# weekly issue (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 9 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover weekly issue. Page: Feed: --- ## [A letter to all serious guitarists](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/a-letter-to-all-serious-guitarists) _2026-08-21 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Jooba People ## [The Clippy That Came Home](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-clippy-that-came-home) _2026-08-20 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ For eighteen months, Marc Benioff had one message. ## [👋 Welcome to Jooba Guitar](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/welcome-to-jooba-guitar-start-here) _2026-08-20 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Your Guitar Journey begins right here... ## [AI Agent Security Weekly | Issue 19](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/ai-agent-security-weekly-issue-19) _2026-08-19 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ The threat did not come from outside. Three incidents confirmed the damage originated inside the system: the agent doing its job, the tool definition itself, and the integration built to protect it. ## [The Survivors Who Lost Their Names](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-survivors-who-lost-their-names) _2026-08-19 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ Every layoff has a second act. ## [The Cuts They Cannot Justify](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-cuts-they-cannot-justify) _2026-08-18 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ Every enterprise layoff announcement in 2025 followed the same script. ## [AI Agent Security Weekly | Issue 18](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/ai-agent-security-weekly-issue-18) _2026-08-17 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ The boundary between request and execution was never enforced. Three incidents confirmed that the MCP server, the protocol standard, and the container authorization gate all let the request reach the ## [going live on ZOOM for the next indie chords class](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/going-live-on-zoom-for-the-next-indie) _2026-08-17 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ how to make them and how to write some good progressions ## [The Open Lab That Requires Clearance](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-open-lab-that-requires-clearance) _2026-08-17 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ For twelve years, OpenAI has been the company that puts frontier AI in everyone’s hands. ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 451 - August 16th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-451/) _2026-08-16 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Variable rate ray tracing in call of duty: modern warfare 4 presents a system for reallocating rays more efficiently built around supersampling where temporal history is missing, undersampling with temporal reconstruction in stable areas, and a load balancer to keep a fixed ray budget provides a discussion of the basics discusses implementation details such as reprojecting the random-sequence… ## [profullstack on Ko‑fi (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/DfZzI0tbXvZW) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Open the creator's Ko‑fi page. ## [🎸The Jooba Weekly - 15 August](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/the-jooba-weekly-15-august) _2026-08-15 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Riffs, Chords, Diminished 7th action, and New Tutorials + PDFs ## [The Denial That Raised Its Own Margin](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-denial-that-raised-its-own-margin) _2026-08-14 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ Monday.com was supposed to be the poster child for the modern workplace. ## [The Apprenticeship That Built Its Own Replacement](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-apprenticeship-that-built-its) _2026-08-13 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ For twenty years, the safest career advice in the world was four words. ## [AI Agent Security Weekly | Issue 17](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/ai-agent-security-weekly-issue-17) _2026-08-13 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ The controls were built for threats that move at human speed and at human scale. This week confirmed they do not ## [The Training Ground That Became a Sub-Menu](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-training-ground-that-became-a) _2026-08-12 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ For four years, Google sold a clear story to every enterprise CTO who would listen. ## [The API Company That Hired Consultants](https://mrdecentralize.substack.com/p/the-api-company-that-hired-consultants) _2026-08-11 · Rav · MrDecentralize_ For three years, OpenAI sold one idea harder than any model. ## [I'm starting something new](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/im-starting-something-new) _2026-08-10 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Weekly Live Guitar Classes ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 450 - August 9th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-450/) _2026-08-09 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ \[video\] Reducing Graphics API Complexity: A Clean Slate Design for Modern GPUs traces the evolution of graphics APIs from OpenGL to D3D12, Vulkan, and Metal highlights the complexity bottleneck of modern APIs, including driver overhead, pipeline state object (PSO) stuttering, and resource-heavy barriers proposes an alternative design utilizing a simple GPU memory model, pointer-based bindings, as… ## [🎸 🗞️ The Jooba Weekly // 7 August](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/the-jooba-weekly-7-august) _2026-08-07 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Chords, riffs, patterns and more guitar learning good stuff 🥳 ## [📘 ⏯️ The Essential Guide to Barre Chords](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/the-essential-guide-to-barre-chords) _2026-08-04 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ If you struggle with Barre Chords then start here [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209827039/caa2dea253d16d327596a1839400175a.mp3) ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pNPxGn9l0xWQ) _2026-08-04 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [📗 ⏯️ The 4 Best Fingerpicking Patterns for Beginners](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/the-4-best-fingerpicking-patterns) _2026-08-04 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ The best place to start with fingerpicking [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/209822247/1f4d0a3f916c47b647218d8ae3232e11.mp3) ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 449 - August 2nd, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-449/) _2026-08-02 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ A Texture Lookup Approach to Bézier Curve Evaluation on the GPU presents a texture-based method for evaluating Bezier curves by leveraging hardware samplers extends the idea beyond curves to surfaces, volumes, and related spline families compares accuracy and performance against shader-polynomial evaluation wayback-archive Understanding Light in Computer Graphics | Taha Torabpour conversation on… ## [🎸 🌊 🗞️ Jooba People! News and New Tutorials](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/jooba-people-news-and-new-tutorials) _2026-07-31 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Jooba people! ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 448 - July 27th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-448/) _2026-07-27 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ How to Read Mathematics? - A study guide provides a guide on how to independently work through mathematical papers, textbooks, and lecture notes emphasizes that reading mathematics is a difficult skill that requires specific methods to learn effectively outlines actionable steps to build a solid foundation and identify underlying structures in mathematical texts wayback-archive Ray tracing massive… ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 447 - July 19th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-447/) _2026-07-19 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Shipping Godot VR and Porting to PSVR2: A Partial Post Mortem a detailed write-up of a talk at Develop Brighton 2026 about Godot VR development discusses rebuilding major engine parts like the label system and render server to meet console performance needs details the challenges of porting Godot to PS5/PSVR2 wayback-archive Advanced Vulkan Compute: The Power of Parallelism an introductory guide… ## [Why can two people eat and exercise in similar ways but still see different results on the scale?](https://universalsci.substack.com/p/why-can-two-people-eat-and-exercise) _2026-07-14 · Universal-Sci Weekly · Universal-Sci Weekly_ Dear subscribers, welcome issue #118 of Universal-Sci Weekly! ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 446 - July 12th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-446/) _2026-07-12 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Half-Edge Data Structure. Part 2 deep dive into the inner workings of the OpenMesh mesh creation logic explains the process of adding new faces to an existing mesh details the algorithm and optimizations used to maintain a valid topological graph wayback-archive PEPS: Positional Encoding Projected Sampling introduces Positional Encoding Projected Sampling (PEPS), a framework that treats coordinate… ## [New Stuff for the Jooba People 🥳](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/new-stuff-for-the-jooba-people) _2026-07-10 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Whatsupp Jooba people!! ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 445 - July 5th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-445/) _2026-07-05 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting introduces a scene-specific neural render proxy that enables differentiable relighting of static scenes decouples path sampling from emission computation by collecting light-agnostic transport samples and training a lightweight network to map them to pixel outputs allows scaling with resolution and light complexity rather than scene… ## [🎉 New Membership Fees // The Jooba People Have Spoken](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/new-membership-fees-the-jooba-people) _2026-06-29 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Jooba People! ## [CLI-first decentralized compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/W0qzHI9IgwH4) _2026-06-29 · **Sponsored**_ Run and pay spare GPUs from the CLI — transcode, coinpay (DID+escrow), infernet (AI). ## [New Jooba Community Pricing Suggestions](https://joobaguitar.substack.com/p/new-jooba-community-pricing-suggestions) _2026-06-28 · Jaco Uys · Jooba Guitar_ Jooba People! ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 444 - June 28th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-444/) _2026-06-28 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Multi-Layer Reservoir Splatting for Temporal Reuse under Disocclusion introduces a multi-layer ReSTIR variant that preserves sample history when occluded uses reservoir splatting and layered depth ranges to move samples between screen-space layers without tracing extra rays demonstrates much lower disocclusion noise for temporally reused samples with only a small extra performance cost… ## [The Barry County, Michigan Failure Map](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/the-barry-county-michigan-failure) _2026-06-22 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ What the documented sequence of blocked reports actually shows. What each institution was told and what it did. ## [The Dream Job, the Field Kit, and the Case That Keeps Going](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/the-dream-job-the-field-kit-and-the) _2026-06-07 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ On new beginnings, new tools, and institutions that won't stop — Clutch Justice Weekly, Issue 010 ## [The Record Has a Short Window. Michigan Institutional Accountability, June 1, 2026](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/the-record-has-a-short-window-michigan) _2026-05-31 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ A void proceeding enabled for nine months. A demolition with no law enforcement access. A warrant that came too late in the 1970s, and one that matters now. ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 443 - May 31st, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-443/) _2026-05-31 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Why does ASTC use ISE when almost nothing else does? explains why ASTC uses integer sequence encoding (ISE) shows that ISE’s advantage over a simple prefix code is only about 0.07 bits per symbol in practice argues the real benefit is that the predictability of fixed-size payloads simplifies encoder design wayback-archive Implicit Surface rendering for CAD describes a CAD prototype that renders… ## [Michigan's Institutions Are Consistently Surprised When Someone Reads the Record](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/michigans-institutions-are-consistently) _2026-05-24 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ On endorsements, tenure, and indictments as documents — Clutch Justice Weekly, Issue 008 ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 442 - May 24th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-442/) _2026-05-24 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Floor and Ceil Versus Denormals on CPU and GPU explores the behavior of floor and ceil functions when dealing with denormalized floats discusses how different platforms (CPU vs. GPU) handle denormals, with some flushing to zero and others preserving them provides an HLSL implementation for deterministic implementations that behave consistently across devices wayback-archive Dual Contouring of… ## [Federal Authorities Have Casey Wagner. Michigan's Legislature Is Still Quiet.](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/federal-authorities-have-casey-wagner) _2026-05-21 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ First reported at Clutch Justice. May 21, 2026. ## [When You Report a Crime Against Your Children, the Law Is Supposed to Protect You. Michigan Institutional Accountability, May 17, 2026](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/when-you-report-a-crime-against-your) _2026-05-17 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ Four pieces this week. One structural argument: the systems that are supposed to respond to harm documentation often respond instead to the person doing the documenting. ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 441 - May 17th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-441/) _2026-05-17 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ On Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets walks through a WebGPU-based atmospheric rendering system builds the shader step-by-step from raymarching through Rayleigh/Mie scattering, ozone absorption, and optical depth compares a full atmosphere shader against a faster LUT-based approximation for quality and performance wayback-archive Triangle Tessellation with Clamped Parallelograms revisits… ## [How Did Water End Up on the Moon?](https://universalsci.substack.com/p/universal-sci-weekly-issue-117) _2026-05-13 · Universal-Sci Weekly · Universal-Sci Weekly_ Dear subscribers, welcome to another issue of Universal-Sci Weekly! ## [The Anatomy of a Litigation Scheme](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/the-anatomy-of-a-litigation-scheme) _2026-05-11 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ How a Falling Out, a Return, and Threats Became a Federal Lawsuit, a SLAPP Suit, and a Criminal Perjury Investigation ## [Clutch Weekly, Issue 006: When the Reporter is the Target](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/clutch-weekly-issue-006-when-the) _2026-05-10 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ On accountability journalism, retaliatory litigation, and what it means to invoke a law you helped pass. ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 440 - May 10th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-440/) _2026-05-10 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ niagara: Opacity micromaps live demo expands the Vulkan implementation to support micromaps for ray-traced shadows explains the concept of micromaps and what MeshOptimizer supports followed by showing the full implementation integration process on the C++ and shader side Wave Tracing: Generalizing The Path Integral To Wave Optics – EUROGAPHICS 2026 Talk introduces a wave tracing framework that… ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 439 - May 4th, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-439/) _2026-05-05 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer introduces Loon GPU, a bindless abstraction layer implemented on Vulkan 1.3 and Metal 4 exposes GPU allocations as device pointers, removes explicit vertex buffers, bind groups, and image layouts discusses Slang shader portability issues and the tradeoffs of simplifying the GPU API surface wayback-archive Revealing NVIDIA Closed-Source Driver Command… ## [Clutch Weekly, May 3, 2026: When Litigation Becomes a Product](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/clutch-weekly-may-3-2026-when-litigation) _2026-05-03 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ On test-case architecture, co-counsel risk, and what 303 Creative established about the industrialization of strategic legal abuse — Clutch Justice Weekly, Issue 005 ## [Three Ways to Work with Clutch Justice Right Now](https://ritawilliams13.substack.com/p/three-ways-to-work-with-clutch-justice) _2026-05-01 · Rita Williams · Rita Williams | Clutch Justice | Michigan_ The case record has never been read by someone with no stake in the outcome. Three active engagements fix that. ## [Graphics Programming weekly - Issue 438 - April 27h, 2026](https://www.jendrikillner.com/post/graphics-programming-weekly-issue-438/) _2026-04-27 · Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer on Jendrik Illner - 3D Programmer_ Cooperative Vectors Introduction introduces Cooperative Vectors, a GPU API that enables hardware-accelerated vector–matrix multiplications inside shaders explains the motivation from neural material and neural radiance caching use cases covers practical inference using MulOptimal matrix layouts and training via OuterProductAccumulate and VectorAccumulate wayback-archive CuRast: Cuda-Based Software… ## [Golang Weekly Issue 172](https://golangweekly.substack.com/p/golang-weekly-issue-172) _2026-04-20 · Brandon Himpfen · Golang Weekly_ Key updates, libraries, and deep dives from the Go community—focused on practical systems, performance, and production use.