Creative Coding

The Dead Mac API That Proves Modern App Design Is a Lie

📅 August 8, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

A developer resurrected a deprecated macOS API — the NS Drawer — to build a Mastodon client with a tilted, gloriously weird interface. It’s not perfect, and that’s the point. This story reveals how modern app design became so homogenized that digging through Apple’s digital graveyard is the only way left to make something that feels alive.

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Regex Is a Computer. I Have Proof.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

A developer built a full Doom game that runs entirely on regex find-and-replace operations, proving that regex is Turing complete. The game is absurdly slow, but it works — and it challenges everything we think we know about what counts as a computer. It’s a stunning reminder that computation is universal, not just the domain of silicon.

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