Impulse Dev Diary — Entity Pools, Dead Threads, and 3am Cascade Failures
One bad night building a live WebGPU visual engine: how a freeze in the entity pool happened, why it was so hard to find, and the boring fix that solved it.
4 posts tagged Creative Coding.
One bad night building a live WebGPU visual engine: how a freeze in the entity pool happened, why it was so hard to find, and the boring fix that solved it.
I perform audiovisual sets. TouchDesigner taught me how visual engines work, and its interface convinced me to build my own.
My AI assistant could read my code but not my canvas. MCP servers for Figma and Blender changed that. Here's what it was like to use them on real work.
My visuals code got tangled once audio, OSC and UI controls all tried to drive it at once. Treating every input as a stream untangled it.