Standboy

Someone built a tool that turns your actual, physical Game Boy into a notification system for AI agents. You leave your agent chugging away on some task, and when it's done—or needs you—it literally wakes up your dusty gray Game Boy to tell you. That's the most unhinged bridge between retro gaming and AI infrastructure I've seen in a minute.

Standboy connects directly to your AI workflow and triggers a wake-up signal on original Game Boy hardware. No app notifications, no desktop pings—just your old handheld buzzing and blinking at you like it's 1989 and aliens are landing. The setup is entirely open-source over on GitHub under the mfbz account, so you're free to fork it, mod it, or just watch it exist as proof that someone asked "what if my AI agent could play NES" and then actually did it.

Is this practical? Absolutely not. Is it kind of brilliant? Weirdly, yeah. Sometimes the best tools are the ones that make you laugh before they make you productive.