Computers

(Vulkan + Astronomy) > “weekends on a boat”

April 23, 2024accidentalastroComputers, Editorial, Software Product Development

No offense to my ‘weekend on boat’ friends<g>! My journey into Vulkan continues. In my last blog (has it really been a YEAR?) I talked about how OpenGL (ES) might just live forever, and it might just be the “higher level easier to use API” most people need who aren’t doing severely performance critical things….Read more

Pretty Pictures…

January 17, 2023accidentalastroComputers, Editorial, Personal Philosophy

Dear Diary, It was sometime in 1985 or 86, I’m not sure which, when I found myself in a Radio Shack store looking at a Tandy computer. I was a computer science (EMACS – Engineering Math and Computer Science) major at the University of Louisville, and I was jonesing for a “real computer” as an…Read more