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Stewart Cheifet Obituary December 28, 2025 - Goldsteins Funeral View Stewart Cheifet's obituary, find service dates, and sign the guestbook.

Looks like Stewart Cheifet (most famously known as the host of Computer Chronicles) passed away on December 28, 2025:

obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

GitHub - cyanbun96/qrustyquake: Quake like you remember it. Quake like you remember it. Contribute to cyanbun96/qrustyquake development by creating an account on GitHub.

qrustyquake is a software rendered engine with colored lighting!!

github.com/cyanbun96/qr...

YouTube video by Daniel Celano Stan Rogers - Here's to You, Santa Claus

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...

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me 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) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

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.

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!

The loudest video game soundtrack ever is on major streaming platforms NOW!!!

Steam error stating a gift purchase can't be made due to region price differences.

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!

https://kestreldraws.tumblr.com/post/179981719063/the-only-thing-ive-had-the-motivation-to-draw

Its her day

Catch ideas LIKE FISH! @hauntedps1.bsky.social
#DavidLynch inspired #GameJam starts January fifth!

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered : Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

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...

Organizing a game jam at @hauntedps1.bsky.social
Can't wait! more info on 29th!
#Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly

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...

two Memorex branded computer data tape reels in plastic shells sitting next to each other

a close up of one of the reels

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?

two Memorex branded computer data tape reels in plastic shells sitting next to each other

a close up of one of the reels

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?

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...

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...

screenshot of a new Source Engine level editor based on the classic Radiant editor, showing a view of the Trainstation Plaza from Half-Life 2

warming up nicely...

github.com/erysdren/Sou...

Source MDL loading in editor

a screenshot of a fork of the NetRadiant level editor, shown with a Source Engine map loaded. the map is specifically from Portal (2007).

i been busy this weekend

github.com/erysdren/Sou...

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

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

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

maps i made, "the view" and "wetdog", for @karyogenesys.bsky.social back in 2023(?)

you are doing the best work keep going!!!

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

"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)

bsky fucked up the aspect ratio on the gif for some reason, please visit the link if you wanna see it as intended~!

god help me i have written more about software rendering and a file named polyrobo.mdl

erysdren.me/blog/2025-09...

i chose Q3 BSP files because they already store baked lighting data in vertex colours (as well as a standard lightmap) which is way easier to deal with in Plush. with gouraud shading it looks pretty sweet, i think,,,,

(yes the DOOM alpha HUD is just a fun placeholder hehehe)