software engineer @linear · writing about web, design, and shaders at blog.maximeheckel.com 🇫🇷 in 🇺🇸
New York, NY
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added some of my favorite work of 2025 to my personal website along with some small yet satisfying updates
→ maximeheckel.com
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✈️『ACE COMBAT 8: WINGS OF THEVE』の空と雲を支える描画技術「Cloudly」の研究開発を、Q-Gamesが担当しました！☁️
多彩な雲の造形から、雲間に差し込む光、航空機が雲に落とす影までリアルに表現。
Cloudlyが描き出す壮大な空を、ぜひご体験ください！✨
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We're working on making Linear your favorite launchpad for cloud coding agents
Today's update adds a preview terminal attached to your coding environment, before starting an agent. Never interrogate your agent about how it set up the environment again 🫡
New: Adaptive routing
Linear coding agent can now automatically select the right model for each issue. Save time and tokens by routing simpler tasks to a faster model, while using the default reasoning model for more complex work.
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work mentioned!
Btw this out-of-focus paint effect was achieved with @MaximeHeckel's blog post: blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/…
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more experiments with my WebGPU path tracer:
- twisted glass shapes for more intricate refraction and dispersion
- glowing lamp intersected by refractive acrylic panes (inspired by Thomas Vincent’s work)
ALT A twisted glass tube laying on the ground
ALT A floating twisted glass ribbon in front of a sky blue backdrop
ALT An orange glowing lamp intersected by acrylic pane
ALT A sky blue glowing lamp intersected by acrylic pane
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links where you can try these:
- glass shapes: r3f.maximeheckel.com/raytrac…
- lamp: r3f.maximeheckel.com/raytrac…
don't forget to toggle on the path tracer or you risk to be disappointed :)
little plug for the lamps, tempted to buy one: thomas-vincent.com/
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Been a while since my last running journey update
████████▒▒ 80% of my yearly goal reached
Distance YTD: 802mi
Current Streak: 91 weeks (~1700mi)
I'll make it but down to the wire
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Agents were shipping code faster than our CI pipeline could keep up.
Our team optimized our pipeline, leading to a roughly 15% faster test suite and 50% reduction in runner-time spent per test, all while our test suite grew 4x in size.
@moofeez explains how:
linear.app/now/ci-bottleneck…
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A hidden element of an in-game camera is how we prevent collision without the player noticing! Here is a brief look into a few of the ways I prevent this in my game.
comment if you have any specific questions about this!
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ORBIT (BY LINEAR)
09 DEC 2026
SF/CA
orbit.linear.app
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Spent some time with @MagicPathAI this weekend and @rive_app's CLI to make:
a browser guitar hero you can play with your keyboard! watch my short demo and play with link below.
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Turns out a kaleidoscope is a tiny trick 🪄
carmenansio.com/articles/kal…
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finally got some good renders from the WebGPU path tracer I’ve been building to show you
as you may know making convincing glass with refraction, caustics, and dispersion has been my white whale for 4 years now
lots to improve but happy with it so far!
r3f.maximeheckel.com/raytrac…
ALT A glass bunny in front of an orange sphere
ALT Top view of a glass bunny on the right of a orange sphere
ALT A glass mobius ring projecting its caustics and shadow on the ground
ALT Top view of a glass bunny projecting its caustics and shadow on the ground
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New: Priority inbox
Not all notifications are created equal. Linear now surfaces your most important updates in a dedicated priority inbox. Quickly unblock your team and keep work progressing.
linear.app/changelog/2026-09…
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this is a hard problem to solve while being table stakes for many products today
so happy this exists
Introducing LiveText, part of Liveblocks Sync.
Our new data type for collaborating text editing, and a replacement for Yjs.
→ lblcks.io/livetext
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been looking for the right scene to demo my lcd display shader
this one felt just right
r3f.maximeheckel.com/isometr…
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an idea i recently played with: gracefully suspend a webgpu scene when the browser becomes inactive
- animations ease to a halt
- lights are dimmed
- the render loop pauses on the final frame
the scene then comes back to life on focus :)
→ r3f.maximeheckel.com/webgpu/…
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Damn:
160 employees
$100M revenue
177% net revenue retention (a customer who spent $100 a year ago now spends $177)
Full-remote
Basically no emails
Obsessed with performance
Some of the best engineers I worked with before now work at Linear
Linear is 🔥
Today we're announcing our second employee tender offer.
We passed $100m ARR earlier this year and now have more than 40,000 paying customers.
The tender lets our teammates participate in that success at a $2.5B valuation:
linear.app/now/sharing-growt…
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Been working on improving the MagicPath community feature :) I take inspo from @thsottiaux so every DM of love, hate, etc will be treated as a PR to make it better.
Got a design to feature? Thoughts? Hate mail? DM me!
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Quick look at the blobtrack effect I made for @MaximeHeckel ‘s blog. Some math involved to get the videos side by side and it uses the custom Dither + digital crunch effect rack for that retro Gameboy Advance feel.
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