Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to "Flying Toasters!" reverse-engineered 1:1, in the browser
The classic After Dark Flying Toasters screensaver, flapping in your browser.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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"After Dark" by Berkeley Systems was a collection of screensavers for Macintosh and Windows from early 90s; "Flying Toasters" is probably the most famous and loved among them. Using my very limited knowledge of C and X11 programming, I recreated it as a XScreensaver module for Linux. Hope you find it useful or at least amusing!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Pilots everywhere are required to keep a logbook of all their flying hours, aircraft, airports, and so on. Since I track everything digitally (some people still just use paper logbooks!), I put together some data visualizations and a few 3D globes to show my flying history. This globe is probably my favourite so far: https://jameshard.ing/pilot/globes/all If you’ve got ideas for other graphs or ways to show this kind of data, I’d love to hear them!
2025 · jameshard.ing · its alternatives →
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Flight Icons▲153An animated icon pack built for iOS, Android, Web & Video
2019 · flighticon.co · its alternatives →
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Display websites through your screensaver
2015 · expireddomains.com · its alternatives →
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toast.log 2.0▲253Get console errors right on your page (as toasts)
2020 · toastlog.com · its alternatives →
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flip disc build guide
2024 · flipdisc.io · its alternatives →
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Keyboard-first control for Google Antigravity IDE
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →
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Bauhaus Clock▲207Elegant timepiece screensaver for macOS
2025 · bauhausclock.com · its alternatives →
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A collection of hundreds of fully responsive Talwind blocks & components. Ready to copy-paste into your Tailwind project.
2021 · blocks.wickedtemplates.com · its alternatives →
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Hologram▲95Amazing widgets and wallpapers for your Mac desktop!
2020 · gethologram.com · its alternatives →
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Toast is an attempt to make file editing and navigating as pleasant in the terminal as an IDE. I had messed around with nvim and plugins but couldn’t find an easy way to get what I wanted, which was mostly a file tree and an editor with some syntax highlighting that looked nice. I will say a lot of this is written by Claude, mostly because I have two new born twins so this project wouldn’t exist otherwise. I hope someone finds it feels a niche like I do!
Sep 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Screensavers for your terminal. Contribute to cxreiff/ttysvr development by creating an account on GitHub.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Tinfoil Pigeons▲120See the aircraft flying over you on a retro radar scope
Jun 2026 · tinfoilpigeons.com · its alternatives →
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Afterglow▲102Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS
Sep 2026 · morphing.cloud · its alternatives →
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