# lod (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover lod. Page: Feed: --- ## [One year of daily driving AMD/Linux](https://blog.jglrxavpok.eu/2026/06/17/one-year-of-linux.html) _2026-06-17 · jglrxavpok · jglrxavpok’s blog_ As written in my previous post, I switched to Linux and AMD GPUs for my main desktop PC last year. Here’s my experience with daily driving it. ## [Let’s build a Blender Pixabay Addon – Part 3](https://salaivv.com/2025/07/26/blender-pixabay-part-3.html) _2025-07-26 · Salai Vedha Viradhan · Salai Vedha Viradhan_ In the last part , we created custom properties for search parameters, started working on the UI, created a flow to ask-save-load the API key and made some requests to the API. Today, our goal is to find a way to display the search results in the UI. We will be looking at: Creating a simple caching mechanism from scratch to cache responses Downloading preview images from the responses we get from… ## [Let’s build a Blender Pixabay Addon – Part 2](https://salaivv.com/2025/07/17/blender-pixabay-part-2.html) _2025-07-17 · Salai Vedha Viradhan · Salai Vedha Viradhan_ In the last part , we took care of the boring stuff. We setup a basic scaffolding for the addon, a build-update-reload process, and acquired and tested our Pixabay API key. In this part we will start working on the actual features of the addon. The goal today is to: Start creating the UI for the addon Create a config/working directory for the addon Create a flow to ask, save and load API key from… ## [Let’s build a Blender Pixabay Addon – Part 1](https://salaivv.com/2025/07/08/blender-pixabay-part-1.html) _2025-07-08 · Salai Vedha Viradhan · Salai Vedha Viradhan_ Whenever I do blog posts – especially multi-part ones – on how to do something using the Blender API, I usually have everything figured out. I would have done it at least twice from start to finish, so that I know exactly what is going on. ## [Blender Scripting Cookbook – Recipes for the Blender Python API](https://salaivv.com/2025/06/25/blender-scripting-cookbook.html) _2025-06-25 · Salai Vedha Viradhan · Salai Vedha Viradhan_ The Blender Scripting Cookbook is out – a collection of clear, concise and annotated recipes for the Blender Python API. Been working on this on and off for the past couple years now. I am glad to finally press that Publish button Gumroad. ## [Porting my engine from Windows/NVIDIA to Linux/AMD](https://blog.jglrxavpok.eu/2025/04/26/engine-linux-port.html) _2025-04-26 · jglrxavpok · jglrxavpok’s blog_ A few weeks ago, I decided to port my Windows-only engine to Linux, and also switch from an NVIDIA GPU to an AMD one. Here are a few interesting things I noted along the way. ## [We have GI at home](https://blog.jglrxavpok.eu/2025/03/18/gi-at-home.html) _2025-03-18 · jglrxavpok · jglrxavpok’s blog_ It has been a while since I’ve posted something here! For the past few months, I have mostly been working on Global Illumination (GI) for my engine Carrot, switching with other tasks when I grew bored. I might do a few articles on them, even if I don’t think they generalise as such as my other articles. Oh and I shipped a small indie game , so I was a tiny bit busy. The (past) state of Carrot’s…