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✨ Added a CRT curvature distortion to @pieter now It takes the Em-DOSBox and processes it in WebGL and builds a new with the distortion of a classic CRT screen which had this convex curvature (like an old TV) even though the screen itself was square I had this working on DOSBox on MacOS and on Linux with CRT-Pi shader, but on web it doesn't support shaders so I had to build my own with Claude Code in JS, very easy I remember trying this a year ago and Claude Code fucked it up so bad that I gave up, so I think the models have improved a lot Tomorrow I'll try add some scanlines, it really helps make the simulation more passable (and nostalgic!) 😊👌

🗞️ More new email features on pieter.com You now get the daily news report sent in your email (and updated hourly) I don't really like to read the news, but this is a fun way, cause it's all in plain text inside Windows 3.11 😊 Written as a Python cron robot by AI (of course) which writes directly into /Home/web/Maildir/cur, which is the location of the emails And like before you can reply to the email and it will show up in your inbox and everyone else's

💾 I got AOL Instant Messenger working in 2025!!! 🤯 I installed aim.exe on pieter.com and I connected to a reverse engineered retro AIM server You can login and it works and you can actually message people, in this case I don't know anyone else on this server so I message myself MSN next??

@levelsio @AOL You know what this means..... This means that virtual 90s Mac Users on Dialtone can now talk to virtual 90s Windows users on Pieter.com ! dialtone.live

💌 Sending emails on pieter.com also works again It's a massive undertaking because Eudora from 1995 only supports port 25 but Hetzner blocks port 25 So me and @bai0 had to IPTABLES forward the port 25 in the ISP to 587 to make it work But now you can send and receive emails to web@pieter.com again

🤓 You can now read live Hacker News on pieter.com via Gopher Gopher is the old internet protocol that was kind of a precursor to the web, it ran on port 70 instead of 80, and was pretty similar to the web, also live pages with hyperlinks but more limited You can open it via the computer or in any Gopher browser at gopher://hn.pieter.com:70 or via Gopher proxy like this: portal.mozz.us/gopher/hn.piet… It runs on hn-gopher by Michael Lazar

I gave @mrdoob, the creator of ThreeJS, access to Pieter (dot) com repo and asked him to help me fix occlussion of the screen and he fixed it! Before the screen was weirdly overlapping Claude Code nor Cursor was able to fix this, the problem is that most of the code about this particular problem (blending 3DCSS into ThreeJS) was written in React and my code is more vanilla JS THANK YOU!!!

Conventional wisdom says running local LLMs require high-performance computers. Thanks to the open-source llama2.c project, I ported it so DOS PCs can inference Llama 2 LLM models. Of course there are severe limitations but the results will surprise you. yeokhengmeng.com/2025/04/llama2…