reshade

I think my favourite open source project to poke around in recently is [Reshade](https://github.com/crosire/reshade). The code is pretty readable and is doing a lot of interesting stuff. Every time I've taken a look at it I've learned something new. Definitely super light on boilerplate, given that it's solving a bit of a unique problem. In terms of tips and tricks, I often start looking at new code by trying to write out in plain english prose, a bit of a story of how the code works. Almost like I'm writing a blog post explaining how things work to someone else. Often this process uncovers rabbit holes that I need to go down to understand isolated bits of logic before I can return to building this big picture view, which is sort of the point.

> [Reshade] is a generic post-processing injector for games and video software. It exposes an automated way to access both frame color and depth information and a custom shader language called ReShade FX to write effects like ambient occlusion, depth of field, color correction and more which work everywhere. From https://github.com/crosire/reshade