Paul Slocum, software developer who has been curating, conserving, and selling digital art since 2006 wrote an excellent and extensive survey of the effects and problems in the takeover of networked culture by creepto-capital.
He couldn't find a suitable publication for his critical perspective which speaks volumes about the state of media institutions which made a name and raise funding precisely promoting the opposite values to those of blockchain culture and now are totally integrated and participating in the cultural and economic distortion described by Paul.
Do read and share widely.
https://www.qotile.net/nft/
Stateful, fixed-function, immediate-mode OpenGL seemed a lot more conducive to quickly writing a bunch of exploratory creative code.
Nowadays, you have your whatever-mode user-defined pipeline. To get back to immediate-mode experimental spaghetti, you have to design your own pipeline to support it, which is a lot of debt to pay down before you get to have fun. Vulkan seems to make this even worse. There also doesn't seem to be a lot written about how to design such a pipeline. So what do?
I am a demoscene enthusiast, coder, and electronic musician. I hang out with the goats in Brainstorm. I was deep into social media back when it was really stupid & awesome. At work I do machine perception for creative digital media.