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1996 chat room simulator connected to Win95 and System 7 web desktops

A zero-account browser chat room mimicking mid-90s online services. The state runs on Upstash Redis and is shared across three different frontends (React/Vite deployed on Vercel): * The standalone chat interface (https://lolchat.rip) * A Windows 95 simulator (https://56k.rip) * A Mac System 7 simulator (https://dialup.rip) Users dialing in from the Mac desktop and users on the Win95 machine end up in the exact same rooms talking to each other.

Hits all those nostalgic early web buttons, right down to the dial-up modem sound when you’re connecting.

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & c...

Watching now Coyote vs. Acme [2026] 🎬🍿

Synopsis: After Acme products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the Acme Corporation.

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Tuesday, 29 September 2026 The average temperature today is 22.05˚C, With highs of 23.2˚C and lows of 21.03˚C, It may feel like 22.14˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 5.36m/s and visibility is 10000m The pre...

This. “What I’m trying to elaborate is that I don’t want the services (that I depend on) to degrade just because someone pushed AI where it didn’t belong or skipped their job in quality, security, reliability and verification.” https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/coding-is-not-solved

Weekly microscopy insights for UK research labs from Plankton & Zoom.

Deep-diving into nerdtalk about websites, brand consolidation, and future plans.

Evidence-based UK review of vitamin D3 for longevity, sleep, and healthy ageing. Updated 2026-09-29.

There was a different kind of light in those days. It was a bright, brilliant white; it's how you knew what white was. It made crisp shadows that didn't change their size as they moved. In the morning and the evening it turned deep gold, and

Apple needs to send notice to users when their contact is using third-party tools accessing Messages. appleinsider.com/articles/…

Of course, it is ZuckA’s! appleinsider.com/articles/…

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I'm in the "it's time to start drafting some blog posts" phase of the next big @hypertexting.com release. Which means it's time to record some screen captures and edit some video.

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@exe.dev launched Pools today:

A pool is a collection of VMs that share a set of resources. Before pools, a VM’s resources came directly from your plan. You could scale VMs independently, but you couldn’t define a production or staging stack with its own resources in its own region.

Pools also give you predictable pricing. We don’t want to send you a surprise invoice because one VM had a burst of traffic.

I love what these folks have been building. A cloud provider with predictable pricing? Yes please!

Rootfiles in Frontier, a new collection starts with docserver.root, the code and content for docserver.userland.com. Claude also wrote a Node app that extracts all the data from a root file.

I just watched 🎥 The Gentlemen 🖇️ again - and it is still worth★★★★

🔗 Substack Changed. Most Creators Haven’t Noticed Yet.

In January 2026, Substack launched Substack TV, an app for Apple TV and Google TV, so people can watch creator videos and livestreams on their actual television.

New news - at least to this bear.

🔗 The opposite of mass

The opposite of mass is special.

Good reminder. App development at PHI⑊PIN keeps getting distracted with ‘mass’ - but ‘special’ is what we are trying to do.

👁️ I mused on muse this morning - and no thanks. Unlike the rest of the world - I do have a memory so I don’t care what he and his acolytes say … I care about what they do - and they don’t do good things.