Ok, this is tangential, but how is it that one of the founders of Netscape/Mozil...

sneak · on April 30, 2013

You must be new here.

http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

dredmorbius · on April 30, 2013

I'm not new here.

That, however, is taking nostalgia far beyond any sense of probity. It definitely ain't what it used to be.

sneak · on April 30, 2013

tlb of yc fame, turns out, is the guy who wrote the analog-tv-artifact-simulation code in jwz's xscreensaver:

https://github.com/Zygo/xscreensaver/blob/master/hacks/analo...

I have little doubt that all of jwz.org text rendering will be fully analogue-simulated once the monstrosity that is the supermajority of the installed base of web browsers supports such folly.

dredmorbius · on April 30, 2013

I'm still trying to pry my jaw off the floor. Really, it's a thing of beauty. A sick, sadistic, twisted, nostalgic, mental beauty, but beauty all the same.

And yes, I'm familiar with the xanalogtv screensaver. Among my faves.

gnu8 · on April 30, 2013

$10 for a gimmick program that will get used once?

sneak · on May 1, 2013

$10 to tell the person who made it that we approve of the choices he's made in his life.

I bought it because it simply existing brings me joy. It has the best you-haven't-paid-yet nagware implementation ever conceived by man. I never even triggered it (I bought it instantly) and it gives me joy that it exists.

jgeorge · on April 30, 2013

I use Cathode as my regular terminal. What are you trying to say? :-)

jleader · on April 30, 2013

Browse around his blog some more, I guarantee you'll find images far more painful than mere green text on black!

That said, his recent "SOMA Nature Walk" series would appeal to people into big engineering.