> If you’re building your own engine you probably already know what texture compression is

Yes, because they learnt it somewhere, for example, this article.

I don't get the negativity. Unless you work on bleeding edge R&D, every technique you know has been documented somewhere by someone else. So only the bleeding edge R&D people should write tech blogs?

Anecdotally, even I had known what texture compression is, this article still taught me something: the existence of Tacant View. It looks like quite a neat app.

Thank you for mentioning this. You often see comments like the OC that are dismissive of articles and seem to think people doing one thing know everything about that thing. I guess when people get to a certain level themselves, they forget that others have to learn things too and don't implicitly know all of the things that you know. I really do appreciate seeing your comment gently reminding people that learning is a thing that has to happen and should be encouraged.