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Gabriel's Virtual Tavern

Personal blog · jorenjoestar.github.io/postprogramminggames

Gabriel's Virtual Tavern is a personal blog at jorenjoestar.github.io about programming and games. Since 2020, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “The Year of the Vulkan Book”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2020–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Linked by one commenter in a thread on a 2017 sharp-pixel shader, as a summary of other techniques for achieving similar results. The comment only links the post, so the writing itself is not judged.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Principal Rendering/Engine Programmer

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Year of the Vulkan Book
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-10
  2. Pixel Art Filtering
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-13

What Hacker News says?

  1. A summary of other techniques to achieve similar results is provided below: - https://filthypants.blogspot.com/2017/01/shaders-for-sharpes... - https://jorenjoestar.github.io/post/pixel_art_filtering/

    Comment linking /post/pixel_art_filtering/

    on “A shader for sharp pixels (2017)”
  2. Submitted Data Driven Rendering: Pipelines as a story · 77 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Serialization for Games as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Pixel Art Filtering as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted The Year of the Vulkan Book as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted The Year of the Vulkan Book as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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