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gmrdad82/README.md

A black Mustang GT on a city street at sunrise, vapour rolling off it as the V8 starts and revs, rendered in pfx

Gamer Dad

Catalin Ilinca

I'm building tools for my dreams. I'm not dreaming for my tools.

Engineer by trade. Tryhard creator by night.

Got questions or doubts? Ping me on Discord: https://discord.gg/XsNcn3kYzn

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$ whoami
Gamer Dad (gmrdad82)
> engineer            // 20+ years shipping. rust, these days
> builder             // PITO MD: games, a rust engine and the tools around them
> ai stance           // agentic. agents get pages, i get the last word
> youtuber            // Soft Reset: releases, devlogs, gameplay
> based in            // spain (since 2022)

PITO MD — the things I build

$ ./pito --now
> pfx          # Freaking fast, light and simple.
> Splicer      # Cut fast. Freaking fast.
> Manfred      # Just press 🔴 REC. Never lose a take.
> P99          # issue and feedback reporter for any website; extremely highly opinionated: it runs on Cloudflare
> Inbox0       # Your inbox is a bullet hell. Coming to Steam.

Engine: pfx · Apps: Splicer · Manfred · P99 · Game: Inbox0

Open source: pito-codecs · pito-compare · prec · pito-tui and its crates · pito-embed · pito-renew · pitomd.com

Powered by pfx

▸ Latest on the blog: Why I built my own engine

How it started

My First Computer

▸ My First Computer — how it all started.

The chapter before

$ git log --oneline rails
1afebbe 2006..2026  20+ years of ruby on rails: freelance, lead dev, tech lead, consultant. chapter closed.

Find me

YouTube · X · LinkedIn · Discord · pitomd.com

$ cat ~/.quotes
> I'm building tools for my dreams. I'm not dreaming for my tools.
> I hope I'm not alone in my stupidity.
> Do shit, share it with others. That's it.
> Not what I could build, only faster, but what I dreamed of.
> I stopped searching and I started building.
> Cut fast. Freaking fast.
> It's never one or the other. It's both.
> Everyone can do it, but not everyone will.

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  1. pfx pfx Public

    A game and render engine in Rust, part of PITO MD: a live renderer that draws 4K in 4.4 ms a frame, a GPU path tracer with its own denoiser, physics, sound, input, mods and a scene editor, with sce…

    Rust 1

  2. pito-codecs pito-codecs Public

    Video and audio codecs in pure Rust, on the CPU and GPU, first frame 7-21x faster than ffmpeg: H.264, H.265, VP9, AAC, AC-3, Opus, MP3, MP4, MKV, GIF, WebP. MIT, no ffmpeg inside. Part of PITO MD.

    Rust 1

  3. p99 p99 Public

    Issue and feedback reporting for any website on Cloudflare: a lazy vanilla widget, one Worker with D1 and R2, and a CLI and TUI inbox

    Rust

  4. pito-compare pito-compare Public

    Benchmark comparison charts as PNGs from a JSON or TOML file, 5 to 7 ms each, 63 to 77× faster than matplotlib: paired bars, balanced ratios and single bars. One 1.2 MB Rust binary, MIT. Part of PI…

    Rust

  5. pito-tui pito-tui Public

    The app shell for PITO MD terminal apps: one ratatui crate with a 120 fps loop that draws a whole frame in 0.07-0.31 ms, a header, footer, hourglass and list, modals, toasts, an activity band, a lo…

    Rust

  6. prec prec Public

    Exact, deterministic recordings of terminal apps: every frame at 30, 60 or 120 fps up to 4K (1,197 frames for a 10 s clip at 120 fps), byte-identical re-renders. A VHS alternative, part of PITO MD.

    Rust