Windows 98 Disk Defrag Simulator

Busy Simulator

Pretend you're busy by playing a bunch of app notification sounds. Made by Brian Moore.

DaisyDisk, the most popular disk space analyzer

Get a visual breakdown of your disk space in form of an interactive map, reveal the biggest space wasters, and remove them with a simple drag and drop.

salvage computing

Salvage Computing is the art of utilizing only already available computational resources, to be limited by that which is already produced. It's about figuring out how to make the best possible use out of the millions of devices which already exist.

Ideal OS: Rebooting the Desktop Operating System Experience — josh.earth

Twitter user ekse has graciously translated this blog to Chinese. Thanks! TL;DR: By the end of this essay I hope to convince you of the following facts. First, that modern desktop operating systems are anything but. They are bloated, slow, and layered with legacy cruft that still functions only thanks to Moore's Law. Second, that innovation in desktop operating systems stopped about 15 years ago and the major players are unlikely to heavily invest in them again. And finally, I hope to convince you that we can and should start over from scratch, learning the lessons of the past.

Squishy Computer | Gordon Brander | Substack

Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Squishy Computer | Gordon Brander | Substack

Learning to build living software. Click to read Squishy Computer, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996) (2023 Video Update)

A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked…

Microsoft Windows XP Professional

Yet another Windows XP in the browser, but with a File System and comes with it, Programs.

how to install pop!_os alongside windows

I would like to install pop!_os (basically a reskin of Ubuntu with some convenience features added) alongside windows 10. So far, I have installed windows 10, using about half the space on my ssd and

Squoosh

Squoosh is the ultimate image optimizer that allows you to compress and compare images with different codecs in your browser.

Desktop Environment Simulation

A clean desktop environment simulation with animated window icons

bliss-making-of - Google Drive

Flux for Bluesky App - App Store

Download Flux for Bluesky by Jesse J. Anderson on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Flux for Bluesky.

WinFS, Integrated/Unified Storage, and Microsoft – Part 1

People have been bugging me to write about Integrated Storage for some time, and with Bill Gates having just disclosed that failure to ship WinFS was his biggest product regret  now seemed like a g…