Path guiding with mixture models hits a wall when the PDF evaluation is O(N). My thesis introduces a partial estimator that stays unbiased while only evaluating a subset. Also: writing GPU shaders in Rust and testing them on the CPU.

Gitea, a lightweight self-hosted Git solution, now includes Gitea Actions - a GitHub Actions-compatible CI/CD system that I've been using for a while now. Here's a quick overview of Gitea Actions and my experience with it.

You would think that there is a solid solution for backing up Docker volumes, but there isn't. I wrote a tool to solve this problem for myself.