Since the introduction of automatic aspect ratio detection in Ultrawidify, a performance issue would float by me. “Hey, when I watch a high resolution video on youtube, I get frame drops.” These issues tended to be rather common in the early days of autodetection. At some point, I remember thinking: “hey, webgl has been a thing for a while now. Instead of processing video… Continue Reading... "Hot dang, I shouldn’t have given on WebGL"
2025 update v2: I made a tool that fixes distortions introduced by Intel GPA, and that tool made few sections of this blog obsolete. As such, they’ve been deleted. Old version is still available here.2025 update. This blog post now also exists as a youtube video. Yes, the video is 1 hour 20, so about twice as long as it takes to read this… Continue Reading... "How to print your Guild Wars 2 character (or any game, really)"
Back in mid-2010s, there was a series of online controversies going on. In coding specifically, there was a push to include incredibly politically-motivated codes of conducts onto projects, written by people who couldn’t contribute anything of value to any of the projects if their life depended on it. Unfortunately, plenty of projects caved in — because the only thing the people pushing for said… Continue Reading... "I really hate the language police grifters"
Some time around 2020, it became apparent that Google will ditch manifest v2 extension some time in relatively near future — right as I was starting to attempt to bring back the in-player UI. Unfortunately for me, 2020 is also the year I gained some new hobbies. I managed to find a reliable D&D party, which turned into plenty of D&D for a while.… Continue Reading... "Ultrawidify, manifest v3 and version 6"
I went to Czech out Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. This post covers things too off-topic to include in the GameGang article. Continue Reading... "So apparently I’m a game journalist now — Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Press Event Experience"
All the way back in February, our mini-painting fantasy-oriented club learned of Isle of Wonders — a three-day festival happening on Cres. The club leadership was very interested in being there, and were very quickly offered a large role at the event (on the “behind the scenes” side of things). Given our level of involvement, we were provided free accommodation in the gym of… Continue Reading... "Vacation Stories: The Free Apartment"
I’ve probably mentioned that before, but I ended up being one of the de-facto photographers for a club I’m in, where I take photos of the events we organize. As such, I was encouraged to create an instagram account. For reasons, I keep all Facebook/Meta apps off my phone, and only access them through a browser on my computer. In the past, that ended… Continue Reading... "Instagram’s security is shit (or: why you shouldn’t trust IP geolocation)"
So it occurred to me that if Ultrawidify is going to feature a throwaway statement about how Opera browser can piss off, I should probably elaborate on why. You are probably aware that most internet browsers nowdays are just a Chrome reskins. To be more specific: they take Google Chrome, take the bit of Chrome that decides how websites appear on your monitor, and… Continue Reading... "Why I’m Boycotting Opera"
JMStudio is pretty bad, but it didn’t have to be. Continue Reading... "The Seal 3D scanner seriously needs some better software"
Remember that one time when I printed myself my Guild Wars 2 character in the most pleb way possible? Well … turns out that our club decided to do a Lovecraft-themed event, which means there’s going to be another mini painting contest, with a Lovecraftian / horror theme. This thematic is one that I highly dislike, but it does highly overlap with “things getting… Continue Reading... "That’s Right, And I’ll do it Again — Branded Charr Mini"