If node-based compositing is your cup of tea, whether for VFX or Mac development: meet FxCore. It’s free, and a great way to play with Core Image Metal shaders, CoreML, Vision, FoundationModels, etc.
fxfactory.com/info/fxcore/

Free AI Photo Animation Plugin for DaVinci Resolve fxfactory.com/info/deeppan/ ⬛️🪄🪄🪄@Blackmagic_News

FxFactory 9 brings our visual effect plugins to @Blackmagic_News Davinci Resolve: fxfactory.com/news/fxfactory…

Spotlight continues to suck beyond belief. Google can fuzzy-search the entirety of human knowledge on the Internet in less than a second and here we are, waiting for Spotlight to return just *some* results (least relevant ones first, of course) at the speed of a typewriter. And in macOS 26 it also misses some files entirely.

Let’s break some ice with an Apps in Space built with #FxCore – intro and compositions coming next.

Insane fact: Fil-C is the most memory safe programming language.

Why? Because the transitive closure of your dependencies - all of those legacy C/C++ libraries you absolutely will depend on - is memory safe in Fil-C. You just recompile them with my compiler

In other “safe” languages, you link to the unsafe versions of those libraries and pretend that that’s fine even though it’s totally not fine

How do I put this nicely... No amount of fiddling with it is going to make it better. You have a fundamental problem at the core of it. In order to fix it, you have to discard the idea in its entirety.

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions" can be shortened as "Swift Concurrency"

One goal for this piece was to capture the way the dust and gas swirls around the supermassive black hole, something usually not captured at this level of detail.

I have a free 4k download and prints up to 75” on my website, so you can see every detail! cosmicbackground.io/pages/ea_the-s…

Here is a sneak peak of Yanobox Nodes 4 For AE , FCPX, Premiere and Apple Motion. This version supports voxels, 3D models, Styled Text, SSAO, Bloom and more at almost 120 I/s. Accelerated by Metal and pure joy on Apple Silicon. Comments and shares are welcome !

TIL the Apple developer website recognizes the same ⌘ ⇧ O equivalent as Xcode’s Open Quickly... command and this is what true love fees like.

Today is National Thesaurus Day. Personally, we find these made-up holidays contemptible, abhorrent, nauseating, repugnant, and unpalatable.

RT @sapinker: Thomas Sowell, going strong at 93, is among the most brilliant thinkers I know (which doesn't mean I agree w him on everythin…

Final Cut Pro 10.6.9: Skip the update! More info here: fxfactory.com/news/finalcutp… #finalcutpro #fcpx

Warning! I've been getting reports that Final Cut Pro Title plugins that do automatic object tracking using Apple’s FxAnalysis API will not work properly in Final Cut Pro 10.6.9.
A flaw is something that only Apple can fix.
If you must update do this: support.apple.com/en-gb/HT203010

Do not update to FCP 10.6.9 and stick with 10.6.8 at this time if you rely on plugins to work. More info coming. #finalcutpro

Preparing for interview to FAANG / Working in FAANG

I found a pub with an inverted normal map. If you understand what this means, you have to retweet.

RT @sapinker: The Ideological Poisoning of Biology skepticalinquirer.org/2023/06/the-id… via @skeptinquirer

...every single example in the keynote is a person sitting home _alone_ and pretending to have life-changing experiences. No doubt great for consuming media/games alone... VR is shockingly immersive... but this won't help us function better as social animals. Hope to be wrong.

PHEW, at that price we have a few more years to try staying human