Obviously, the design of my page is inspired by nostalgia. Old Windows versions may look obsolete today, but after DOS, they were amazing. I know a lot about their shortcomings and issues, but deep down, I remember how cutting-edge the star and the labyrinth screensavers felt.

Whenever I select a typeface resembling the IBM 437 VGA character set for my terminal, it feels like coming home. I know that there are more ergonomic, state-of-the-art monospace typefaces, but whenever I see this one, I relive the enthusiasm of my six-year-old self who had just booted up the computer on an endless Saturday morning. Receiving the prompt opened the gate to the endless possibilities.

I'll get back into this topic in a later post, but for now, I'd like to write about that piece of nostalgia I just added to my blog. I really liked Win 3.1. Before I left the Microsoft ecosystem, I worked on a Python-based Program Manager clone, that automatically populated the program groups with icons, offering a window-based experience. (It is designed to be platform independent, by the way, but I haven't finished the Linux part yet.)

The new feature is a tag-based list of posts that pays tribute to the same Win 3.1 shell with its arrangement and hidden wallpaper.

The original version of this post is part of the Blaugust 2025 series on my blog along with:

• Poets of the Fall
• Project done!
• Video games that made me learn
• Blaugust