erysdren
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Looks like Stewart Cheifet (most famously known as the host of Computer Chronicles) passed away on December 28, 2025:
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral
View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.
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December 31, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Looks like Stewart Cheifet (most famously known as the host of Computer Chronicles) passed away on December 28, 2025:
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...
the first single by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers from 1970, a fun Christmas song making fun of American kids getting "war toys" for Christmas during the Vietnam war
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRP...
Stan Rogers - Here's to You, Santa Claus
YouTube video by Daniel Celano
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2025 at 3:54 PM
the first single by Canadian folk singer Stan Rogers from 1970, a fun Christmas song making fun of American kids getting "war toys" for Christmas during the Vietnam war
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRP...
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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I'M COOKING
This is going really well now, I want to release the first pack of PS1-inspired textures in January. Again they'll be public domain, completely free to use in your projects!
This is going really well now, I want to release the first pack of PS1-inspired textures in January. Again they'll be public domain, completely free to use in your projects!
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I'M COOKING
This is going really well now, I want to release the first pack of PS1-inspired textures in January. Again they'll be public domain, completely free to use in your projects!
This is going really well now, I want to release the first pack of PS1-inspired textures in January. Again they'll be public domain, completely free to use in your projects!
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The loudest video game soundtrack ever is on major streaming platforms NOW!!!
December 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The loudest video game soundtrack ever is on major streaming platforms NOW!!!
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tried to bomb my steam friends list with ricochet gifts but valve's got that bad boy in the region lock vault. this will ruin my ricoyear plans!
December 25, 2025 at 11:44 PM
tried to bomb my steam friends list with ricochet gifts but valve's got that bad boy in the region lock vault. this will ruin my ricoyear plans!
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December 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Remember the tape that my research group found recently? Well...
"Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month." [Actually, in July.]
www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
"Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month." [Actually, in July.]
www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered
: Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works
www.theregister.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Remember the tape that my research group found recently? Well...
"Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month." [Actually, in July.]
www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
"Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month." [Actually, in July.]
www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/u...
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Organizing a game jam at @hauntedps1.bsky.social
Can't wait! more info on 29th!
#Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly
Can't wait! more info on 29th!
#Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly
December 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Organizing a game jam at @hauntedps1.bsky.social
Can't wait! more info on 29th!
#Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly
Can't wait! more info on 29th!
#Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly
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New Quake release:
WE GOT BORED 2: WE GOT BORED ON CHRISTMAS
a 6-level episode made of ~3hr speedmaps made by 3 jolly people for your boring christmas gaming needs. comes complete with terrible christmas themed skins and ear-grating sfx.
Download: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
WE GOT BORED 2: WE GOT BORED ON CHRISTMAS
a 6-level episode made of ~3hr speedmaps made by 3 jolly people for your boring christmas gaming needs. comes complete with terrible christmas themed skins and ear-grating sfx.
Download: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 PM
New Quake release:
WE GOT BORED 2: WE GOT BORED ON CHRISTMAS
a 6-level episode made of ~3hr speedmaps made by 3 jolly people for your boring christmas gaming needs. comes complete with terrible christmas themed skins and ear-grating sfx.
Download: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
WE GOT BORED 2: WE GOT BORED ON CHRISTMAS
a 6-level episode made of ~3hr speedmaps made by 3 jolly people for your boring christmas gaming needs. comes complete with terrible christmas themed skins and ear-grating sfx.
Download: www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...
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hello vintage computer people!! i bought these two computer data tapes of unknown origin from a thrift store in the midwest in 2019. they've been sitting in a box in my parents garage ever since. do y'all think it'd be worth trying to find someone who could retrieve their contents?
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
hello vintage computer people!! i bought these two computer data tapes of unknown origin from a thrift store in the midwest in 2019. they've been sitting in a box in my parents garage ever since. do y'all think it'd be worth trying to find someone who could retrieve their contents?
hello vintage computer people!! i bought these two computer data tapes of unknown origin from a thrift store in the midwest in 2019. they've been sitting in a box in my parents garage ever since. do y'all think it'd be worth trying to find someone who could retrieve their contents?
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
hello vintage computer people!! i bought these two computer data tapes of unknown origin from a thrift store in the midwest in 2019. they've been sitting in a box in my parents garage ever since. do y'all think it'd be worth trying to find someone who could retrieve their contents?
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We found a tape containing UNIX V4 - long believed lost - in storage at the University of Utah. Yesterday, the Computer History Museum read it! There's a raw copy of the tape up at archive.org/details/utah... , a .tar at squoze.net/UNIX/v4/ , and much more at discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
UNIX V4 tape from University of Utah (raw) : Computer History Museum : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
UNIX V4 tape from the University of Utah, received by Martin Newell in June 1974 around when he modeled the Utah Teapot.This is the raw analog waveform and the...
archive.org
December 20, 2025 at 5:24 PM
We found a tape containing UNIX V4 - long believed lost - in storage at the University of Utah. Yesterday, the Computer History Museum read it! There's a raw copy of the tape up at archive.org/details/utah... , a .tar at squoze.net/UNIX/v4/ , and much more at discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
December 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
December 7, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
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October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
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This is the latest build of my DOS game jam game. It’s currently 208kb, single executable, and that’s with a bunch of standard C libraries still linked in. Plays well, too IMHO :D
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
This is the latest build of my DOS game jam game. It’s currently 208kb, single executable, and that’s with a bunch of standard C libraries still linked in. Plays well, too IMHO :D
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maps i made, "the view" and "wetdog", for @karyogenesys.bsky.social back in 2023(?)
October 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
maps i made, "the view" and "wetdog", for @karyogenesys.bsky.social back in 2023(?)
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got around to playing Ray Frank's Having Company, a quake 2 mod that I am now convinced is one of the greatest surrealist masterpieces of our time. if you like weird shit and the aesthetics of amateur fan maps, you need to try this. I can't remember the last time a game made me laugh this much.
October 7, 2025 at 2:16 AM
got around to playing Ray Frank's Having Company, a quake 2 mod that I am now convinced is one of the greatest surrealist masterpieces of our time. if you like weird shit and the aesthetics of amateur fan maps, you need to try this. I can't remember the last time a game made me laugh this much.
- 900 PCX image files
- 533 lines of C code
- 256 colors
- rendered in Plush
- audio by evie
- 533 lines of C code
- 256 colors
- rendered in Plush
- audio by evie
September 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
- 900 PCX image files
- 533 lines of C code
- 256 colors
- rendered in Plush
- audio by evie
- 533 lines of C code
- 256 colors
- rendered in Plush
- audio by evie
"programming is wonderful because, well... let's just say, you have the power to create magical new things that excite and engage people~!"
(made with plush: github.com/erysdren/plush)
(made with plush: github.com/erysdren/plush)
September 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"programming is wonderful because, well... let's just say, you have the power to create magical new things that excite and engage people~!"
(made with plush: github.com/erysdren/plush)
(made with plush: github.com/erysdren/plush)
god help me i have written more about software rendering and a file named polyrobo.mdl
erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...
erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...
September 18, 2025 at 12:23 PM
god help me i have written more about software rendering and a file named polyrobo.mdl
erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...
erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...