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Mike Blumenkrantz
Personal blog · supergoodcode.comprogramminggames
Mike Blumenkrantz's personal blog at supergoodcode.com covers programming and games. Since 2020, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Get Dumber”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Super. Good. Code.
Most-linked posts?
- Get Dumber3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-20
- My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-26
- Zink is the first OpenGL driver based on Vulkan for Windows2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-21
What Hacker News says?
By the way, here's an interesting post by Mike Blumenkrantz (Valve): https://www.supergoodcode.com/manifesto/ Most of it is satire, but it's interesting that the position of "Chair of OpenGL" still exists to this day and a new person was assigned to it in 2024.
Comment linking /manifesto/
on “I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it”Submitted Zink (OpenGL on Vulkan) performance better than expected as a story · 179 points
HN discussionYou can still use OpenGL. Just not the vendor provided drivers. They are indeed horrible. There are libraries like: * ANGLE ( https://github.com/google/angle ) - An OpenGL ES implementation with Direct3D 9, Direct3D 11, Desktop GL, GL ES, Vulkan and Metal backends. This is what we used to use for shipping our Qt 3D application, that used a bunch of OpenGL Shaders. We used to get bug reports about various shaders not…
Comment linking /do-not/
on “Vulkan update: version 1.2 conformance for Raspberry Pi 4”Submitted OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year as a story · 170 points
HN discussionAnother person who thought that is the answer: https://www.supergoodcode.com/weekend/
Comment linking /weekend/
on “Passing the Reins on Panfrost”Submitted Radv: Reduce CPU overhead of draw command recording Code as a story · 52 points
HN discussionI don't really know what to say about Disqus, it always felt like something in the design of its interface was a bit off-putting. For me, Privacy Badger always blocks the embed and I think people from privacy-conscious circles would definitely avoid loading it. I (somewhat) recently saw a post[1] from an author I like that sent me down the rabbit hole and it seems like Disqus also tends to inject ad scripts into the…
Comment linking /adventures-in-linking/
on “A blog post is a long and complex search query to find people”Submitted Copper: It’s A Thing (Sort of) as a story · 12 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zink is the first OpenGL driver based on Vulkan for Windows as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zink (OpenGL over Vulkan) to get 100%-1000% faster as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apitrace Goes Vroom (2025) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan is now running DirectX games faster than DXVK as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What If Zink Was the Fastest GL Driver? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mesa descriptor caching may yield 80-100% performance increase on CPU-bound apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Unsticking The Sticky: Day 4 of Wayland governance hacking as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Wayland Your Wayland Our Wayland as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capped as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fastlink as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Through The Loop (RADV graphics pipeline fast-linking) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Dumber as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Dumber as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Get Dumber as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Lazier Zink Descriptors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bugaroos as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The End of Zink as a story · 1 points
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