5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (349+ words) There's a pretend country called Bookland. If you're an avid reader, there's a good chance that you have a book on your shelf that has been labeled as being from this pretend land. Bookland was created to serve as a…...

1+ week, 21+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ 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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (446+ words) Defrag98 is a fully-featured Windows 98 Disk Defrag tool simulator "faithfully reborn in your browser," complete with teal backdrop, bitmap-fonted gray user interface, and even the hollow clicks of a Microsoft Intellimouse. Once you click start, you are treated to the soothing…...

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…...

2+ week, 1+ day 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…...

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…...

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…...