Lukas Hermann

@lukashermann.com

datavis & graphics. he/him

First bit of interactivity! Spent the weekend refactoring most of the code from the last two weeks, significantly improving the responsiveness of the keypad hander and simplifying the drivers. Now it’s all integrated with the embedded-graphics crate for consistent color typing.

I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fid... It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers! After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎

Screenshot of a window showing two panes: on the left is a script, and on the right is a fidget spinnerA wireframe mesh of an architectural cross-sectionMarge Simpson, holding a squishy cube-sphere-intersection, with the caption "I just think they're neat!"

In 2022, I left Google in search of a sustainable approach to open source maintenance. A year later, I was a full-time independent maintainer. Today I’m announcing the natural progression of that experiment: Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

Geomys, a blueprint for a sustainable open source maintenance firm

Announcing Geomys, a small firm of professional maintainers with a portfolio of critical Go projects.

words.filippo.io

Bluesky is built to give users control over their social spaces online. Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets users collaboratively inspect and label content on the network. Later this week, we’re opening up the ability for users to run their own independent moderation services.

Bluesky’s Stackable Approach to Moderation - Bluesky

Today, we’re open sourcing Ozone, a tool that lets a team of moderators or curators collaboratively review reports, create labels, and inspect content on the atproto network. Later this week, we’re op...

bsky.social

You can add alt texts to figures in #LaTeX with `alt={...}`. The alt texts won't necessarily appear in the generated PDF until new versions of LaTeX but let's start with this good practice now.

\includegraphics[alt={An image of a duck in a pond.}]{duck.png}