- Save clean screenshots of the Macintosh display. Save in MacPaint and name your drawing, the screenshots use that name (in-browser OCR).
- Save a timelapse of your drawing as a super-light MP4 (in-browser ffmpeg). Easiest MacPaint timelapse I know (I used it to make the video in this post.)

It’s also pure fun: draw in a retro way and explore the creative constraints of 1-bit illustrations.

MacPaint is a key step in the history of UX (and visual design!)

I built a super simple way to use MacPaint 1.0 in workshops and lectures. Try it: juliendorra.com/macintosh/

2-minute pottery in Mac Paint 1.0.

Time lapse created using juliendorra.com/macintosh/

What if the atomium was a giant rotating sculpture? Shot with a 1997 camera, animated with a 2025 AI

Black Lava, made with Live Code Lab

AI and video games: using light fast AI models to get impactful results

- Combining game's ingredients in detailed monster description => GPT5 Thinking (ok, heavy model)

- Monster image gen => Flux Schnell, optimized for speed, <2s generation

- Monster video gen => Luma Ray3 draft, fast, 20-30s

In 2013, Mozilla partnered with ZTE to create a phone with a FLOSS OS based on web tech: Firefox OS!

You could build native apps using only HTML, CSS, JavaScript.

This is a piece of tech history, from a moment many believed there still was a chance at a really open and accessible OS for phones