The Revision 2026 demo party ended, and they've already released the videos. From the main demo competition, there is one long video, even with commentary. My two favourites are
Golden Egg by Gaspode - technically maybe not that challenging, but very nice composition and design
Razor1911 - Razor1911 - Depeche Mode casts a long shadow, but still a great demo
I always thought Teenage Engineering were expensive toys, with their (super shiny) OP-1 and OP-XY , but the EP-40 series seems comparably cheap at € 400.
Of course, I wouldn't do much more with an EP-40 over an OP-1, but at €400 compared to €1200 , the expense is lower. Not buying either is still cheaper and my rule of not buying a toy unless I have a concrete plan on when I'm going to use it and what I'm going to do with it is still a money-saving rule.
Link: https://blog.gitbutler.com/how-git-core-devs-configure-git/
After reading the link, I updated to
From a HN discussion on that , I also added
whitespace=fix
Anna's Library is Backing up Spotify.
This sounds interesting, not for the music but for the metadata they've also scraped. At least for the database schema and some kind of mildly universal track ID and genre association, this seems promising.
Also, this means a non-spotify version of Hitster is possible.
The AI now watches Youtube videos and gives you a summarized text with relevant images. Just to counteract the AI that takes a text and generates a video from it:
https://toolong.link/v?w=dQw4w9WgXcQ&l=en
Summary:
This video is the official 4K remastered music video for Rick Astley's iconic 1987 song "Never Gonna Give You Up". Key details include:
- The song was a massive international hit, topping charts in 25 countries.
- It won a Brit Award for Best Single in 1988.
- The track was written and produced by Stock Aitken and Waterman.
- The video was directed by Simon West.
- The video famously surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube in July 2021.
The AI also links to the sections of the verse and chorus.
https://toolong.link/v?w=FJtF3wzPSrY&l=en
This video presents a technological showcase of The Witcher 4 running on a PlayStation 5 at 60fps with raytracing, built with Unreal Engine 5.6. Key highlights include:
- Advanced Character & Mount Interaction: Featuring Siri and her horse Kelpy, showcasing seamless multi-character motion matching and realistic muscle deformations using ML Deformer. * Dense, Dynamic Open World: The game explores the region of Kovier, emphasizing highly detailed and memory-efficient Nanite Foliage with adaptive voxel representation.
- Vibrant and Responsive Towns: The port town of Vest is demonstrated with busy marketplaces, hundreds of animated NPCs, and responsive character actions powered by MetaHuman tools, Smart Objects, and a new animation framework.
- Significant Performance Gains: Unreal Engine 5.6 boasts over 2x faster raytracing and Lumen, an asynchronous rendering pipeline, improved Chaos Physics for cloth and flesh, and a new Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin for quicker open-world loading, ensuring high fidelity and smooth gameplay.
