There's a direct line between my Minecraft modding era, and TypeGPU 💎 13 years ago, I published Mo' Bends, which is an animation mod that adds expressive movements and subdivided limbs for Minecraft mobs 🦵. It has been downloaded over 37M times, and through years of working on it, I was improving my skills in graphics programming and programming in general. The project is still near and dear to my heart 💜 While reworking the animation system to use a custom binary format, I created typed-binary as an experiment to see if Zod-like schemas could describe binary structures. This library not only influenced me to apply this same principle to WebGPU, but is a TypeGPU dependency to this day. I was feeling nostalgic, and reworked the mobends.com website to use TypeGPU, bringing the whole thing full-circle. It's really interesting to look back sometimes at where things started, and wonder where things might go next