Philip Hammer

My copy of GPU Zen 4 was in the mail today. The physical book turned out really great!

Obviously I also have an idea who has something to do with it ;)

Just confused it with the Swordfish II.
Well played!

Too bad, but there will be other occasions!

Actually we have now the chance during GDC. I'm in SF the whole week, just let me know if you're around!

Super happy we had the chance to contribute 2 articles to this book, and even the amazing cover image.
Thanks for keep this legendary book series going!

Things have developed in a truly interesting way since then.

Little fun fact: it was only 3 years later when a kid in rural Germany assembled a 386 PC (33 MHz / 8 MB RAM) in his room with cheap spare parts, and connected it via Null-Modem to his main 486 PC in order to play #DOOM together with his friends in multiplayer.

Rip & Tear: Breaking Down the Rendering of 'DOOM: The Dark Ages' | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming We'll present a breakdown of how a typical frame is rendered in idTech 8 and DOOM: The Dark Ages, which was developed by id Software and released in May 2025 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5 and PC t...

I'll be at #GDC2026, talking about #DOOM rendering.
Hit me up if you see me around!

schedule.gdconf.com/session/rip-...

Happy 35 years from all of us at id Software!

Image representing id Software's 35th Anniversary. Featuring a bold hellfire red background, with the Doom Slayer from DOOM: The Dark Ages standing at the ready depicted in a solid single-colored black halftone treatment.

35 years of shareware, slipgates, and slaying.
Thank you to everyone who’s stepped into our worlds.

There was an NVIDIA talk about neural texture compression, which was quite his actually. But was in general mostly bullshit free.

For graphics in particular, we luckily have GPC in the Netherlands now (re @anteru.bsky.social, @jasper-bekkers.bsky.social )
Very well organized with great content, but naturally limited to the hardcore graphics/rendering niche.

As someone living and working in Frankfurt, I'd love to see GDC here.
Infrastructure is definitely there with several huge international trade fairs, strong game dev scene, etc.
However, I can see that transplanting a huge event to another continent seems like a major risk to just destroy it.

I'm bringing my bike even to places in walking distance. I feel naked without my bike.

It was a stupid idea to ask in the first place

Finally getting some non-garbage from the bootloader in PuTTY was pretty satisfying. Time well spent.

Had to guess the port mapping on that undocumented UART port. The adapter didn't seem to like 6V on RX/TX. But ChatGPT was dead sure about it and wanted to take "full responsibility" for the fried adapter afterwards. 🤡

So yeah, successfully flashed my old tp link router with OpenWrt via serial port, so I can use it as a repeater (which wasn't possible with the stock firmware).
Fried one USB-TTL adapter in the process (was cheap!) due to my semi-professional wiring.
#hacks

Argh. :)
Well, glad it's in the right hands now!

Huh, I wasn't aware of that! Where can I get this?

Hey man, that really sucks. All the best..

Graphics Programming Conference The Graphics Programming Conference is a conference for graphics programmers, from student to industry veteran, taking place in November in Europe.

Slides are up for our talk at the Graphics Programming Conference (GPC), with @domlaz.bsky.social and myself. #GPC25 #DOOM

graphicsprogrammingconference.com/archive/2025...

It was a pleasure!

The final day

Similar scheme as the crypto bros a few years back. Guess it's the same grifters anyways.

Somehow I feel bad for those kids, but the real sadness is from Miyazaki.

Imagine pitching your work to the great master Miyazaki himself and getting told that it's an "insult to life itself".

Tempted to reply this under every unwanted "AI Influencer" post on LinkedIn

YouTube video by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World Hayao Miyazaki's thoughts on an artificial intelligence

I've seen this over a decade ago for the first time and it's becoming more and more relevant today.
This aged better than most single malts.
youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...