Also I'm going to be starting my job hunt in earnest this week, so if you're recruiting at SIGGRAPH, definitely let me know!

All High-Performance Graphics 2026 papers are now available on the ACM digital library (open access) 🎉. If you are coming to LA for SIGGRAPH, don't miss out on HPG (July 17-19) with 14 papers, 6 Hot3D talks, 2 keynotes and 3 posters. Register now! www.highperformancegraphics.org/2026/schedule/

I remember how the only real purpose of this port (which, for the record, was not good) was to give console-only folk a peek into why their friends were routinely going through the pain of hauling their giant PCs and CRTs over to each others' houses.

AMD FSR 4 lands on RDNA3 for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Machine via Proton Experimental #Proton #Linux #AMD #FSR4 #SteamMachine #SteamOS

Noticed @pimaxvr.bsky.social is cross-promoting "IL-2 Korea", in addition to investing significantly in Studio 397's "LeMans Ultimate". While the magnitude and breadth of this investment isn't going to match what Meta/Oculus was once doing, I love seeing this finally happening in the PCVR space.

Have long viewed the "anti-AI" social media bubble on Blue Sky with empathetic concern. Especially in game-dev. Not for their views or even their purity tests: but their demonstrable lack of awareness. If you are part of that crowd, this is probably the most important thing you'll read today.

So uh, hey Lime. Hear me out: after this, can you please revive the Boosted Board brand? The skateboards, specifically. Or at least license out the IP for someone else to do so. Please. 🙏

Pimax Dream Air looks awesome. And it is intersecting at a point in time where the market is finally catching up to the fact that standalone VR doesn’t make any sense (and really never did). youtu.be/-J8J_L8-oro?...

Pictorial metaphor for an unserious nation.

Obligatory coffee mug for today.

Congrats to the Forza Horizon 6 team. Looks like another massive hit! Can’t wait to try it.

Facts that live rent-free in my head: Disney wrote Star Wars 7-9 from scratch, when they already had the (amazing) Timothy Zahn novels... just sitting there. I think about this all the time.

Spent my formative years as an intern in CNN’s tech wing. Had an amazing experience. Learned so much there, and met many incredible people. Even once sat in a cube in Ted’s old mansion’s master bedroom, after it had been converted into an office (across!from Georgia Tech). RIP Ted, and thanks.

🚨 The rate in which my workflow has been changing over the past month alone has been both alarming and exciting. General vibe in "dev-BlueSky" is anti-AI, but the amount of patently incorrect takes I see around here is wild. Easily one of the most counter-productive echo chambers I can remember.

Picture of the century. 😍 📷 credit: Science Tube

I’m firmly on the Sony Alpha train (and usually on a newer body) but I imagine the used Nikon D5 market is truly cooking this week.

"change is scary" is such a strong emotion that is makes people incurious about those alternatives. My strongest evidence for this is the fact I keep having to explain you can charge electric cars at home.

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

Props to the guy/gal at NASA who turned on HDR.

As a former SRBM engineer I am so excited for this launch.

When your 3 favorite games simultaneously get massive updates on the same day.

Tracks with my saying of "Every rule has a story behind it."

I tried and tried to get my parents in the habit of always leaving their car plugged in at home, while targeting a cap of 60-70% SoC. They can't handle it. Instead, they let days go by, waiting for the car to get close to 10%, and then charge to near 90%. Just like their gas car.

Disappointed to hear that the DF guys got death threats yesterday. Let's tone down the crazy in this industry. Please, everybody.

Difficult to understand how anyone (with rare exceptions) would buy a new ICE vehicle in 2026, even without these oil prices.

will the prices that went up because of tariffs now go right back down? or are we now living with higher prices on some goods because of this unconstitutional decision?

Well this made my day. Hoping this includes restoring De minimis.

Apple implemented support for ISO 21496-1, but it's still not a comprehensive solution. Big camera -> MacOS -> Lightroom -> iPhone: you still need to play this delicate dance to make sure the metadata isn't butchered. For instance, paste into iMessage is a no-go. Even if you convert to HEIC.

Was a little annoyed that they still aren't supporting JPEG-XL in-camera. Then looked into what it would take to implement JPEG-XL encode... and yeah. Makes sense why they haven't gone beyond HEIC for now. Thankfully starting to see JPEG-XL encode IP, but it's new: www.cast-inc.com/press-releas...

This entire thread serves as "exhibit A" on "why you should read the actual article". Folks, there are more than enough factual things to be mad about these days. Nonsense like this only takes our eye off the ball.

Learned Sony A7V's biggest upgrade is a new 33MP partially stacked sensor, but none of the marketing/youtubers had a diagram of it. Luckily, I found this slide deck (full paper is also on IEEE Xplore). 3D packaging is changing everything. cs.rochester.edu/courses/259/...

Especially these days, I'm thankful to have F1 as a brain sink. It hits the spot as an uber-complex and deep thing to think about that also doesn't matter at all. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im_u...

This is terrifying. We’ve lost over 10,000 STEM PhDs from the federal workforce in a single year. (thanks @jeffdean.bsky.social)

Can be nice to my Microsoft friends at F1 parties now.

Evergreen tweet.

On De Minimis (RIP): something I didn't realize with its removal is that not only are you going to now be tariffed for small purchases, but the logistics company can (and will) charge the receiving party a "processing fee", of which the minimum can be over 2X the value of the actual tariff.

These new PC monitor tandem OLEDs sound neat, but I don't understand why the iPad OLED is rated for 1000 nits @ 100% window, while PC monitors are just now breaching 300 nits.

SIGGRAPH 2025's "Advances in Real-Time Rendering" series is up on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@siggraphadv...

Very similar situation that back-end chip designers experienced during the transition from manual cell placement and wiring to automated place and route. Same for hand-written netlists to synthesized RTL for the front-end. It’s going to be OK (but you absolutely must adapt and abstract).

Most depressing thing you'll see today :(

Merry Zmas

Awful news. Had such a huge impact on this industry. Thoughts are with his family, friends and colleagues. RIP, Vince.

Need this shirt.

I bought this exact DRAM kit back in February... for $200 USD.

The Bills have apparently decided that they must always win in the most stressful way imaginable.

Congrats to Hannah Schmitz for winning the #QatarGP

Watched Quali with the Sphere. #Formula1 #LasVegasGP

Maxed out. I suppose Arc Raiders is doing well.

Arc Raiders, especially the audio, gives strong "Oblivion" vibes. And that's a huge compliment.

DV2 and HDR10+ Advanced sound like a step forward... but neither of these standards address the fundamental issue of content creators STILL not understanding how to use HDR, or (worse) refusing to even try. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bfU...