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🛑 We’re nothing if not stubborn, so we’ve updated the world’s leading Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot fansite with some new images stopormy.mom
Exactly 5 years ago we released 20 amazing versions of Happy Birthday To You into the public domain, you can freely use them for anything!
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After listening to 30 seconds of it & no more, I’d say yes
✉️ No new projects yet in 2026, but a new Vmail just went out, mostly answering your questions/suggestions vole.wtf/vmail/archiv...
There’s a link in every email, or head here vole.wtf/vmail/~write...
Hope he’s impressed by the game, @nanochess.bsky.social crammed SO much into that little bit of code
Just heard from my 70 something yr old Dad (misses his BBC micro) who is typing in the meteor game right now and loving it.
Over 450 copies of DOCTYPE have now been sent out, with some lucky people getting it for Christmas
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We’re even investigating the possibility of releasing it as an audiobook...
My son, enjoying the concept of typing games into the PC instead of downloading them. Let's see how DocType goes...
@vole.wtf DocType, may have been bought with nostalgia in mind, but the boy is very keen to have a go...
Christmas done a day early :-)
After a randomised spin of a (virtual) wheel of numbers, we can announce that the winner is… 🎉 @gazchap.com 🎉
(email volewtf at gmail to arrange delivery)
🎅 We’d like to give away a FREE magazine to Bluesky to say thanks for helping make this project a success
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
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(trying this again slightly differently as we made it seem a bit too competitive)
🎅 We’d like to give away a FREE magazine to Bluesky to say thanks for helping make this project a success
🎁 To enter, just QUOTE this with a description of your first ever computer, we’ll randomly pick a winner at the end of the week
vole.wtf/doctype/
AI Content Policy GANksy and This MP Does Not Exist were created with machine learning models trained only on content we supplied (no prompting, no hoovering up the entire internet). We’ve also used automatic transcription for video subtitles. We occasionally commission work (illustration, music, voice acting) to bring a project to life with a specific person’s unique talent and unexpected ideas; AI will never be used to replace that or our own creativity.
GANksy and This MP Does Not Exist are still there, they used neural networks we trained from scratch (rather than hoovering up the entire internet then typing a prompt)
Here’s our AI content policy, we were one of the first (if not THE first) sites to have a public-facing one: vole.wtf/blah/#ai
🤖 We’ve now removed or replaced all the content we had that used early LLMs & image generators. Those projects played on the flaws/quirks/nonsense of “AI”, but the joke doesn’t work now that similar stuff’s taking over EVERYWHERE
Glad you like it!
🚀 Still not too late to order DOCTYPE before Christmas but it’s getting tight for some parts of the world
Don’t disappoint the nerds in your life (including yourself)
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(our magazine has clearer instructions for beginners and FAR better programs)
Screenshot of code snippet
🚀 To recreate the kind of program an ’80s kid would type into a display computer in a shop, type the code in the image below into a text/code editor, all on one line, then save as demo.html & double-click to open in browser
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🥔🥔🥔 NEW APP 🥔🥔🥔
Everything’s now got 4K 60fps HDR video, booooring. Embrace the low-res glitchy look instead
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🚀 We’re STILL getting people asking for a PDF/download of DOCTYPE even though the page makes our stance on the matter very clear vole.wtf/doctype/#faq
We genuinely have, but fear for the sanity of anyone who has to carefully read it all out
🚀 We’re STILL getting people asking for a PDF/download of DOCTYPE even though the page makes our stance on the matter very clear vole.wtf/doctype/#faq
We put Óscar’s program first in the magazine as it packs such a great game into such a small space
Getting started page
Bookerfly page showing some code, intro and “Typing tips” bit
Cover
🚀 You don’t need any coding experience to enjoy our fun/ridiculous* type-in magazine, there’s a beginners’ guide and we point out any tricky bits of typing for each program
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*delete as applicable
A few people have asked if we’re doing a special Christmas version of VTV vole.wtf/vtv/ , and the answer is probably… but not this year. It needs proper festive idents and UI, there’s no time right now but it’s pretty likely for 2026
🚀🎅 Get your DOCTYPE Christmas orders in this week to be safe!
It’s the perfect gift for every computer nerd you know
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✉️ A new Vmail just went out with our latest update gubbins vole.wtf/vmail/archiv...
Doctype magazine: type-in apps for modern computers
https://boingboing.net/2025/11/24/doctype-magazine-type-in-apps-for-modern-computers.html
#boingboing
Did I do this right? ;-)
