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Book Of Shaders

Developer Tools — A comprehensive step-by-step learning resource exploring the fundamentals and advanced concepts …
Developer ToolsAnyone can copy thisopen-sourceest. 2016
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 44.9 · 2/4
44.9
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
7
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 17 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 17 probesavg response 780 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
thebookofshaders.com
edge
direct origin
server
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
Tranco rank
#451,880
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Book Of Shaders's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 44.9 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 7 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
CSS Coloursdev-toolssimilar86%30.4-9.6● live
RANDOMIZED CSS3 GRADIENT GENERATORdesigntag-overlap86%0.00.0■ inactive
Awesome Case Studydev-toolssimilar86%40.00.0● live
Slick Gradientdesigntag-overlap86%40.00.0● live
Sennep Seeddev-toolssimilar86%41.20.0● live
Mashup Templatedev-toolssimilar86%9.30.0— unverified
Transparent Texturesdesigntag-overlap86%47.30.0● live
Gradient Generatordesigntag-overlap75%40.00.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelopen-source
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 12:16Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)1122alive
2026-08-11 14:25Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)458alive
2026-08-11 14:25Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)829alive
2026-08-09 00:05Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)617alive
2026-08-05 19:57Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)978alive
2026-07-30 19:13Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)937alive
2026-07-26 15:54Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)563alive
2026-07-18 12:39Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)932alive
2026-07-12 18:03Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)1030alive
2026-07-04 13:58Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)707alive
2026-06-23 15:09Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)845alive
2026-06-21 18:12Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)407alive
2026-06-21 18:12Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)842alive
2026-06-20 07:38Z200thebookofshaders.comApache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)650alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Book Of Shaders · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/book-of-shaders · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.