Rad Tech Things
I'm often down on the modern state of technology (mostly because it's almost all capital-driven and pivoting to "AI" nonsense) but I want to start highlighting rad things people make that show what joy tech can bring

Lyra Rebane built a fully running x86 CPU that runs in CSS

In our first installment or Rad Tech Things, we have something fucking bonkers - a fully functional x86 CPU that's running in CSS. Absolutely wild that someone even thought to try to make this, but more impressive that it fucking works.

Seriously, go give it a try right now - I'll wait.

This reminds me of when a cohost user (I think their username was mint but I legitimately don't remember!!) compressed the entire movie Shrek into an animated png file and embedded it in a css post. Or the time someone built a filter that blurred the whole site that I think was called "Take off your glasses" mode; I don't know that Cohost was necessarily a starting point for this kind of behavior (since the human mind is always on the lookout to do weird shit) but it definitely helped as an incubator, and it's nice that in the wake of the platform's death the legacy that it fostered is alive and well. (Lyra cites cohost as the source of learning CSS)

Anyway, someone with more technical knowledge than me, I beg - take the next step. Get Doom to run on it lmao. I know there are already "Run Doom in CSS" options out there, but running it inside a CSS CPU is kind of the next logical step. I don't think it'll be like when someone installed Linux on a switch, then ran a switch emulator in Linux and got better performance on games - but it'd still be something weird and cool

Anyway, here's your end of post cat. Her name is Gargoyle.