Blue Screen of App

Table of Contents

• Quick Start
• Features
• Architecture
• Development
• API
• Contributing
• License

Does exactly what it says on the tin…​ or screen.

A humorous web app displaying authentic Blue Screen of Death errors. Built with Deno, ReScript, and Podman.

Quick Start

./scripts/bootstrap.sh  # Install Deno, Podman, Just
just build              # Compile ReScript + export config
just podman-run         # Deploy container
# Visit https://localhost:443

Features

• 🎨 Four authentic BSOD styles (Win10, Win11, Win7, WinXP)

• 🎭 25+ humorous error messages

• 📡 REST API with analytics

• 🔒 QUIC/HTTP3 with HTTP/2 fallback

• ⚙️ Nickel configuration language

• 🐳 Rootless Podman containers

• 🔧 100+ Just recipes

Architecture

• Runtime: Deno (no Node.js, no npm)

• Business Logic: ReScript (type-safe)

• Server: Minimal JavaScript glue code

• Containers: Podman (rootless)

• Protocols: QUIC/HTTP3/HTTP2/HTTP1.1

• Config: Nickel → JSON export

• Port: 443 (HTTPS)

Development

just dev           # Development mode
just test          # Run tests
just build         # Compile everything
just validate      # RSR compliance check

See Deployment Guide for details.

API

curl https://localhost:443/api/error
curl https://localhost:443/api/codes
curl https://localhost:443/api/health

See API Documentation.

Contributing

See Contributing and TPCF.

License

Dual-licensed: GPL-3.0-or-later OR Palimpsest-0.8. See LICENSE.

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💙 It’s not a bug, it’s a CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED error!