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Don McCurdy

@donmccurdy.com

Graphics, data visualization, and web technologies at Bentley Systems. Contributor to #glTF, #threejs, and #3DTiles. he/him. Brooklyn, NY.

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Sovereign Tech Agency@sovereign.tech · 5mo ago

🎉 Applications for the Sovereign Tech Fellowship are officially open! What’s new? For the first time, community managers, and technical writers can apply alongside open source maintainers until April 6, 2026, to become Fellows.

Graphic reading “Applications Open! Sovereign Tech Fellowship” above a photo of five smiling people standing arm in arm, wearing matching black “Sovereign Tech Fellowship” hoodies. The text overlay states that the fellowship is open to FOSS maintainers, community managers, and tech writers, with applications due April 6th, 2026 at 11:59 PM (CET), and mentions freelance and employment options as well as flexible working hours.
Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 5mo ago

I really enjoy @obsidian.md for note-taking. But, I need some audio recording features that are missing from the app today... so I'm sharing a new "Field Recorder" plugin adding those features: - mic selection - quality settings - waveform/clipping viz - ... github.com/donmccurdy/o...

GitHub - donmccurdy/obsidian-field-recorder: Audio recorder with quality settings and waveform visualization

Audio recorder with quality settings and waveform visualization - donmccurdy/obsidian-field-recorder

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Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 5mo ago

“Surfel-based global illumination on the web, using three.js and WebGPU.” So much good stuff here by @juretriglav.bsky.social — demo! interactive illustrations! source code! A deep dive but clearly explained, fun, and worth the time. juretriglav.si/surfel-based...

Surfel-based global illumination on the web

Can we use WebGPU to compute real-time global illumination with surface patches called surfels? Does it look good enough? Is it fast enough? And can we finally construct viable compute-heavy rendering...

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Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 6mo ago

Really worthwhile reading from @icastano.bsky.social! If you're building with WebGPU, spark.js gives you new choices for texture compression that weren't possible with WebGL. Also, I need to update my older blog post. 😅

Ignacio Castano@icastano.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Choosing texture formats for WebGPU apps www.ludicon.com/castano/blog... Loading large scenes and running out of VRAM? This guide is for you. A follow up to @donmccurdy.com's guide, with a new option: Ship AVIF/WebP over the network, with native block-compressed textures in VRAM #webgpu #webgl

Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 9mo ago

I've joined the Cesium team, now part of Bentley Systems! Working with Patrick and others at Cesium over the years, on glTF and 3D Tiles, has always been a great joy. More work in open source and open standards ahead. ☺️ cesium.com/blog/2025/11...

Advancing 3D Tiles and glTF in an Open Ecosystem

A conversation about open standards between Amanda Morgan, senior director of open standards at Bentley; Sean Lilley, lead engineer behind 3D Tiles and a driving force in Cesium’s development; and Don...

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Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 9mo ago

I've used Arc (web browser) for the past few years, and it's good... but for software as security-critical as a browser, I don't love that it's really a side project for a VC-backed AI startup at this point. Writing on the wall and all that. So... 1/

Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 9mo ago

What's the minimum feasible number transitive dependencies for maintaining and publishing a small JavaScript library with types? Assume: unit tests, bundle .ts sources to .js and .d.ts, and maybe shared lint-and-format settings.

Jake Lazaroff@jakelazaroff.com · 10mo ago

i know we're all tired of the DHH stuff, but… if you've written this off as a normal political disagreement or just been too overwhelmed to look into it (understandable!), i really think you should take five minutes to read firsthand exactly what these people are defending with their whole chests:

As I remember London

As soon as I was old enough to travel on my own, London was where I wanted to go. Compared to Copenhagen at the time, there was something so majestic about Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, and even the Tube...

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)@jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 10mo ago

Just in case you were wondering, Mr. Tailwind CSS himself is all cool with the fashy vibe. (This comes as no surprise to anyone paying any attention for the last several years…he's always palling around with best buddy DHH.)

Adam Wathan @adamwathan Replying to @dhh Fifty people feels like a lot when they are tweeting about how awful someone is but when you actually see them in a list and realize "oh this is all of them, this is everyone who gives a shit about this", all the power disappears. Huge self-own.
Arseny Kapoulkine@zeux.io · 12mo ago

meshoptimizer v0.25 is out! Featuring new simplification function that optimizes positions and attributes for appearance, experimental permissive mode to simplify faceted regions with selective seam preservation, regularization option for improved tessellation quality and deformation, multiple ...

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Don McCurdy@donmccurdy.com · 12mo ago

Very big announcement from @icastano.bsky.social for WebGPU apps! Spark.js means you can send small file formats over the network (WebP, AVIF, ...) and compress to GPU texture formats like ETC2, BCn, or ASTC near-instantly using WebGPU — at runtime. #threejs #webgpu #webgl

Ignacio Castano@icastano.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I’m excited to announce the release of Spark 1.3 and the launch of spark.js, our new JavaScript API for real-time GPU texture compression on the web. ludicon.com/sparkjs