Random Caplocks Prank
I was building a program that needed to allow a user to set a hotkey but the program lives in the taskbar so there's no UI. I decided what I would do is enable the caplock key when they click "Set Hotkey" and then they can disable the caplock key (or set it to its initial state, rather) to indicate they have finished. That project is still going but I got sidetracked by the idea that I could just build a program to randomly enable the caplock key every once in a while. This isn't a program designed to calculate child malnutrition or do anything to stop genocide etc but I was able to do it in…
Random Caplocks Prank launched on November 29, 2024 with 10 votes, #1,832 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
Random Caplocks Prank is a utility that randomly toggles the caps lock key at intervals while running in the background. Built by a developer who initially created hotkey-setting functionality using caps lock as an input mechanism, the tool evolved into a standalone prank application. It runs from the taskbar without a visible user interface and was developed as a learning exercise in a few hours.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
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GoRandomCaps is a fun and harmless prank application written in Go. It toggles the Caps Lock key randomly at intervals, and provides a system tray interface with additional features like enabling startup on boot and rebooting the application. Disclaimer: This project was built and tested on Windows. While compatibility with Linux and macOS is intended, these platforms are currently untested. Use at your own discretion. git clone https://github.com/your-username/gorandomcaps.git cd gorandomcaps Build the project: build.bat The executable will be created in the build/ directory. ./build/gorandomcaps.exe Linux and macOS Clone the repository: git clone…from github.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
I was building a program that needed to allow a user to set a hotkey but the program lives in the taskbar so there's no UI. I decided what I would do is enable the caplock key when they click "Set Hotkey" and then they can disable the caplock key (or set it to its initial state, rather) to indicate they have…
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