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Make your coding workflow a whole lot easier with this $50 Microsoft tool
1+ week, 6+ 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…...
This app turns a reMarkable Move into a typewriter
1+ week, 6+ day ago (310+ words) In order to get MoveWriter up and running on your Paper Pro Move, you'll have to put it into Developer Mode. Once that's done, open the MoveWriter app on your Windows or Mac PC, connect your tablet via USB C…...
The Digi-Comp I was a $5 plastic computer powered by rubber bands
3+ week, 6+ day ago (428+ words) The Digi-Comp I was a plastic and rubber band toy that sold for $5 in 1963. According to Chris Staecker, a Fairfield University math professor who posted a video about its operation, "This was the first digital computer." It didn't use electricity;…...
This $40 AI hub lets GPT, Claude, Gemini, and more duke it out
2+ week, 1+ day ago (421+ words) Disclosure: Boing Boing earns a commission on purchases made through links in this post. TL;DR: AskAnyModel AI lets you compare responses from up to six AI models side by side, with 30 unlimited standard models and 500 monthly premium credits. Lifetime…...
ASCII CITY: a cyberpunk city explored in pseudo-3D plaintext
1+ week, 5+ day ago (349+ words) ASCII CITY is an explorable cyberpunk city rendered in three dimensions with plain text characters. You can run the streets, enter buildings and take lifts to see it all from different elevations. There's no audio, story or "game" in there…...
Decades before ChatGPT, video games were sold as having AI
2+ week, 2+ 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…...
Replace your everyday laptop with a 16GB MacBook Air for $319.99
1+ week, 2+ day ago (469+ words) Thunderbolt 3 ports and Wi-Fi support. On the software side, this 2018 model supports updates up to macOS...
The Rebrand Registry tracks Microsoft's endless brand gyrations
2+ week, 4+ day ago (462+ words) Google regularly murders fine products and leaves them for others to bury. Microsoft, though, just renames theirs constantly. The Rebrand Registry now exists to help us keep track of Redmond's insatiable taste for fresh paint. Compare current and former product…...
Belbury Poly turns its haunted synths to 80s fantasy
2+ week, 1+ day ago (240+ words) The track titles alone! Lands near fantasy synth, but without the medieval cheese. If there's an incipient genre here where hauntology and fantasy meet, the name Fantology is already taken. Previously: Mixtape of the Lost Decade Reason, the actually-fun digital…...