Ryan Schmidt
rms80.bsky.social
Ryan Schmidt
@rms80.bsky.social
It’s Ryan from Twitter! Former Epic Games Engineering Fellow, now an intern at Gradientspace Corp (gradientspace.com). Invented Modeling Mode, Geometry Script, Autodesk Meshmixer, some other stuff. PhD in Computer Shapes. Also mastodon.gamedev.place/@rms80
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Hey I made a new thing - it's called Gradientspace Graph, and it's a C#-based NodeGraph Programming system that also supports inline C# and Python "Code Nodes". The NodeGraph Engine is MIT Open-Source and the Editor is Free. More details here: www.gradientspace.com/tutorials/20...
Gradientspace Graph Beta — gradientspace
I have released an initial version of Gradientspace Graph (GSGraph), a new C#-based NodeGraph Programming environment that also supports inline text-coding in C# and Python (and LLM-based CodeNode gen...
www.gradientspace.com
Claude Code put Claude Code into my web app so now I can live-edit the running development version without having to go over to a terminal.
February 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
didn't have a lot of spare time yesterday, so I only added PDF and textfile support to my gsworkspace app, and a CSV-as-Table view. Of course by "I added" I mean I Described and Claude Coded. youtu.be/RroSqDfZi2c?...

gsworkspace.com
gsworkspace AI Canvas - New Features (Feb 12)
YouTube video by gradientspace
youtu.be
February 13, 2026 at 5:29 PM
the hero we need
Hey All, I made a header only C++ library (MIT) where line of code inits, then you can start writing to pixels on the screen.

I call it thirteen.h, inspired by the simplicity of the 13h days.

Examples include a mandelbrot viewer and a playable mine sweeper game.

github.com/Atrix256/Thi...
February 13, 2026 at 5:19 AM
roblox is hiring an entry-level geometry engineer in Vancouver, if that sounds like your kinda thing: careers.roblox.com/jobs/7558821...
[2026 Canada] Software Engineer, Geometry - Early Career | Roblox
[2026 Canada] Software Engineer, Geometry - Early Career
careers.roblox.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:46 PM
made a vid about this app that the robots have been coding for me. It's on Github if you wanna try it. youtu.be/gJo4UDf73mk?...

They made a website for it, too: www.gsworkspace.com
gsworkspace: Building an AI Canvas with Claude Code
YouTube video by gradientspace
youtu.be
February 12, 2026 at 3:13 PM
this website (blueprintue.com) is basically github gist but for unreal engine blueprints (a visual scripting language). Not run by a megacorp, so not able to implement a complex age-verification system. These laws are unbelievably stupid, and coming soon to a country near you...
February 11, 2026 at 6:43 PM
nice blog post about a humanoid robotics startup failure: ruixu.us/posts/six-th...
Six Things I Learned Watching a Robotics Startup Die from the Inside | Rui Xu
I spent a year as COO of a YC-backed robotics startup. The company didn't make it. Here's what I actually learned.
ruixu.us
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
You get this attitude a lot from UX/Product people and it's always mystified me. The premise is that all Engineers are lazy? They don't care about the product? Their job is to just shut up and do what they are told? But now we have robot coding... (1/3)
Whenever an engineer says "It's not possible" always remember that what they actually mean is "I don't know how to build that" which sounds different, but means the same thing.
February 10, 2026 at 8:06 PM
a significant challenge in claude-coding is just figuring out good ways to describe things in words. Abstract high-level concepts, very precisely identifying (eg) UI elements, explaining observed behaviors, giving things good unique names, etc. Perhaps time to bring back Technical Writing classes
February 10, 2026 at 7:18 PM
used claude code SDK to make my app able to modify itself...
February 10, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Claude Code and I have built a client/server webapp. I ask it, could this be run locally and feel like it's a desktop app? Yes, it says it can launch Chrome in "App Mode" and run the servers in some hidden-but-attached console thing (??). Works. Now, can it be "installed" in ProgramFiles/etc? ...
February 10, 2026 at 1:01 AM
soooo what’s the next IRC-in-browser we can all switch over to?
Discord announces all users will need to complete age verification in order to access sensitive content: www.gamesindustry.biz/discord-anno...
February 9, 2026 at 10:18 PM
hmm not sure about this direction I seem to be moving...
February 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
zomg had no idea this existed why isn’t it the default
Every time I install Unreal on a new machine I always make to change Editor Settings > Asset Editor Open Location to "Main Window"
It stops new windows being opened up as separate tabs, always keeps them docked.

#UnrealEngine
February 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
in-browser nondestructive video editing and video/gif conversion. Part of a freeform image & video editing webapp that claude code is implementing for me. Can store files locally or hooked up to S3. ~3 weeks of occasional prompting, ~300 commits...browser-only demo at gsworkspace.com/demo/
February 8, 2026 at 9:46 PM
I can’t believe Apple ships this, it looks like placeholder UI. This is what you have to click through to save a cropped screenshot on iOS. If you don’t do this, it silently discards the image!!
February 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
migrated my personal website off Squarespace w/ assistance from the coding robot. Compared to writing a web app it was not so great at this, but (a) I don't know how this site actually functions and (b) I won't ever need to again. Wrote a post about it! www.rms80.com/blog/2026-01...
a new rms80.com on the WWW | rms80
Ryan and Claude Code make a website
www.rms80.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Reposted by Ryan Schmidt
"You just need to get Flinge 8.0 and compile a Kumbara script with ~imp.dd on a partitioned IRQ drive" WOULD YOU PEOPLE LISTEN TO YOURSELVES?

I want an icon to click and then it's Linux
February 5, 2026 at 9:42 AM
ouch. I remember when Autodesk killed off ArtCAM, a 2.5D design tool that was used by Mints around the world to design coins (among many other things). The suggestion to abandoned users was “try MudBox (?)”
Adobe plans to discontinue its 2D animation software Animate on March 1; enterprise customers can receive support until March 2029, and others until March 2027 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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February 3, 2026 at 12:12 AM
I do not like that losing focus is referred to as "blur" in javascript. I get it, focus vs blur...it's just too cute
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 AM
stumbled across meshmixer.org ... apparently an independent third-party meshmixer fan site (but you can still download a mac version there, which isn't available from the autodesk site anymore...)
Meshmixer
meshmixer.org
January 31, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Apparently this is because of the new Google 60-second-walking-simulation AI video generator, that still forgets what was there when you turn around. So…maybe a buy?
January 30, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Reposted by Ryan Schmidt
My PhD student Abhishek Madan is getting ready to graduate and he’s looking for a postdoc or industry position. Checkout his website www.dgp.toronto.edu/~amadan/

He’s been an amazing student , basically does all his research by himself. Fantastic math and implementation acumen.
Abhishek Madan
www.dgp.toronto.edu
January 29, 2026 at 3:33 PM
uh oh…
January 29, 2026 at 1:01 PM
so weird that claude code can handle dealing with huge amounts of code in a programming project, but asking it to copy text verbatim from one webpage to another is beyond it. Seems like it just can't help itself, it's compelled to copy-edit my writing.
January 24, 2026 at 9:50 PM