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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source

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By Scott Hanselman, Robert Standefer
| microsoft.com
The chat client that brought Comic Sans to the world is now on GitHub Today, we’re excited to announce the open-source release of Microsoft Comic Chat, the chat client that automatically turned conversations within Internet Relay Chat (IRC) into comic panels featuring illustrated characters, speech bubbles, and expressions, and helped introduce the world to a little font called Comic Sans. Yes, that Comic Sans.
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Continuing the story of early DOS development

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By Stacey Haffner, Scott Hanselman
| microsoft.com
Over the last few years, we’ve been working to open some of the earliest chapters of Microsoft’s operating system history. In 2018 we (re)-open-sourced MS‑DOS 1.25 and 2.11, and more recently in 2024 we were able to make the source for MS‑DOS 4.0 available to the public as well. Today, on 86-DOS 1.00’s 45th anniversary, we’re continuing that tradition by preserving the earliest DOS source code discovered to date.
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Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) - Tiny Tool Town

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By Scott Hanselman
| tinytooltown.com
A lot of these tools smooth over daily friction: panes, desktops, package updates, certificates, shipping labels. Some are intentionally tiny and specific. Toasty is a 229 KB notification CLI; BabySmash is exactly what it sounds like. The common thread is practical tinkering: make the rough edge visible, shave it down, share the result.
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