Isaac
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Open source developer & Mac enthusiast
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Isaac
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· Apr 6
Not 100% yet, but Metal is getting there! Still need to work out some push constant and barrier nonsense.
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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.
Happy holidays!
Much of the Marathon team is taking time to enjoy the holidays, but this week we applied upstream fixes for D3D12 and removed a patch that caused severe problems with cutscenes.
Much of the Marathon team is taking time to enjoy the holidays, but this week we applied upstream fixes for D3D12 and removed a patch that caused severe problems with cutscenes.
a cartoon of sonic the hedgehog and tails the squirrel standing in the snow
Alt: Sonic and Tails waving in the snow
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Happy holidays!
Much of the Marathon team is taking time to enjoy the holidays, but this week we applied upstream fixes for D3D12 and removed a patch that caused severe problems with cutscenes.
Much of the Marathon team is taking time to enjoy the holidays, but this week we applied upstream fixes for D3D12 and removed a patch that caused severe problems with cutscenes.
I highly recommend reading Sebastian Aaltonen's blog post, which basically has everything I could ever want from a modern graphics API. Let's hope vendors actually listen.
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
No Graphics API — Sebastian Aaltonen
Graphics APIs and shader languages have significantly increased in complexity over the past decade. It’s time to start discussing how to strip down the abstractions to simplify development, improve pe...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I highly recommend reading Sebastian Aaltonen's blog post, which basically has everything I could ever want from a modern graphics API. Let's hope vendors actually listen.
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
www.sebastianaaltonen.com/blog/no-grap...
Re-done in OKLCH rather than HSV, much better
December 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Re-done in OKLCH rather than HSV, much better
Fuck it, rainbow ImGui
December 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Fuck it, rainbow ImGui
Nothing more painful than watching Vinney Vinesauce play Sonic '06
December 12, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Nothing more painful than watching Vinney Vinesauce play Sonic '06
Can tech CEOs stop passing off being coked out of their minds as autism
“he wasn’t tripping balls, he’s just autistic” is frankly insulting spin
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Can tech CEOs stop passing off being coked out of their minds as autism
SDL3 and fancy fonts for XNOEdit :)
December 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
SDL3 and fancy fonts for XNOEdit :)
Gaudiest participation trophy of all time
December 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Gaudiest participation trophy of all time
i have no hedge but i must hog
a hedgehog taking a bath in a sink with a shower head
Alt: a hedgehog taking a bath in a sink with a shower head
media.tenor.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
i have no hedge but i must hog
Am I the only one who hates Pacman as a character
November 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Am I the only one who hates Pacman as a character
Initial stage rendering in XNOEdit! Making progress towards accurate rendering...
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Initial stage rendering in XNOEdit! Making progress towards accurate rendering...
This week, I made a bunch of progress on XNOEdit, my cross-platform editor/viewer for Sonic '06 objects powered by .NET and WGPU.
Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.
Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.
November 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This week, I made a bunch of progress on XNOEdit, my cross-platform editor/viewer for Sonic '06 objects powered by .NET and WGPU.
Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.
Still lots to do, but many objects now correctly visualise, including textures! Next up, bringing in original recompiled shaders so everything looks perfect.
I hate age verification.
"we can estimate ur age based on ur face"
>uploads picture
"sorry, you look like a little baby bitch try with ur passport"
>uploads passport and picture of my face again
"mkay seems like ur old enough, let's just send u back to the website"
>400 bad request
"we can estimate ur age based on ur face"
>uploads picture
"sorry, you look like a little baby bitch try with ur passport"
>uploads passport and picture of my face again
"mkay seems like ur old enough, let's just send u back to the website"
>400 bad request
November 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
I hate age verification.
"we can estimate ur age based on ur face"
>uploads picture
"sorry, you look like a little baby bitch try with ur passport"
>uploads passport and picture of my face again
"mkay seems like ur old enough, let's just send u back to the website"
>400 bad request
"we can estimate ur age based on ur face"
>uploads picture
"sorry, you look like a little baby bitch try with ur passport"
>uploads passport and picture of my face again
"mkay seems like ur old enough, let's just send u back to the website"
>400 bad request
Sometimes, computer graphics can result in horrors beyond your comprehension
November 18, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Sometimes, computer graphics can result in horrors beyond your comprehension
Been a bit since I've done a weekly update, so here's what we're up to! Lots of stuff is in the works:
- Achievement support (Hyper)
- Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei)
- MSAA & resize support (Rei & I)
- External cross-platform XNO editor (Me)
Stay tuned!
- Achievement support (Hyper)
- Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei)
- MSAA & resize support (Rei & I)
- External cross-platform XNO editor (Me)
Stay tuned!
November 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Been a bit since I've done a weekly update, so here's what we're up to! Lots of stuff is in the works:
- Achievement support (Hyper)
- Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei)
- MSAA & resize support (Rei & I)
- External cross-platform XNO editor (Me)
Stay tuned!
- Achievement support (Hyper)
- Physics-based high FPS fixes and APIs for character controllers (Rei)
- MSAA & resize support (Rei & I)
- External cross-platform XNO editor (Me)
Stay tuned!
THAR SHE BLOWS 🐋 🫧
Huge scoop from Ed, who had several years of financial reports leaked to him. OpenAI has been over-reporting their revenue. The company is even less profitable than we knew.
Exclusive: Based on documents viewed by this newsletter, OpenAI spent over $12.4 billion on inference from 2024 to September 2025. As part of its Microsoft revenue share, it sent $493.8m in 2024/$865.8m Jan-Sep 2025, implying lower revenues than previously reported.
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 PM
THAR SHE BLOWS 🐋 🫧
Deep cut but all I could come up with
November 9, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Deep cut but all I could come up with
Yeah this pretty much sums up the Democratic party lol
The Reddit community r/Democrats has a conspicuous absence of any news about Zohran Mamdani today. But that's by design.
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
The moderators have rules that ban people from talking about democratic socialists.
www.reddit.com/r/democrats/
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Yeah this pretty much sums up the Democratic party lol
Me trying to understand 06's render code
November 5, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Me trying to understand 06's render code
Rest in piss Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Rest in piss Dick Cheney
Reposted by Isaac
After almost a month of work, the '06 recomp options menu has been merged!
This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime.
It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.
This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime.
It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.
October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
After almost a month of work, the '06 recomp options menu has been merged!
This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime.
It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.
This comes with a few new options, along with some improved existing ones to make them work at runtime.
It's still not 100% there yet though, as many of the video settings available are yet to be implemented on demand.