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Make your coding workflow a whole lot easier with this $50 Microsoft tool
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (521+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: Coding is a whole lot easier with the right tools, and now Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 can help you tackle all your projects for…...
Enjoy the Blue Screen of Death one more time
1+ week, 5+ day ago (370+ words) bsod.win is a single-serving website that mimics the classic 20th-century Windows Blue Screen of Death. Unlike the original, you can refresh the page to get a different outcome. Whether the Current Application Will Be Terminated or It May Be…...
Any three circles hide a straight line. Here's a demo that shows it.
1+ week, 5+ day ago (340+ words) I saw a video about Monge's theorem on Instagram and thought it would be fun to vibe code an interactive demo. Monge's theorem states that given any three circles, you can draw a line tangent to each pair. Those tangent…...
Afterglow brings classic screensavers to modern Macs
2+ week, 13+ hour ago (401+ words) Afterglow is a modern MacOS app that runs the classic Macintosh After Dark screen savers. Flying Toasters, Fish, Starry Skylines once helped cathode ray tube-monitors avoid burn-in and became a popular commercial software category in their own right. Running After…...
Decades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI
2+ week, 1+ day ago (298+ words) A lot of video games from the 1970s and later were touted as having AI. Jason Scott of the Internet Archive has a fun retrospective about these games, with links to playable versions. Here's what Scott says about a title from…...
The latest HTML trickery for web designers
3+ week, 1+ day ago (365+ words) HTML Can Do That is a pleasantly minimal website by Chris Burnell, explaining some of the interesting tricks you can do without javascript or even styles. Did you know you can do popover modals now just with markup? Isn't that…...