Picotron Is a Fantasy Workstation(lexaloffle.com)

617 points by celadevra_ 2 years ago | 179 comments

Product page for Picotron, Lexaloffle's fantasy workstation with a toy OS and built-in tools for making pixel art games, music and demos in Lua.

Some Words on WigglyPaint(beyondloom.com)

90 points by RebelPotato 7 months ago | 18 comments

The Text Editor Sam(sam.cat-v.org)

57 points by bluedino 3 years ago | 17 comments

Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint(tomotama.com)

106 points by tobr 4 months ago | 67 comments

Infinite Mac: Classic Macintosh system releases and software on a web browser(infinitemac.org)

200 points by yarapavan 3 years ago | 31 comments

SymbOS Z80 multitasking operating system(symbos.de)

164 points by jbverschoor 2 years ago | 58 comments

Don't fire your illustrator(sambleckley.com)

346 points by todsacerdoti 3 years ago | 269 comments

Essay by Sam Bleckley, a fine artist and software engineer, on understanding and art-directing AI image generators and why illustrators remain valuable.

So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe(cole-k.com)

546 points by montroser 3 months ago | 550 comments

Blog post complaining that Reddit now requires users to log in to access the plain-HTML old Reddit interface, citing safety.

I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed(jamesdrandall.com)

705 points by jamesrandall 8 months ago | 556 comments

Personal essay by a 50-year-old developer who began coding BASIC in 1983, reflecting on how the craft of programming has changed, including with AI.

I skipped to the ending(danangell.com)

520 points by BHSPitMonkey 3 years ago | 322 comments

A personal blog essay by Dan Angell reflecting on starting to make websites as a child in 2003 and how his path into a software career turned out.

I love software rendering(jamesfmackenzie.com)

337 points by speckx 10 days ago | 212 comments

A personal blog post by James Mackenzie about his love of software-rendered 3D graphics in classic MS-DOS and PC games like Quake.

I built a programming language that LLMs can't use(blog.picheta.me)

244 points by dom96 8 days ago | 179 comments

Blog post by Dominik Picheta introducing KillSwitch, a programming language he designed so that large language models cannot use it.