Why “Slug” is being discussed
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I put a ScanlineSweeper impl into slughorn a day or two after he released it (and he was even cool enough to hop on our Discord and help me fix 2 bugs) :) The quality is really…
by cubicool · Oct 2, 2026
I'm the author of slughorn/osgSlug, and was surprised to find this thread. The article my boss put out a few days ago focused mostly on the "text-centric" aspects of Slug (…
by cubicool · Oct 1, 2026
Everything old is new again (in this case, 27 years old): https://gamedev.net/tutorials/programming/graphics/s-buffer-... https://en.wiki…
by zackmorris · Oct 1, 2026
Pangram 4.0 flags it as 97% AI. There are tells in almost every sentence but some flagrant ones: “where every technique below makes its trade”, “every size you want crisp is ano…
by mbrock · Oct 1, 2026
Non-fiction: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating This prompted me to lay belly-down and listen to the snik-snik-snik sound of a slug munching grass.
by meristohm · Oct 1, 2026
Slug mentioned! When the Slug patent was released to the public domain, I put together[1] Snail[2], a Slug implementation in Zig. One thing I found was that it was tough to get…
by psyclyx · Sep 30, 2026
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Slug or land slug is a common name for any apparently shell-less terrestrial gastropod mollusc. The word slug is also often used as part of the common name of any gastropod mollusc that has no shell, a very reduced shell, or only a small internal shell, particularly sea slugs and semi-slugs. Read more on Wikipedia