If you are following The Witness blog you may have heard that we are looking for programmers, if not, go check it out. I’ve been working on The Witness for a bit more than a year. So, I thought it might be a good time to write a bit about my experience so far, in [...]
The other day I read this in Dark Shikari’s blog (one of the developers of x264): Most importantly, stop harassing the guy whose name is on the patent (Lars): he’s just a programmer, not the management or lawyers responsible for filing the patent. This is stupid and unnecessary. I’ve removed the original post because of [...]
You may have noticed my blog has been down during the last few months. I had some trouble with the server and lost all my posts. Unfortunately I did not have backups so it took quite some effort to restore them. At least I’ve managed to recover most articles and some of the posts that [...]
A lot has been going on in the last few months. Mariana is 14 weeks pregnant, so we are expecting to have another kid by the beginning of November. She has just finished her studies and has found herself a job at EMQ/FamiliesFirst. She works counseling problematic children and loves it so far, but she [...]
Jon has recently started a development blog about The Witness, the game that we have been working on during the last few months. So far there are a few posts about the technology and the aesthetics of the game and I’ll soon write a bit more about the global illumination implementation in some more detail. [...]
I’ve been biking around Davis since I bought my new road bike. It’s a very nice experience. There are many nice country roads around here (see this great map of the area) and the weather is always friendly. I really like biking towards the mountains, because I can easily see my progress. I’m now able [...]
Last Friday was my last day at NVIDIA. Next Monday I’ll start working with Jon Blow on The Witness. I’m excited to get back to the game industry and I’m hoping something really cool will come out of this. In any case, I had a great time working at NVIDIA during the last 4+ years; [...]
I joined the Davis Aquatic Masters (DAM) about four months ago, and I’ve been swimming almost every day since then, with the only exception of a few weeks that I spent in Spain during the summer. I think that’s been helping me a lot. I’ve gained more than 12 lb and I feel in better [...]
So, I finally bought the Ikea standing desk and I’ve been using it full time during this week. As many predicted my feet hurt, and at the end of the day I feel extremely tired, almost as if I had been hiking, which is actually quite a nice feeling. For once I now get to [...]
I loved this talk from Blue Hill’s Chef Dan Barber. I’m not convinced that what the organic/ethical/slow food movement advocates is the most sustainable way of producing food and feed the world. For example, I’m not necessarily opposed to the use of technology to produce food, as long as it’s done responsibly. It’s the use [...]