Snake rendered in a browser tab title
Originally posted on LinkedIn, October 22, 2025.
A 17-year-old named Asher Falcon built a version of Snake that runs inside the browser’s title bar. There are no advanced graphics and no canvas. The game continuously updates the title text to draw the snake’s movement in real time. Simple and ingenious.
It is more than a technical trick. It shows what happens when you treat a language’s limits as a starting point rather than a constraint. You can push JavaScript far enough to reveal a completely different side of it without breaking anything.
More than anything, this is pure creativity. Sometimes the best idea comes from the most ordinary place, like a small line of text at the top of a browser.
You can try it at asherfalcon.com. Open the site and type snake to start. Use a new window so there is enough room in the tab bar to play.