Catalin Ilinca

October 22, 2026

Why I built my own engine

I wanted my engine to do apps, games, presentations, films and everything I dreamed of. One thing. Mine. And for years I didn't have it, so I did what everybody does: I went shopping for tools. Blender, for the renders. I opened it, I looked at it, I closed it. It's a miracle of a program and it's a full career on its own, and I didn't...
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October 14, 2026

The closet is open

The AI is here and it's here to stay, and being stubborn doesn't pay off all the time. Not for me. I used to deny it and call it SLOP left and right, and now I run, every single day, an OS that came out of this same AI era, and I'm very satisfied with it. So I tried to improve my past work with AI, and for a while that was indeed the s...
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