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Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images

GitHub - steffest/DPaint-js: Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images
Webbased image editor, modeled after the legendary Deluxe Paint with a focus on retro Amiga file formats: read and write Amiga icon files and IFF ILBM images - steffest/DPaint-js

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GitHub - tldev/posturr: A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection.
A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch. Uses Vision framework for real-time posture detection. - tldev/posturr

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Why can't I read this picture book? — Max Glenister
I’ve spent the last five years reading picture books with my kids at bedtime. Hundreds of them - and I’m still going, even as my eldest moves on to chapter books. One thing has consistently driven me mad: I often can’t read the words.

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EmuDevz
A game about building emulators!

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Emoji Design Convergence Review: 2018 - 2026
Just under eight years ago, we here at Emojipedia hypothesized that 2018 would be a year of emoji design convergence. Today, we look back at the major emoji updates made since early 2018, covering both design convergence and purposeful design divergence.

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The Incredible Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
Radio buttons are built into web browsers. Why are we using a UI library that wraps another UI library that rebuilds radio buttons from scratch? Why does rendering a radio button require multiple dependencies and several kilobytes of JavaScript? How did we make a built-in browser control so complicated?

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Puppet tests from Fantastic Mr Fox

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Installing Android on the Nintendo Switch — Max Glenister
A banned Switch sitting on a shelf is prime hardware for Android. Turns out the Tegra X1 that powered Breath of the Wild runs a full Android OS surprisingly well.

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ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering
A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

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beats
A web-based drum machine inspired by Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators. Create, save, and share beats with 16-step sequencing and multiple instruments.

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Just the Browser - Just the Browser
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.

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GitHub - SparkLinkStudios/portal-but-its-osha-compliant: Portal, but it's OSHA Compliant. Mod for Portal 1.
Portal, but it's OSHA Compliant. Mod for Portal 1. - SparkLinkStudios/portal-but-its-osha-compliant

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As a result of reading https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites/ by @[email protected] I've added .txt format to my posts on my blog.

Moving to GitHub Actions (and adding .txt posts) — Max Glenister
This year I moved the blog from GitHub Pages’ built-in Jekyll to a GitHub Actions workflow, then added .txt URL support for posts. Inspired by Terence Eden’s blog post about text-only websites.
A small collection of text-only websites
A couple of years ago, I started serving my blog posts as plain text. Add .txt to the end of any URl and get a deliciously lo-fi, UTF-8, mono[chrome|space] alternative. Here's this post in plain text - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/12/a-small-collection-of-text-only-websites.txt Obviously a webpage without links is like a fish without a bicycle, but the joy of the web is that there are no…

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It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

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Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature - Blog
Read about the new ebooks Standard Ebooks is releasing for Public Domain Day 2026!

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Font with Built-In Syntax Highlighting
An experiment in javascript-free syntax highlighting, made possible by opentype contextual alternates and COLR table

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I've been over this with my 6-year-old lately, and the golden line is definitely

Jingle bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg. The Batmobile has lost a wheel and the Joker got away

Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): an incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Gather round the fire, everyone, and let me tell you a story. It has everything you could want in a Christmas blockbuster: superheroes and villains, a car crash, children singing, a mystery to solv…

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Interactive Fluid Typography — Electric Magic Factory
How to build responsive typography with fluid units and typed arithmetic in CSS.