Dispatches from behind the keyboard

20 October 2026 Project News Post 007

PaTorrent is nearing 1.0

PaTorrent is a lean BitTorrent client in the spirit of µTorrent 2.2.1: small, fast, native, and comfortable with thousands of torrents. It runs on its own Rust port of the libtorrent engine, with a Windows GUI, a headless daemon with a Web UI, and a GTK interface for Linux and BSD.

Several big pieces of the road to 1.0 landed this week:

• v2 and hybrid torrents download and seed, and were tested against qBittorrent and Deluge.
• An HTTPS Web UI and remote mode, so the Windows GUI can drive a PaTorrent daemon on another machine.
• 34 languages, including right-to-left layouts, with the system language chosen by default.
• A first 100,000-torrent engine run: restored in about 2 seconds.

Still to come before 1.0: the rest of the Linux GTK interface, the large-library test on a low-end PC, release downloads for Windows, Linux, and macOS, and a final round of hands-on testing.

PaTorrent is still pre-alpha, so please don't use it for torrents you care about or on private trackers yet. You can follow along and send feedback on GitHub.

20 October 2026 Site News Post 006

Every project, in one place

The website has a fresh look and clearer menus, so everything is easier to find:

• Projects now holds the apps, userscripts, Windows and Discord tweaks, and game mods. Pick a category or search by name or platform.
• Firefox brings the extensions and themes together on one page.

Projects that until now lived only on GitHub have joined too: T-Clock-ng, a configurable taskbar clock updated for Windows 11; ExplorerPatcher-bos, a build of ExplorerPatcher with recent fixes; Alternative Vista-xtr, Windows Vista's Aero look for Discord; DadGamerMode for Single Player Tarkov; and a HardverApró seller filter.

The Android app DND Override also has its privacy policy here. Every page now links to GitHub, and bugs in the Firefox extensions can be reported there.

20 October 2026 Project News Post 005

Find the good games on Xbox Cloud Gaming

Xbox Cloud Gaming Scores & Finder is a new free userscript for xbox.com/play. The site has thousands of streamable games but almost nothing to judge them by, so the script puts a rating score and genre on every game tile.

Scores combine Metacritic, Steam, and Microsoft Store ratings into one number from 0 to 100. A new Game Finder panel (Alt+G) filters the whole catalog of about 3,900 cloud games by score, genre, Game Pass, free to play, touch controls, co-op, and more, and Surprise me picks a random game from your results.

It runs in Tampermonkey on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari, and Opera. There's no account and no tracking: the scores are bundled into the script. Install it, or read the code on GitHub.

20 October 2026 Firefox News Post 004

Page Load Progress 3.2.0, and XP Luna is ready to install

Page Load Progress 3.2.0 came out on 16 October. It adds optional tab indicators: background tabs get a green dot when they finish loading, or a red triangle when the page returns an error, and loading progress can also appear in the tab title. The bar now follows the page's real loading stages instead of jumping to 80–95% at once, and it never moves backwards. See the full changelog.

Windows XP Luna 2001 is now available on Firefox Add-ons, so all five classic desktop themes can be installed with one click.

3 October 2026 Theme News Post 003

Five classic desktops, day and night

GNOME Clearlooks 2006, Windows XP Luna 2001, and Windows Vista Aero 2007 join the Firefox theme gallery. Ubuntu Human and Kubuntu Crystal are refreshed to version 1.2.0.

All five now have automatic dark variants, including Human Night, Crystal Night, Luna Night, and Black Glass. Human, Crystal, Clearlooks, and Vista are available on Firefox Add-ons; XP has a preview while a public install link is unavailable.

The website also has larger text, clearer links, theme shortcuts, and easier navigation on phones. Visit the updated gallery to compare the themes.

26 September 2026 Project News Post 002

Firefox projects join the archive

The project archive now includes Page Load Progress, a page-loading progress indicator, and 2FA Local, an authenticator with encrypted local storage. Both extensions are available on Firefox Add-ons.

The new Firefox theme gallery introduces Ubuntu Human 2006 and Kubuntu Crystal 2006, with previews and details about their classic desktop palettes.

If you would like to support future work, you can now donate with PayPal. Thank you!

20 July 2026 Site News Post 001

The new DukeCorp1996 website is online

Welcome to the new home of DukeCorp1996. The site is intentionally simple: fast static pages, straightforward navigation, and a little old-school portal energy.

This is where project pages and future release notes will live. Bookmark this page if you want to follow development.