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https://winworldpc.com/product/paint-shop-pro/3x
WinWorld is an online museum and archive dedicated to preserving abandonware software, and this page covers JASC Paint Shop Pro 3.x, the classic bitmap graphics editor first released in 1990. Visitors can download original releases of Paint Shop Pro 3.0 and 3.12, read release notes, view screenshots, and explore the software's history from its shareware origins to its Corel acquisition.
https://juicystudio.com/article/colour-contrast-analyser-firefox-extension.php
Juicy Studio, run by Gez Lemon, presents a Firefox extension that automatically analyzes colour contrast across all DOM elements in a webpage, helping accessibility evaluators identify failing foreground/background combinations without manual guesswork. The article covers the tool's functionality in depth, including luminosity contrast ratios, WCAG 2 guidelines, and the AERT algorithm, making it a valuable reference for anyone doing web accessibility auditing.
http://effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5
A technical deep-dive by Joe at EffectGames.com exploring how the old-school color cycling technique from 8-bit era games can be recreated using HTML5 and the Canvas element. The article covers the history of palette cycling, spotlights artist Mark J. Ferrari's legendary LucasArts work, and includes downloadable JavaScript and C++ source code for a full color cycling engine.
https://xlthlx.com/en
Third Level is the personal blog of xlthlx, featuring dated posts on topics ranging from personal reflections to tech culture, with a sardonic and irreverent voice that immediately sets the tone. With over 134 pages of entries and a Mastodon presence, this is a long-running independent web journal with a strong anti-corporate, pro-open-web ethos evident in sections like 'Deshittification'.
https://permadi.com/tutorial/jsTypewriter/index.html
Created by F. Permadi, this tutorial walks through building a JavaScript typewriter text effect that renders characters letter by letter, complete with live demo and interactive input field. The explanation covers key JavaScript concepts like innerHTML and setTimeout, making it a useful beginner-friendly reference for anyone wanting to add dynamic text animations to a webpage.
https://ambylastname.xyz/
Allison (amby) is a programmer and musician who built this site with her own homemade static site generator, and showcases projects like Jamforth (a personal Forth implementation), staticcc, and a Forth-based text preprocessor. The site blends a quirky personal presence with a genuine focus on software development tools and open-source tinkering.
http://webdesign.maratz.com/lab/responsivetypography/realtime
Created by Marko Dugonjić at Creative Nights Studios, this interactive demo showcases an experimental approach to responsive typography that detects a user's viewing distance in real time to adjust font sizes accordingly. It pushes beyond standard CSS media queries and links to related tools like Typetester, Size Calculator, and Universal Typography for further exploration.
https://obliqueangel.neocities.org/
A sparse personal page by someone called Oblique Angel, featuring a brief anxious note and participation in the No AI Webring. The site is nearly empty of content beyond its webring links and a single image.
https://tilde.town/~thegiant
TheGiant's tilde.town homepage is a love letter to the old internet, covering BBS systems, telnet, MUDs, Usenet, Unix shell access, and hand-coded HTML in the spirit of dial-up era computing. The page doubles as a curated link collection pointing to active BBSes, MUD directories, and free Usenet servers for those who still embrace these retro communities.
https://jehiah.cz/a/data-hacks
Jehiah Czebotar introduces Data Hacks, a Python command line library developed at bit.ly for analyzing large datasets via stdin/stdout pipelines. The post showcases tools for histograms, percentile calculations, sampling, and timed data capture, complete with real-world access log examples.