I don’t know why I waited so long to use Apple Shortcuts ! They’re great for automating darn near anything on an Apple device. Apple’s gallery of shortcuts has a “Word of the Day” automation to open Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day feed, but I thought the text was too small and poorly formatted. I created my own simple version that injects some CSS to bump up the font-size and provides light and…
I have slapped together a small demo of the various tiled and patterned wallpapers that were available in classic versions of the Windows operating system. If you weren’t aware, Windows (XP and below, I think) used to ship with tessellated wallpapers – small images that were repeated along the X and Y axes to cover your desktop, rather than one large hi-resolution image. I think they’re pretty…
(TL;DR; I made a tool to batch convert ICO icons to SVGs.) "My Computer" icon variants on the Windows 95 desktop. Recently I re-discovered the beauty (no, that’s not sarcasm) of Windows 95 icons. I enjoy the simplicity of their styling which, I assume, was somewhat necessitated by the fact that icons in Win32 generally had 8-bit color depth (256 colors) and a resolution of 48, 32, or 16 pixels…
Although I’ve been trying to avoid OpenAI lately, I asked ChatGPT to help recover my dwindling memory of a computer “game” that I used to play as a stupid little kid. I couldn’t remember the name of it but I knew that it came installed (bloatware) on our old Packard Bell running Windows 95, and that it was a virtual house in which you could go to different rooms and open various programs and…