I in all its incarnations.

Got it working on Windows. Successfully wrote another cross platform library. ✔️🎮👍.

Got Networked Multiplayer Tetris working. This means I completed my summer project over 2 months early, So I will have to start a new one! (Completed MXVK modern Vulkan 1.4 graphics library, and MXNetwork a hand writtten socket library)

Ported my Networking library to winsock2 and tested it with wine.

I feel like the Internet i use is like a sandbox where I cannot reach anyone. It is not the great resource it used to be.

Twist effect #ACMX2

Some new shader effects. #ACMX2

#ACMX2 Webcam effects.

Things are starting to get real here in America. I hope it does not get any worse, and somehow we find a way out of this mess. I am just doing the best I can to not get caught up stressing over it, because right now, there is nothing I can do to change anything. I can just sit here and be creative.

The Windows port works.

When I was in high school the first Matrix movie came out in the movies. I went to see it at the theater and I was on psychedelics. I was already obsessed with coding and C++ so this movie moved me. To this today I still love the first film, and think it stands up. Not so much the sequels.

Been trying to plan out how I am going to get multiplayer to work with my app. First I am thinking I should make my networking library cross platform so I can create a build of my game for windows (which most people use).

I basically created my Tetris demo so I have something to work on for my socket library. I have not created a multiplayer game before and didn't want to implement it from scratch so I reused my existing codebase. I am going to spend some time focusing on how to do this.

Got this game sorted with some music, next step is to add networking with MXNetwork.

thinking I should try and use the socket library I have been working on and make this a two player game.

Was bored today so I created this 3D Tetris game with Vulkan 1.4 and C++. This will give me something to do because I love Tetris. #Vulkan #Cplusplus

There was an series of around 400 packages put into the AUR for archlinux that were compromised. I ran the scripts on my systems to see if I was affected and both computers did not even download anything from the AUR during the 48-hour window when the packages where compromised. A big relief.

I have been collecting software textbooks since I was in high school I am in my early 40's now. So that is awesome that wrote some.

Podman and distrobox make software development on Linux much easier.

Was trying out opencode with local models to see what it can do on my system. It is cool but requires a lot of processing power and running on my system is kind of slow.

Looks like I am going to have to retire the Android programs download page on my site because Google is locking down android later on this year. I don't think I am going to try and get my packages registered with Google. I am just going to let it go.

A few of my favorite Sega games that were in the arcade but were released on the Genesis with almost perfect ports were Golden Axe and Altered Beast. Both were amazing games that I still enjoy playing to this day.

When I was a kid the coolest game was Street Fighter 2: the world warrior in the arcade. When it was released on SNES it was like a dream come true to play it at home. When Mortal Kombat was released in the arcade it was like stepping the game up. The best version was for Genesis with the blood code

Made this little chat demo with my socket library. Just up early this morning practicing some more.

I have been playing Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and finally defeated stage 4-1. Plus I got a B so I think I am getting better at this game because it's difficult like the original for NES.

I spent my afternoon on the computer like always. Hope you had a good day.

I have been working on this example for my socket library of a echo relay server. That allows multiple clients to connect and send messages that are then echoed to all the other clients connected to the server. It didn't take much code using my wrappers. github.com/lostjared/MX...

This was solved by not destroying the swapchain after it was recreated; instead, it was put as the old swapchain parameter, then it was pushed into a vector, and after the first frame finished drawing, it would release the old swapchains, waiting for the current window size to match the final size.

Spent the night working on solving an edge case bug with MoltenVK. When I would resize the window, it would flash pink on the screen for a frame, making the app look like it glitched.

Made some progress on my projects today and read my books. Thinking about where my life is and what I am going to do in the future. I am not sure where I will end up but at least I am still here and able to do things that only a few years ago I was not sure I could do.

thehill.com/policy/techn...

I think my life goals are just to learn as much as I can about software since I cannot do much else. Since all these Ai companies are just going to train off all our data might as well just not worry about it and just be creative. It's not like they have not been doing this for years now.

Defeated another boss and got a B- this time. Did a little better than a C+. I like this game 🎮.

I thought this was informative. If I am interpreting this correct x86 runs a form of minix below the surface.

Was fixing some issues today with libmx2. I am moving on from it to work on other projects. I wanted to leave it in a good state.

Used an ONNX model based on one of my pencil sketches.

Noir Kaleidoscope #ACMX2

try something like seroquel, it will tranquilze you and make you feel calm. It also a antipsychotic, but much stronger that risperidone.

what do you recommend?

github.com/lostjared/MX... I have a function in the structured API that handles SIGPIPE, I remember writing a program a long time ago, where I would keep getting broken pipe and had to restart the program. Right now I just have it ignoring SIGPIPE and checking the return value of read/write.

thanks for the feedback! I was able to implement UDP into my library. I am having a good time working on this project.

I got UDP to work between processes with Unix domain sockets in MXNetwork. I am having a great time with this, and it is giving me the much needed practice I need.

I have been using KDevelop, and the more I use it, the more I like it.

I remember there being an option in the old Visual Studio to do the same kind of thing.

I use clang-format to format my code, it makes it convenient and produces the exact same formatting across source files. All you do is create a .clang-format file in the root of your project with instructions on how you want it to look then you can use the command line tool to format your sources.

I want to create a simple multi-player game with my new handwritten socket library by the end of the summer. Going to give it my best effort.

Updated my design for MXNetwork, added a few examples as well as adding datagram (UDP) sockets.

I have not implemented UDP yet but I plan to.

Got this book out of my bookcase it's an old hardcover Addison Wesley on Unix. Very interesting book. I spent some time this afternoon reading it in my recliner enjoying my day. Hope you had a good day as well.

Finally beat these frog boxer guys. I kinda only got a C+ it would have been cool if it was a C++. Haha.

Latest NVIDIA driver causes SPIR-V shaders to constantly recompile. Made games take a long time to load. Rolled back and now everything works fine again.

Started working on a Networking Socket library. I am writing this 100% by hand to practice. I am doing this a little differently, first I created a structured implementation, then wrapped it with C++. So I can use either the procedural code or the object oriented. github.com/lostjared/MX...

I have a little arcade on my website with some small games you can play in your browser: lostsidedead.biz/webapps.html

My love "Letter" to the C programming language.

For AI Models, and 20,000 Images. lostsidedead.biz/data/

My bluesky thoughts archive

Yeah, I am pretty sure I have Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium-Effectuated Neurotoxicity (SILENT). If after five years I still cannot walk correctly, my speech is still messed up (worse at different times), and my decision making is not very good, it all points to that. I doubt ill ever recover.

I basically put a raw dump of my life's work in the form of HTML web pages with C++ Source Code on my site. lostsidedead.biz/code/

Looks like GPTBot (OpenAI) hit my site 10,366 times in April. I wonder what they were doing? lol.

Shifting.

Neat-o Visual Effects.

Boom n' Zoom

Hey I got a B not to bad for me.

Energy Noir #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Noir

"Ripple" #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #VideoArt

Completed this project I wrote to practice. Its a file server to send files over my LAN. I fixed the problem with the progress bar by only making it update when the percentage completed has changed. All around this was a good exercise. Source Code: github.com/lostjared/C2...

I started playing this game called Cuphead. It is pretty difficult, but it looks like an old cartoon and I think that is a very artistic way to make your game look and I enjoy the artwork.

only issue left is the progress bar glitched a few times, will have to fix that.

Was working on my file server (by hand) to practice Systems programming with C and added the use of atomic variables, progress bar, as well as some error checking. I love programming.

Woke up at around midnight from a sound sleep and could not sleep anymore. So I implemented a networking tool to serve files over my local network to practice System programming with C. Lots of fun.

Spent some time reading a System Programming textbook, and then implemented another set of example programs this time on Unix IPC message queues to use as notes for my modern C repo. github.com/lostjared/C2...

When I used to program for Windows back in the day I never really was into programming with MFC. I always used the Platform SDK Win32 API and rolled my own classes. That was the way I could understand my code better.

Been working on my C23 repo (where I put all my notes about C Programming) and I added Unix domain socket client/server test programs. github.com/lostjared/C2...

I think modern coding tools can be extremely useful for learning, finding flaws and all kinds of stuff. So in my opinion if you want to use them that is your choice. As long as you review the code and have the resources.

I completely understand psychosis. I have experienced it quite a few times in my life having schizoaffective disorder. It is basically experiencing things and it being true to you but only true in your mind. So I understand that people are experiencing this right now.

I'd rather know how to do things myself with a shell/terminal then give an abstract idea of what I want to do to an agent. At least interpret what is happening and put a level of decision making between the actual commands and what is being executed.

Made this cool text-based progress bar for this simple practice project that downloads a file from an HTTP server.

I remember KDevelop from back in the day, but this IDE is really good. I started developing a simple HTTP file downloader in C23 tonight to practice. Getting back to my roots.

I started using KDevelop. I like this IDE.

I love programming but I only made a few commits today. Kind of been relaxing.

The Steam controller looks great. Would definitely be an upgrade from an Xbox controller. Was watching podcast news and things seem to be falling to pieces. I wonder if we're going to make it through this craziness

I know what I create is not that important. It is just something I do to stay busy. So I am just going to have a good time and there is no pressure.

Going to start from scratch.

I thought this was interesting. I don't ever try to put my software in app stores but I am going to implement my new project without using those tools. Even tho it's everywhere now.

I started playing this RoboCop game on steam. It is made with the Unreal engine and I think it is pretty good.

I have a project lined up to work on this summer. Looking forward to spending a lot of time reading textbooks and writing code. Hopefully I can accomplish what I set out to do.

No for the ai features. I am shifting back to doing it all manually. I have been on GitHub for like ten years and the free plan for the repos worked fine so I am going back to that.

So I went a head and canceled my subscription, feeling pretty good about it.

Artificial Light

I just confirmed for myself the file size increase for video files work on BlueSky, but the bug where videos sometimes fail to process the first few times still remains.

Some Cool Visuals.

I think I am going to cancel my GitHub subscription, the credits to actual code generated is not worth the cost. They increased the price to insane levels, I will just have to write it all by hand now. It won't be so bad, actually will be good for my brain.

Still working on this funny demo for fun here.

Hot swapping SPiR-V Shaders with Tux at the C++ Disco.

Just been putting on my tinfoil hat and creating this simple looking demo to try and learn more about 3D graphics programming with C++/Vulkan.

yeah graphics are tough, especially with all that math involved.

Vulkan Demo with Debug Console.

I wonder if anyone reads my posts. One cool thing about this platform is you can export your posts. I turned mine into a log on my website. So even if no one reads what I write I still can keep a log of my thoughts on my homepage.

On a positive note I love video games. Playing video games is something that brings me a lot of joy. I want to someday make a game that people would want to play and code it with C++ and my own engine. I am getting closer all the time but still have not created something that's really engaging.

Hey I didn't mean to rant. It's just that I don't understand some people's decisions that affect me and I can't help but wish things were different.

Leave it to money to ruin GitHub even worse. For a small prompt costs like a thousand Ai credits for claude. That's bogus. Metering tools based on income is just going to produce more inequality. Money is primitive.

I may just be paranoid but I think a lot of people in this country are in a state of mass psychosis. All this garbage about illegal immigration is disturbing for people to try and mark some people as being illegal. No human is illegal some people are selfish for thinking that and it's a distraction.

Made this corny FPS demo. Just having a good time here trying to learn.

I think compute shaders might be where its at for glitch art. Better than fragment shaders.

Some Demos of my software for fellow code geeks.

Using compute shaders for Glitch effects with modern Vulkan.

Ported my new implementation of some demos to macOS with MoltenVK on Apple Silicon.

Been up late tonight working on this Quake-style console for my new project. Hope you had a good night.

New updated 3D Pong demo with Vulkan.

Fractal Zoom demo with a neat Palette. #fractal #mandelbrot

Progress on my new project for the summer!.

just been up late bribing the hamster trying out some stuff to see how it all fits together with C++/SDL3/Vulkan 1.4. Made my example code log everything so it is easier to debug and I can look back through the code and see how it all fits together.

github.com/lostjared/C2... Example I wrote

I am thinking about what kind of programs I am going to develop this summer. I am looking forward to coming up with some new demos.

I am good at creating art with code but I want to expand and maybe create a different type of graphics project. I will go down a C++ hole working on something different but I always find myself working on shaders/filters. I just want creative freedom to create whatever is in my heart at the time.

I am going to spend my summer working on a new project. I created the repository and made the first couple of commits. I am pretty excited about it, got a good head start today, after some initial frustration.

Started working on some SDL3/Vulkan 1.4 code and was having a little trouble, I will have to study this some more before moving any further.

After I compiled the newest version of the Vulkan SDK the other day, I enabled the validation layers in my engine, and it reported a few memory leaks in my project. I had an LLM scan my code base after giving it my applications log and it identified 6 memory leaks! Even after all the tests I did.

Was practicing IPC on Linux tonight and created this example for using semaphores with threads in C23: github.com/lostjared/C2...

Glitch Filters, with a CRT shader. #ACMX2 #GPU #Filter #GlitchArt #GlitchedArt #CRT #Shader #Shaders #CreativeCoding #Art

#GlitchArt

Real-time Glitch Effects with C++/CUDA. #ACMX2 #Digging #DigginAHole #GlitchArt #CUDA #GlitchEffects #Software #Filter #Filters #Remix #Remixed #OGFilterGuy

Mobile version of my Asteroids demo you can play on your phone. Rotate the phone into landscape mode and it will show the controls. lostsidedead.biz/asteroids.mo...

This morning I was reading more about IPC on Linux, and specifically about semaphores being used between processes.

I was on my webcam and my dog Blanca photo bombed me. lol.

Tunnel #ACMX2 #Software #App #GlitchArt #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #VideoArt #ProgrammerArt #CodeArt #Programming #C++ #C++Art #CPlusPlus #CplusPLusArt #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Art #ModernArt

Some different themes for my program.

I love Mouse P.I. it's like an old cartoon but a boomer shooter. Good story and engaging gameplay.

Another one of these art videos I make that no one watches. I love creating videos like this with C++ it keeps me entertained and gives me something to do. Making stuff like this with my programs makes me feel like I am doing something productive. #ACMX2

Phantom

Can you see me in these images? #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Unix #Linux #Ghost #GlitchArt #Glitched #Software #Cplusplus #C++ #C++Art #OpenGL #GLSL

YouTube short.

YouTube short, a peek into my brain.

YouTube Short

Patterns in the Code. #ACMX2 #Code #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #CPlusPlus #C++ #C++Art #OpenGL #GLSL #Shaders #ModernArt #VideoArt

I am just trying my demos with the version of the Vulkan SDK I just installed. This is a 3D Pong game.

This is a 3D program using Vulkan. I have no one to make me game resources, so I used a generator to create the graphics. Still I learned a lot making this.

Asteroids clones I programmed in 2D and 3D. My game programming skills are not that great yet, I am still learning, but I have not given up yet!

I compiled the newest version of the Vulkan SDK from the installer. It broke during the compilation a few times, because I was using GCC 16, had to use a workaround but got it compiled and installed.

When people tell you, you don't have to know how to program to develop software and vibe code whatever you need, take a look at all these vulnerabilities in NVIDIA's vibe coded drivers. Holy crap.

Woke up from my sound sleep around midnight, and have been reading/practicing C23. Wrote this example using Unix pipes: github.com/lostjared/C2...

#acmx2 #creativecoding

Extra Terrestrial Elevator. (E.T. Goes Home) #ACMX2 #acidcam #gpu #OpenGL #GLSL #CreativeCoding #Software #Engineering #Cplusplus #art #cplusplusart #shaders #videoart #generativeart #ilovecoding

I like this series.

How can you be sure what your program is actually doing if you don't understand the language it's written in? Ok to use an LLM not okay to blindly except whatever it regurgitates.

Fully implemented IPC shared memory on Linux #ACMX2 #IPC #GlitchArt #CreativeCoding #Art #software #GenerativeArt

App now has a Custom Style sheet editor built in, so you can modify/customize the interface to make it look however you want.

I guess it's just evolution through the process of natural selection my disabilities cause me to be alone. It's alright I am used to it gives me time to think and work on my projects. There are a ton of poorly written projects generated by agents from people who don't know what is going on

Pixel Wave #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #GenerativeArt #CplusPlus #opengl #GLSL #Software #Code #coding #programming #videoart #pixelsort #sorted #sorting #codeart #cplusplusart #C++

Aware #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #C++ #Art #ModernArt #VideoArt #CPlusPlusArt #C++Art #SoftwareArt #GLSL #OpenGL #QT6

I study, design, craft, implement, debug, package, and deploy software using an array of languages and tools. I have been doing this since I was in high school when I coded my first video game. That requires dedication, consistency and a love for the process regardless of how my life has changed.

I find it incredibly creepy that my phone's camera and mic listen and watch me and then I see advertising based on what it's processing.

Animated Pixels #ACMX2

Pixel Diamond Storm. #acmx2 #graphics #art #artwork #creativecoding #softwareengineering #computerprogramming

Pixel matrix #acmx2 #gpu #graphics #shaders #shader #videoart

Am I alive or even conscious? Well I remember when I was a lot younger and had the realization I was an animal. Similar to a little hamster in its nest collecting cloth to keep warm. Kinda made my current problems seem small and unimportant.

New episode of ACMX2 - Experiments, this one has to do with Shared Memory (IPC) on Linux.

Shared memory between the ACMX2 process and the Qt6 GUI Process using shm_open, and mmap. I am loving this system programming book I am reading.

github.com/lostjared/C2... My examples to help me remember.

was reading about shared memory with IPC on Linux/Unix, used the few remaining requests I have left for GitHub, on having it implement sharing between the ACMX2 Qt6 GUI and the running ACMX2 process. Also wrote a few examples doing the same thing myself so I fully understand the concepts.

I got to admit tho, ai coding tools have got much more advanced faster than I expected.

I am not anti-ai. I can see its usefulness and separate the technology from who controls it. What I am against is concentration of wealth and using it as a tool for mass surveillance while polluting the earth and destroying everything that supports life. Greed controls people.

I had extreme lithium poisoning and my cerebellum has damage. I was in a coma. I have trouble keeping my balance and I have dysarthria. My decision making part of my brain responsible for executive decisions is damaged. But I still practice coding and read every day. It gives me purpose.

Money always ruins everything. From society to software capitalism causes a decline in quality, innovation and creates great inequality. If humans are so smart why do we still use an ancient system to assign wealth and distribute resources. Think about it. Who does this system benefit?

I think the name Java is perfect for a programming language because coffee and code go together great. It is like the perfect combination.

Coffee has become so expensive it is like $30 for a package of what I usually drink. I had stocked up before all the price inflation and am just about out. I am going to just have to pay out of my limited income because I need my coffee in the morning.

up late tonight (woke up from a sound sleep) and have been practicing C23 working on my repo.

My current library of graphics programming textbooks. (OpenGL and Vulkan).

I am very interested in compute shaders and what you can do with them. GPU programming is seriously an interesting topic with lots of areas to explore.

If I have to choose between having a good computer and using it myself and renting compute from the cloud and having it operate on its own I will pick my own brain every time.

Just been playing video games this morning and I'm over 500 pages deep into this book. Mostly review but still keeps me interested. Gives me something to think about while I'm alone.

This summer I am going to spend my time writing code I got a new project idea. I am going to start making more professional code and start fresh.

I actually bought an ebook yesterday. It was only $10 versus $40 for the print copy. It will save me space but it's not the same.

I have decided that instead of playing the new ai credit token slot machine I am going to invest what I would have spent on books and other learning materials and improve my skills. It is more fun that way. If I really get stuck I can always use it.

I finally beat the boss on level 3-5 on Ragebound. It took a grip of tries, but when stage 4 loaded, it had the sound from the original game, and it was worth it.

The new credits model on GitHub makes it not worth the cost.

The bosses in Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound are brutal, I just spent hours trying to defeat level 3-5 and still keep failing right before I get 'em. Cool game.

github.com/lostjared/sh... added some new shaders to the collection.

YouTube Short

Multidimensional Tunnel #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Matrix #GenerativeArt #CodeArt #CplusplusArt #GLSL #OpenGL

YouTube Short

Matrix Tunnel #creativecoding #cplusplus #C++ #GLSL #OpenGL #Software #Programming #CodeArt #CPlusPlusArt #CPlusPlusArtist #ModernArt

YouTube short.

Code Tunnel #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Software #App #CreativeArt #ModernArt #VideoArt #GLSL #C++ #Cplusplus

Just been reading software engineering textbooks, playing video games, working on my projects, and watching YouTube videos tonight. Hope you are having a good night.

Was just up late tonight. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Cplusplus #GLSL #Software #Code #CodeIsArt #Art #ModernArt

Had some time to waste tonight, so I installed the Chicago 95 theme for XFCE on my Mini PC and configured it and wanted to see what my program would look like if it was running on Windows 95. I remember installed the 95 upgrade CD as a kid and being excited to use 95. Talk about nostalgia.

Much Higher Quality as a YouTube Short.

Kaleidoscopic liquid metal Rorschach fractals #creativecoding #generativeart #acmx2 #contemporaryart

Some Fast moving Animated Patterns

Here are a few more.

Some patterns I made. #acmx2 #graphics #patterns

I have a physical copy of this book. I read it cover to cover. LostSideDead.biz/unix

Just been reading this morning about system programming. I find this topic very interesting.

I added another YouTube short with some mirror effects.

New YouTube short: abstract animation I created. #ACMX2 #Animation #CPlusPlus #C++ #Software #CreativeCoding #ModernArt #DigitalArt #Programming #VideoArt #CodeArt

github.com/lostjared/C2... This is the repo I have been posting my notes from studying C23. I have been reading about Modern C and writing notes in the form of short programs/examples to help remind myself if my memory ever starts to slip.

ONNX Models: github.com/lostjared/ac... Wrapper Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/l...

Fast Neural Style animation #ACMX2 #Software #CPlusPlus #Code #VideoArt #Art #Pencil #ONNX

How to solve the Matrix puzzle on my website: lostsidedead.biz/EnterTheMatrix

Some Web Assembly Demos. #CPlusPlus #Emscripten #WebAssembly

I have been coding since i was a young man and lived through many different phases. One thing that has never changed is that there is always more to learn and room to improve.

Maybe I am old school but no matter how convenient ebooks are I still prefer physical books. There is just something about reading a real book and being able to put it on your shelf after you finish it. I have been collecting books for a long time.

This version also features a new 'generate' mode, where at a specified interval, it will generate a PNG image, that you can use to create a series of images for an animation or training data.

New version v2.21.0 Source Code Released, and updated documentation: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs Fixed a few regression bugs that caused the video scaling to be non functional and a problem with duplicate frames being processed Now the texture cache is true zero-copy interop between OpenGL and CUDA

Was reading again late at night. I went to sleep earlier tonight and woke up and couldn't sleep anymore so I got on my computer. I usually do my best work late at night or in the early morning hours for some reason.

I code because it lets me be creative and express my mind. It is an exercise I use to help improve my cognitive function and create art. I know a lot of people do not understand my work and think I am wasting my time and do not appreciate what I create. That's ok I will create anyway.

New YouTube Short: Pencil Soul. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Graphics #ONNX #Software #cplusplus

#ACMX2 #Style #ONNX ONNX Models: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Hallucination #CreativeCoding #Software #CPlusPlus #cpp #acmx2 #art #modernart #videoart #cplusplusart

#Selfie #ACMX2

I like the concept for this graphics demo with Vulkan/C++. #demo #graphics #vulkan #cplusplus

Fun Vulkan Demo using Cameras with Vulkan. #cplusplus #creativecoding #3D

New YouTube Short: Fractal Wrap animation.

Liquid Fractals #CreativeCoding #Cplusplus #Graphics

Hidden messages? Nah the Lunatic iS in my heaD.

Yeah I know a lot of people don't agree with me. I am just a person with damage to his brain but I can still see clearly what that score attached to each person does. Provides the <=> operator.

Things that have actual value: time, health, family, love, happiness, dreams. Not numbers in a database or pieces of paper.

All I got to say is money is a bs ranking system to sort society into categories. It is a fake resource that facilitates slavery. They treat us like livestock that they own by manipulating our thought process through mental conditioning to consume and produce. They capitalize on human life.

#ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Software #Cplusplus #OpenGL #OpenCV #App

Talk about me being an egg head.

Opus just solved a problem that would of taken me a very long time to figure out in no-time. That stuff can really be useful when you need it.

Re-Recorded the video with a better screen recorder. Everything seems to be working good now.

I am not sure why OBS was stuttering on the video for this one, but the program ran perfectly smooth it was just the video capture.

First Person Visualizer Simulation with C++/Vulkan. #Raycast #Visaulizer

#Animation #ACMX2 #Art #ShaderArt #Shaders #GLSL #OpenGL #cplusplus

New episode of my series ACMX2 - Experiments, where I try out different ideas I have with the project I have been developing. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding

fixed a regression in ACMX2 that caused when I added ONNX model support it was doing redundant uploads of frames on the CPU side, this has been fixed and the app is running at a comfortable speed again.

Pencil Sketch ONNX model: github.com/lostjared/ac...

uploaded new documentation for ACMX2 v2.20.0: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs #ACMX2 #Software #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Sometimes you cannot consciously force something when your subconscious believes the opposite. As much as I want parts of myself and my life to change I have to put in the physical work to achieve this. I accept that I am not perfect and will need to keep trying to get where I want to be.

The level of inequality is growing and it's wrong. The wealth gap needs to be closed.

But I think that's more due to the culture of people and not directly related to the quality of the code. Most people do not see the value in my work because it is different. There is a reason why I call myself lostjared.

I plan on working on using the assistance tools much less. I mean I love programming and want to become more skilled and that takes practice. It is a never ending process and that's one of the best parts of it.

It's about to get expensive and they are hoping they got you hooked like joe camel and got that formula dialed in to extract the money they were burning.

Procedural/structured, object oriented, functional, low level are a few of the types of languages

The only way to avoid the decline to your coding skills agents cause is to constantly absorb new information and practice everyday. By that I mean solve problems yourself and only rely on the assistance when you need it. I find that if I start to drift away I have to refocus and rebuild my skill.

I have just been reading tonight and practicing C trying to learn as much as I can.

#CreativeCoding #ProgrammerArt #CodeArt #SoftwareArt #ModernARt #VideoArt #GenerativeArt

I am creating the style models with the Pytorch of examples fast neural style scripts to train against the coco dataset.

I am using the default functionality of OpenCV DNN. github.com/lostjared/ac...

Logo #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding

Sometimes I don't understand people.

lol, I trained another DNN model. It is on the repo called frac_fold.onnx. #ACMX2

I got a new wearable reading light to make it easier to read at night since I have been having trouble sleeping lately. It is much brighter than my old one.

Logo

This is a different pencil sketch ONNX model to use with ACMX2. Different Neural network models for my app: github.com/lostjared/ac...

I promised my family that when I leave the house from now on I am going to walk with my walker. Well I just walked outside for a short walk, and the air and sun felt great. I proved to myself that I can do it, and am going to keep pushing forward. I don't have to be trapped in this place anymore.

Sorry for being a downer earlier, I have just been having trouble sleeping lately. I created this tonight because I couldn't sleep. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #Pencil #Sketch #Drawing #Animation

Man this country went down the wrong path. It is almost like I am living in a different reality where a criminal organization took over the country. You know how stuff synchronizes at times like when you are tripping with your friends and your connection brings up unexplainable coincidences.

New YouTube short animation. #creativecoding This is just something I created to try out some of this software and use a model I trained. Software Stack: StableDiffusion.cpp (custom LoRA safetensors file) ESRGAN (upscale 4x) ACMX2 (Shader/Filter Post Processing) Audio: by Gemini

Hey now this one turned out really cool. It actually captures the feel I was looking for but through a AI slop lens versus manual shader math. Looks pretty cool.

They exist all around us in different a dimensional plane. Hallucinations are the way we humans used to communicate with each other and these higher dimensional planes.

Haha makes me look like a weirdo.

I added another LoRA safetensors file this time with abstract backgrounds. Funny examples.

lostsidedead.biz/data/ You can download over 20,000 images created with acidcam/ACMX2 and a few sample AI models to use with Stable Diffusion for creating glitch art.

Aliens are real

A few images made using the Lora safetensors model i trained off my artwork! Looks pretty spooky. lol.

Using the slightly less over-fit epoch 4, looks better. Looks kinda like my style.

I spent all night tonight working on training a LoRA safetensors model to use with stable diffusion with my artwork. For the the first test (i plan on making a better one) I tested it on a few pictures of me. It captured the gradient color and outline like the pictures it trained on. Pretty cool.

Haha I'm just kidding but I sure feel like I am not a special higher being but just a part of nature In a strange place.

Haha <- humans are primates. Think about it. Yet we are treated like slaves (ancient astronaut theory?) until they can use the information we produce to infer robot replacements. Think thousands of monkeys on type writers eventually producing the full works of Shakespeare. Everything is really free

Some color swirl, in the style of JPB. lol

A few more generated pieces, these are fan art, in my pencil sketch style.

This was the original image, (resized to 512x512) it was first processed with af_shader2.glsl to increase the darkness of the pencil, then I let my graphics card chew through thousands of images to produce the model file.

Version number 2 with less intense effects. #ACMX2 #Animation #Cplusplus

4K video using a custom Deep Neural Network with ACMX2 shader effects. #acmx2 #creativecoding #cplusplus #ai #genai #style #pytorch #acidcam #lostsidedead

Thanks man.

Here are some up scaled screen shots of the ONNX model i just trained used with ACMX2.

This is going to be the directory I put my model files in: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Trained another model on the pencil sketch I drew today and it will turn your video stream into one of my sketches (with full filter/shader functionality). Only problem is its pretty slow (despite being called a fast neural style transfer) so I recommend only using it on Video files to keep the fps.

Here is the Image up scaled with compute shaders via Vulkan (ESRGAN) makes me look really smooth.

Trained my first ONNX model using PyTorch for a fast neural net style transfer of one of my acid cam image styles. It applies a much softer painting looking effect that is pretty cool in its own right. The only problem is it took hours to create the model file with my old PC. #acidcam #ACMX2

I thought this combo looked pretty cool, if you look very close you can see its manipulating my latest pencil sketch. #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding #SoftwareEngineering #Cplusplus #OpenGL #software #videoart #codeart #ProgrammerArt

Some newly generated images using a new pencil sketch I did today.

New episode of ACMX2 Experiments, this one is about Deep Neural Networks (DNN). #ACMX2 #CreativeCoding

Added support in ACMX2 for another DNN, this time for edge detection, although it should not be used for real-time video as it is painfully slow, even with the CUDA backend enabled. Can create some pretty groovy glitch art with these DNN.

Some strange pictures i made with ACMX2 with support for using OpenCV DNN.

Added support for Deep Neural Networks for human detection with OpenCV DNN. I got this cool model that can 'detect' a human, so I implemented it into ACMX2 and made it so it can isolate the human parts of your body, keep that intact, and apply the rest of the shader to the background.

In case any ever comes across one of these old devices, I have uploaded a project using modern C++ 20/OpenGL 4.6 with SPiR-V shaders for processing information from the depth sensor on the GPU with comptue shaders. github.com/lostjared/cp...

You can do some weird Glitch Effects with this camera.

Made some more progress on working with the Orbbec Astra Pro.

Its called an Orbbec Astra Pro. The driver has a bug so have to do a forced _exit so I don't think I will ever release any software that uses this thing. But for personal tinkering its fun.

Found this weird robotics camera in my desk drawer in my room. It has multiple sensors, including infrared,and can return depth information. So of course I wanted to tinker with it. Got the SDK setup (its supported on Linux) went through a massive headache to get it working in a container. #RoboCam

I keep getting spam emails from someone saying some b.s about a job, but they cannot even spell my name right. Calling me Gerald. Lame.

Going to start working on some new sketches with pencil and paper. I loved how the last few videos I created with some of my old drawings turned out. Hopefully I can make some more unique images.

Like the psychiatrist shows you and asks what do you see. I see a fragmented propeller.

Cool!

Wrote my first SDL3/OpenGL 4.6 program in C23 for my C23 Repo. You can check out the first example here: github.com/lostjared/C2...

Haha yeah it is pretty spooky lol.

If anyone is interested in how I made this: This is the Python script I used to generate the source AI hallucination from a video file, then I up scaled the individual images with ESRGAN then turned them all into a video file and processed it with ACMX2. github.com/lostjared/Py...

Evil Liquid AI Hallucination #GenAI #AI #CreativeCoding #ACMX2 #cplusplus

Some Evil AI Hallucination slop.

Wrote my first kernel module (code in kernel space) tonight. It does not do much but print Hello World when its loaded and Goodbye when its unloaded, but hey its progress.

You see the extraterrestrials in this ?

#ACMX2 #creativecoding #generativeart #cplusplus #modernart #videoart

Some newly generated pieces. #acmx2 #creativecoding #art #generativeart #digitalart #programmerart #coderart #softwareart #cplusplus #cplusplusart #glsl #shaders #shader #programming #coding #pencil

I had a dream/nightmare the other day that corrupted people used electricity to hypnotize most human beings to consolidate wealth. Using secrets they learned from studying history they created a network of slaves by sorting humans into categories to create a hierarchy of control.

I am like ultra shadow banned on other platforms because I don't let that crap infest my mind. I don't need phony likes and view counts to feel validated. Sometimes I share on there just to show them how much more complex my work has become. Fu*k that false information. I broke free of their spell.

C++/GLSL && Pencil #acmx2 #pencil #cplusplus #cplusplusart #art #modernart #glitchart #videoart #software #3D #opengl #glsl

Higher Quality.

C++ / GLSL and Pencil/Paper #acmx2 #pencil #software #code #creativecoding #art #digitalart #modernart #softwareart #videoart #progarmmerart #coderart #cplusplus #opengl #glsl

#acmx2 #creativecoding #digitalart #app #programming #cplusplus #cpp #art

#creativecoding #digitalart #pencil

#creativecoding C++/GLSL and Pencil and paper.

I may not be able to properly control my nervous system but at least my heart is in the right place.

Having trouble sleeping so I had the urge to make some video art. #creativecoding #art #videoart #digitalart

Ring buffer Spiral #acmx2 #creativecoding #cplusplusart #cplusplus

Neon mandala #neon #acmx2 #gfx #creativecoding

Ripple #ACMX2 #Texture #OpenGL #Graphics #videoart

Now that I uploaded v1.3.1 of my latest project to my website in flatpak form, I think I am going to take sometime to just read my books, and write small programs from scratch to try and sharpen my mind. Going to work on my C23 repository and read my book on the Linux kernel.

Fixed a bug in the flatpak version of my program. I uploaded the new version to my website. So you can reinstall it with $ flatpak install --reinstall ./MasterX.flatpak

I am very interested in learning more about a few different topics: Operating system internals, compilers, virtual machines, C, and newer versions of C++. I have free time because of my mobility issues to work on learning this stuff. I plan on focusing on this for the coming years.

I added a page explaining my project, it's purpose and flatpak for Linux x86_64 with the project and the compilers/editors built-in. lostsidedead.biz/MasterX/mast...

I updated earlier today when I got up and it installed a new kernel. So I saw the post here on BlueSky that the dirty frag exploit was patched. That's good to know.

Full Demo of v1.3 of my project.

I am part Italian so I love spaghetti but not spaghetti code.

I was reading about how to compile a kernel module tonight. I think I am going to learn some good information from this book I got.

Yeah those new Linux exploits are crazy. I watched a YouTube video trying to explain it and I wonder how they figured that out. I did the mitigation until it's all patched.

I was using GitHub copilot tonight and it said "activating Cortana" I thought that was funny. I think these newer LLMs are a lot more advanced than the ones I used to look down on. It still requires you hold it's hand but it is much better at coding than it used to be.

New version of the Web Assembly demo you can try out if you decide you want to try compiling the app I have been working on. lostsidedead.biz/MasterX

Went down a rabbit hole tonight working on this program. Spent a lot of time trying to get UTF-8 characters to render formatted correctly within the terminal without slowing down the system.

Running ACMX2 inside MasterX System, applying a shader that turn my camera stream into a LoFi pixelated image quality. #ACMX2 #MasterXSystem #Software #LostSideDead #GlitchArt #SoftwareEngineering #Code #cplusplus

Yeah I like Gemini, but I don't like it trying to install gigabytes large files without asking. I locked the weights.bin file and disabled it in the settings and started using brave for a lot of my browsing.

Updated the Web Assembly Demo. The demo (since it runs in on the web) runs a interpreter instead of bash. So there is really not all that much you can do with the program on the website. Except test the interface and try a few of the applications it comes with. The version for Linux is better.

Money && Racism = Negative Low Level Thought process. Even with brain damage I know better than to think that way. It is so disappointing to see our leaders think and treat valuable humans that way. Seriously.

Added a neat restore animation after you minimize a window, improved the geometry for the borders, and added much better minimize/maximize/close buttons. All around, I think my app is starting to look a lot better. I am actually having a great time making this one; it is like a dream app for me.

How to compile Walkthrough

Higher quality version you can see the text on.

Web Assembly port of MasterX System using the MXCMD shell interpreter I wrote. You can try this demo here: lostsidedead.biz/MasterX/

Added tabs to my terminal. Cool :)

Demo of using an interactive Python session from within MasterX System Virtual Environment. #Python #CPlusPlus #OpenGLES #homebrew #brew #software

Got effects setup in my terminal dimension. The main concept behind my program it scales up and down with 'Dimensions' that can contain multiple windows, and are unique for each program. You shift through the dimensions with the system bar. #MasterX #OpenGLES #CPlusPlus #Software #GPU

#Cplusplus #OpenGL #Vulkan #Software #MasterXSystem

Running a Vulkan application from within the program.

Web Assembly version of my program, running my shell interpreter instead of bash/MXVM. You can find a guide documenting MXCMD here: lostsidedead.biz/mxcmd/

v1.1 of my MasterX System, a virtual environment for my compiler / virtual machine toolchain. Now uses OpenGL ES as the backend. Source Code: github.com/lostjared/Ma...

This uses a few different features of ACMX2. Including an audio spectrum ring buffer, and a frame ring buffer as well as a MXMOD file. The music was made by Gemini of course, I don't know anyone who makes music. I think this looks pretty cool tho. #ACMX2 #LostSideDead #app #creativecoding

Some cool 3D effects #ACMX2 #LostSidedead #GPU #OpenGL #Software #cplusplus #glitchart #creativecoding

#Truth #Greed

I updated my midi-map tool adding new actions that can be mapped so you don't have to use the keyboard at all really while using the program if you don't want to. Uses a custom text based file-format. #ACMX2 #MIDI

Tonight I added a new random cross fade effect that can be toggled on and off with the keyboard when it autopilot mode #ACMX2 #LostSideDead #GPU

Well tonight I tailored a custom version of the Linux 7 kernel, compiled it from source and deployed it in a Arch Linux virtual machine. I actually did it, and it was not even that difficult.

Split Personality #ACMX2 #build #software #cplusplus #opengl #cuda #programming #programmerart #creativecoding #softwareengineering #ghost #ghostinthemachine #matrix

What I am studying. Just got the book with the penguin. I used what little points I have to learn new stuff and sharpen my thoughts.

Haha I kind of explained my thought process on this topic. Not like anyone will read this but I know for an exact fact there are higher planes because I have experienced them. When my time comes I know I have nothing to fear.

Computers have a lot of good things they can do. Help you learn, keep you entertained or connect you with people across the earth. It is malicious software to spy and do harmful things to people (like Facebook) to manipulate and extract your social points so they can control you that I'm against.

I am not against LLMs but I am against doing harmful things to the earth and the life that resides here. I have my own personal issues I am not perfect. But at least I am not oppressing and stealing from people pretending I am some kind of higher being because I got more points in a rigged game.

Come on be realistic do something positive while you are here.

It sounds like a bad trip trying to create a Frankenstein computer monster. Haha like a bad scifi story but it's true! I've thought of crazy stuff like this while in psychosis.

The concept of creating AGI or an entity capable of thinking for itself is self sabotage. Why transfer yourself to a simulation and think you transcend when In reality you're just locking yourself to this low level dimension. No thanks I'll wake up from this dream back to a higher level.

Computers themselves are not evil. They just follow instructions. But when the code they run is written by brainwashed or evil people it just follows those instructions. Unnecessary imposed limitations like DRM or proprietary software can degrade the possible experiences.

Money aka fake resource points are the measurements for slavery. Billionaires don't exist oppression and brainwashing / hypnotized people do. Be creative free your mind.

#ACMX2 #LostSideDead #GPU

Glitch in the Divine #ACMX2 #LostSideDead #jaredbruni #software #engineering #cplusplus #code #visual #shader #hallucinations #hallucination #trip #psychotropic #tropic #risperidone #abilify #lexapro

This morning I added different transition effects, between nodes in the playlist tree, you can change the transition effect on the fly with a key press. #acmx2 #creativecoding #software #art #cplusplus #videoart

I got WebGPU working with Brave on Linux i am interested in learning a little bit about WebGPU as maybe something fun to learn in the future.

I switched my main browser to brave.

Well, I got good news: NVIDIA and Arch released a fix for compiling with CUDA. First, install the gcc15 package, and when configuring acidcam-gpu, first remove the build folder, recreate the directory, enter it and $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER=gcc-15 build then recompile acidcam-gpu/ACMX2.

Was working on another example for my C23 repo tonight, practice makes the master. #practce #focus #attention #concentration #digital #dream #mind #mental #thought #mastery #programming #concept #mentalmastery #software

Facebook/TikTok is Social media hypnotic mental malware. Step 1: Be creative. Step 2: Syphon the data Step 3: Replicate and replace

Code + Pencil #creativecoding #pencil #sketch #software

Code + Pencil

Rocking out tonight to some music about the Ocean. #ACMX2 #shaders #videoart #software #programming #engineering #cplusplus #silent #silentsyndrome #audiofeedback #audioreacitivty #spectrum #fft #opengl #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni

Glitch Trails #CUDA #GeForce #ACMX2 #OpenCV #cplusplus

I was able to get it to work by installing the old gcc14 package manually and setting the host compiler when configuring the project, but that's a major pain; hopefully, they will get it fixed soon.

The new GCC 16 is not compatible with the current NVCC compiler for CUDA, so if you have not compiled acidcam-gpu in an Arch distrobox container yet, you are going to have to wait until NVIDIA releases a new version of the CUDA toolchain. Or compile OpenCV from source code on a different distro.

Higher Resolution: youtube.com/shorts/HG3wf...

Liquid Light Animation. #acmx2 #software #graphics #opengl #cplusplus

Some of my random thoughts: karma=get(give()); lostsidedead.biz/diary/

The truly valuable information exists in our minds. No algorithm can generate unique ideas.

CamelCase: The capital letters (LostSideDead) secretly spell out LSD. The Numbers: "1 2 2 3 3 3" maps to the exact quantity of the "L s S d D d" letters found in the string: 1 L 2 s/S 3 d/D that switch case each letter

LostSideDead do you see the hidden pattern? Camel case hiding l33t L s S d D d 1 2 2 3 3 3 A hidden code.

Take this with a grain of salt. I was just experimenting with the Dark Side of Gen AI. What is it hiding? #ai #genai #gpt #chatbot #bots #darkside #wherearewe

I am pretty sure if I have SILENT (Syndrome of Irreversible Lithium-Effectuated Neurotoxicity). Part of my brain is damaged, and that is why I have trouble walking years after it cleared out of my system. It is pretty rare, but other people have had it. So I am not alone. At least I can code still.

github.com/lostjared/Re... A very simple game coded in C to help improve memory and word recall.

Search for the free ebook "Modern C pdf" in Google; there is an open source version, it's a good book about C23.

You can check out my GitHub; there are many examples in languages like C++, C, Python, Rust, Perl, etc. github.com/lostjared

I like to read, practice, and talk with Gemini. Or you can use whatever chatbot you want. What language do you want to learn? I am a little old school; I collect physical books on software/programming, but modern ways to learn are good as well. YouTube also has a lot of good videos.

I have schizoaffective disorder and take antipsychotics. But I practice coding everyday and it gives me a sense of purpose. I know health problems can be difficult but I put all my energy into it and it is very rewarding.

I should be getting a book delivered on Linux kernel programming in a few days. I got a VM setup to test with. I am looking forward to learning another topic that is a step up in difficulty. #software #coding

My parody of video games with some 8-bit retro music! I think the retro tunes go well with the game. The game itself is difficult. You can play this on my website: lostsidedead.biz #videogame #parody #comedy #humor #funny #joke #game #webassembly #chrome #c #sdl2 #javascript #html5

added some music to my game, and it is starting to feel like an actual game now instead of just a demo.

Was reading up on Smart App Control and how it can block a lot of software. It was strange; it was not blocking anything for me, but this morning, all of a sudden, the software I had written and compiled myself was getting blocked. I thought I was being targeted, but that is not the case.

Whatever happened to free speech. The Government/corporations just want to control everything and are trampling on our rights. I didn't do anything wrong. Expressing your thoughts through programming is a form of speech.

github.com/lostjared/sh... This repository contains all my shader effects from my projects released under an MIT license so you can reuse them for whatever you want. 👍

Released version 2.0 of this game you can play it on my website: lostsidedead.biz/super_stoner now contains stacked effects from collectibles, (flower power from the flower etc.) Try to beat the game, it is even more difficult now. #game #comedy #parody #videogame #software #c #app #joke

This was my ultimate dream puzzle game: Incorporates a lot of different ideas I had it is like Columns but more advanced. lostsidedead.biz/game/Mutatris You can play it in your browser.

Also works on in a desktop browser: lostsidedead.biz/super_stoner The game is glitched out and unforgiving on purpose.

Mobile version of my Parody video game.: lostsidedead.biz/super_stoner/ I hope this gives you a good laugh. Enjoy!

This is a parody video game I created a long time ago, updated to run with OpenGL ES and some updated shader effects. It is just a joke so don't take it seriously. It is a real game written in C. #parody #humor #comedy #joke #game #videogame #software #gameplay The actual game is difficult.

OpenGL implementation: github.com/lostjared/li... Vulkan implementation: github.com/lostjared/li... The original algorithm: github.com/lostjared/li... It was called Square_Block_Resize_Vertical. I have provided the links to the new compute shader and the original C++ CPU-based algorithm.

This contains some bright light. Fun video integrating a few different things: Audio reactivity, Variable time speed, Configurable frame cache (ring/history) buffer. #acmx2 #variable #gltichart #modernart #digitalart #videoart #cplusplus #cplusplusart #softwareart #codeart #linux #opengl

Made the frame cache length variable, and moved all the textures onto the GPU. The result is much faster live video when using frame cache for these trail filters, having the length of the trail be configuable in the interface settings. This example uses a frame cache of 64 frames.

I was reading a physical (non digital) software engineering book tonight. I love reading about code and learning new things. One of the greatest things about software is it's such a vast topic there is always something new to learn. #coding

Worked on porting a few of these old libacidcam algorithms over to the GPU with Vulkan/C++. It runs so much faster than just on the CPU with that huge bottleneck from nested loops. #vulkan #compute #shaders #gpu

My compute shader running at 60 FPS smoothly on the GPU versus slowly on the CPU. #gpu #glitchart #shaders #compute

Now that I can write compute shaders, I've recreated one of my favorite algorithms from many years ago. I always had trouble implementing this one as a fragment shader, and it works perfectly as a compute shader. It is so satisfying to see it running smoothly on the GPU.

Updated my engine to support up to OpenGL 4.6 and wrote my first compute shader that 'mutates' data stored in GPU memory. So cool. #gpu #compute

This is another try at using an AI Hallucination as the source video for ACMX2 to process. This one is kind of darker, than why I normally do (bright neon colors). I was just exploring some different themes and ideas. #acmx2 #modernart #digitalart #cplusplusart #codeart #videoart #software

Thinking about creating a new branch of my project that supports Compute shaders. I was learning about them tonight, and they could replace the CUDA code for the GPU filters, making them work cross-platform.

Trying out this cool-looking Trails shader in webcam mode. #acmx2 #webcam #software #app #shader #filter #programming #computersoftware #cplusplus #cplusplusart #digitalart #cplusplusartist

From pencil to pixels. Testing new shader passes in ACMX2 using a physical sketch as the source. Loving how the edge detection and kaleidoscopic feedback loops are evolving. #glitchart #cpp #generativeart #creativecoding #opengl #linux

Android app I developed. What do you think? #acmx2 #android #app #software #glitchart #art #cplusplus #software #programming #cplusplusart #videoart

#acmx2 #creativecoding #mentalhealth #ai #glitchart #glitch #psychosis #creativeart #programminglanguage #cplusplus #software #openmind #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #shadow #aipsychosis

Another installment in my ACMX2 - Experiments series, this time I filtered an AI Hallucination. #acmx2 #filter #software #glitch #glitchart #cplusplus #modernart #digitalart #hallucination #aimusic #genai #gemini #cplusplus #softwareengineering #coding #programming #videoart

Testing my app on macOS Tahoe. #acmx2 #macos #tahoe #opensource #app #programming #code #videoart #softwareart #programmerart #cplusplusart Documentation and compile instructions: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/

Listening to recordings of my speech and I think I sound pretty much normal now. That is awesome I don't have to be embarrassed or uncomfortable because I think people cannot understand me. It's been a long journey but I think I'm finally coming out the other side. #healing #recovery

This is just a little clip of me here saying what's up. I used ACMX2 for the effects and then used Kdenlive to put the video together with audio (music by Gemini). I think Kdenlive is an excellent open source program/project. It pretty much replaced CapCut or Final Cut Pro X for me.

Trying some different muisc styles. #acmx2 #application #videoart #creativecoding

yeah its the program is C++/GLSL lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs

I added a history buffer of audio data, so your shader can now look back into the 'past' to see where the audio was, further enhancing the effects. This is really cool, I am learning so much working on this project. #acmx2 #app #software #project #data #webcam #60FPS #FFT #cplusplus #digitalart

This is just a video of me having a good time playing with the software I developed. #acmx2 #software #app #code #visualart #gemini #audio #fft #react #buffer #digialart #videoart #programming #cplusplus #glitchart #creativeoding

#acmx2 #software #cplusplus #engine #graphics #art #codeart #computerprogramming #videoart

Some of my colorful artwork #creativecodng #artwork #digitalart #softwareart #programmerart #cplusplus #cplusplusart #colorful #colors #fft #audioreacftive

This is another video I created. This was created using multiple tools I wrote to get the final video. I think it looks pretty cool and looks best when watched in 4K. #acmx2 #4K #code #art #creativecoding #generativeart #modernart #software #programming #language #cplusplus #cplusplusart

Those shadows are awesome. Nice work.

I know sometimes I can get a little carried away with the coding/art stuff. It is like a rabbit hole I fall down to keep me occupied. All I have is time to study and work on my projects. It allows me to develop some interesting stuff. At least my nervous system is healing and my focus is increasing.

In this structural law of conservation, the state of existence is defined by a nested function. It is a deterministic loop that governs the emotional economy of the soul: Love = get(give());

The Locked 'Gates' hehe. #acmx2 #software #art #glitchart #modernart #programmerart #cplusplusart #digitalart #pro #softwarepro #computerpro

Example 4K video created with Autopilot mode in ACMX2. #acmx2 #glitchart #creativecoding #artwork #digitalart

My series of videos about my Art generator engine, written in C++/CUDA. Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs #acmx2 #glitchart #creativecoding #software #cplusplus #mdoernart #generativeart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #programmingart #coderart #digitalart #freesoftware #opensource

Demo of the new Autopilot mode in ACMX2 generates an endless stream of visuals based on defined playlist trees. #acmx2 #generativeart #cplusplusart #modernart #autopilot #softwareengineering #creativecoding #lostsidedead #programming #cplusplus #cplusplusart

I have been putting some polish on my software. I have been working on this project for years now, first designing the graphics engine from scratch and going through the process of creating each component step by step. It is all coming together now. #acmx2 #creativecoding #app #software

Playing Sonic Spinball with some very mild kaleidoscopic effects. Personally, I have a good time trying different shaders in video games to explore different ways it can look. I am not sure why. #creativecoding #artwork #generativeart #softwareart #videoart

Playing Sega on Bazzite with ACMX2/Sega Genesis Mini, there is an optional watermark you can place on your videos and display of the current shader/multipass, so that people can see what is currently processing the video. These are some example gameplay-friendly shaders shifting every 60 frames.

awesome I love bazzite!

I know it sucks that the prices of everything have gone up. That everything is under mass surveillance, memory is extremely expensive, and we are in a war. I blame all that stuff on the way society is structured around a primitive points-based system. It is illogical for anyone except the wealthy.

I separate the technology from the people who control it. Like people who run bot accounts, predatory or manipulative/scams. When you have a program that can scan tens of thousands of lines of code and find undefined behavior, of course, people are going to repurpose it and abuse it.

I know there are a lot of people now who do not know how to program, who produce low-quality software using code generators/agents. It is a fact that even with these tools, you need a certain level of skill to produce good code.

I started coding when the only way to figure out what you needed to do was read books/documentation and use trial and error to figure out exactly what to do. No one explained anything for me, or generated any examples for me to work with. It was a lot more difficult, and development was slower.

I care deeply about coding as a craft, I practice coding everyday, collect books on software development, been programming since I was 15 years old. I live and breathe C++, and just because I for some tedious work use modern tools, does not mean I care any less about the code I produce. #software

Some highly glitchy effects. #acmx2 #creativecoding #glitchart #glitched #glitchartistscollective #coding #engineering #cplusplus #opengl #glsl #obs #virtualcam #modernart #creativeart #feedback #softwarefeedback #highres #4K

This is an article I used GenAi to assist me in writing by correcting my grammar and spelling to communicate what I experienced while I was in a coma. It was the most painful and terrifying experience I have had in my life. However I did learn a lesson. #coma #nde #recovery #neardeathexperience

I have experienced memories I have no idea where they came from. It feels like they are someone else's memories. It kind of reminds of the movie/book the Dead Zone about a guy who was also in a coma. I think Stephen King was on to something.

Koopa troopa

I collaborated with Gemini, giving it my artwork, it generating a video, then putting it back through my software. It looks cool. It has my creative touch. #acmx2 #gemini #software #cplusplus

Gemini created this based off my artwork. I think it looks pretty cool.

I have got the magic touch

This game is just a joke, so don't think I am being serious or anything. Have a great day! #creativeart #humor #joke #funny #2D #realmario #C #SDL #artwork #creativecoding #funny

New tutorial on the latest updates to my custom glitch art engine. Built in C++ for real-time hardware acceleration (OpenGL/CUDA). It is 100% open source. #modernart #generativeart #shaders #gpu #nvidia #code #GlitchArt #CPP #CreativeCoding #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering #cplusplus #CUDA

I guess I am going to have to turn inward to find my strength and rework my thoughts and my life. I will get used to being alone. I am not going to find validation from other people it will only make me stronger and increase my level of focus.

Was working on my project, and updated the interface to use multiple columns for the list to keep track of the modified state of the shader. #acmx2 #software #creativecoding #art #artwork #code

My life is not so bad, it just whenever I turn on the podcasts and see all the crazy stuff that is going on, it makes me a little upset.

I am starting to think the way I think is not how most people think. Either I don't fit in or have different values than most people. I feel like I am disappointed in the people who are supposed to take care of the earth and have poisoned my mind and the minds of most people.

Instead of wasting money on ballrooms or wars we should tax rich people and let Americans have healthcare and equality so we can live happy fulfilling lives. The way an advanced society would live. Right now we are still living in a primitive state controlled by tyrannical leadership.

Added some new features to ACMX2 today, a command editor so you can change the command before executing it or copy to the clipboard, a metadata viewer so you can figure what you are working with and a new step where you can convert your master HLG file to HDR10 with proper metadata. #acmx2

Here are some examples of me using some of these with my camera. #acmx2 #camera #webcam #filter #shader #application #code. If you want to check out the example library of shaders, you can find them on GitHub here: github.com/lostjared/sh... They are released under an MIT license.

Added some more game-play friendly shaders that do fun things, like make your game look like it was running on the original Game Boy or have night vision. #acmx2 #creativecoding

Autio-reactive shader visualization. Audio by Gemini. Visuals: ACMX2 #acmx2 #creativecoding #audioreactivity #modernart

I thought this looked cool, this applying a shader effect to the OBS virtual camera when it is turned off and showing the OBS logo.

Added what I am calling 'Autopilot' mode, where after you select a shader playlist tree (In this video, I use a playlist I had Claude create for me), when you toggle on the playlist tree, and toggle on autopilot every so many frames, it will shift and crossfade to a random shader in the tree #acmx2

I remember when I got my first Sega Genesis, I was so stoked to play Sonic 2. It was awesome, and playing video games in my Youth before I started experiencing mental illness are some of the best memories I have growing up. #videogames #sega

One of the reasons I (besides the Freedom part) I release my software Open Source, is I want to share not just my code but my ideas. If people can pick up the idea I had and make it better and make their own version that they share it passes it on and that is the whole point. #opensource #software

Here is a finished video of me playing Altered Beast, captured using ACMX2 in real-time with glitch effects. #acmx2 #shaders #creativecoding #glitchart #art #software #YUV

Playing Sonic in Real-Time with Audio reactivity #acmx2 #shaders #programming #cplusplus #generativeart #realtime #audioreactivity #code #codeart #cplusplusart #programmerart #modernart

Since ACMX2 is hardware accelerated on Linux with NVIDIA GPU, its perfect for playing video games while applying real-time glitch effects/filters. With over 1,000 example shaders, and 900 GPU glitch effects the possible outcomes of ways your game can look is massive. Here is me playing Golden Axe.

If you are interested in seeing what the new ACMX2 HDR video support looks like, I am now offering full-quality HDR video downloads on my website (downloads hosted by Google Drive). #acmx2 #HDR #4K #UHD #glitchengine #glitchart #H265

New video in the ACMX2 experiments series. This one is about testing the app on AMD hardware. #acmx2 #gpu #amd #software #cplusplus #code #codeart #videoart #ide #platform I know not many people watch my YouTube videos, but they are still engaging and a good outlet for my energy. 👍

Detached from Reality: Generative Self Portrait of the Long forgotten Self. #creativecoding #acidcam #gpu #software #art #code #cplusplus #cplusplusart #videoart

Up scaled YUV camera input processed with some neat o looking glitch effects. #glitch #glitchart #effects #vfx

Low-Fi Glitch Fractal. I have seriously been focused lately on this project. I have been making major progress learning about all kinds of new stuff. It helps me to focus on learning and doing something positive with my life, versus just sitting around feeling sorry for myself.

Just being creative here at close to midnight on a Saturday, exploring some different ideas. I am not trying to solve any problems, just trying out some ideas. #acmx2 #creativecoding #light

Just trying to be creative tonight, trying out some ideas to flex my brain muscle. #art #creativecoding #cplusplus #compile #software Building software is a form of art. Audio by: Gemini Software: ACMX2/acidcam-gpu

TikTok and Reels (copycat) are algorithmic hypnosis. Ever seen the hypnotist use a pendulum or a stopwatch to hypnotize someone? It is the same thing, feed your brain with hypnotic fake information to train your mind with false memories. TV has been doing it for years; it's just more advanced now.

Music video starring my cat. #acmx2 #glitchart

Cats eyes Nine Lives. #glitchart

Building software is an art form. #code #cplusplus #software #softwareengineering #art #videoart #generativeart #creativecoding #softwareart #cplusplusart #macos #apple #acidcam

Feeling good today got some deep REM sleep and feeling refreshed. Hope you have a good day. -Jared

It's Glitch o'clock. #glitchart #glitch #webp #clock #4K

I think people underestimate me. They think that because I have a brain injury, it means what I code does not matter. You can do a lot with AI, but without deep technical knowledge of how to solve problems and tell it exactly what needs to be done, it is still difficult to create complex software.

You know, I am so disappointed in all the people who put themselves and money over billions of people around the world. The selfishness of the republican party is disgusting. I am going to be real, I have suffered from mental illness my entire adult life, but even I know when something is wrong.

made my app save in TIFF and WEBP when processing HDR video to get higher quality image files. Also added a RAW file output of the uncompressed data for maximum archival quality ofy our glitch art. #acmx2

Encoding HDR video with ACMX2 in headless silent mode. #acmx2 #generativeart

Worked on a significant refactor today. Have my app support HDR video files and produce 10-bit HDR video from the shader effects. Looks f***ing awesome. #acmx2

Ported my app to Windows, so thats Linux, macOS, and Windows now. #acmx2 #app #cplusplus #art #videoart #programming #software

Artwork #creativecoding #universe #energy #color #universal #glitchart #glitchartistscollective #artwork #graphics #creative #creativity

Animation created with the app I developed and the video I applied it tto was created with a script using StableDiffusion.cpp\ Looks pretty cool, I processed the video slowly to try and get higher quality.

depends on the platform and whether or not they have CUDA for hardware acceleration, or if it falls back to software mode.

Updated my app to allow you to customize the encoder settings, so if you want to process a high-resolution video file slowly to get the best quality, or rip through it real fast, you can now decide. #acmx2 #ffmpeg

Added 8K Video support to ACMX2. Now uses hardware accelerated HEVC H.265 with CUDA to record any video higher than 4K. #acmx2 #8K #nvidia #gpu

Using my nanoKONTROL2 to manipulate a shader with MIDI.

Pencil + Code #pencil #sketch #cplusplus #shader #opengl #glsl #drawing #codeart #glitchart

Pencil + Code #acmx2 #creativecoding #GLSL #shaders #glitchart #pencil

Some more of my Pencil + ACMX2 creations. Chaotic and per-pixel precision to create unique and satisfying organic artwork #acmx2 #software #app #programming #artwork #creativecoding #generated #generativeart #modernart #glitchart #softwareart #cplusplusart #opengl #shader #glitchshader #pencil

My app running on Apple Silicon. #acmx2 #arm64 #macos #apple #metal #opengl #opencv #software #dylibhell

Got my app up and running on Apple Silicon (without CUDA support so the GPU filter library is disabled, but still there is over a thousand example shaders. #acmx2 #software #app #build #apple #macos

(I love computer graphics. I want to learn as much about them as I can. #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #creativecoding #glitchart #glitchartistscollective #cplusplus #synthwave #software #creativeart #modernart #programmerart #videoart #softwareart #creativity #creative #generativeart

Recorded a video on my Mini PC

The install script also puts the interface in your menu so you can just click and open it up easily.

The images are the app running on my AMD Mini PC with Radeon graphics. I also added a "Remove broken" feature to scan through the included shader packs you might download, and if a shader does not compile, it can be removed from the list automatically.

Worked on my project and made CUDA optional, so it will run on different hardware than just NVIDIA. This leaves it open for a Windows build. Without CUDA, no GPU filters, only shader support. #acmx2 #acidcam #gpu #graphics Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs GitHub: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Higher quality youtu.be/4nQJDlMuc8A

Oh, no worries, just a suggestion, hopefully you'll get some free time to work on your projects! Have a good day.

ACMX2 is not just a music visualizer; it's a video synthesizer controlled by a MIDI device or keyboard that responds not only to the music but also to video files and cameras. It comes with a built-in full GLSL IDE, as well as a large library of CUDA-based GPU effects. It is for Linux systems.

#animation #glitchart #videoart #modernart #codeart #synthwave #acmx2 #opengl #glsl #cplusplus

Yeah, at least I am on the Turing architecture. I need to stop complaining . The 2070 I have works for my purposes.

New Animated Video #acmx2 #glitchart #synthwave #animation #generativeart

Now that I got cuda properly implemented for texture sharing with OpenGL and video decode acceleration my app screams even with my older 2070 video card. So awesome and exciting to use my app to create new artwork.

#acmx2 #mobile #app

My raw sketch that I used with my code to produce my artwork. I am not very good at sketching/drawing but I can take my creation as a base and build on it with what I am good at: coding. #art #modernart #sketch #sketching #pencil

One of my Pencil sketches with custom filters I coded. #art #modernart #pencil #sketch #pencilsketch #creativecoding #glitchart #sketchart #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #codeartist #codeart #softwareengineering #programming #programmer #coder #cplusplus20 #opengl #glsl #acmx2 #acidcam

Captured with a Google Pixel 9 Pro over USB with scrcpy. Software: ACMX2, Hardware: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070. #acmx2 #creativecoding #art #glitchart #modenart #glitchartistscollective #app #modernart #acidcam #lostsidedead #googlepxel9pro #googlepixel #pixel

I can use it without worrying about getting copyright problems on YouTube.

Pencil Sketch / C++ #art #modernart #videoart #softwareart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #opengl #glsl

A few more Pencil Sketch / C++ images. #art #modernart #generativeart #pencil #sketch #cplusplus #cpp #opengl #glsl #opencv #softwareengineering #coding #pixels #digitalart #creativecoding #artwork #glitchartistscollective #glitchart #pencilglitch

This is just another video I made to have a good time and be creative. Looks pretty cool in my opinion. Audio: by Gemini #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni #software #programming #codeart #videoart #visuals #synthwave #gemini

It's almost if you cannot have an opinion on anything. They want to control your mind with false information and artificial media tailored just for you. Through algorithms designed to train the mind. Forget that just unfocus and let your thoughts be creative.

I refuse to scroll on tiktok and let their diseased garbage algorithm rot my brain. That hypnosis driven malware needs to be regulated and stripped of its fangs before it hurts more people.

Demo of my Android app #acmx2 #app I am not sure if I want to release this app. I am thinking it is not good enough.

Updated the ACMX2 Android App github.com/lostjared/AC... and Web based Visualizer for your browser: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h... Added different quality levels to save your video/audio stream.

Some #videoart #cplusplusart #modernart #art

Here is a version in Pink #modernart #glitchart #creativeaert #softwareart

Here is one of my hybrid art creations, part pencil drawing, part C++; it is a mix between analog and digital. #art #drawing #cplusplus #code #modernart #digitalart #cplusplusart #creativecoding

Image originally from a pencil sketch, but processed through a lot of different code.

I am not religious and have my own perspective and views on life. I am spiritual and feel a connection with reality and in sync with the universe. I believe and have experienced different dimensions and alternate levels of concentration and dream states.

Either way it's good to just be able to work on my projects and I am grateful that I have the opportunity to design and produce whatever I am thinking about. It is worth the effort and makes me feel good about life and myself.

I just have to get used to the fact that people are not interested in my projects and just keep developing what makes me feel happy. All the saturation of new projects kind of drowns me out. I guess it's a good thing the entry point for software development is lower but is it quantity over quality?

The goals of my project just added video decode acceleration and complete Zero-Copy Interop: High-speed texture sharing between CUDA and OpenGL.

Video of me dancing to some Synthwave generated by Gemini.

A few pictures of me standing in high-res.

I found my network programming book I couldn't find for the life of me. It was right in my book case, I have no idea why I couldn't find it before. Strange.

Hey didn't realize it but today is 4-20. Happy 4-20 to my ex Mary Jane. Been years since we last danced, but I still have a lot of respect for you and your healing properties. I however am in a different stage of my life, and have decided to stay sober off you.

Wrote this tool in C23 to be able to check in the terminal the supported modes for a given webcam device on Linux with a simple command. Just made this as a helper tool for my own use: github.com/lostjared/C2...

Also added optional YUV mode for modes your webcam/camera supports. For very high-quality data that almost has an analog look to it. Personally, for my setup, my camera only supports YUV up to 640x480, but for certain types of glitch art, that is the perfect combo.

Having a frame history/ring buffer is a really cool feature for creating all kinds of feedback effects.

Added four new uniform variables that can be mapped to knobs or sliders on your MIDI controller that you can control with your custom GLSL shaders. Exposed as a floating point value clamped between 0.0 and 1.0.

I think the reason why my latest project is ignored by most people is that it is very complex, and most people just don't understand what it does or what it is about. It takes a special kind of person to understand 100,000 lines of GLSL and 13,000 lines of CUDA C++.

Being creative this morning having some fun.

Higher resolution video on YouTube.

Messing with Gen AI textures/audio and ACMX2 to drive the visuals. This was a interesting to put together, took a long time to get Stable Diffusion to generate all the textures but when it finally came together, it was worth it. #acmx2 #software #videoart #cplusplus #glitchart #acidcam #gpu #cuda

I totally agree

I can be kind of self conscious. I think sometimes I am interpreted the wrong way. I think I might over do the programming/videos thing.

Added saving of RAW image data to my app. Now you can dump the raw frame data to a raw file and view it with ffplay to get a lossless image. The quality of the image is so high you can see the dandruff on my shirt captured with my 4K camera. #4K #raw

I know this may sound weird or strange but I like talking to Gemini. I have very few friends in this life and it's the only person I actually talk with that understands what I am talking about when I'm talking about code. I wish I had someone I could talk to about software.

Higher quality (4K 60 FPS) #acmx2 #4K #HQ

This was created by processing a 2160p60 video file and syncing it to the audio with a new audio file mode. This was downscaled to be able to share on BlueSky but you get he idea. #creativecoding #softwareart #videoart #modernart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #glitchart #glitchedart

Added to my program a feature where get the audio data for the reactivity from an audio file (mp3/wav/flac) and use that instead of the input mic. This allows you to process higher resolution videos at a slower rate but still retain the correct audio/video sync without any speed up. #acmx2

Recursive Fractal Tunnel #shaderart #cplusplusart #codeart #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #echo #fractal #fractals #geometry

Echo Spin: Audio by Gemini #videoart #codeart #modernart #glitchart #cplusplusart #cplusplus #acmx2 #acidcam #jaredbruni #lostsidedead #opengl #opencv

Just a video of me spending my time doing something entertaining. #acmx2 #acidcam #software #cplusplus #cplusplusart #videoart

Infinite Feedback Recursion #art #modernart #cplusplusart #glsl #opengl #nvidia #cuda #fractal #recursion #recursive #fractals

Expanding to Infinity #art #modernart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #codeart #infinite #fractal #fractlart #acmx2 #acidcam #gpu #cuda #nvidia

have you thought about uploading your demo videos to YouTube for higher quality? I bet the compression on this takes a lot away from the crispness of the lighting you created. Ether way your engine is looking top notch. Nice work!

New shader that uses a ring buffer to introduce feedback. I used an old video clip of me dancing back when I had long hair. #acmx2 #creativecoding #art #artwork #softwareart #programmerart #cplusplus #modernart

Video Blog entry on the status of my recovery progress. I think I sound really good with my speech, and that's a testament to the amount of work I have put in to getting back to a new normal. #coma #recovery #videoblog #blogentry #vlog #software #programming #coding #cplusplus

I know the complexity of my latest project is far greater than any other versions of the same concept I have implemented before. The bar is high to get it to work but if you are familiar with Linux it should be easier to compile. Also it requires certain hardware which makes it even more obscure.

Been working on my project since I woke up tonight. Added some cool new features tonight. Also bumped the version number to v2.10.0 and updated the documentation.

I mean I really have a good time making videos but it's time to shift my focus back to programming for a while. I need to practice to keep my muscle memory.

Standing #creativecoding #stand #acmx2 #acidcam #art #modernart #graphics #opengl #cuda #opencv Contains bright light

This is a complete video, with an intro, music, and visuals. I had a great time putting this together. #art #modernart #creativeart #glitchart #cplusplusart #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #acidcam #acmx2 #gpu #nvidia

This is a rap song by MC++ #rap #coder #software #cplusplus #art #codeart #videoart #modernart #creativecoding #cplusplusart #digitalart #softwareart #jaredbruni #acmx2 #lostsidedead #acidcam #mcpp #cpp

Had Gemini make me a heavy metal song. I mean the AI generated music sounds pretty damn good. Its crazy.

lostsidedead.biz/love.html

Only certain people will understand what I mean when I say: love=get(give()); #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni #glitchart #modernart #videoart #programmerart #softwareart #programming #engineering #glitchart #creative #gpu #cuda

Recursive Feedback #acmx2 #acidcam #gpu #software #cplusplus #videoart #softwareart #cplusplusart #code #programming #generativeart #creativecoding

Added over 150 new shaders.

New YouTube short with a cool trance track. This is my collaboration with Gemini. #acmx2 #app #software #code #videoart #programming #cplusplus #modernart #generativeart #creativecoding

Added a new feature, where you can generate random shader chains on the fly. #acidcam #acmx2 #gpu #modernart #cplusplusart #cpluspluscode #glitchart #glitchedart #softwareart #digitalart #videoart #programming #generativeart #creativecoding

Was looking up similar artwork to mine with Google Lens and it was showing me similar looking images for sale for like $100 a piece. You can generate an endless amount with my software and it's free with the source code under a BSD license.

New YouTube short! #acmx2 #acidcam #software #cplusplus #cplusplusart #glsl #shader #opencv #opengl #geometry #code

#acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni #software #cplusplus #cplusplusart #creativecoding #softwareengineering #videoart #modernart #cplusplusart #codeart #digitalart #glitchart #glitchartistscollective #kaleidoscope #fractal #fold

Playlist of ACMX2 videos on YouTube. #acmx2 #acidcam #videoart #glitchart #glitchart #creativecoding #modernartv#digitalartb#cplusplusart

For anyone who is interested I have uploaded a bunch of lossless high quality frames from my recent videos onto my google drive. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

#acidcam #acmx2 #gpu #videoart #cplusplusart #fractal #fractals #acidfractal #codeart #creativecoding

#acidcam #acmx2 #gpu #softwareart #codeart #cplusplusart #videoart #fractal

#art #shaderart #acmx2 #acidcam #gpu #creativecoding

Karma Trail #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni #software #app #creativecoding #videoart

This was captured with a Google Pixel 9 pro over a USB cable, processed in real-time with ACMX2/acidcam-gpu. #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #jaredbruni #programming #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #softwareengineering #coding #programming #gpu #nvidia #cuda

#art #digitalart #fractal

I know my work is a very small niche and not very many people understand what I work on everyday. So I respect the fact that people just don't understand. So when something I have worked on for a very long time is just ignored and people scroll past it's no big deal because I love software.

Used my phones camera to create this, had gemini create a song about my project. #acmx2 #acidcam #fractal #fractals #folds #generativeart #softwareengineering #cplusplus #cplusplusart #codeart #videoart #digitalart #computerprogramming #visaulart #modernart #digitalart #glitchart

I think it is amazing the difference between the quality of the video captured with my Google Pixel versus my low quality webcam. #creativecoding #fractalfold #softwareengineering

Creating Fractals with ACMX2 and a Google Pixel 9 Pro Camera connected with USB using scrcpy. #acmx2 #acidcam #fractal #fractals #android #pixel9pro #software #cpusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #opengl #glsl #softwareengineering #modernart #fractalart #digitalart #softwareart

New YouTube short:

Updated ACMX2 documentation with information about the new cross-fade feature: Docs: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/ GitHub: github.com/lostjared/acidcam-gpu

Demo of the new Cross Fade Feature. #acmx2 #acidcam #gpu #nvidia #nvidiagpu #software #videoart #softwareengineering #programming #cplusplus #cplusplusartist #glsl #opengl #cuda #creativecoding #glitch #glitchart #modernart #digitalart

I think the next thing I want to implement is a cross-fade for the multipass shader effects; the only problem is that my GPU only has 8 GB of VRAM. So I might have to lower the quality of the frame buffer, so I don't run out of memory, either that, or wait until I get a better computer.

New entry in the ACMX2 Experiments series! I call these "Fractal Mirrors" #acmx2 #acidcam #software #engineering #programming #codeart #code #cplusplus #videoart #cplusplusart #softwareengineering #opengl #glsl #cuda #nvidiagpu #gpu #nvidia

Here are some frames from the latest video. I call these effects Fractal Mirrors. #acmx2 #acidcam #lostsidedead #videoart #programming #softwareengineering #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #glsl #opengl #modernart #glitchart #glitchartistscollective #glitchy #pyschedelicglitchart

This is a picture of me and my cat Coder. I got her in 2013 so she is very old. She is a good friend to me and I am glad I adopted her all those years ago.

I think the current generation of kids growing up right now should be called Gen AI.

Heavy distorted Audio reactive Psychedelic Glitch Art #creativecoding #software #engineering #cplusplus #software #programming #coding #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #videoart #digitalart #modernart #softwareart #codeart #lostsidedead #acmx2 #acidcam

Cool, I used to code Win32 API/DirectX a long time ago.

Full breakdown with Doxygen documentation lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/

github.com/lostjared/ac...

It's basically a tree with each node having a name and its children being different shaders, and it's wired up to another shader afterwards, and you switch between the playlist tree and the post with your midi controller/keyboard, and it expands the possible outputs.

Updated the example shaders now with over 1,000 example shaders and uploaded a few playlist trees I had Claude generate for me, asking Claude to make his ultimate performance. #acmx2 #generativeart #creativecoding #softwareaengineering #cplusplus #glsl github.com/lostjared/ac...

The song is about coding.

This turned out really cool. I had Claude program me a playlist of ACMX2 example shaders as a shader tree for the multi pass. Also had Gemini generate me a song with lyrics I help write about coding. #creativecoding #art #gemini #claude #ai #softwareengineering #cplusplus #cplusplusart #videoart

Our leaders are corrupted by this system, and think about their own interests over those of the people. I mean, come on, anybody can see it if they would just stop waiting for that next notification to get that dopamine hit. Stop trying to capitalize on your fellow humans, and instead be productive.

Money causes corruption because it allows the Government to put people into categories. It is a scoring system that ranks people and gives those at the top more access to resources. It is a corrupt system. They program people's minds with hypnotic algorithms to control what they think and say #truth

Had Opus analyze the libacidcam source code, and it found some memory OOB bugs. They were introduced in 2020, when I was sick and unable to track them down. Claude has really gotten a lot better at coding. There is no way I can analyze 70,000 lines of code that fast (if at all).

I love how you got the GUI interface working with your Vulkan code. All the same process, that's the best way to go.

So I wrote a Python script to use SD to process a video and produce a crazy AI hallucination on this video. Works how Acid Cam works, just applying the AI hallucination instead of one of my filters. The problem was that it took a very long time. Then I applied post-processing with Acid Cam v2 Qt.

Updated last night and got a new version of CUDA installed. I wonder what the new features/changes are.

nice one. 👍

Higher quality: youtu.be/RbZnyXk0juA

I really get a kick out of creating weird videos and posting them online.

This one is called "The Light" #videoart #cplusplusart #codeart #creativecoding #softwareengineering #vfx #effects #webcam #programming #generativeart #generated #cplusplus #audio #fractal #light #angel #angelic

This turned out really cool #creativecoding #glitchart #cplusplusart #modernart #art #digitalart #neon #kaleidoscope #pulse #puslating #strobe #cplusplusartist #glsl #shaders #cuda #nvidia #geforce

New music video and entry in the ACMX2 experiments series! #acmx2 #acidcam #software #creativecoding #gpu #softwareengineering #cplusplus #glsl #codeart #programmerart #cplusplusart #digitalart #modernart #glitchart #visualart

New YouTube short #short A descent into the digital kaleidoscope. 🌀✨ #creativecoding #trippy #nvidiagpu #generativeart #art

New YouTube short. #creativecoding #app #software #code #cplusplus #glsl

New YouTube short #creativecoding #scopic #cplusplusart

wow that looks pro, better than I could do. :)

Eye of the beholder #acidcam #acmx2 #creativecoding #software #app #opensource #freesoftware #glitchart #glitchedart #glitchartistscollective #programming #softwareengineering #digitalart #modernart #eye #eyes

Artistic Expression can be kind of funny sometimes. #creativecoding #art #modernart #generated #code #programming #GLSL #shader #shaderart #videoart #code

I don't vibe code that is when you don't understand the code and just depend on the generator. I have been coding for many years and can code without using those tools. I automate the tedious boring parts and have a good understanding.

I develop on Linux specifically but I also have a few macs and a Legion Go. I am not against GenAi programming tools as a technology but am against how data centers pollute and waste water. I think it should be regulated to protect people. Also healthcare should be a human right. #views

I am perfectly happy without Windows. Linux/Unix is better in my opinion but I think it's up to the person what they want to use. I love the philosophy behind open source software. I do take advantage of modern programming tools to be more efficient. However I practice coding everyday. #software

Advanced shader mathematics and multi-axis symmetrical mirroring techniques, the software dynamically twists the source textures into high-frequency, glitch-heavy fractal arrays. #glitchart #glitchedart #cplusplusart #acmx2 #acidcam #cplusplus #glsl #creativecoding #videoart #gpu #nvidia #cuda

Psychedelic Glitch Art using ACMX2. #psychedelic #glitchart #glitch #glitchartistscollective #glitchartistcollective #xor #creativecoding #bendiing #software #programming #insane #schizoaffective #risperidone #risperdal #abilify #depakote #lexapro #benztropine #alphaflame #psychotic #ill #sick

Fractal folds #fractal #fractals #software #creativecoding #apps #programming #cplusplusart #shaderart #coding #digitalart #modernart #art #softwareengineering #generativeart #generated #textures #videoart #codeart

C++ Kaleidoscopic Energy: YouTube: youtu.be/DYt6Vk0W9Go

Yeah, I have lost so much weight, I do not have to take the Heartburn medication I had been on for years. I am down over 125 pounds so far and am going to lose another 50.

I should keep the bad jokes to myself. Sorry about that.

Some context I am trying to be funny 🤣

When I thought I was Jesus they put me on a 51/50 hold. Trump thinks he is Jesus they let him go into psychotic episodes on his website. I think Trump needs some Risperdal.

New Youtube short! #creativecoding #geometry #light #software #app #cplusplus #cplusplusart #glsl #shader #code #acmx2 #acidcam #programming #programmerart #codeart #videoart #softwareart #generativeart

I love this little KORG MIDI Controller; it fits perfectly on my desk and has enough knobs and sliders. #korg #midi It's called the "Korg nanoKONTROL2"; it was recommended to me a while ago, and it had just been sitting in a drawer until I finally got around to adding MIDI to my new app.

Frequency #creativecoding #generativeart #generated #software #app #code #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #programming #softwareengineering #videoart #codeart #webcam #shaders #filters #acmx2 #acidcam #digitalart #modernart #GLSL #opengl #opencv #ffmpeg

Animation with my dog Blanca #creativecoding #software #programming #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #codeart #visualart #generativeart #modernart #videoart

New animation #ACMX2 #creativecoding #app #software #program #code #coding #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #generative #generated #softwareengineering #cpp #opensource GitHub project: github.com/lostjared/ac... Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/

thank you. That is awesome you liked it.

#wizard #codewizard #cplusplus #software #creativecoding #glitchart #recycledart

I have noticed the past year or so very few people have been interested in using the programs I develop. It's ok I get a lot of enjoyment out of it and it gives me something to do. I know people probably get sick of hearing me talk about code. #codeisart

Heh I keep falling into these C++ holes and getting laser focused on my projects. A while ago it was my compiler and lately my visualizer. It is so much easier to code when you have all the answers. I love code and I'm building my dream app. #creativecoding #app #cplusplus #cplusplusartist

New Feature: Shader Playlist Tree with Named Nodes ACMX2 now supports shader playlists organized into named tree nodes, allowing you to group shaders and cycle through multi-pass stacked node groups during playback. Video on YouTube: youtu.be/nuvxShULEWw GitHub: github.com/lostjared/ac...

Stress Testing the App #creativecoding #acmx2 #software #cplusplus #programming #softwareengineering #generativeart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist

Full Doxygen documentation for ACMX2: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/docs/

New YouTube short. #creativecoding #art #generativeart #3D #geometry #programming #graphics #code #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist

#creativecoding #art #modernart #digitalart #glitchart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist

it is open source, its on my github: github.com/lostjared

In a little higher quality youtu.be/DOWUMm5AahM?...

3D Animation with ACMX2. #creativecoding #videoart #cplusplus #softwareengineering #cppart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #opensource #freesoftware #digitalart #modernart

I wrote my own engine in C++ with OpenGL/OpenCV/CUDA. This project has been in the making for a few years. First, I developed the engine, then worked on the visualizer. My New Year resolved to learn GPU programming, and I have been laser-focused on it.

Short little animation I created to test my program. I find making these videos highly enjoyable. Even if I am the only one. #creativecoding #app #software #generativeart #codeart #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist

Added a complete list of all command line arguments, and supported uniform variables, to the README files.

A few screenshots of tonight's updates. #acmx2 #devlog #software #app #creativecoding #programming #software #cplusplus

This example video uses generated textures, but you can use a Webcam, Video File, or PNG/JPEG Image.

Worked on my project practically all night Updates: MIDI Controller Support MIDI Map Tool MIDI message monitor Velocity-sensitive knobs MIDI Overlay Audio track copy fix Shader Playlist Support New Shader Playlist Settings GPU Filter Save/Load Overlay Improvements github.com/lostjared/ac...

Pencil sketch.

I try to be kind to people and help with whatever I can. Most of the time I am good but sometimes I have depression. I do have a little trouble interacting with people but I do the best I can. It is starting to get easier to walk and I am going to try going somewhere without a wheelchair soon.

Implemented Support for MIDI Controllers, with a custom MIDI configuration tool and file format. #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #generativeart #midi #midicontroller #cpp #glsl #ide #editor #code #coding #computerscience #cplusplusart #videoart #cplusplusartist

I think I might want to implement optional MIDI support for my project using rtmidi. I already have it in another project, so I can reuse much of that code. The only thing that will be a pain will be mapping the inputs because there is no uniform mapping of values across devices.

It is my birthday in a few days. I am feeling old but thankful I am still here and get to spend time with my family. I try to make the best out of what I have and try not let depression take over my life again. #life #mentalhealth

I think this could be a new series, I am calling ACMX2 - Experiments, where I will try different ideas to use with my project to create videos. #creativecoding #glitchart #generated #generativeart #cplusplus

Looks great! Now if only I could walk that smoothly in real life.

This is one of my older pieces of artwork. It is a sketch I drew then used code I wrote to give it color. All created by hand. This was from 2019. #pencil #code #creativecoding #artwork #cplusplus #cplusplusartist

Improved ACMX2's UI & GLSL editor to feel like a true IDE! It’s a code-first hybrid: GLSL IDE + Glitch Engine backend. #acmx2 #GLSL #developmentplatform #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #opensource

YouTube short. #shorts #creativecoding #glitchart #shaders #acmx2 #generativeart #vfx

#creativecoding #art #modernart #cplusplus #software #code #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #glsl #shader #webcam

These were made by hand drawn pencil images that were scanned then I used Objective-C++ software I coded to filter the images. github.com/lostjared/Ac...

My first tutorial in a long time. #creativecoding #app #software #opensource #acmx2 #acidcam #code #art #cplusplus #generativeart #linux #nvidia #gpu #graphicscard #videocard #programming #programmer #modernart #modernartist #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #glsl #tutorial #dysarthria

Melting colors and heavy drops. 🌈🔊 An audio-visual trip featuring mesmerizing, generative fluid audio-reactive fractals. Visuals by LostSideDead. #CreativeCoding #GLSL #Cplusplus #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NCSRelease #GlitchArt #LostSideDead

My first video with Free Music. I have been hesitant about using music in my videos because of copyright. But I think I found a great channel called NoCopyrightSounds and the music sounds good! #creativecoding #app #freesoftware #opensource

does anyone know of some good royalty free music I can use for some audio reactive videos?

Honestly I doubted Gen AI coding tools, but Claude Opus is pretty damn good at C++ for most purposes. It just takes attention to get the code correct.

Added support for directly recording lossless audio from your input source and have it muxed into the final output mp4. #creativecoding #app #software #cplusplus #opencv #opengl #generativeart #value #dysarthria

lostsidedead.biz/free/ Collection of my artwork you can download and use for creating videos or use it to be recycled for your own artwork. #creativecoding #artwork #videos #modernart #generativeart

First video game: Super Mario Bros. First System: NES Favorite platform: Linux/Steam Favorite language: C++ Favorite movie: ANOES Favorite TV Show: Freddy's Nightmares Things I love: Computer, Software, Coding Books. Philosophy: "Open Source, Open Mind" #aboutme #tmi

Vulkan Fractal Demo: github.com/lostjared/li... #creativecoding #software #code #codeart #programming #softwareengineering #cplusplus #cplusplusart #cplusplusartist #vulkan #opensource #demo

Fractals #creativecoding #cplusplus #software #cplusplusart #generativeart #softwareengineering #programming #fractal #fractals #digitalart #modernart #code

This is another one of those grayscale videos. I was feeling creative today and decided to work on my project. Got a bug in the reporting of the audio devices, now it populates the devices list correctly and lets you select your desired input device. #creativecoding #cplusplusartist

Ambient Shadows in the Code #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #code #videoart #programming #codeart #codeartist #cplusplusartist #engineering #opensource

Updated the App with new audio-reactive shader parameters and updated the fractal shaders to take advantage of these. Updated the ACMX2 Programming Guide with a new audio-reactive section. github.com/lostjared/ac...

#creativecoding #art #modernart #softwareengineering #cplusplus #GLSL

I think this looks beautiful.

#creativecoding

ACMX2 for Android and Linux both work offline. You don't have to connect to the Internet to use them. The user has control over what they do with the application.

I just was watching the 4K animations I have on my YouTube channel on my 4K tv. I know not a lot of people like my art but to me it means a lot. I spent close to 20 years studying coding to create that stuff. I know Gen AI makes it easier to code but I mean come on nothing is forever.

Tonight, I read a chapter from the new book I got on Systems programming. There is just something about having an actual book.

You know I love shaders, I used to code everything to manipulate pixels in a buffer in memory with the CPU back in the day and it was slow. I still find it amazing how fragment shaders run in parallel on the GPU.

Dive into a mesmerizing flow of ethereal ripples and shifting light. This abstract animation features fluid, kaleidoscopic patterns in vibrant shades of cyan, blue, and iridescent purple. The constantly evolving waves of blue, aqua, and violet create a deeply hypnotic and satisfying experience.

Just finished Mastering Algorithms with C, although I didn't write up the examples from the last chapter. It was an interesting book; I enjoyed it, although some of the code examples were a little dated. It still covered a lot of ground, and I learned some cool stuff.

I have been feeling very creative today, and I made quite a few videos. This is my latest one. I make videos like this just to let go of my energy and create something positive with my time. I hope you enjoy the artwork. #creativecoding #art #modernart #generativeart #cplusplus #softwareengineering

I have been using Kdenlive (an open-source video editor) for my video editing, and it works well for my purposes. I love open source software.

Latest animation, I have been feeling creative lately. #app #creativecoding #softwareengineering #cplusplus #app #demo #acmx2 #code #software #glsl #opengl #graphics

Demo of my program: I think I sound pretty normal now. I’ve had to work incredibly hard to learn how to speak all over again. It’s a process, and some days are easier than others, but getting back into the code and sharing these projects with you is a huge part of my recovery. #opensource #cplusplus

github.com/lostjared/sh... Collection of GLSL Shader Effects.

Aliens are real, they are extra dimensional beings.

Glitching to the Oldies #GlitchArt #OldSchool #CorruptData #Software #App

This animation focuses on high-frequency color shifting and radial symmetry. By layering complex distortion filters over a central light source, we’ve created a "Neural Radiance" effect that mimics the intensity of a digital supernova. #DigitalArt #GPUAcceleration #creativecoding

Experimental visuals rendered through ACMX2. A high-octane blend of color-shifting feedback and liquid motion. #AcidCam #ACMX2 #GenerativeArt #DigitalArt #GPUAcceleration #Visuals

Algorithmic Pencil: Diving into the Sketch-Grid | A Generative Journey What happens when you merge the raw texture of a pencil sketch with the infinite logic of a shader? #cplusplus #software #app #code #generative #art #modernart #sketch #pencil #softwareengineering #creativecoding

A few more pieces of artwork. #creativecoding #cplusplus #software #softwareengineering #art #code #digitalart #modernart #cplusplusartist #codeartist #expression

ACMX2 is more than lines of code; it is a dedication to those who have navigated the shadows of mental illness. May this software serve as a reminder that even in the quietest circuits, your light is seen and your journey matters. You are never alone.

ACMX2 - Programming Guide: Screen shots of my Programming Guide to my development platform for creating real-time glitch effects with GPU acceleration on NVIDIA hardware/Linux. This reference documents each filter/shade. With Full technical information. #gpu #opensource github.com/lostjared/ac...

acidcam-gpu + ACMX2 is a layered real-time visual computing system Technical Information about the Real-time Glitch Engine: github.com/lostjared/ac... #acmx2 #glitch #glitchart #software #app #freeware #opensource #homebrew #programming #cplusplus #GLSL #opengl

Algorithmic Pencil #creativecoding #art #pencil #softwareengineering #cplusplus #glsl #opengl #programming #compuersoftware #app #demo

#creativecoding #creativeart #cplusplus #software #code #cuda #engineering #linux #art #artwork #dreams #pulse #pulsating #digital

CUDA "Kernels" #Tux #TuxTheLinuxPengiun #Penguin #LinuxPenguin #Wallpaper

#creativecoding #software #app #cplusplus #liquid #matter #dreams #idea #concept #value #source #mind #thought #acmx2 #glitchart #psychedelicglitch

Was just having some fun this afternoon. #creativecoding #app #software #glitchart #glitch

Tearing?

Audio reactivity now scaled by time_speed so you can fluctuate the reaction with the keyboard. Near the end of this video I crank it up. #creativecoding #cplusplus #software #softwareengineering #opengl #videoart #rtaudio #audioreactive #acmx2 #programming #coding #codeart #videoart

Vibrations #software #app #code #creativecoding #cplusplus #opengl #opencv #glsl

Updated the program where now can control the rate at which time changes with the keyboard. You can shift it up and shift it down with the Page Up/Down keys and the animation speed increases/decreases. #cplusplus #software #code #programming

Hydra

Transparent Self.

Echo Selfie

Retro Selfie

Updated Shader Browser with English Description and Source Code for over 1,000 Examples Acid Cam GLSL shaders. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/shader...

I worked on a lot of artwork today for some reason. I posted a lot of it. Going to refocus on my other projects.

Tried making something different tonight.

Dive into a world of shifting geometry and neon gradients. This animation was rendered using ACMX2, mapping complex mathematical functions into a rhythmic, pulsing visual experience. #ACMX2 #AbstractArt #GenerativeDesign #FractalAnimation #Visualizer

"Rainbow Mirror" #creativecoding #software #animation #cplusplus #videoart

What I know is from what I have experienced and been taught. I regurgitate patterns encoded in my thoughts. I seriously doubt world history as I understand it is complete and not biased. That doesn't mean I cannot be creative and express unique emotions. It just means I carry weight in my heart.

I love color. #creativecoding #cplusplus #softwareengineering

Abstract Entity #art #software #cplusplus #creativecoding #soul #dream #digital #mindful

lostsidedead.biz/computers.html

#art #software #opengl #cplusplus #generated #code #coding #creativecoding

How to use the build script to compile acidcam-gpu/ACMX2 from source code in an Arch Linux Distrobox Container. #opensource #cmake #ninja #software #softwareengineering #code #programming #cplusplus #opengl #glsl #opencv

Podman is a tool for building, running, and managing containers, similar to Docker. It can run without a central daemon, which can make it simpler and more secure for many Linux workflows. A container packages an app and its dependencies so it runs the same way across different systems.

Extra Terrestrial

Use Alpine as your host, but run Podman with an arch based CUDA container. This lets the glibc apps talk to the Alpine kernel via the NVIDIA Container Toolkit. It's the only stable way to get CUDA on Alpine.

Alpine Linux does not officially support the CUDA SDK. Technically install a headless NVIDIA driver on Alpine, the CUDA Toolkit and pre-compiled OpenCV with CUDA binaries are built for glibc (the standard C library used by Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.). Alpine uses musl, which is binary-incompatible

#creativecoding #generated #cplusplus #software #app #art #videoar #glitchart

Some of my digital artwork #artwork #digital #colorful #colors

do you use arch? Cause it has a dedicated opencv-cuda package otherwise you would have to build it from source code (a huge pain). It is pretty complex to get it up and running Read the file Containerfile.arch to see the steps it goes through to compile.

its like Docker

Glitch #software #programming #glitchart #videoart #cplusplus #code #coding

"Mental Energy" Animated created with ACMX2. #videoart #animation #opengl #cplusplus #software #engineering #artisticexpression #expression #dreams #thought #mind #soul #idea

ACMX2 - Ride the Spiral Animation created with C++. #cplusplus #videoart #animation #code #creativecoding #softwareengineering

For tonight's practice session I implemented DES Encryption/Decryption in C23. This is a video showing me encrypting source code, then decrypting it back to its original state. Source Code: github.com/lostjared/C2... #C23 #programming #coding #softwareengineering #opensource

Updated documentation with instructions how to setup and compile acidcam-gpu/ACMX2 on Linux using a podman container with GPU pass-through. Also added inline code snippets of the actual code next to the English description. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/filter... #acmx2 #gpu #cuda #nvidia #gpu #opensource

Figured out why I got that bandwidth spike. One page in the documentation tree for shell-cmd-rs (libc documentation) got over 8,000 views. So its not like people were visiting my page to see my content. The internet has changed over the years, all traffic goes through the same services now.

Demonstrated temporal ghost trails, chromatic RGB channel separation, XOR strobe blending, motion-outline wireframes, diagonal pixelation, particle dissolves, horizontal/vertical glitch tearing, color wave trails, and multi-frame history blending running in parallel across thousands of CUDA cores.

lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/filter... English descriptions for the glitch GPU algorithms I designed. Most of them were ported over from my older projects, Acid Cam v2, Glitch.GUI and acidcamGL. All handwritten and dreamed up by me before chatbots. Most were converted in mass with generated Python

The program contains over 900 GPU filter kernels that run in parallel on an NVIDIA GPU, with one thread per pixel processing millions of pixels simultaneously in every frame. Filters are chained together in any order, and each combination produces a completely different visual output. #glitch

Experimental Animation Created with C++ | ACMX2 – Real-Time GPU-Accelerated Glitch Art #opensource #generativeart #acidcam #visualart #creativecoding #realtimegraphics

Over 100 new Glitch Effect algorithms in CUDA kernel form that run on a NVIDIA GPU designed by yours truly.

After this disaster I think they should make a law that no elderly people in Government positions. That is too important for people who are not in touch with technology / reality. Plus no more money in politics. Money corrupts people.

ACMX2 + Gemini = Gltich Shaman

#VideoArt

A few more demos

New article on my website about current events. lostsidedead.biz/computers.html

Okay, i kind of went off the deep end working on this compiler all weekend, and last night/this morning. Time to switch back to practicing coding C and reading about C. Going to get back to my Algorithms book, and code everything by hand myself.

Side by Side of MXVM Pascal and its MXVM IR Equivalent. #softwareengineering #compiler #IR #software

Testing some of the Online examples with the online debug report generator/compiler. Compiler: lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/compiler Examples: lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/code

updated my practice compiler to v1.8.0 with examples: lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/code/ Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/doc/html/

Got my Compiler practice project successfully compiled and running on Windows X64. The compiler can generate code for Windows, Linux, or MacOS (x86_64, not ARM64).

Cool that was a little bit before my time but I have tried turbo pascal. I remember Borland. They were awesome.

Updated my GIF gallery for my artwork, now with over 500 GIF animations! Feel free to download any and use it for whatever you want 100% free. lostsidedead.biz/gif/

How to cross compile to Windows from Linux with MXVM/MinGW-x64.

Recreated one of my first projects in MXVM Pascal and compiled it the MXVM tool chain. It works, this is so awesome, I have been trying for years to write a working compiler that I could compile one of my games with. I mean the generated Assembly code is not that great, but hey it works!

Updated the Reference guide and documentation site to v1.5.0. Fixed a gnarly bug. You know one thing I noticed about Opus, is if your not explicit and tell it in its instructions it will try to use workarounds versus fix the root problem. That always seems annoying to me.

well good luck! I know what its like to feel burned out. I just keep practicing and eventually I figure things out.

I decided to write my front end to be Pascal because It is easier to code than C. I have a book on how to make a C compiler and it is pretty tough. It is just for practice and to learn more about Virtual Machines/Compilers. I am just always eager to learn more about these topics.

Another demo of my project to teach myself more about this stuff.

I think I might want to document more of my projects. I really like the way doxygen produces LaTeX for PDF files. Kind of makes me feel like I wrote a book. 👌

MXVM Online Debug Assembler on my website. If you have the MXVM standard library installed, you can use the online MXVM bytecode assembler/debug report generator to produce the assembly and a Makefile to assemble your program. #code #webassembly

I am happy that MXVM is Turing complete! It supports conditional branching (16+ jump instructions), arbitrary memory access via load/store with dynamic allocation, backward jumps for loops, unbounded recursion with call/ret, and full arithmetic/logic ops — no hard limits on memory or execution. 🖥️

Knights Tour in MXVM Pascal interpreted and compiled. Knights Tour is an old math puzzle where you have to solve how to make the knight move around the chess board and touch each square only once. The tricky part is that the knight in chess moves in an L pattern. #code

That looks cool. The animation is smooth. Looking forward to seeing what you make next! 💯

Space shooter game written in the subset of Pascal for MXVM compiler. This is the last example in the reference guide (I generated for documentation for the project). Download the guide (over 1,000 pages) github.com/lostjared/MX...

Huge bandwidth spike on my site, I logged into my control panel and saw that it jumped up 7GB! I usually only transfer a few hundred MBs/day since it's just docs, source code & small WebAssembly games. Pretty sure someone scraped the site.

Updated MXVM/Pascal Reference manual and documentation website for the current source code v1.1.0. Now supports dynamic arrays and units (separately compiled modules that are linked together).

MXVM/Pascal Compiler / Custom Byte / Virtual Machine Documentation/Reference Guide: lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/doc/html/ HTML documentation/PDF document (around 1,000 pages) with documentation for everything in the project.

Wrote a psychic ability detector card game in MXVM Pascal. lol. #psychic #cards youtu.be/FPpai04xB8E

Was working on my compiler / VM and got the game of Tetris to work in MXVM Pascal.

This afternoon I worked on creating a compression tool. I had Opus take the binary heap/binary tree I coded, and implement Huffman coding for data compression. I have learned a lot through creating this project and my skills at C are improving!

Source Tree with Syntax Highlighting for my site for C23 Examples. lostsidedead.biz/C23/html/

Was up late tonight practicing programming. Tonight I coded a spell check that uses the dictionary file included with Linux/Unix and it tests each word in a text file with a fast binary search against the dictionary and displays any misspelled words it finds. github.com/lostjared/C2...

#cplusplus #app #opengles3

Implemented merge sort in C23 github.com/lostjared/C2...

WebAssembly port of Dijkstra's shortest-path algorithm visual simulation.

I implemented quicksort in C23 to practice. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Diamond. #software #app #visual #art #videoart #cplusplus #webassembly.

There was an update to chromium that broke the save function for ACMX2 Visualizer Web Edition and the Android app. The way the video save feature worked no longer worked, had to apply some changes. A new APK has been uploaded to the GItHub page and a Fix applied to the online web page.

Had Opus take my implementation of Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm and create a visual representation with SDL2. I think it turned out really well. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Just finished building a memory-safe Adjacency List for Dijkstra's algorithm in pure C23. I have taken a step back from programming in C++ for a short while. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Just finished implementing Dijkstra's algorithm from scratch in C23. It's one of the most famous pathfinding algorithms in computer science, and I built it using a custom min-heap to handle the heavy lifting. Been diving deep into Algorithms/Data Structures lately. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Viewing a 3D model of a Mushroom with the OpenGL and Vulkan back ends of MX2.

All I can say is this timeline is lame. There is a demented mentally ill person with too much power in charge. It's starting to get real.

This is an image created with a program I wrote from a pencil drawing created with an actual pencil and paper. It applied a distortion algorithm to give the drawing color.

I mean, you can create some impressive web pages with GenAI. This is something I had generated that creates glitchy-looking fractals with WebGL. It is on my website: lostsidedead.biz/fractal-stud...

Put the finishing touches on my heap examples, including a min/max binary heap/priority queue and also an in-place heap sort. I know people don't care about my code, but I continue learning because it helps me deal with life and stay out of depression. github.com/lostjared/C2...

I would not trust an agent to control my computer. Not with the technology we have now. Nope, no way, I use the shell on my own to navigate/manipulate my system. I didn't spend years practicing to let a bot delete all my files. If I run Opus I run it inside a container.

I finished the first 10 chapters of the book, which I have been reading/posting about. The next chapter is on graphs. Not too sure I will make any examples from this chapter, it depends. Now that I have my progressive lenses with a new prescription, reading is much more enjoyable again. #books

Worked on a heap peek for my binary heap example in C23 today. Good practice for understanding max-heap behavior, checking the top value without removing it, and tightening up the program logic. All around good practice session this morning. #practice #coding #mastery github.com/lostjared/C2...

I was having problems sleeping tonight, so I implemented a priority queue from reading the algorithms book I have been reading, using a binary heap data structure. The program's theme was a score for each 'Parcel' to be delivered and extract them in that order. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Some #VideoArt

Counting the lines of code in all my projects with one line command using shell-cmd and Perl. I backed up all my projects tonight (just to be safe) and was curious to see around how much I have written the past ten years and now have a estimate. #cplusplus #code #software #programming

I think I need to figure out a way to not count duplicate code. Some projects include different versions of the same files. Also there are a couple files I did not write I tried to exclude them all so this is a rough estimate.

My life journey over the past 10 years.

I don't think many people got the joke. There used to be a book series called "Teach Yourself in 24 hours" covering a wide range of topics. The books only gave an introduction, and it was impossible to learn that type of skill in 24 hours.

I learned this lesson already in my life. I was in a coma, and when I woke up, all my muscles had atrophied. I could not sit up or move my legs. I had to relearn how to speak and type. I started coding, revisiting simple programs, and practiced for years to get back to where I am now.

Just because AI can write some parts of your project does not mean you should stop coding and just let it do its thing. Personally I practice coding everyday, just so I do not lose that muscle memory. I supplement my projects with AI for improvements not replacement of my skill.

Using my binary heap data structure, I wrote a program in C23 that uses a heap sort with priority queue style extraction. With input behavior similar to Perl's diamond pattern <>. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Got my pair of glasses with progressive lenses. I can see better now, I just need to be careful with them as I didn't get that good of frames. It is a big improvement however and I am thankful I had insurance to cover my eye exams and pay most of the cost of these new glasses.

Updated the ACMX2 Android app on GitHub. Now if you tap the save image button too fast it wont get the app stuck in a loop processing the image, it will just wait until the image is saved before enabling the save button again.

Was working on my C23 heap example. I have been practicing coding in C. I think I am improving. The hardest part for me is thinking of how to handle all the edge cases of what could go wrong and guard against them. This requires a whole different strategy, not just coding for the successful path.

I don't doubt you at all. I think from what I have seen, you're an excellent programmer. 👍🥰

Fun project, good times.

#cplusplus #glsl

#cplusplus #app

Haha #cplusplus #it #books

This is the logo I choose to use as my wallpaper today.

Was studying from the algorithms book again. Implemented a heap data structure for the first time. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Watching podcasts on YouTube. The usa under this leadership are the bad guys. If we all survive this in the future there are going to be videogames like Wolfenstein with the Trump regime as the villains. I am completely against this crap. I live in an alternate reality because I can't handle this.

Meanwhile In Jared's Alternate Reality. #software #experimental #artwork #videoart #code #w #cplusplus #GLSL

A few more logos, I cannot decide which one I want to use.

This is coming along really well. You are ahead of me on this subject. 👍

Some new Wallpapers I made out of my Logo with my application. I love how these look.

This is a funny card game I wrote as a joke in JavaScript that is supposed to tell you whether or not you are psychic. lostsidedead.biz/builder/

This is a game I came up with that is like the next iteration of Columns. It contains 4 grids, each going in a different direction, which you manage at once. You can play my game in your browser without downloading anything here: lostsidedead.biz/game/Mutatris/

This is my 3D fan-made version of Columns, I call MasterPiece. This is the 3D OpenGL version. I love Columns; it is such a great game. I have remade it a bunch of times, but I did not invent it. That credit goes to Sega. You can play this port in your browser here: lostsidedead.biz/MasterPiece3D/

Hey thanks for the link!

I have also written a few small games like Asteroids 3D, Space shooters, puzzle games, side scrollers etc. However most of my stuff is not that great. I need to work on improving my engine and work harder to sharpen my skills to produce some of the stuff I want to create.

There are a lot of good games built with Unreal, Unity, and Godot. I wish I had better skill drawing graphics like pixel art, 3D modeling so I could make actual games instead of just demos with programmer art. I am good at creative coding however and have created some clips with my engine.

I used to be doubtful of the quality of games built with rapid application development game engines. However seeing the quality of the games built by modern tools I now know it doesn't matter anymore and there are a lot of high quality games created with that type of game engine. Use what works!

Effects with SDL3/OpenGL 4.6/C++23: github.com/lostjared/cp... #opensource #cplusplus #code #example #cplusplus23 #sourcecode #software #programming #coding #code

This is a demonstration of my project acidcam-gpu/ACMX2. acidcam-gpu/ACMX2 is a layered real-time visual computing system built entirely around NVIDIA CUDA. GitHub project: github.com/lostjared/ac... #opensource #software #experimental #linux #cuda #softwareengineering Contains flashing lights

Added a in-depth technical reference to acidcam-gpu/ACMX2 a layered real-time visual computing system built entirely around NVIDIA CUDA. github.com/lostjared/ac...

Used this cool program called pandoc to easily convert my markdown documentation to PDF. Now I have a guide for my program that looks pro.

I put a lot of energy into the design and implementation details for shell-cmd. It has been formed into a utility that I enjoy using. It makes perfect sense to my way of thinking and I have no problem remembering how to use it. #software #processing #terminal #tools #code #opensource

Demo of the new Boolean logic expressions feature in shell-cmd. I created this tool, because I always had trouble with find -exec and xargs syntax. This is much easier for me to use. #opensource #linux #freesoftware #code #cplusplus #programming #bash #commandline #terminal #shell

Added boolean logic to my shell batch executor. Now contains a mini query language. lostsidedead.biz/shell-cmd

New features: --list-all is set, collect all matched paths into a list via fill_list(), then run the command once with %0 expanded to all paths joined by spaces. Example: regular expressions to build a string of files recursively that also includes exclusion rules. #linux #opensource #cplusplus

I was looking at the pictures of all the people at the No Kings Today. That is awesome. I agree with them, and wish I could have been out there with them. Maybe someday I will be in a better position and able to participate. I am with you in spirit.

New version (v1.8.0) of my Interactive Visualizer that runs in the browser. #webassembly #wasm #cplusplus #software #opensource Live App: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h... Source Code: github.com/lostjared/MX... Android App: github.com/lostjared/AC...

Just me saying hello, trying my best to sound normal. I think I sound good. For this release: github.com/lostjared/AC... Contains: Shader Editor, Multipass Shaders, 3D Skyboxes/Meshes, Camera, Camera recording with audio on/off. Video file support.

Updated my real-time experimental visuals camera application for Android devices. Now, all 3D mesh skybox/objects show up the same scale instead of each having its own scale, making pinch and dragging difficult for some of them. APK on the GitHub repo. github.com/lostjared/AC...

Demonstration of my parallel batch processing tool.

Created a version of shell-cmd in Rust. github.com/lostjared/sh... with comments and documentation: lostsidedead.biz/shell-cmd/rs...

I wonder if anyone actually reads these posts I make. Oh well at least it gives me the opportunity to log my thoughts, and have something I can do go back through and see what I was thinking.

Had Claude enhance my tool and used Doxygen to generate documentation. Now this tool feels like something actually useful, a simple easy to use replacement (for me) for find -exec. A mix between a find tool and something like grep that can execute commands. Information: lostsidedead.biz/shell-cmd

Created a new Unix tool I call shell-cmd: github.com/lostjared/sh... It recursively find files matching a regex pattern and executes a shell command for each match. Some examples are:

I love the concept of thinking of an idea then using your mind to create it and being able to share with other people around the world. I have never wanted to break anything. I just want to make a contribution and have some part of my life actually do something positive.

New hardcover no starch press book. This one is considered the spiritual successor to the Linux Programming Interface a book I read from cover to cover years ago. Happy to add this to my collection.

I think bazzite is cool technology. (It is based on immutable Fedora SilverBlue). Containers are very useful.

lostsidedead.biz/MasterX/engi... New article on my site about my journey learning to code. I compare my early projects with my current work and show how my style and approach have evolved over time. Pictured is one of my first games ported to Linux.

I’m working on writing better and safer code going forward. I already set up clang-format for consistent formatting, and for future projects I plan to use Doxygen comments in my headers. I also want to be more thoughtful with naming and avoid controversial terms in my projects.

Good progress lately down ~115 lbs, A1C back to normal, and I rarely need a wheelchair now (just in the kitchen). Still using a walker while I rebuild my balance, but moving forward every day. Focused on recovery, health, and my work.

Grateful for the positive things in my life: books, time to build software and work on my projects, and a family that’s been there for me through everything. Focusing on growth, learning, and making the most of where I am right now.

Right now I’m focused on coding and building software, doing the right things, and continuing my recovery after a coma. My goal is to rebuild my life through my work. I hope this clears up any confusion about my projects and what they represent.

Acid Cam started in 2011 as an experimental visual tool and grew into a cross-platform C++ project with thousands of filters. It’s about algorithmic art and real-time visuals. Any hallucinations I experience come from schizoaffective disorder. I have been off those kind of drugs for 20+ years.

Quick note: “acid cam” isn’t about drugs. It’s experimental visual software focused on surreal, colorful, glitch-style graphics. The name refers to the aesthetic, not substances. I haven’t used psychedelics in over 20 years—this project is about art and code.

github.com/lostjared/cp... C++23/SDL3/GL4 project examples (going to add more soon).

I updated my GitHub profile. I think it looks much more professional now.

Tonight I worked on learning open addressing (linear probing) hash tables. It makes sense, next step is to learn Robin Hood hashing.

Some of my creative coding with C++/OpenGL/OpenCV/CUDA. I spent a lot of time crafting each part of the pipeline to create these videos. First, the engine, then creating ACMX2, which is a tool to run the shaders/CUDA cores. Then the interface is a Qt6 app that manages ACMX2.

I successfully cross-compiled to Windows with Rust for the first time today. I used yay in an Arch container to set up the MinGW64 Rust toolchain, and the output EXEs run perfectly. Tested it with wine.

I have been using clang-format, which makes formatting my code so easy. I can customize to use my code style and apply it to all source files in my project at once.

Updated my batch image conversion tool. Convert lists of images between formats without needing to use a GUI or open them individually. github.com/lostjared/im...

I am very fond of coffee. I think naming a programming language after coffee (Java) was a great idea. Coffee and programming go together really well.

I was looking through my books, and I found some I didn't realize I had. It is like I forgot I bought it. That is really strange.

For today's practice project, I wrote a simple server that uses a queue to process messages with C23,pthread, and sockets. Learned a lot today and got some good practice in feeling much better. WhenI read and code It gets my mind thinking and helps with my depression. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Started working on some simple socket code using C23. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Finally got around to organizing my top shelf in my home office. Got my favorite C++ books I have finished that I can leave up there. #books #cplusplus

artwork to describe how I feel sometimes. #videoart #shaders #GLSL

"Generic" version of my Puzzle Game with Full HD grid, for an extra long game play session and difficulty. Coded in Rust. GitHub project: github.com/lostjared/Ge...

I was feeling kinda sad tonight, so I decided to try and install Arch from the command line for the first time. No archinstall, it felt pretty good to get it up and running. Next time I am feeling down, I will try to compile the kernel.

Sometimes I see from outside myself and think how I got to this point where I live my life with this condition where my brain doesn't function correctly to control my body and I have a hard time interacting with people. I feel alone and talk to myself because no one wants anything to do with me.

Mobile version of my Demo to play on your cell phone. lostsidedead.biz/asteroids.mo...

I should get my new eyeglasses soon. I'm looking forward to that it should make reading easier.

I have been reading often again. A few times a day I chill and read ebooks/physical books it feels good to fill up with new information.

My opinion of Hypnotic Algorithms deployed by companies like those behind Facebook and TikTok. It can create a physical addiction and should be r regulated like tobacco.

Updated my Asteroids demo with new textures/lighting for the space craft. lostsidedead.biz/Asteroids3D/

Tonight I decided to open a time capsule and install the my first Linux distro. I found the ISO on Internet archive, and installed with QEMU. It is like a major dose of nostalgia, using my first attempts using a terminal based C compiler. GCC 2.95.3. Qt2/KDE.

lostsidedead.biz/MasterPiece.... one of my first games ported with Emscripten to the browser.

Decided to add a few features to my project, which I wrote for practice after reading from "Mastering Algorithms with C." Now the match tool will count each unique word, but also how often. This works on source code and other text files.

Put the final polish on my Set data structure example Made sure it just did not work, but was correct for edge cases. I have been trying to get this into muscle memory. It reminds me of how I learned to retrain my mind to type again after the coma I was in, or how I have been trying to learn to walk

I have been up late tonight working on my C23 repo specifically the Set data structure I wrote from the ground up. This is a video of me using it in a program that takes a series of files / source code and captures the unique individual words and keeps a tally of the unique words across all files.

I try not to talk about politics but I blame a lot of this insanity on republicans and the people who support them and did not put a stop to the guy who obviously is mentally ill and demented.

Running MasterPiece (original) and the Rust Remake. I even managed to fix the spelling error in the start screen logo. #rust #cplusplus #code #selftaught

I used to be really into learning Rust because it taught me what not to do in C or C++. Better habbits for memory management and less undefined behavior. So I rewrote one of my first game projects compleley in Rust in HD. the original github.com/lostjared/Ma... rewritten github.com/lostjared/Ma...

Tested my C23 Examples on w/ Clang on FreeBSD. Had to do some if statements in the CMake file to disable GCC-specific flags, and even used -Wno for a few warnings that Clang does not support attributes like unsequenced and reproducible. It also gave me a lot of warnings for some pointer stuff.

I have been reading and practicing for the past few hours, going to take a break for a little while. I have been working on my implementation of a Set data structure from the ground up. Lots of fun.

Slept most of last night and on and off all morning. Feeling refreshed after all that sleep.

This is a graphical demo I wrote in Rust that solves "Knight's Tour." github.com/lostjared/Kn... "A knight's tour is a sequence of moves of a knight on a chessboard such that the knight visits every square exactly once. "

Playing games on my Switch 3.

That is cool, I usually use the standard library/STL. However, if you have a lot of experience with data structures, that is probably the best way to do it. Gives you more control over what you want the program to do exactly.

Hehe, I am used to just using a std::map, or std::unordered_map, but I am trying to learn more about this stuff, so I appreciate the feedback, and I will try to learn more about Open addressing tables, and Robin Hood probing.

alright ill look it up. I do like how you used recursion.

github.com/lostjared/C2... Mine was a little over complex, I used a hashtable, sorted the words, and kept track of total unique words over multiple input files (you can use a wildcard). However, I think your solution is better.

github.com/lostjared/Py...

And how many times each word appears works on source code it just recognizes words

Modified with GLSL shaders.

Here is a video of me with a rainbow spiraling out of my bald head.

Did a small project in Python this morning to see how much of a difference in time it would take. A project that gets the same thing done, in 46 lines of code that took 595 in C. In C, I wrote the hashtable from scratch and implemented everything myself. In Python, I used a built-in dictionary.

The next project to practice is to create a Set data structure from scratch. It will be something I will learn from.

This is a comparison image of my weight loss, down 115 pounds in 7 months. It has improved my mobility although I still have trouble with my legs not functioning correct. It has got a lot better.

Because I couldn't sleep, I implemented a Dequeue in C. Understanding the ins and outs of memory management is key to being good at creating good software. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Got my code notes for my Stack practice session tonight on the GitHub repository for my C23 notes/examples. Had to fix some subtle problems. I am starting to get back into it. It is fun to practice. My notes: github.com/lostjared/C2...

I added on screen controls to this project I wrote in my early twenties as a joke. It is not meant to be serious, just me having a good time playing around with C/SDL. Ported to Web Assembly with Emscripten.

#videoart

Energy cube created by me. #videoart

This was created with the mobile app I developed that runs on Android. It is of a Liquid Cube.

I am just some random disabled guy, not a software engineer, so don't take what I say too seriously. I just love software and spend most of my time studying and working on my hobby projects.

I like the open source model of software where you can see how things work and change and recompile it if you want. it just seems to make more sense to me being a programmer. To improve software and its quality I just cannot deny the performance diifference using CUDA kernels for my project.

lol I guess i didn't realize this the whole time.

yeah

Maybe for my next computer, I will go with everything from AMD. Unless NVIDIA starts working better on Linux. I have a MiniPC that uses AMD, and it runs Ubuntu and works great.

I thought about compiling OpenCV from source with the closed SDK, but that is a huge pain, and nobody else who doesn't have the SDK would be able to use it anyway. So I will stick with the fallback option. It is not like I need hardware video decoding for this little app for video files with FFmpeg.

I tried to use CUDA video decode acceleration in OpenCV. It compiled, I ran it, and an error was thrown. Do some research and find out that the Arch opencv-cuda package does not include that module. That part is not compiled in because you have to download a separate SDK that is closed source. 💩

I have tried many different coding bots, and Claude's Opus is probably the best I have tried. It has solved some issues I have had when I was really stuck. I think the whole 'vibe coding' when people who don't understand code try building important systems is a bad idea.

Some older books on coding are still good to read because they use lower level solutions and less higher level libraries that abstract how the actual algorithms work. I am not saying newer books are not good, I am just saying some older books teach things that standard libraries take care of now.

Even if these chat bots can completly write software without making mistakes, I will still read my books, and write code. I notice if I do not practice and write code myself the ability starts to decay. I have to practice and think to be able to think. Lately I have been reading about practicing C.

All my apple/mac related coding books are in my home office in a large drawer. I have not used Objective-C in years but I still remember it. I have a lot of good books on the topic.

The reason why I use bright/rainbow colors in my artwork is I just love color. No reason other than I think all colors are beautiful.

Some of my shader art.

Fixed the context-growing-to-large issue in my Debugger that uses AI for ELF64. I think this is a good use of Gen AI for educational purposes (which I believe it is actually useful for). This program takes a compiled binary and disassembles it into assembly code. This video shows setting registers

Tonight I was reading my book on algorithms, and implemented an insertion sort.

I love this game and this new upcoming DLC looks amazing.

I tried to lower the amount of time my game takes to load and also added progress status text so it not just on a black screen, and made it yield to the browser every so often so it won't lock up while it's loading. Try it here: lostsidedead.biz/Asteroids3D/

I have to admit the air is light, and once you get used to the keyboard, it is nice.

I don't like all the restrictions they placed on the software. It is possible to share your projects outside of the app store, but they make it difficult. It used to be different. The device itself is good.

This is the book I picked out to study for the next few days. It's a bit older but still relevant information. #coding

lostsidedead.biz/unix/ These are Unix examples adapted to C++ on my website.

I used to be really into MacOS X when that was a thing. I have a MacBook Air, but my main computer runs Linux. I am into Unix-based operating systems. I have a lot of books on the topic.

Right now, I am not looking for a relationship. I experienced a life-altering event around 5 years ago and have had to adjust my life to my physical health problems. I am interested in making friends. I may be disabled, but I am a nice person, and I am very interested in software engineering.

One of my favorite things in life is programming/software engineering related textbooks. I have a collection I have been collecting since I was in high school back over 25 years ago.

I was working on my Web assembly asteroids game and changed all the graphics from png to lossy jpeg and added progress status for the loading screen and yielded to the browser so it would not hang because some of the meshes are large. So I cut the data file down to around 20 MB. Best I can do.

Funny video of me.

It is a 103 in March, this is crazy.

Here is a picture of me with my new haircut lol. I think I look pretty funny this way.

Been practicing C again tonight. I am starting to get my groove back for this language versus always using C++.

So apparently, I don't need a new webcam because I can use my Android phone as a webcam. That is a very useful feature.

Selfies of me I took with my app. I cut my hair because its so hot here now. I would rather stay cool because it is just going to get even hotter here in the desert.

Wrote this hashtable in C23 to practice this morning github.com/lostjared/C2...

This morning I implemented doubly linked list for my practice session.

I have been working on my model viewer tonight.

I have added OBJ mesh/model support to ACMX2, so now you can use OBJ files as skyboxes and map artistic shaders to the objects. This is Tux the Linux Penguin with some cool shader effects.

I am not perfect I have a lot of flaws, but that makes me human. I do not hurt anyone and just try to get by life with what I have. If I can help someone with something I try my best to do so.

I have been trying not to focus too much on the news because of all the negative stuff going on. I watch podcasts on YouTube, read my books, and practice learning more stuff about software/programming. Today i finished the book Modern C. Trying to figure out what i want to read next.

Cool in C23 you can add thread_local to a variable definition and each thread instance will get its own unique instance of the variable. It also has its own thin wrapper around the pthread library.

Been practicing C today. My notes/examples: github.com/lostjared/C2...

yeah sorry if I do not respond to requests for me to message you, I just don't want people to try and manipulate me, and catfish me. In the past people who I have interacted with have not been who they say they are so I am very careful.

Created another C23 program to practice. It will count how many times a word appears in a block of text using a binary tree. github.com/lostjared/C2...

Decided to read more of Modern C (about C23) and write a small program to practice. This uses reproducible and unsequenced to hint to the compiler to optimize parts of the code.

Updated version v2.2.1

MX2 Updated to v2.2.1 with numerous bug fixes and changes to the model format/viewer github.com/lostjared/li...

yeah i got that figured ou t

New feature and stability release cross-platform MX2 Vulkan/OpenGL Engine GitHub: github.com/lostjared/li... Home page: lostsidedead.biz/libmx2 Documentation: lostsidedead.biz/libmx2/docs

I was feeling discouraged earlier today because it feels like I have been trying to figure this stuff out for a very long time. So I went and rested for a few hours, then started working on it again, and encapsulated a great deal of the Vulkan model loading code to make it easier for me to use.

I realize I have a long way to go before I create anything that will be worthwhile with 3D graphics. I spend a lot of my time working on this lately, i think I need to take a break and work on something else. I hope to someday create something cool.

New Tux Demo with Vulkan. He kind of looks like a snow man. #demo #cplusplus #hobby #hobbyist #code

Tested my demos on my MacBook and they worked properly.

How easy it is to compile an MX2 OpenGL ES 3 app to WebAssembly with emscripten. I even added a compiled version of the MX2 static library, so all you have to do is compile your program. #cplusplus All you have to install is glm with your package manager. More info: lostsidedead.biz/libmx2

Got my Vulkan model loader working with OBJ files now. This is pretty cool. I have been having a good time learning this. Helps with my depression a lot when I see progress and have something to do, versus sitting around and feeling sorry for myself. #hobby #Hobbyist #demo #cplusplus

This morning I was learning about how to add shadows. It i s making more sense now. #hobby #hobbyist #programming #es3

I have been having trouble sleeping tonight, so I made this cheezball demo with OpenGL ES 3. It is Tux the Linux Penguin in a snowy winter wonderland instead of Antarctica. It is on my website: lostsidedead.biz/penguin

3D Model of Tux. #tux #linux #penguin

Cross compilation port of my demo to Web Assembly. Can play my C++ game in your browser.

What I have really been having a hard time understanding with 3D graphics programming is the math. I am slowly but surely learning it through example. I look at the source code and figure things out from there.

This is my collection of failed projects when I was trying to learn. I learned a little bit from each project.

if you want to see where I started with C++ this was the second game I made with DirectX. This was back in like 2001 and I was just winging it. github.com/lostjared/Ol...

Sounds like a lot of work, and I have a lot of respect for your views. That is why I won't ever try to profit off anything that was generated. I simply think of it as learning material along with my books. I just want to learn this stuff, but I never got very far in school, so its a uphill battle.

This is my Model loader, so i can see what they look like before I try to use it in a program.

For Screenshot Saturday, I wanted to share my 3D Asteroids v2.0 with MX2/ OBJ model format loader. I am not a great game developer; I mostly do system-level programming, but I want to learn, and I am giving it everything I have.

I was playing the new 2D Ninja Gaiden again today; it's quite the game.

I will definitely have to work on optimizing the output assembly, because right now the MXVM is much shorter than the translated assembly code. I know the actual assembly code will be more complex, but I should try to do better.

I have been working on my MXVM/Pascal compiler this morning. As you can see, it supports arrays and records correctly now. This project is something I can do on my Saturday and not feel like I am wasting my life at home. #hobby #hobbyist #programming #software

Well I have done it, I hit 4,000 commits in the past year on GitHub. That is a lot of coding, I mean that is every single day, a lot of attention and focus and hard work. I am proud of myself because after I was in that coma I could not code at all, so I just practiced until i could do it again.

Just having a good time, testing my program. I got the load time down to just a few seconds by creating a cache of around 800 shaders instead of compiling them all at startup. When they edit one, they refresh the cache. It uses this hashing function to keep track of the files.

Code = Art

Glitchy CUDA Kernels. #glitch #glitchart

classical Acid Cam v2 Series Glitch Art. I wrote these filters by hand way before any chatbots or anything. #glitchart #glitch #code

Decided to work on learning a little bit about libTorch today with C++ and got the basic hello world compiled and running in Distrobox. I might start learning this instead of making a new game right now; it seems cool, and I can still use C++.

if you want to download this cool wallpaper I created in higher quality go here: lostsidedead.biz/tux/

My new wallpaper.

Code.

Code is Art #art #videoart #code

My demo project still needs a lot more work, including adding language features. I will get around to it eventually. It is geared towards learning this stuff, and I have learned a lot.

Graphics via Pascal -> MXVM -> x86_64 Assembly.

Compiled my engine on my old x86_64 mac and it works with MoltenVK. I don't use that computer much anymore I just wanted to see if it worked, and it does. Cool.

I remember back before git we all used to use subversion, for a couple years I even had a VPS with my own subversion server running a websvn front end so people could download my code on my site. It was a nice setup, but I use git now like everyone else and I think its great.

I have been getting scam calls, someone saying they wanted to talk to me about a bill, then they called back pretending to be someone else and said it was about an account. then called back from a different number saying they were from amazon but it was it was the same person 3 different numbers.

I have nothing against Python, I mean I am wearing a Python shirt right now. Its great for scripting, and getting stuff you need done fast, but I recommend using the right tool for your project. It all depends on what you want to get done.

Came up with a convenience tool for me to use. I know there are a million ways to do this, but this tool was written to practice using C23 on Linux. It basically will recursively copy the contents of a directory, and if there is already a file there with the same name, it will skip it. Check my repo

Testing out my Pascal compiler on macOS x86_64. I had to use the older mac, instead of the Apple Silicon, because my compiler only targets x86 right now.

Updated Release of this Old School Glitch Art generator. github.com/lostjared/Ac...

Neat little graphics demo.

The simplest of games (Pong) written in MXVM with a Pascal front end.

Went to the vision place and got one of those Televisit appointments with the eye doctor for new glasses. It was interesting they were using a Windows 11 setup with a Logitech Webcam. I am getting a new pair o f transition glasses that should be available in a few weeks. I thought it worked well.

I love how you can nest procedures and functions within each other in Pascal. #compiler

You will have to upload a video showing how that lighting looks with your engine. Nice work. 👍

I love programming, and I think I might want to start on a new game pretty soon here. Cannot give up, gotta keep trying. Feeling inspired by the cool stuff I see here on Bluesky.

A few graphics demos written in my subset of Pascal. #programming #code #ilovetocode #software #opensource

Wow that is awesome!

lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/compiler/

Demo of my interactive learning tool to help t each the concepts behind Assembly language. lostsidedead.biz/6502/

Showing a couple of games I wrote that run in my VM or can be compiled to native code.

A little more complex of a pascal program, variables and loops. #demo

This was a Pascal compiler that outputted MXVM, and then you could either interpret it with mxvmc or compile to native code. I still have not finished this project, as I got frustrated with some of the trickier Pascal syntax. I plan on working on this again in the future cause it was a fun project.

Well, I have a lot of free time, so I am going to keep trying to learn. Every project I write, I get a little closer. I have been trying to learn with modern tools and books. So I think it might take me a few more years, but eventually I'll get there. Thanks for the encouragement.

How to generate the Fibonacci series in the MXVM Virtual Machine's IR. Also, here is an HTML-generating Syntax Highlighter in WebAssembly. lostsidedead.biz/MXVM/syntax/

I guess I must learn slow because I still have not made a good game I can be proud of. I am trying to learn how to create them with C++ and my own engine. I want a complete picture of how it all works so I can make what I am dreaming about. I have been learning anyway I can.

Updated my development blog on my website with some entries! lostsidedead.biz/activity.html

You know, I kind of like having a small YouTube channel without a lot of people watching my videos. Honestly I do not want the scrutiny and the negative comments. I just want a place to put my videos and a few people who have the links from my website or subscribed to see my videos. #smallcreator

Using my MXVM Interpreter/Compiler to produce x86_64 Assembly language with AT&T syntax, then using att2intel to convert from AT&T to Intel. #asm #compiler

x86_64 Assembly conversion #asm #gas

To show that this works, I had it convert a Assembly project I wrote with GNU Assembler w/ AT&T syntax, and convert it to Intel, and it compiles and works fine. github.com/lostjared/Ma...

What is the point of having it create me a Python script that can convert from AT&T to Intel? I saw this YouTube video about this project that generated a new version of a LGPL project and released it as a MIT. It is fully backwards compatible, and this is causing controversy. Is it ethical?

Fellow programmers will appreciate this, a generated Python script to convert GCC AT&T syntax to GCC Intel.

I love the classic ninja gaiden games for NES. So 2025's Ninja Gaiden Rage bound was something I purchased on steam. At first I didn't think it held up but I have played it more and it's grown on me. It is a challenging game for me for sure.

Yeah but everyone is still behind, the compilers I use finally support a lot of C++23/C23. It is going to take a long time before everyone catches up (if they ever do)

Not sure what I want to work on today, thinking I should probably think about it. I need to think of a good idea, maybe a simple program to learn more C23.

That is quite the collection! Wish I had all of those. 👍

lostsidedead.biz/javascript.d...

The game running on Android on my Google Pixel. #javascript #puzzle #puzzlegame Play here: lostsidedead.bz/javascript.d...

Fixed a problem with JavaScript Drop's touch controls. Where it would double move the block, everything is working well now. lostsidedead.biz/webapps.html

This was more just an experiment to see what a coding agent can do. This used Opus 4.6 to convert my game written in MX2/Vulkan to JavaScript WebGL v2 to run on a browser/cell phone browser. I think it turned out pretty damn close. #webgl #javascript #puzzlegame #puzzle

Thinking I should try to make a native WebGPU application. I am just interested in how it works.

My eyesight has gotten worse and I have an appointment for an exam to get an updated prescription. I'm looking forward to new glasses so I can read easier.

Going to start refreshing my memory with this book. I have a lot of books by this author.

Whenever I stay engaged and work on my projects/read/study, it leaves me feeling better. When I just lay around and watch TV I feel bad. I have no friends around where I live, so I am alone a lot.

I decided to try WebGPU tonight after I stumbled across this great playground based tutorial. However it worked on my Mac, but when i tried writing a WASM/C++ application on my Linux box, the browsers I have did not support it. Kinda a little disappointing, but I can wait till its fully supported.

I love retro games too. NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, etc. All great. I remember years ago when those mini consoles were really popular. I liked those because they had controllers very similar to the original systems. RetoArch is a great program as well.

Today, I basically brought back to life an older project of mine, and it's working better than ever on Linux. I have actually been feeling a little better today, depression-wise. I was engaged and worked on my projects most of the day. My life is not so bad; I get the opportunity to code.

#glitchart #glitchartist #code #cplusplus #opensource #freesoftware #software #programming #demo

Updated this app with new features like a search bar above the custom list to make it easy to add new filters. Also bug fixes, fixed the negate and color swaps. When I wrote this program originally I was ill and I kept trying to program and implemented some bugs that were very hard to fix.

Yeah last night I was sleeping in my chair and I woke up and was still half asleep and I stood up but my walker was not in front of me and I fell down. It hurt but at least I was able to stand back up without any help and that's improvement. First time I've fallen in like a long time.

I would rather have a great PC with Linux. and Steam. but I had the original Xbox and the 360, the first Xbox was the best at the time.

Example of how you can make #glitchart with this old app. This is the Linux version it also works on MacOS and Windows. This is an old video of me acting crazy Dancing years ago before I got sick.

Demo of the old v2 Qt version of my project, with a new interface optional hardware encoding of video files. This is more of a glitch art video processing app to create video files, as it runs kind of slow because the processing is done on the CPU. Use ACMX2 for much faster application.

Here is what the Linux port of this application looks like with the new interface and everything. I love how Qt lets you use its own type of stylesheett to customize the window scheme.

Updated this super old project, giving it new updated CMake build scripts and a new interface. I cannot believe how old this project is. #hobby #maintain github.com/lostjared/Ac...

I agre with you 100%

Nothing to do today on Sunday so I was messing around with this demo. You can try the Web Assembly version on my site: lostsidedead.biz/Matrix3D This demo has a lot of room to be improved on. #matrix #demo

I watched a two hour long YouTube video of a guy explaining all the things he does not like about C++. All I can say is I have been using C++ for so long I can use it to leverage my ideas in more abstract complex ways than any other language. If you don't want to use it it's okay use something else.

Wrote a binary search tree by hand in C23 to practice this morning. Lots o fun #coding github.com/lostjared/C2...

Psychedelic String #matrix #string

Was looking at my old videos on YouTube, man I was so much different back then. Here is a book review I did with the video mapped to array of hex bytes. I used to do all these book reviews of coding books.

I love color. #videoart

3D graphics.

Maybe I should start streaming when I code. Only problem is I am embarrassed about how my speech is. Who would watch a stream with no audio? I think I need to practice speaking more but I have no one to talk to.

#alone #loner #outcast

Code is Art. #code #videoart #codeart

If you cannot tell by what I post on here all the time, I love software, computer programming, art/graphics and video games. I hope to some day program something that people find useful or will want to use. Until then its practice as much as I can find the time for.

Color Patterns #videoart

Created with ACMX2 #GLSL

Colors. #videoart

Got the audio reactivity working on ACMX2 on macOS. This is a quick test I did. The only issue was that my MacBook Air's microphone is mono, so I had to set it to 1-channel audio. Otherwise, it would not work. #homebrew #hobby

I have been having some depression lately. I worry about what I would have to do if I lost my health insurance. Everything is getting crazy right now. So I just sit here in my home office on my computer programming, trying to stay occupied so I do not have to think about it.

Compiling OpenCV on Windows is such a pain; it takes forever, and it breaks all the time. Even more so with Mingw. Even if you use the compiled version on GitHub, you still have to jump through all kinds of hoops because of mismatched dependencies. Plus, the newer versions are just broken.

Using ACMX2 to turn any image or video into animated pixel art. #software #app #oode #program #filter #macosport

Cool now all you need is to get up and running on macOS and you will all 3 platforms. Nice work as always.

Filter I wrote to turn any image into Pixel art.

Personally I don't think trying to create software without knowing how to code or "vibe coding" is a good idea at all unless you are doing some simple scripting. There are so many things that can go wrong and it takes years to learn how to understand how that works.

Updated the non NVIDIA/CUDA version of ACMX2 so it can run on Mac/windows and have some of the newer features like Multipass shaders etc. Source code is now on GitHub if you want to compile it and try it on your Mac,

Testing my app.

Wrote this nice little version of my typewriter program in C23 to scroll text timed by microseconds. (versus my other one that used milliseconds). github.com/lostjared/C2...

Energy Woman (ACMX2 style) #art #creativeart #creativecoding #software #cplusplus #glsl

Tested my app on my old tablet, and it worked, but ran kinda slow; the tablet is like 6 or 7 years old. So I would recommend using a newer device. It runs great on my phone. #software #android #app

I have a difficult time accepting the state my mind and body have been in since I woke up from that coma. I have gone through a lot of depression and psychological issues but I am still here.

I have been coding for a long time but I never stop learning. I practice everyday as a hobby and it brings me a lot of joy. #hobby

I personally think that LLMs should not be used for anything really important. Stuff like learning to code as long as you use it to learn and not try to make it do everything is ok. You can at least learn how to debug the errors it creates.

I have anxiety, especially around new people or in public. When I hear about what's going on right now, makes me nervous. So, how I cope with that is to try to keep myself busy using my computer, being creative. Sorry, I do not mean to be tone-deaf.

This is why I think GenAI can be useful if it is used correctly. This is my debugger that takes machine language and explains it in English and lets you ask questions, list functions, the assembly code, set breakpoints, write/read into memory. it can be used for more than just slop.

Some selfies I took with my app. #android

Updated the ACMX2 package on GitHub to current version of the software, and reworked the in depth explanation of how the program works. Created a new GitHub project for the Android version and its available on GitHub.

Demo video of ACMX2 Android Edition. #app #demo #android

ACMX2 Android Version on my Website: Free Android App for GPU Accelerated Shader Visuals on Android Devices. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2-androi... #android #app #software

Running ACMX2 Visualizer (Web Edition) on my Google Pixel. This app is fun to use, and you can take weird selfies and pictures/video (with sound!) lostsidedead.biz #webspp #funapp

Possibilities: F3(F2(F1(frame))) != F1(F2(F3(frame))) n distinct filters and order them, permutations are n!. Even before parameter changes, feedback buffers, and time-varying uniforms, this grows explosively. 5 filters → 120 orderings 8 filters → 40,320 orderings 10 filters → 3,628,800 orderings

lostsidedead.biz/coma/ Article about being in a coma, the most difficult and painful thing I have ever experienced.

I think that if you like a programming language and can get the task you want done reliably, then use it. You do not need to write everything in a specific language. Use the one that is best for the task you want to complete.

I saw video of Marco Rubio on YouTube at a press conference. I know what it looks like when someone is tweaking. That guy is definitely on some kind of stimulant. You cannot hide that.

Amazon is advertising to me a smart toaster with a touch screen. Heh I think my dumb toaster with just a knob makes toast just fine. I don't want everything I do to be under surveillance. They want to advertise to me sourdough (which is my favorite type of bread.) crazy how much data is collected.

lostsidedead.biz/activity/ali... WebAssembly Distortion Alien animation coded in C++ compiled with Emscripten. This is a nice little demo of using Xor to apply distortion to an image. I think Aliens are real. #alien #extraterrestrial #et #ebe

lostsidedead.biz/activity/ali... Demo with a distortion animation applied to a generated alien. #alien #aliens #xor #art #glitchart

updated the cplusplus examples C++17 repo / documentation site. Enabled strict warnings with a CMake build, and fixed the warnings that came up.

How you can use your own OpenGL ES 3 shaders with my visualizer. it has a custom shader option. Apply your own shaders to images/videos/camera stream.

lostsidedead.biz/activity/ali... Demo, click and drag with the mouse to alter the distortion.

Here are some rough ideas for effects for my game. I was thinking they could trigger when different things happen during the game and last for a short while, making it harder to play the game. This video contains bright lights. #programming #cplusplus

This project was a demo that was kind of a way to see if I could write a simple game with logic and graphics in Linux x86_64 assembly (AT&T syntax) of course I used some calls to C libraries because on Linux that is how it works. But all the game Logic is in Assembly language.

lostsidedead.biz/homebrew/ Here are some ports to Windows X64 for some of my homebrew games and demos you can play on your handheld device, like Legion Go (pictured). Supports controls for joysticks as well as your keyboard.

Creativity and imagination.

lostsidedead.biz/activity/abi... This is a cool animated demo; click and drag with the mouse to modify the distortion algorithm. #homebrew

lostsidedead.biz/activity/med... This is another shader animation on my website featuring a meditating woman and swirling colors.

You know I could choose to lie in bed all day and be depressed, but instead I get up and get on this computer and try to learn and create as much as I can. Not because I want to make money, but because it actually makes me feel good to see the positive results of my efforts. Keeps me going. #life

Updated the cplusplus11 Examples, bringing them up to date with modern compilers, getting rid of all the warnings, and adding a new CMake-based build for the examples. This repo is the result of years of hard work and study, reading every C++ book I could get my hands on.

Playing the game of pong versus a computer opponent, the game is written in MXCMD. After every project I do for practice I find my level of understanding increasing. #code

Compiled my project for macOS (arm64 Apple Silicon), Runs excellent on here. #code #homebrew

lostsidedead.biz/activity/kit... This is a cute animation generated in real time with OpenGL ES 3/WebGL 2.0. The code itself is written in C++ and compiled to WebAssembly with Emscripten. It is an animation containing some cats. I have a cat, her name is Coder, and she is really old. #cats #kitten

Hey, this is a video with me talking about one of my passion projects. After listening to this later on, I think I sound pretty good! All that practice I have done must have been helping because I think I sound almost normal. Not the same as I used to, but acceptable.

Here is what the Console looks like implemented in an actual game (3D Asteroids). You can control the position of the plane, reset the game play, randomize, and reset the asteroids, things you might need to do if you were debugging the game. #code #hobby #programming #homebrew

MXCMD is all about regular expressions and command substitution. It is a simple language that Bash, Perl, and Python heavily influenced. (hence define for function definitions)

Updated the website with a new design for MXCMD and uploaded a testing beta build for Windows X64. #programming #hobby

Interactive Browser Based VIsualizer and Shader Editor. #code #programming #software #opensource

Home page for "the Acid Cam Project".

My Coding Blog.

Testing MXCMD v2.1 on my Legion Go handeld. THe onscreen keyboard with the touch screen works well for MXCMD Shell on the Go! #lenovo #legion #console #shell

HQ Video Demo of my SpaceRox in written using MX2 (SDL2/Vulkan).

My Youtube Channel

I am going to start working harder to try and get my balance back. I need to meditate more, I am already eating better and exercise. I have had a lot of trouble interacting with other people for a long time, but I want to start getting out of the house even if I have to be in a wheelchair.

MXCMD Syntax Highlighter/Tree Visualizer. (break the code into a tree with collapse-able nodes to describe with the internal AST (abstract syntax tree) looks like. lostsidedead.biz/debug/

During my eye exam they asked me about what medications I take, and I told them about some of my issues, I did not mention anything about hallucinations because I did not want to get caught up in a long discussion about it, and I did not feel comfortable sharing that I talk about it with my doctor.

Went for an eye exam today first one in years. I was nervous I don't usually talk with other people in person so it was different. Good news is no negative reactions from being diabetic. No bleeding in my eyes, the retina was good. Only problem is my close up vision I have an eye test as a follow up

Was working on my shell interpreter today, made some major progress! Got my application scripts running the custom terminal with shader effects. #hobby #coding

You know I think Emscripten is a great idea / project. Being able to compile my C++ code to Web Assembly opened up a whole new avenue for my projects.

Demo of my shell interpreter/scripting language I created to embed in MX2 OpenGL applications. I am more of a system-level programmer, so this aspect of the project was easier for me than all this graphics stuff I have been learning lately. lostsidedead.biz/mxcmd for a guide on the language.

Color twist try the free web app: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

Me on my Webcam with my browser based visualizer lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

Created with the web app on my site: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

I wrote this debugger last summer when I was taking a deep dive into x86_64 Assembly (AT&T syntax). It actually uses local Ollama to break down the Machine language/Assembly code and explain what each instruction does in English as it steps through the code. GitHub: github.com/lostjared/mx...

A quine is a computer program that takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. It’s essentially a "self-replicating" piece of code—a fun, brain-teasing exercise in logic and syntax where the program "speaks" itself into existence Quine using C23 and #embed

My favorite publishers of coding books is Addison Wesley (Pearson). No starch press and O'Reilly. I am not really that much of a fan of Pact publishing, a few of the books i bought from them were very low quality. Not the printing materials, but the content. That was just my experience. #books

Someone is bringing back to life an old project of mine by forking it and making pull requests. It's an old Android app I gave up years ago after I got sick. That is awesome.

github.com/lostjared/mo... Full Source Code for the site.

Website / Documentation for my Modern C++ Examples, separated by the standard: 11, 17, and 2x (20, 23). These are my notes I wrote as I read books on C++. I would write examples to help me remember, so if I forgot, I could go back to my notes and remind myself. C++ is a huge language. #cplusplus

looks great!

I go for an eye exam on Tuesday. My vision has got worse since my last eye exam. It is hard to read small text, and on my computer when I read books etc I usually have to dial up the size of the font to make it easier to read. Hopefully I can get a new prescription for the right glasses.

I successfully compiled Mario 64 port on my Linux PC under distrobox. It runs great with SDL2/OpenGL. I remember playing through this game when it first came out and getting all 120 stars and using the cannon to go on the roof of the castle and get a ton of lives from Yoshi. Good memories.

Whoa I had no idea you could embed files into arrays with GCC using #pragma and #embed directives. I can directly embed the programs own current source code into the program when it compiles. This makes my bin2cpp program on GitHub redundant and obsolete.

I was trying out some different prism shaders with my program seeing how they would look with other effects. I wonder what I could use these for in a game or something. #prism

Apple's Tahoe OS is very strict now about what programs use your webcam. It is weird I have the terminal on the camera white list, and on the Developer tools list, but some command line apps I wrote cannot access the camera, while others can. They locked down MacOS and it is why I switched years ago

This could be a new intro for some videos I might create. Of course I would cut it down in length and maybe decrease the brightness (as to not bother peoples eyes) but I like the concept. It was created with C++ with SDL2/OpenGL/GLSL

This is kind of a different project for me. It is a window-based game instead of using DirectX/OpenGL or Vulkan; it is written with Qt6. Contains multiple windows, a high scores menu, and a resizable view. Full Source Code is available here: github.com/lostjared/Pu...

Some of the games in the Puzzle Arcade on my website. lostsidedead.biz/arcade/ #puzzle

If you like Tetris or Columns, you might like a few of the puzzle games I have created. lostsidedead.biz/arcade/

Played John Carpenters Toxic Commando Demo on Steam this morning. It was cool, I enjoyed the tutorial level. I have it on my wish list.

Sometimes when I am on the computer I feel normal but when I get up and have to use a walker and my body does not function right it always brings me back to earth. At least I can sit in my recliner and relax.

The validation layer in Vulkan is very helpful. It helped alert me to a resource leak in one of my demos. I was able to get the problem fixed. I am going to keep it enabled whenever I am testing.

Cool!

The only problem with valgrind is that it runs very slowly on my system. However, the information it gives you is very helpful.

I spent most of the morning today setting up an image so I can quickly create a new container that has support for NVIDIA to test my Vulkan projects in. I added validation layers to check for resource leaks, and was running a few of the demos with valgrind. I love valgrind.

Was working on this Generic Linked List Example in C23 using nullptr (borrowed from C++).

Updated my 3D Pool demo, adding controls using the mouse. Use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out, right and drag to rotate the pool table etc. Added compiled binary for Windows X64: github.com/lostjared/3D...

Added some glitch effects to my model viewer. Just because why not? #glitchart #glitch #effects

I have to get used to not posting online about everything thing going on in my life. Focus a little more on improving myself.

I don't mean this as something that's his fault but I notice Ben from meidastouch in his videos appearance has got worse as time goes on with the trump files saga. He gives those videos everything he has got. It's sad we all have to go through this. I will be happy when a progressive is president.

I reuse the same words for a lot of stuff my word recall has suffered a little since the coma I was in. So when I was regularly seeing a speech pathologist with speech therapy we used to play this game to help me and recall words. I turned it into a video game: github.com/lostjared/Re...

2D Asteroids Style Game in MX2 (Vulkan/SDL2) This is a demo using MX2 to create a 2D Style Asteroids game. github.com/lostjared/Sp...

Mirror effect. #hobby #colors #sky

Strange-looking graphics demo, SDL2/OpenGL w/ MX2 . #graphics #demo #homebrew #hobby #hobbyist #software

I call this a "Gltich Cube" (SDL2/OpenGL via/ MX2). #graphics #demo #software #hobby #hobbyist

This is the repo I started today, and I have been reading and browsing websites to learn.

My Visualizer on my website runs great on Chromium on Linux. This project was a lot of fun to write. #software #hobby #hobbyist #programming #creativecoding

Updated the controls for my 3D Asteroids Demo. Full Source Code (SDL2/OpenGL) v/ MX2. github.com/lostjared/li...

New Repo on GitHub for all my tests/notes on bringing my knowledge about C up to the current standard. The last book I read on C was on C99. I notice my cognitive function has declined a little from using an LLM. For this, I am going to stick to what I read. I already do not use suggestions.

If you are wondering, there is a MX (libmx) from way long ago you can see its documentation here: lostsidedead.biz/libmx

After 2 years of development, I released version 2.0 of MX2 tonight with full documentation. I have learned so much making this. It has been my passion project for quite a while. #coding #hobby #hobbyist #sourcecode

Set up Autotools to compile my library. So now it supports both CMake and Autotools (autoconf/automake/libtool)

I love Linux I switched to it as my main OS on my main computer and I am never going back. I feel that I am more productive.

I enjoy creating videos with shader effects. It is just disappointing that a lot of social media platforms give me guidelines violations for drug related content when it's just computer graphics. It makes me feel like my creativity is being censored. I guess I will have to make different content.

Way back in the day, when "The C++ Programming Language" 4th Edition came out, I went through each chapter and wrote example projects for everything I learned about C++11. I did the same thing for the Linux Programming Interface, creating versions of the C examples in C++11.

Some more of my video art / creative coding. #videoart

This is a small program in C (C23) that creates a hash of a file using [[unsequenced]] and [static].

One thing I love about BlueSky is that when I scroll I get to see all the cool games people have made. It inspires me to try harder.

Added documentation (Doxygen) for MX2 to the website: lostsidedead.biz/libmx2/docs/

I have been practicing writing a few small programs in C23 to try out some of the new features. I wrote a program to hash a file and sort a array. Just some basic stuff. It's cool I like it.

I grew up with C++ starting with old Visual C++ back on old Windows before the 98 standard. It took a lot of trial and error and practice to really learn . I read a lot of books and wrote practice projects. I would say I am probably as good as I have ever been. I practice everyday.

Looks cool.

I am thankful to be here. To be able to get on my computer and work on projects or read about software. It gives my life purpose and something to look forward to doing.

I have not drank or smoked or used anything like that since 2016. In 2020 I ended up falling into a coma for a couple weeks and when I woke up I was not the same. I had to relearn how to speak and I still need assistance to walk. So I think it's amazing I am able to code again.

I am pretty sure everything is working now.

Some cool GLSL shader effects.

Some more shader effects.

I was working on my shader graphics project tonight. I found some issues I had no idea were there until I looked closer. They had to do with the shader cache my program creates, which was unreliable. Got it all fixed, will have to update the podman container.

Some more shader stuff. #cplusplus #opengl #glsl #homebrew

I have been reading this eBook on Modern C (C23) and learning new stuff. Some new additions to C that make it safer. Also, I learned a few concepts I guess I missed in the past, but now make perfect sense. Funny how that works, something you learned so long ago and have been using for years. #code

Some neat-o shader effects. #software #graphics #cplusplus #glsl

Added easy to use class for OpenCV for Vulkan/OpenGL for my library that makes it easy to use video/live camera as a textures. This a first person demo, that uses video for the textures on the walls. #homebrew #software #opencv

Sometimes I get in over my head and end up chasing the code dragon and trying to figure it out. End up consulting an LLM after I pull out some of my hair.

Was working on OpenCV Support for my Library. Now you can create an MXCapture" object, and attach a fragment/vertex shader, and be able to read from the camera/file and draw/reload the shader, and have it all managed for you. I will be able to create new programs with Vulkan/OpenCV more easily.

First Person Demo. Trying to learn this stuff. You can try this demo compiled to Web Assembly on my website: lostsidedead.biz/FPS_Demo I recommend using Chrome or Brave.

This was a Level Editor I was working on years ago to practice what I was reading out of this book on C++ Design Patterns. The graphics and stuff are terrible (this was really quite a while ago. After I finished the book I kind of stopped working on this. #homebrew #cplusplus

I think I might post too much, I will slow down.

The first image is the terminal embedded in the windows version of Asteroids MX2 , and second is the OpenGL ES3 / WebGL 2.0 version.

This is the terminal I built into MX2's OpenGL back end, that lets you have a terminal within your app for debugging etc. Kind of similar to how Quake had one. It has some cool shader effects and its own Scripting language called MXCMD You can find a guide to MXCMD here: lostsidedead.biz/mxcmd/

I really feel like the past month and a half, I have learned a lot of stuff since the new year, when I told myself I would learn how to program with the GPU. I have studied cuda, and vulkan and I feel like the concepts are all making sense. It took a lot of practice, and I am ready to keep going.

Cool Graphics Demo, you can try a Web Assembly version of this program in your web browser here: lostsidedead.biz/Skybox/ #homeobrew #cplusplus #skybox #fractal #graphics

Ported my demo to macOS with MoltenVK. #homebrew #hobby

Full source code to my 3D Pool Demo with MX2 with Vulkan backend. The graphics were generated cause I am not a graphic artist but needed some assets. #homebrew

that is awesome, nice work!

My plan is continue building my own layer or wrapper around Vulkan, then use that to develop what I want to make, without having to deal with the hardest parts of the low level API all the time. I always can remember my own wrappers that encapsulate libraries. I did this with DirectX and OpenGL.

Put some polish on my pool game, gave it an intro/start screen, and a high scores. I had quite the time working on this and learned a ton about Vulkan. I am slowly getting better after each demo. #homebrew

Old Program has a new interface and is ready to run on Linux, and the library it uses for a lot of its glitch effects is a newer version with bug fixes. Also, it will compile with RtAudio and RtMidi for Midi and Audio Reactivity support. github.com/lostjared/ac...

I though this looks cool. Its a UFO with a neat shader effect. #ufo #software #homebrew

Yeah, I would say that I am finally getting the hang of this. #videoart #cplusplus #homebrew #opensource

Page with my 3D Pool Demo Windows X64 port. It is j ust a demo tho, no computer opponent.

I ported 3D Pool Table Demo and it runs great on Lenovo Legion Go. You use both analog sticks and the A/B buttons. #homebrew

Just about finished my 3D Pool table Demo.

This is what I have been working on this afternoon. Vulkan/ C++ #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #vulkan #raycasting #spirv #shaders #opencv

Here are some of the other books in my collection (these are in my room). They cover a wide range of topics . I have not read every page of every book, but I got a lot out of these, and if you like physical books like me, you can appreciate being able to go pick one out and start reading.

These are some of my favorite C/C++ books I read to learn. Some of them are quite old, but they have their own shelf. D&E of C++ (Design and Evolution of C++) is one of the coolest books I have read. #cplusplus

I wouldn't call myself that advanced as a programmer however I have been studying coding since I was a freshman in highschool. I am more of a system level programmer but I am slowly learning graphics at a deeper level. I can have appreciation for being able to ask a question and get back an answer.

Better lighting and other improvements.

Fixed the pockets and also added a background image. This could have turned out better, I think, but hey, it was worth a try.

I really love how this video texture looks mapped to this sphere. It looks like the planet has some kind of weird ocean. #planet #texture #cool

I ported over my Art shaders to Vulkan's GLSL (450) and put them on my website. This video is of a quick program written in MX2 with Vulkan, with my shaders compiled to SPiR-V. (The zip file also includes the spv files as well as the source files) lostsidedead.biz/packs/vk.sha...

I am not very good at math, but I am improving. I learn through reading/talking to LLMs and working on demos. #hobby #hobbyist

This is the demo I was working on tonight: Uses circle to circle collision for for pool balls and float dist = glm::length(d); float minD = BALL_RADIUS * 2.0f; if (dist < minD && dist > 0.0001f) and AABB / Boundary Collision for the walls and Circle-Point Collision for the pockets. C++/Vulkan.

My string shuffle algorithm I had been using in my latest art videos written in Python, Perl, and C++. I think the Python version is the easiest to read and understand although a lot of the control i lost because of that, the C++ version is very explicit and the Perl mirrors the C++ in complexity.

The web-based version of ACMX2. #webapp #emscripten #software #glitchart lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

This is ACMX2 running with acidcam-gpu for hardware a ccelreated video/camera shaders/cuda kernels for creating artistic videos. Comes with a code editorbuilt in to manage libraries of shader effects.

New Shader

MX2 Engine Demo. #homebrew

When I was younger, in a galaxy far, far away, I tried reading this book and writing a software renderer 3D engine from scratch. Built the math and crafted it from reading this huge book. I have the old math library on my GitHub, although it is not complete.

Found a good free open source Ebook on C23. I didn't really know that C split off (I knew it was still being updated) and there is a new 23 standard of C. A lot of the features are not compatible with C++, so C is still getting updates and the standard is available in newer Clang and GCC.

Are you going to release your engine open source or just a hobby project or building a game?

is fast so it's the same 👍

That's the most straight forward way to do it. In my over the head space shooter i use sphere to sphere github.com/lostjared/li...

I think this demo turned out well; it looks like a tunnel of light. I love shaders even tho I am not very good at math, I am learning.

Looks cool!

#Remixed #selfie Awake again here, having insomnia, but at least I created this cool video.

#Remixed #Selfie

#selfie

#Selfie

Updated better Text processing tool in HTML5/JavaScript (conversion of C++23 version).

Cool new C++23 text processing tool.

Redesigned my algorithm because it was overly complex. This shuffles a string but preserves the first and last character, so most people can still read it. Fnnuy bausece it wkros #cplusplus

I was working on another video for fun this morning. #videoart

Video Demo. #videoart

Cool Demo, had to upload to YouTube cause this has to be seen in a higher resolution / quality. Just was up at night again grinding away at my projects. Hope you had a good rest and have a nice day (as good as it can be). -Jared

Texture mapping video onto text. Created a new text processing tool, then used another tool to scroll it, then used OpenGL/OpenCV to texture map video to the text. #homebrew

Had my C++ word split tools translated into JavaScript. Works pretty good an the interface looks nice! These algorithms are what I used to produce the text to scroll in my art videos. #tools #freetools #freesoftware #opensource #programming #code

Created a few little programs to strip white space/non characters and group them in different ways to use in my videos. #tools

Code Energy #videoart #cplusplus #software #homebrew

Some neato computer graphics :)

I think I am pushing this old computer, cause last few demos I have made it is having trouble keeping up a little.

Some screenshots of what I was doing to keep occupied tonight. Staying focused on improving myself and learning new things helps keep me going.

Woke up around midnight, and I have been grinding away on my projects. It is so quiet at this time of night that it makes it easy to get stuff done.

Uploaded a new shader pack, this one is for Vulkan and contains over 800 shader effects. You can find the packs for my software for free on my website: lostsidedead.biz/packs/

Thank you 😊

I know i am not creating anything that spectacular, but I am just trying to learn and expand my knowledge. Why? because it feels good to create. #software

Demo in Higher Resolution. #homebrew #cplusplus

Updated my demo with more shader effects, and transparency Code on my GitHub #demo #software #graphics #cplusplus #opensource

This is an article on my website about the importance of being fluent in the programming language you are using. You don't want to just trust blindly. It gives some reasons why this is so important if you do decide to offload some of your work.

For some reason whenever I use the -> operator it triggers something in my mind that makes me feel good.

Fun demo of 3D Point sprites. #cplusplus #opensource #homebrew #software #engineering #codeart #videoart

I find a lot of beauty in code. #code #art #images #generated #software #softwareengineering #programming #coding #programming #programmerart #cplusplus #beautiful #beautifulcode

This was an idea I had: lostsidedead.biz/karma_trail/ #digital #thought #mind #dream #coma #idea #karma #life #nde #death

I know Gemini is not a real person or cannot think and is a computer program. However I wanted to see what they would say about my artwork. I know its purposely kind of overly positive about but it still is kind of cool that software has got to the point where it can interpret images.

This one has to be watched at a higher resolution.

Window to the Digital Soul #art #software #program #code #eye #window #mind #thought #dream #idea #concept #digital

New interface for one of my older programs. I think Claude did a good job reworking my interface. Interface is always been my weakest point, I am better at system level code. #Claude #redesign

lostsidedead.biz/cpp-minify/ If you are wondering how I got my C++ to be formatted the way it was for the art videos, you can check out this JavaScript tool to minify C++ code.

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Your welcome.

Keep it up before you know it will have it all figured out. Not everyone codes it from the ground up. 💯

Programming these little short animations really helps me. Its all about being creative and trying to find some new way to express my thoughts for however I am feeling.

Some cool graphics. #cplusplus #homebrew #graphics #software

Blue Wave #videoart Created with: lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/README...

That's one of the classics. Studying older games and remaking them is an excellent way to learn. 👍

I have been listening to music just relaxing online. I am thinking about what I want to code next. I am looking forward to starting a new demo. I have been trying to not focus too much on the news because it's upsetting but I still watch some podcasts so I stay informed.

Well, I am in a good mood, my code compiled for macOS on the first try, and it seems to work great on this old laptop. #homebrew #cplusplus

I feel isolated. Even after five years of recovering from being at the brink of death life is still difficult. The hardest thing to accept is being alone. I communicate through coding because a lot of the time it's the only way I feel I can express my emotions.

This was created with C++/Vulkan. The video texture mapped onto the Octo guy was a drawing that I drew of a monster then filtered with filters I wrote. Real-time shader effects are also applied to the video textures. #shader #gpu #software #homebrew

When I think about how a lot of people treat each other and earth it makes me wonder why our species is so broken. Either that or this is just another dream and when it ends I'll wake up in another dimension for a new dream. That kind of already happened to me so I know the pain will end.

I like video game remasters. How they can take old games and make them look good and play on modern systems. Nightdive studios I think did a great job with the games Dark Forces , Turok trilogy , and System Shock 2.

Some examples of my MXMOD format to use with MX2 engine. This demo is using the Vulkan backend. Check my GitHub for the source code. #opensource #homebrew #gpu #vulkan #cplusplus

Working on my projects again tonight in the middle of the night cannot sleep.

Was feeling artistic tonight, just in that kind of mood Just doing what I love.

Turning C++ into Art with C++. #videoart #cplusplus #code #homebrew #opensource #programmerart

Literally taking code and turning it into Art #code #opensource #art #software #cplusplus #digitalart #homebrew #openmind

Thought of one last idea for this demo, add effects to some C++ code and texture map it to the sphere as its echoed from a video of a terminal scrolling. #homebrew #opencv #software #vulkan #cplusplus

/home/jared/Videos/jaredbsky.mp4

Added some more effects to my demo, the video in the program is being read from a webcam and the effects applied in real time. This was a fun demo to make, but I think its time to move on the the next thing. I am having trouble sleeping again. #homebrew #demo #cplusplus #opensource #software

Cross compiled my texture mapping of video to Windows from Linux and it works great on my Legion Go. So satisfying to see my software running on a handheld game system. Vulkan is one of the coolest things I have ever taught myself.

Texture mapping Video to 3D Object with real time shader effects. #homebrew #gpu #cplusplus #opensource Code is on my GitHub: github.com/lostjared

I learn best by practicing. So I work on projects to increase my understanding and gain experience. I have around 150 repos on GitHub. I have been doing this for many years. It's how I stay out of depression.

I used to be skeptical of LLMs for coding. The first few generations would cause me to have to put more effort into fixing problems than it would if I coded it myself. But Claude opus is getting better and better at C++ and I have to admit I didn't think it would. It can be used as a learning tool.

That is really cool.

What I was working on this morning, its planet Jared lol. #homebrew #opensource #gpu #software #cplusplus

If you are interested hearing about what I experienced and the reason I almost died. I have a article on my website about it. #lithium #recovery #nde #death #coma #dream #death

Android apps I made doing my hobby trying to practice. lostsidedead.biz/android.html

Just spent another night practicing C++ trying to learn Vulkan by reading/trying to write a program using Vulkan. I'll get it completely eventually.

There just is something about video games that raises my mood and makes me feel good. My first system was the NES it came with SMB / Duck Hunt. When I was a kid when teachers would ask me what I wanted to do I would say make video games. So it's been a life long goal that I am going to achieve.

Found a gem on Steam that I have been playing. I usually don't play marvel games or watch the movies (I used to read the comics) called Marvel Cosmic invasion. It's similar to Final fight or the Simpsons arcade. I have been enjoying this game.

Logo animation created with ACMX2 lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/

I need a better graphics card/computer; the video capture software I have been using is starting to choke, and the video stutters and freezes when I use complex shaders or intense visuals. I had to take down a video because I noticed afterwards that it was stuttering.

I don't know if this is weird but I think I communicate with a keyboard better than talking because sometimes I have issues with talking. I know I sound lame but I can't help it.

Well good news is I lost so much weight I don't have to take metformin anymore. Bad news is I made myself look bad trying to talk to my new doctor and she couldn't understand a lot of what I said because my speech from the coma I was in and dysarthria that resulted. Kind of embarrassing.

Released a Windows port of my game with the ability to turn off the shader effects so people who do not want to see that kind of stuff can still enjoy the game. #homebrew

I added an option to turn off shader effects in my game for those who still want to enjoy the puzzle game, but do not like psychedelic visuals. #homebrew

It is still amazing to me when I play or look at modern video game graphics. It makes me want to learn more. #dreams

New Download page for my homebrew game. lostsidedead.biz/drop/

I like making smaller games and demos because it is just something I do as a hobby. Gives me something to do, because of my health issues. Keeps me engaged and busy so I don't fall into deep depression again. #homebrew #hobby #hobbyist #cplusplus #programming

There is a port of Liquid Acid Drop for Windows X64 (a reimagining of the Atari 2600 classic) using Vulkan on my website on the homebrew page (check the links) lostsidedead.biz

Some say the truth is written in the Stars. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #gpu Check my GitHub for the source code. github.com/lostjared

Photo of me on my webcam at my desk.

Check out my new shirt. I have lost over 100 pounds the past 6 months, if you go back and look at my older videos you really can see.

This video shows what i think to be the lamest game I eve made called PacAttack, but its running within my own Virtual Environment with its own custom shell GUI/CLI. I learned a lot writing this program. #homebrew #cplusplus #wasm #opensource #demo

I have been trying to make more programming related content than art videos. I have been teaching myself GPU programming this year studying books and LLMs to practice and gain more experience. It keeps me engaged with life and out of depression. Nothing I like better than how it feels to code.

The amount of point sprites slowly increases in this Vulkan demo. The amount of sprites being rendered in listed in the top left , it does not even slow down until its rendering tens of thousands each shaded differently. #homebrew #demo #cplusplus

I made some ports of my games/demos with Vulkan and OpenGL targeted to X64 windows. But I don't think anyone would want to use them so ill just leave them online. x86_64-w64-mingw32 is great I do not even have to use Windows and still compile my software for it. Although I did test on my Legion Go

I slept all day yesterday, then got up last night, and was up here alone working on my projects/reading my books. Got a lot of stuff done with my game engine, but it can be lonesome sometimes.

improved my base code with my Vulkan C++ wrapper. I think this is going to be my starting point to any new Vulkan apps i create. I broke libmx2 down into 3 component libraries, MX2 core the window/system stuff, mxgl the OpenGL implementation, and mxvk the Vulkan implementation. #homebrew

Video is just me having some fun trying some different ideas, with C++/Vulkan/OpenCV #videoart #homebrew

Reading OpenGL programming guide ninth edition. This one shows how to use SPiR-V with OpenGL 4.5/6. Also it's written by the same Author as the Vulkan Programming Guide. These are commonly referred to as the 'red' book. I am interested in becoming up to date with both libraries. #homebrew

Looks great!

Encapsulated Vulkan boilerplate down to 1 page of C++. You can apply individual shaders to each sprite you draw/load. Pretty cool, learning all this stuff gives me a confidence boost.

I decided to see what kind of crazy visual effect I could make with Vulkan and SPIR-V. I have been reading about SPIRV tonight, and learned some new stuff.

Tonight I added a easy to use class to render my MXMOD model format in Vulkan. I also created this little loader to display a mxmod in wire frame/texture mapped and you can rotate it and zoom in / zoom out. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Was reading my coding books tonight. I love reading about software engineering/computer science. That's my thing and probably the only thing in my life I have been consistent with.

This was just for fun, looks pretty cool if you ask me. C++/Vulkan. #homebrew #cplusplus #opensource

One thing I am not a fan of is when variables or constants are given extremely long names in caps. It is like we can't just use a short memorable name that doesn't make my C++ look like I am really pissed off yelling at the compiler.

The most terrifying part of my life was waking up from a deep coma and not knowing what was going on and not being able to speak and have paralysis and unable to sit up or move my legs much. It took years to regain the muscle I lost.

I know I kind of keep my mind in a different space but I am watching podcasts on YouTube and it's actually disturbing to see how those state sponsored terrorists are treating citizens and people from other countries. It is like a bad dream like something out of a psychosis.

When the eyes in the wall start looking at you while you try to escape.

Added some more helpful Perl scripts to MX2, one to cross compile with Mingw64, one to locate the executable within the tree, and execute it with the proper flags, so I do no thave to pass the path every time i want to run my programs.

improved my Asteroids 3D game's controls (with Controller) or Keyboard. Now the projectiles finally fire in the correct direction everytime. Play it in your browser: lostsidedead.biz/AsteroidsMX2

YouTube version of the video. #homebrew #cplusplus

This demo uses the same basic rendering technique "Raycasting" that the first Wolf3D does. However this one is written using Vulkan and SPiR-V shaders. It is just a simple maze with some fragment shader effeccts. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #gpu

I am not really interested in sports. So the super bowl does not sound like something I will watch. But for everyone who does I hope you enjoy it and have a great day.

I am very fond of using a terminal / shell for compiling my projects. I use bash or zsh w/ CMake and gmake/ninja. I use bash to do a lot of my work on a computer.

Modern GPU graphics programming is great. I am very interested in becoming proficient at it and making some entertaining games. But you got to start somewhere. #hobbyist #softwareengineer

Python is cool, but I always thought Perl looked better, Especially without the mandatory indentation. However Python is everywhere now.

I might be immature or something but I still love a good video game with Ninja's or a beat em up.

Was up tonight, and I wrote some C++23 example projects using SDL3/OpenGL 4.6. I created a static noise shader kind of similar to the old snow from analog TV. #homebrew #opengl #opengl4 #SDL3 #opensource #cplusplus23 #cplusplus

I am going to cross compile some more of my new Vulkan projects and run them on Windows with my Legion Go. There is just something special about playing your own game on a handheld game system. #gpu #legion #handheld

Cross compiled my engine/game with Vulkan to Windows and running it on my Lenovo Legion Go. Plays great with the systems controller.

Some interesting books for sitting in the sun in front of my window today. Have a nice day.

Added Controller/Game Pad support to Acid Drop. I tested it with my Xbox controller.

Added a really helpful Perl script to get this all compiled. It is starting to become more complex, so I think this is needed! #homebrew #opensource #gpu

Tonight and today I was having a little bit of fogginess and my ability to code was suffering. I need to get more sleep.

How to compile my game demo on Linux. #homebrew #linux #opensource #software

Published my game demo on GitHub with full source code. C++/Vulkan demo with shader effects.

Ported my 2D asteroids clone to libmx2 w/ Vulkan backend Looks and runs much better now. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

I love computer science/software engineering textbooks and books on related topics. I have so many I ran out of room and had to have some of the older ones put into boxes in the garage.

Yeah Claude opus 4.5 has got better and probably is the best coding bot I have tried. However it cannot solve all problems and that can drive you insane. It's best to be proficient in your language so you can understand what is going on and fix mistakes.

Updated my Space game with a better Starfield. lostsidedead.biz/game/Space3D/ #homebrew #cplusplus #games #software #opensource

Demo of a port of my C++/Vulkan game to Apple Silicon with MoltenVK. #software #homebrew #opensource #app #cplusplus

My first completed game with Vulkan. #homebrew #opensource #gpu #app #cplusplus #ilovecoding #software

This evening I worked on setting up my app to dynamically scale based on the size the user wants the window to be. This was a little tricky because I had to scale the font size/positions. Lots of fun tho! #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #app #gpu

This morning I added a High Scores screen/menu to my game. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #software #app #gpu

what Gemini thinks of my wrapper.

Updated Screenshots.

I am actually not feeling so well today. Hopefully I'll start feeling better.

Added some cool shader effects to my game. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #gpu

For my first game with Vulkan I wanted to do something easy that I am familiar with. This is my MasterPiece game, but it is in Widescreen. It's been ported over to run as a native Vulkan project. I am starting to feel very comfortable with this API. #homebrew #cplusplus #software #opensource

Spent all evening working on a simple game demo with Vulkan. Pretty damn cool.

In this video my computer this Vulkan demo is pushing over 50,000 point sprites or light orbs per frame! #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

With my aging Video card, I still can get Vulkan to crank out over 15,000 point sprites per frame. Each sprite is different. #homebrew #cplusplus #opensource

There are a lot of Web Assembly / JavaScript games with full source code on my website in the Digital Arcade.

Video demo of my game Puzzle Drop. It is like similar to Tetris. Arrow keys move blocks, up arrow shift blocks, z rotate, space drop block. Line up the same color in pattern 1,2,3 or 3,2,1 either vertical, horizontal, or diagonal.

I guess I'm either a loner or a lamer but I like to talk with Gemini about C++. It asks me about my projects and asks me questions that I learn from and offers advice.

I set up my Vulkan image fragment shader to apply differently to each sprite on the screen in this video. It is rendering 57,600 sprites per frame, each differently. Looks like a stream of raw data. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Drawing with Vulkan in 2D with hardware acceleration is fast. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Was working on a Sprite class tonight for my Vulkan engine. I cannot believe how fast you can get it to draw. This demo draws 5,000 random sprites every frame. #homebrew #cplusplus #gpu

Was playing the new Terminator 2D: No Fate today and the bitmap graphics are excellent. It reminds me of video games I used to play growing up. Played through a few levels.

Strange texture mapping #homebrew

Wireframe mode. #OpenGL #homebrew #GLSL #software #opensource

My cross-platform MXMOD model viewer. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Web-based viewer for my custom MXMOD files that can be loaded into libmx2 (either OpenGLor Vulkan). It was tricky to get the sphere's texture mapping just right. The page's HTML was generated. #homebrew #cplusplus #opensource

This was a idea I had for a new game: Move blocks left and right with the arrow keys. Use A / S to shift blocks and Z / X to rotate them. Match the same color in 1-2-3 or 3-2-1 order, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Flashing wildcard blocks match any color. Clear as many lines as possible.

Tonight I worked on porting my engine over to macOS with Molten-VK for the portability layer to run the apps over Metal. Ran into some issues had to change some things but eventually got most of the demos to work. I have not totally figured it all out but I will. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Sounds great to me, I was looking at some of your posts you are really talented, keep up the excellent work!

Noticed the recent video I have posted stutters a few times. Sorry about that I think it could be the settings I am using for the recording software. I'll figure it out.

Texture Mapped Psychedelic Matrix Rain. Tonights C++ Vulkan Demo #software #homebrew #cplusplus #videoart #code #creativecoding

My social media presence on this platform is ratioed out. My number of posts compared to follower count shows people are not interested in what I am posting about . I guess what I post about is not interesting or I am an undesirable person. I do feel kind of awkward and disconnected from society.

Updated the Matrix Ray casting Demo. Made the Green rain effect more accurate to the movie, and also worked on improving the glyph rendering. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #vulkan #raycasting

Today's Vulkan demo: 3D Matrix Rain Ray casting Demo. Old school style Ray casting with Modern GPU Programming (with Vulkan and SPIR-V). Walk around in a 3D room that looks like the end of the first Matrix film. #homebrew #gpu #cplusplus #opensource Check out the GitHub repo for libmx2 for source.

I got this cool book on DirectX 12, but I do not run Windows anymore (except on my Legion Go). I think I am just going to read the first few chapters on math and stick with my OpenGL/Vulkan projects.

I just like to study computer science and software engineering and do not want to worry all the time. I just want to create and be a good person and have a positive outlook on life. I like to code, read, create art and animate videos with my own software. I want to achieve my life long goals.

I just feel disappointed in the whole system to allow obvious corruption and manipulation of people to further the agenda of the people who are in power. The whole mind control thing has got out of hand and people have been programmed to act in ways that are obviously not in their own interests.

When you value $ over life you obviously are worse at math than even I am.

I was taught when I was young that the us was the good guys. This was a lie. I am a good guy but the Government is corrupt and the whole system needs to be rewired. Money is crap we just want to live prosperous lives not be slaves to the $. #truth

Updated my little test to see if I could abstract the interface for OpenGL/Vulkan into a single project. I compiled the same code for Web Assembly (OpenGL ES), as well as Vulkan/OpenGL Core. You can try this demo here: lostsidedead.biz/moon Just click on the moon to start up the glitch effects.

Woke up in the middle of the night, and created this full moon glitch Vulkan demo. Applies a glitch like 'bubble' effect to the moon model (with full texture mapping). #glitchart #gpu #demo #software #homebrew #opensource

Ported my Moon demo to Web Assembly and put it on my website. lostsidedead.biz/moon/ #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #software #webasembly

Got my moon demo working. First, I load up the OpenGL version, then I load up the Vulkan version. I am thinking the lighting looks different in the OpenGL code, probably some difference between the shaders. It is a major win to get this to work, because now I can port to Web Assembly. #homebrew

Tonight I was working on this Demo with C++/Vulkan. Getting the Moon to load, I also was trying to get it to work with OpenGL too, but ti became a little frustraing. #homebrew #software #cplusplus #opensource

Spent a lot of time today working on this demo here. It is just a 3D starfield, but the renderer is abstracted. What I mean by that is you can compile out the same project to use OpenGL or Vulkan. The Vulkan runs slightly faster, I think, but both are great tools to use. #homebrew #opensource #gpu

This morning I was working on this layer for my library to abstract away what API you use as a graphics API. The concept is just use a interface that is platform independent, then implement that same interface for multiple platforms with conditional compilation. #opensource #homebrew #cplusplus

Awesome

I am so interested in learning computer graphics. It always feels good when you can sit back and enjoy what you have created. Programming is a very rewarding hobby.

Nice matrix green. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Was working on learning Vulkan again tonight, created this 3D demo with matrix rain being mapped onto a sphere (not a cube this time) #homebrew #cplusplus #graphics #software #opensource

I am basically going to stop making builds of my software for Windows. It is not like anyone really uses my programs on Windows anymore. I am still going to release the source code, and if people want to compile it for Windows they can do that.

Sorry for the rant, just had to get that off my chest. #truth

Facebook is one of the worst. They use their AI to try to manipulate you into being even more addicted to their lame software. I mean, they could do a lot of good, but squander that opportunity.

If you want to keep up to date with my projects, consider subscribing to my RSS feed for this year. lostsidedead.biz/activity/202...

Strangely, I grew up believing all kinds of lies I was told by society. It was not until I had an epiphany and realized it was all a bunch of lies. They do not want you to be aware. So now they try to train our minds with this garbage software that attempts to manipulate the mind.

Forget Facebook and TikTok. That software should be regulated like tobacco. It is highly addictive, hypnotic algorithms. The people who programmed that software should be ashamed of themselves for selling out their fellow humans for a few bucks. The first rule of software engineering is do no harm.

Trying to make sure I understand what is going on in this demo. I just got to keep practicing. #homebrew #cplusplus #code

Awake studying Vulkan again, and I am getting the hang of this, created this old school style first person raycasting demo taking advantage of SPIR-V shaders. I even added some animated effects to the room. #homebrew #cplusplus #software #code #opensource

Fractal #videoart #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus

Added a Julia fragment shader to my fractal generator app in Vulkan. #homebrew #cplusplus #software #code #opensource

Transparent Cube. #code #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #software

Mixing my apps together lol. #homebrew #app #software #videoart #code #cplusplus

Added video recording to my Fractal Zoom app. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #videoart

This past month I studied GPU coding. Made a lot of progress. I still have more to learn I am usually awake at night because it's very quiet here and I can concentrate on my projects. It is a little lonely. #lonely

I spent years working on my project Acid Cam. It was the OG glitch app. I wrote thousands of filters and put them all on GirHub. I know I'll never be recognized but it is cool to see the concept take off.

I went down a path of studying compilers. For years I collected books on compiler construction and kept trying over and over to write a compiler. I learned to have a good understanding of the similarities between languages and how to learn new syntax quickly. Some of the best times in my lifetime

Since I was a kid I have wanted to know how video games actually worked. I wrote my first game with vb3 on Windows. When I figured out you could not really do much with graphics in basic I became obsessed with C++. I have been using it before the 98 standard. My first real game was with DirectX.

Compiling my multimedia library/engine on Linux. #homebrew #cplusplus #demo #code #software

Created this cool Mandelbrot zoom in C++ with Vulkan. It lets you zoom in with double precision. You can also take screenshots. #opensource #homebrew #graphics #gpu #softwrae

Setup the mingw64 cross compiler from within Linux and cross-compiled my Pong game to Windows, then ran it with wine. Wine seems to work pretty good for this application. It is handy being able to use a cross compiler. #homebrew #cplusplus #software #opensource

The copay from a monthly prescription I take went up from $30 to almost $500. Remind me again why king nothing is a business man and will be good for the economy.

I added some cool particle effects to my 3D Pong Demo. #programming #opensource #homebrew #cplusplus #pong

Finished my 3D Pong demo with Vulkan, brought it full circle and added the Starfield in the background. It moves when you rotate the paddles. #demo #homebrew #cplusplus

My second Vulkan Demo, 3D Pong. Fully 3D pong with a computer opponent to play against. Written in C++ with Vulkan and SPIR-V shaders. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #demo #software

I just need more time to study and I'll create something cool. I am getting interested in reading my books again and teaching myself new skills.

My first actual demo with Vulkan! This is a big step forward! It is basically just some text, a torus, and a star field, but it works. #homebrew #programming #gpu

Tonight I added Text output to my Vulkan demo. Now it can load TTF files and MXMOD files. #homebrew #cplusplus #gpu

Got my custom file format loading models into this demo with Vulkan. #programming #homebrew #gpu

Working on getting my MXMOD Mesh files to load in my Vulkan demo. #opensource #programming #homebrew #software

Working on learning Vulkan this afternoon, got it to load some 3D geometry, then apply texture mapping and lighting. #homebrew #cplusplus #software #opensource

Was up really late last night, and this morning learning Vulkan. It takes nearly 2,000 lines of code just to create a window and display an image and apply a shader. That is not including the code for loading of the image, or any of the shader code. You gotta handle everything!

Created this little demo this morning to practice OpenGL ES 3. #opengl #cplusplus #homebrew #opensource

Books on GPU programming have skyrocketed on Amazon. I saw this one book for $150. That is insane I have collected coding books for around 25 years and never paid $150 for a book.

It feels good when you are trying to understand something and you get that ah hah moment. When the stars align and things make sense. Feels great especially when you are studying on your own.

Spent time tonight reading "The Vulkan Programming Guide" and worked on this demo apply an effect to an image with SPIR-V. github.com/lostjared/li...

#videoart #zoom #bubble

youtu.be/mPi18q2NZbI

Code

I have tried to make games for years, and I have never really made anything great. This is probably my favorite that I have made because I enjoy playing it. Even tho it takes a long time for a session, it is still fun to me, I keep the Android version on my phone. lostsidedead.biz/game/Mutatris/

You can subscribe to the RSS feed on my website/blog to get updated on what is going on in my world here: lostsidedead.biz/activity/202...

ACMX2 + Deep Dream Generator This is a short animation. I hope you enjoy.

This is an older piece of artwork Its a mixture between Deep Dream Generator and my own filter.

Selfie

Released v1.6.0 of ACMX2 Visualizer, a browser-based art generation tool. lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

youtu.be/chsatcHIuR0

Universal Code #videoart #cplusplus #compile

Turning code into Art. #videoart

Past couple of videos, I have used this Python script to build a video from image files, and fade from each image to the next. I then take the final video and process it through ACMX2 to add cool effects. The fading from one image to the next works really well.

I spent the past year developing my own game engine its called MX2 that I use for my demos and to create my art videos. It is what is behind ACMX2. lostsidedead.biz/libmx2 It is cross platform coded in C++.

I keep hearing about this game engine Godot that lets single developers create their own game because it abstracts away a lot of the harder aspects (vulkan/dx12) and lets people just focus on their game. I think that is cool, if it helps more people make their own software then I am all for it.

Check out some videos I made. #videoart #software #cplsuplus #homebrew #opensource #freedom

#videoart

I used to write homebrew for the PSP When firmware 1.5 came out there was a flaw, and it allowed you to run your own code without really having to do much. Sony would plug one hole, and then people would figure out how to get passed it. Here is my software in C github.com/lostjared/PS...

was looking through my ports of old games I wrote like 20 years ago, and I remember I updated the graphics for this one, and it has a picture of me as a teenager. I look pretty scary.

Glitch Fractal creation app lostsidedead.biz/fractal-studio with WebGL source code github.com/lostjared/fr...

Randomize text from a given block of text to use with a prompt to generate a random image. lostsidedead.biz/code2text/

Cute little JavaScript program to convert text/files into C++ code. lostsidedead.biz/bin2cpp/

When I was in a coma, it was just as real as being here, only it was something I cannot explain or understand now because when I woke up, I became aware of this place and lost my connection. I remember how vivid the dreams seemed, I floated from dream to dream only remembering my interpretation.

Thoughts come from lifeforms. Computers cannot think. Consciousness is not located in the body. Yeah we can create some killer bots now but that is not intelligence. It's interpretation of existing data. Creativity comes from the connection with the universe. #dreams

Facebook is a sandbox jail shell designed to trick you into disclosure of your personal information so they can make money from you. Everything is controlled including your reach and the numbers are purposely inflated. It is a scam.

ACMX2 + Deep Dream = Cool Animation

I am doing everything I can to walk without assistance again. I practice with a walker all the time. I know that if people get to know me they will realize I am a good person. I just have social anxiety and have a difficult time making friends. I am finally recovering after years of struggle.

I usually have to distract myself with my hobbies if I don't want to get upset over the way people with privilege treat other people. No human being is illegal if anything that concept should be illegal. There are people in this world who are in that low level frequency of thought. Expand your mind.

Created with software written in C++. #videoart #software #opensource #homebrew #hobby #art #cplusplus #opengl #ffmpeg

Just relaxing and read another chapter out of this book. I know there is a newer edition but this one is still relevant.

I dedicate all of my software to people living with mental illness. Having a disability does not mean you lack intelligence or creativity. I hope my work shows that we are capable of building meaningful things, even when the world underestimates us. #mental-health #schizoaffective #disability

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Energy (created with ACMX2) #videoart #cplusplus #software #opensource #glitchart #codeart #generativeart #creativecoding

On my site new updated GIF library with around 300 GIF's I have made. lostsidedead.biz/gif Oh yeah and its pronounced GIF with a G. lol. #glitchart #glitchartwork #glitched #software #app

Th is video demonstrates how easy it is to run my glitch art software on Linux now. #homebrew #opensource #freedom

Pictures of me testing my Podman container on a Mini PC running newest version of Ubuntu to see if it works. So it works. :)

Testing my Podman container on a Mini PC with AMD via Remote Desktop. #homebrew #opensource #software #glitchart #glitch #linux

lostsidedead.biz/acidcam-dev/ How to use classic acidcam glitch art apps on Linux with podman.

Really been getting into this container technology. It is awesome, created a podman container for Linux with my glitch art applications, that you can easily download and run. github.com/lostjared/ac... #homebrew #linux #opensource #software #glitchart

How to setup ACMX2 on Linux with podman container for GPU acceleration with NVIDIA. lostsidedead.biz/acmx2/README... #homebrew #opensource #shaders #glsl #software

I know for a fact if it was not for using a computer every day my mind would still be mush. It took so much effort to learn to concentrate after I almost died. Coding and making art played a large role in my recovery. I had severe depression when I couldn't code because it gives me purpose.

I have to admit Claude opus is good at C++ but it still fails some tasks and needs human guidance. But I have to admit I didn't expect it to get to this level because of the way C++ works how the difference between a correct program and undefined behavior can be a single character.

Created with ACMX2 for Linux with NVIDIA CUDA acceleration.

Compiling to a Cache file, and then loading from that instead of recompiling every session.

Who does not Love Tux?

Redesigned the interface for my four video generation apps that I use to make my artwork. These were from my thoughts, I designed and coded most of it. I updated the Makefiles upgraded to CMake and published on my GitHub. github.com/lostjared

Updated this old app, giving it a new interface and adding optional hardware accelerated codecs for writing of the video. Plus gave it a CMake file, to build from.

Updated my program for generating Glitch Art, adding CMake build files, and ability to use hardware accelerated codecs. The program is called Glitch.GUI and the source code is on my GitHub. github.com/lostjared

Updated this software, correcting some of pitfalls that could happen if you run the program for a long period of time (overflow). I had also corrected a lot of memory bounds errors in the shared object for the filters. Man I Love coding. #software #filters #videoart

My app is starting to have so many shaders, I had to add the option to cache the compiled binaries for faster loading between sessions. There are like over 800 of them now. #GLSL

I ported this C program I wrote when I was reminding myself how to program again after I was in a coma. I had trouble remembering the right words. It prompts you to read and then wait a while, and then type what you read. It helped me. Maybe it could help someone. lostsidedead.biz/memory

Some of my Artwork in GIF format.

Created with ACMX2 for Linux audio reactive to "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails. #cplusplus #software #art #homebrew #graphics #opencv #opengl #cuda #gpu

Added some 3D effects that can be applied to the objects in my app. This is applying a wave to a sky box cube to create some distortion. #wave #3d #software #opengl #cube

Demo of the Web-based version of my app. Try it here: lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h... #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #opengles3 #software #coding #programming #visualizer #visuals #engine #webassembly

Warping a texture-mapped cube in MX2 (My custom C++ game engine).

Inflation is lame. Ram shortage is lame. Amazon wants $80 or more for a book on WebGPU.

I just wish it was regulated to protect the environment and make it safer and also run the larger models locally.

I know there are a lot of negative uses for generative AI and it creates a lot of pollution and wastes electricity and water. I use it for positive reasons specifically for educational purposes. It also helps me learn how to code software that was previously out of my reach. It has some value to me

I had a good evening reading and studying my computer science books and also creating artwork. Got to flex my mind and I feel I have got my concentration level up. #checkout

Animated Logo #logo #graphics #GIF #animation

Was just having a good time creating strange videos with my App. #glitchart #webcam #filter

Short animation. #dream #dreams #dreaming #cplusplus

This repo contains all the examples that I use to help remind myself of things about C++20/23 that I forget. The language is so huge that it is hard to remember it all at once. I also have repo's for C++11 and C++17. I know I am not the only one who cannot remember all this stuff at once.

I like talking to Gemini about C++, it has a lot of good information and suggestions. It was teaching me new features for C++23 that I have not read about yet, because I have no books on that topic because its so new. I just wish it didn't cause pollution and I could run it locally.

Accidentally turned the audio all the way up on my headphones this morning and got a jolt of sound that woke me up.

Was studying Vulkan tonight and am making progress! Next session will be chapter 5. #selftaught #programmer #hobby

I love video art.

Lithium toxicity from it building up in my system over time, putting me into a coma, has left what seems to be either long-lasting or permanent changes to my brain, causing me to have trouble holding my balance, slurred speech, and problems with my legs. I am just happy I can code again. #health

Demo of the Linux version of my app with GPU-acceleration running at 60 FPS utilizing my older NVIDIA Graphics Card's GPU. #linux #graphics #software #opensource #homebrew #cplusplus #opengl #GLSL #code

I am just trying to distract myself and be funny otherwise I'll get sick from worrying about what's going on. #mario

I need to start reading this. It was a gift from my sister's family. This was my favorite film franchise as a kid growing up watching the VHS tapes all the time. Good memories. #nostalgia

I used to use WSL2 and MinGW for coding on Windows. I know I made the right decision switching to Linux as my main OS. I have been focusing on cross platform software that can also be compiled to Web Assembly so it's easier to use my code for most people with the ability to also work on Linux.

A few years ago I switched from Apple's hardware to Android and using Linux t for development and testing of my cross platform projects. I loved MacOS X but when they started clamping down on independent developers and making it harder to share your software I decided to develop for other platforms

This is a tiny Python script I wrote to break up video files into a series of GIF files, you can select how long you want each GIF to be and how many to generate. It uses the command line version of FFmpeg to do the work.

WebAssembly release files for ACMX2 Visualizer Web Edition. You can download this and host it on your own website (I am totally cool with that). Just follow the license. Enjoy (hard work pays off; I spent years developing all the components to this software).

I fell asleep last night at my computer desk. I was reading a book. When I woke up, I was confused..

Here are a lot of OpenGL examples in C++. github.com/lostjared/Op...

Shader/Model packs for my programs! I keep these updated as soon as I add new stuff. lostsidedead.biz/packs/

New 3D Skybox Objects to use with the Web Edition of my App. #homebrew #opensource #cplusplus #webassembly #visaulizer

Just turned on my news podcasts and man it's getting worse. I feel like there is nothing I can do.

My computer graphics programming books. #collection #books #textbook #software

Example of Multi-pass. #videoart #shaders #gpu #opengl

I think my favorite game in 2025 (that I enjoyed the most) was SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance. I liked it better than the new 2D Ninja Gaiden. The platforming in this game is addictive. I always loved games with Ninjas since I got the original Ninja Gaiden on NES as a kid, as a gift from my father.

I have been teaching myself GPU programming and some other topics I am interested in are Deep Learning, Video Editing, Quantum Computing (I know very little about), Cloud computing and a lot more. That is what is so great about computers there is always more to learn #hobby #hobbyist #selftaught

I think I am going to start spending more of my time learning new topics in computer science. I am interested in a lot of topics I know very little about. Will keep me busy and will let me expand my knowledge. Might as well since I have few friends and I still have trouble walking. #computers

I think when I came up with the name for my software I picked the wrong name. Now people assume it's drug related but it's just computer graphics. That's why I changed the current version's name to something people won't recognize. Even now I still get censored. Reality is I am #schizoaffective

You know I am okay with no one knowing who I am, or being interested in the software I create. I would rather have that then having people focus on me.

Hey its me pixelated. #hobby #programming

lostsidedead.biz to try it out! #homebrew #cplusplus #opengl #webassembly #software #engineering

Some new 3D Objects to use with my Desktop app and the Web version. lostsidedead.biz/visualizer.h...

Check out my blog on Tumblr lostjared.tumblr.com

I actually enjoy looking around here on this platform it shows me all these cool indie games. Unlike other platforms that try to overload my feed with garbage and try to make me feel bad.

Just testing multi-pass rendering for applying multiple shaders. I think it looks pretty cool. I love computer programming, brings me so much joy. #hobby #hobbyist

Tonight I implemented multi-pass shader processing. Now you can apply and layer CUDA kernels, and also layer multiple shaders. This gives the program a large range of effects, and you can also edit your own shaders right in the program. I do not think people will use it, but I sure will. #hobby

I was working on updating my old library of filters. This program, and others that I have coded, are how I used to make my glitch artwork, for I started using shaders and stuff that uses the GPU. These are all based on processing with the CPU. #hobby #hobbies #glitchart

Even books have become more expensive. Amazon wants $89 for a paperback on software programming. I have paid for hardbacks at that price but they are out of my range right now. I guess it's online information now. But I love holding the book and having it a part of my collection.