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Afloat Boats

I'm Tauseef. I build games and tools. This is where I scribble, often about web and game dev.

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Whither GPU? - Demystifying Matrices

Building intuition for matrix transforms by building a rotating cube with Canvas2D APIs.

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Code Accountability - 2026

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Rust for JavaScript Engineers - Hello Universe

A quick start with Rust's toolchain and Cargo for JS engineers, before diving into the Connect-4 build.

Rust for Javascript Engineers - Connect-4 Interactivity

Player turns, move validation, and win detection for Connect-4 in Rust compiled to WASM.

Rust for JavaScript Engineers - All a Board

Calling JS from Rust, building the Connect-4 board as a Vec, and rendering it as HTML across the WASM boundary.

Got nerd sniped into missing a workout, and improving the performace of rendering 500k rectangles by 10x.

Rust for JavaScript Engineers - Building Connect-4

Project structure, wasm-bindgen, enums, and traits — first steps toward building Connect-4 with Rust and WASM.

Pokemon Dialog Streaming

Implementing a Pokemon-style streaming dialog system on the web using a toy observable stream library.

Crossing the WASM

Architecture of Flashlight, a browser roguelike with vanilla JS, Rust/WASM, recursive shadowcasting, and BFS pathfinding.

Component Coloring

NextJS 15 made sync APIs async to force component coloring for SSR boundaries. Here's why.

Connecting the Dots

Rebuilding Styles photo-editing feature from iOS 26 for the web.

Writing a minimal renderer for a photo editor using TypeScript and WebGPU.