Frank Reitberger’s been on a tear lately. His Tinker series is a steady stream of WebGL and WebGPU experiments that each tackle something different. One day it’s flowing water with light caustics, the next it’s a shiny glass DNA strand spinning in space. They’re fast, focused builds, but there’s clearly a bigger picture forming: he’s demonstrating how to build complex visuals on the web in a foundational way. Instead of cramming logic into one-off shaders, Frank’s been carving out a modular shader toolkit using TSL, Three.js’s new node-based shading language. It’s clean, composable, and way more maintainable than raw GLSL.
If you’re into creative coding or trying to get your head around WebGPU, his stuff is absolutely worth following.
You can the whole Tinker series by tweaking the day number in the URL. For example, head to dasprinzip.com/tinker/day28 and change the “28” to other days to explore other experiments. It’s like flipping through a dev sketchbook, one idea at a time.
