Jacki's Developer Blog

Hello again, Here is a little update to the GNUnet Messenger API from December. This time I’ve added a short video to show how it works at the moment on a local machine with multiple clients. I’ve now added most dialogs to invite contacts to groups, open custom private groups, open chats directly to your contacts and open public platforms (public chat rooms). Filtering the contacts in those dialogs using a search field will be implemented soon (this is visual only for now). Sending files should work in theory already but I haven’t hooked up visually representing those file messages. But it will likely be very similar to the implementation of it used in cadet-gtk . Chats will now allow renaming for contacts and update each widget using it. Also it is now possible to have persistent chats between closing and opening the application which will be necessary for ease of use. Many bugs got sorted out in libgnunetchat but there’s still a lack of thread safety which needs to be addres...

This year I collaborated with many other students at the university on a computer graphics framework using the Vulkan API. We designed it to function rather modular and while it abstracts several parts of the Vulkan API and memory management to ease development, it still allows you to utilize Vulkan’s openness and the use of various extensions. We implemented several example projects with the framework to show how it can be utilized. There are also modules extending the capabilities from the framework to load GLTF assets, manage a scene graph, handling cameras, rendering GUI with ImGui and even image upscaling in realtime using FSR from the GPUOpen initiative. It’s also possible to use the framework for non-rendering projects like simulation utilizing Vulkan compute shaders and its compute pipelines. You can find a video showcasing the different example projects containing modern features like mesh shaders and ray tracing on YouTube . You can also find a more detailed explanati...