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Visual Lizard — Wed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

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Visual Lizard — Tue, 13 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Google announces Material 3 Expressive, a colorful evolution of Android design. Material 3 Expressive won't be entirely unfamiliar -it shares some basic design elements with the Material You system Google launched four years ago. Material 3 Expressive is a bolder take on the same aesthetic, featuring "springy" animations, brighter colors, and new shapes.

Firefox moves to GitHub

Firefox has moved its codebase to GitHub along with 2500 other Mozilla projects. For a long time Firefox Desktop development supported both Mercurial and Git users. This dual SCM requirement placed significant burden on various teams.

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Visual Lizard — Tue, 06 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

RIP Skype

Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $8.5 billion, and now its been shut down after 22 years.

Boox launches color E Ink monitor

The Mira Pro Color is only 25.3-inches in size but is priced at $1,899.99. Boox also says its Mira Series of E Ink monitors only ship from China and “some countries may levy tariffs on the imported goods.”

One Million Chessboards

When you move a piece on Nolen Royalty's One Million Chessboards, you move it for everyone. Rules still apply, but chaos reigns.

Reverse Pac-Man

A simple concept. Like the classic, but control the ghosts instead.

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Visual Lizard — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Predator: Badlands, teaser trailer

CSS Hell

Hello, and welcome to CSS Hell, where you will be subjected to 15 unimaginably torturous CSS puzzles. "What did I do to deserve this?", you ask. Good luck; you'll need it.

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Visual Lizard — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Tron: Ares, official trailer

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Visual Lizard — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Nintendo Unveils Switch 2

US$449. Easier multiplayer, mouse mode, and a chance to upgrade older titles. Launches June 5th 2025.

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Visual Lizard — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Spinal Tap II, teaser trailer

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Visual Lizard — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Virtual Keypunch

By N. Landsteiner. Only the limited character-set of an original keypunch (type IBM 029) is supported. Type and download your personal punch cards, the Web2.0 of "big iron" age.

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Visual Lizard — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Dragonsweeper

What if someone made the classic minesweeper game, but with more math, and with fantasy D&D tropes? Daniel Benmergui has the answer for you. Pay attention, and make sure to read the monsternomicon!

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Visual Lizard — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

EA open-sources Command And Conquer games

Electronic Arts maintains a GutHub account, where they've released the source code to multiple classic Command And Conquer games. This includes Renegade, Generals, and Red Alert.

Running pong in 240 Browser tabs

“That’s 240 browser tabs in a tight 8x30 grid. And they’re running pong!”

NES86

Real Linux can now technically run on the original Nintendo Enterntainment System,. The goal of this project is to emulate an Intel 8086 processor and supporting PC hardware well enough to run the Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset (ELKS), including a shell and utilities. It should be possible to run other x86 software as long as it doesn't require more than a simple serial terminal.

Andor, season 2, trailer

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Visual Lizard — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Paper Apps

Paper Apps are pen and paper games cunningly disguised as little reporter-style notepads, pitched as a "fun, smart alternative to screen time." There are games themed around dungeons, space exploration and golf, each vaguely reminding me of 1980-era textmode games. And there are some gamified journals with to-do lists and such for those with even less time to spare.

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Visual Lizard — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Jurassic World Rebirth, official trailer

Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails—for some very good reasons Starting June 4, 2025, Let's Encrypt will no longer notify its subscribers that their certification is about to expire and needs renewal. “Providing expiration notification emails means that we have to retain millions of email addresses connected to issuance records. As an organization that values privacy, removing this requirement is important to us.”