# CS fun

A compilation of silly, nerdy stuff worth memorializing: [EntertainingSpace](https://entertaining.space/), but for computer nerds (i.e., "practical insanity").

## Social skills done wrong

[GitHub Dramas](https://github.com/paradite/github-dramas) - A collection of dumb, public arguments.

## Raw art

[drawing.garden](https://drawing.garden/) - Calming pointlessness

[Not a real engineer](https://twitchard.github.io/posts/2019-05-29-not-a-real-engineer.html) - Poetry in[volving slow] motion

## Pranks/optics

[fakeupdate.net](http://fakeupdate.net/) - Fake computer updating screens, great for pranks.

[GEEKTyper.com](http://geektyper.com/) and [Hacker Typer](http://hackertyper.net/) - Hack the mainframe, compile sub-processor nodes, then do a fast tango cycle on the algorithmic dereliction platitudes.

## Vintage UX

[ASCII Art Archive](https://www.asciiart.eu/) - A 256-character paintbrush.

[iPod.js](https://tannerv.com/ipod/) - An online iPod.

[The Hacker Classics](https://jsomers.net/hn/) - Hacker News, the old-timey version.

[Winamp Skin Museum](https://skins.webamp.org/) - For when everyone actually *owned* their music.

[WINDOWS93](https://www.windows93.net/) - Faithfully almost recreating a simpler, geekier time.

[Windows 96](https://windows96.net/) - Faithfully recreating a UX experience from a simpler time.

[Whimsy Space](https://whimsy.space/) - Not faithfully recreating a full experience of...something.

[Web98](https://github.com/nate-parrott/web98) - AI-generated 1998 websites of anytime, anywhere.

[Infinite Mac](https://macos8.app/) - macOS from a simpler time.

[WinXP](https://winxp.now.sh/) - Windows XP in JavaScript's React platform.

[daedalOS](https://dustinbrett.com/) - Windows XP by some guy who did it better in the browser.

[TEXTFILES](http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html) or [UTZOO Groups](https://www.usenetarchives.com/groups.php?c=utzoo&p=0) - Bringing back the internet of 1988.

[Hot Dog Linux](https://web.archive.org/web/20201124191917/https://hotdoglinux.com/) - Linux from a gaudier time.

## UX crimes

[ClickClickClick](https://clickclickclick.click/) - Informing you about everything you're doing.

[Elevator.js](https://tholman.com/elevator.js/) - Return to the top, the old-fashioned way.

[Fibery Anxiety](https://fibery.io/anxiety) - The way the dev team sees Fibery after the marketing team wanted a 3-pronged [Build](https://fibery.io/build), [Connect](https://fibery.io/connect), and [Freedom](https://fibery.io/freedom) landing page.

[fontBomb](https://fontbomb.ilex.ca/) - Destroy the web, stylishly.

[gail.com](https://gail.com/) - A website that exists for non-use.

[Hex-Words](https://hex-colours.netlify.app/) and [#HEXWORDS](https://hexwords.netlify.app/) - Meta color codes that sound like actual words.

[HTTP Cats](https://http.cat/) - Like HTTP DOGS, but with Cats.

[HTTP DOGS](https://http.dog/) - Like HTTP Cats, but with DOGS.

[HTTP Status Dogs](https://httpstatusdogs.com/) - Like HTTP DOGS, but with Status Dogs.

[Music using ONLY sounds from Windows XP and 98!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsU3B0W3TMs) - A song to dance to, secretly.

[Ok Google Play Music](https://open.spotify.com/album/4zkEptQvq1lVG0BSPLuLFf?si=1Y4i7boAQc-jCc2IP_BGSw&nd=1) - Someone made an album that got instant market exposure.

[Placebo Button](http://placebobutton.com/) - Make everything feel more productive.

[User Inyerface](https://userinyerface.com/) - Everything wrong about UX in one website.

[Scunthorpe Sans](https://vole.wtf/scunthorpe-sans/) - Making the internet cleaner.

[Obsolete "see-through glass"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210625194633/https://twitter.com/RunDaltonRun/status/1408507323031592964) - Because technology needs updating.

[Stupid Shit No One Needs & Terrible Ideas Hackathon](https://stupidhackathon.com/) - Post-modern coding art.

[The UX on this Small Child Is Terrible](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible) - Going where UX hasn't gone much.

[Ideal monitor rotation for programmers](https://sprocketfox.io/xssfox/2021/12/02/xrandr/) - Trying to make the monitor show things it didn't.

[This page is a truly naked, brutalist html quine.](https://secretgeek.github.io/html_wysiwyg/html.html) - Inverting the experience.

[DON'T YOU LECTURE ME WITH YOUR THIRTY DOLLAR WEBSITE](https://gdcolon.com/%F0%9F%97%BF) - a juvenile, inane, useless experience.

[The Most Annoying Website Ever!!](http://mr.g.graham.tripod.com/) - An irritating website.

[Wobbly clock!](https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/wobble-clock/) - A weird clock.

[xroach](https://github.com/interkosmos/xroach) - Roaches that hide. Under everything.

[millennials to snake people](https://github.com/ericwbailey/millennials-to-snake-people) - Calling Millennials for what they are. A fork of [cloud-to-butt](https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt).

## Data management crimes

[stacksort](https://gkoberger.github.io/stacksort/) - A horrifically inefficient and unreliable sorting algorithm.

Run "tracert bad.horse" in a CLI (reference to [Doctor Horrible's Sing-Along Blog](https://drhorrible.com/)).

## Programming wrong

[93% of Paint Splatters are Valid Perl Programs](https://www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/) - Because Perl somehow makes everything valid.

[awesome-dev-fun](https://github.com/mislavcimpersak/awesome-dev-fun) - Not-that-useful packages.

[Repokémon](https://cheeaun.github.io/repokemon/) - GitHub repositories with Pokémon names.

[rockstar](https://codewithrockstar.com/) - Hair metal power ballad programming.

[rouille](https://github.com/bnjbvr/rouille) - Rust programming, in French.

[shitcode](https://shitcode.net/) - A gallery of badly done code: [MOBA](https://museumofbadart.org/) for software design.

[Source Code in TV and Films](https://moviecode.tumblr.com/) - Movies are fake, but *how* fake?

## Games done wrong

[Bennett Foddy](https://www.foddy.net/) - A sadist who hates gamers.

[The Python Challenge](http://www.pythonchallenge.com/) - A game for programmers.

## Social networks done wrong

[ShlinkedIn.com](https://www.shlinkedin.com/) - To capture LinkedIn culture.

## Hardware made wrong

[Booting from a vinyl record](http://boginjr.com/it/sw/dev/vinyl-boot/) - A victimless crime against removable media.

[The Floppotron 3.0](http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/) - A victimless crime against music.

## Protocols set wrong

[April Fools' Day Request for Comments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools'_Day_Request_for_Comments) - Engineers' standards to serve less than one purpose.

[The Be Book's "on" status](https://www.haiku-os.org/legacy-docs/bebook/TheKernelKit_SystemInfo.html#is_computer_on) - Return whether the computer is on, or on fire, and both have *many* possible uses.

## Brilliance with constraints

[Finding Mona Lisa in the Game of Life](https://avinayak.github.io/algorithms/programming/2021/02/19/finding-mona-lisa-in-the-game-of-life.html) - using [Conway's Game of Life](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) to (badly) recreate the Mona Lisa

[Fontemon](https://www.coderelay.io/fontemon.html) - A game in a font.

[The Kilobyte's Gambit](https://vole.wtf/kilobytes-gambit/) - Win at chess against 1024 bytes of JavaScript

[Segmented type appreciation corner](https://aresluna.org/segmented-type/) - using the limitations of segmented type to create characters

[Fishdraw](https://fishdraw.glitch.me/) - procedurally generated fish, also [Nonflowers](https://nonflowers.lingdong.works/).

[Emojia](https://emojia.glitch.me/) - A game made entirely of emoji.

[The Commodordion](https://linusakesson.net/commodordion/index.php) - Literally breathing new life and music into the Commodore 64.

## Games done right

[Do Not Draw A Penis](https://donotdrawapenis.com/) - Machine learning, applied very wrongly.

[HATETRIS](https://qntm.org/hatetris) - Tetris that hates you.

[Skynet Simulator](http://skynetsimulator.com/) - The *real* way The Terminator should have started.

## Games + legit skillz

[Can't Unsee](https://cantunsee.space/) - Get nitpicky with UX.

[The Bézier Game](https://bezier.method.ac/) - Get good at that curvey tool in Photoshop and stuff.

## Games with *science*

[Aaronson Oracle](https://roadtolarissa.com/oracle/) - Try to make completely random decisions.

[Neurotic Neurons](http://ncase.me/neurons/) - How neurons form.

[The Evolution of Trust](https://ncase.me/trust/) - How trust forms.

[Swing Paradox](https://testtubegames.com/swing.html) - The physics of swings.

[The Fittest 2](https://testtubegames.com/fittest2.html) - Natural selection with stick figures.

## Robotics

[Do You Love Me?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn3KWM1kuAw) - Synchronizing motion capture to music, cooler than it sounds.

## Fix/Break

[Simple Trouble Shooting Application Now Fixes Everything](https://secretgeek.net/simple_checklist) - How to now fix everything

## Almost tools

[Bullshit.js](https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/) - Leverage your core actionables to actualize best practices.

[ButtyStock](https://vole.wtf/buttystock/) - free sandwich images

[Ever Given Ever Ywhere](https://evergiven-everywhere.glitch.me/) - Remember the Suez Canal's blockage? Now you can block *anywhere* with that same ship!

[Gen-a-city](https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/lingdonh/Gen-a-city/) - procedurally generated cities.

[WebGL Fluid Simulation](https://paveldogreat.github.io/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation/) - For all your browser-based fluid simulation needs.

[Microsimulation of Traffic Flow](http://traffic-simulation.de/) - For all your browser-based traffic simulation needs.

[Pointer Pointer](https://pointerpointer.com/) - pointing.

[RemoteOK's VS Code](https://remoteok.com/vscode) - Finding a job while looking like you're not.

[Space Engine](http://spaceengine.org/) - For all your browser-based space-faring needs.

[This MP Does Not Exist](https://vole.wtf/this-mp-does-not-exist/) - making a whole new UK parliamentary cabinet.

## Brilliant creators

[aemkei](https://aem1k.com/) - JavaScript-based visual design.

[VOLEwtf](https://vole.wtf/) - randomness.

## Corporate shenanigans

[If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever](https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/if-you-want-this-job-we-must-interview-you-forever) - How to not be corporate.

[Is it Pokèmon or Big Data?](https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/) - Know your implementations and actualize informal knowledge base understandables.

[Microsoft Coffee](https://www.microsoftcoffee.org/) - April Fools done powerfully.

[Things to Say When You're Losing a Technical Argument](https://www.pigdog.org/auto/mr_bads_list/shortcolumn/1914.html) - How to sigalert friends and turbidify people.

[Silicon Valley Dictionary](https://svdictionary.com/) - Jargon from Mike Judge's underrated TV show.

[KRAZAM](https://www.krazam.tv/) - For all your CI/CD value add.

## Raw Geekery

[Korn meets KoRN](http://www.kornshell.com/fun/) - The band meets the shell.