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Relight: Adding Real Light to a Flat Photo
How RapidRAW turns a single photo into a 3D surface, and lets you light it like a studio scene after the fact.
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Updates, tutorials, and notes from the development of RapidRAW.
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Why Your Skies Turn Magenta (and How RapidRAW Fixes It)
What really happens when a camera sensor clips, and how RapidRAW rebuilds the missing colors in blown highlights.
10,000 Stars: How an Empty Folder Became a Global Community
Reflecting on over 610,000 downloads, YouTube reviews, learning GPU shaders, and how a solo project became a global community.
Adding Camera Tethering to RapidRAW
How I integrated real-time camera control and why Windows users are out of luck.
Customizable Workspaces and Unified Editing
How I rebuilt the UI layout system to let you edit photos directly from your library grid.
The 6,000 Line App.tsx: A React Refactoring Story
How I learned to stop passing props and implement Zustand.
Why "Vibecoding" Only Gets You So Far
How the open-source community taught me the math behind AgX after I let AI hallucinate my color matrices.
Breaking the Speed Limit: How the WGPU Renderer Works
How I bypassed the browser to make RapidRAW’s editing engine lightning fast.
Shipping Every Two Weeks: The RapidRAW Development Cycle
How I manage to build and release complex software updates at lightning speed.