There is dearth of intermediate to advanced level resources on graphics programming. Seeing something like this is always appreciated.
...and today, ChatGPT can one-shot the meme and many of the shaders. I miss those books too.
Don't worry about that. Graphics programming is one of the deepest wells in all of computing. Drink as much as you want from it to enrich yourself and forget about what the balls of linear algebra can do.