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The OG Macintosh Determinate and Indeterminate Progress Bars were fucking *chef's kiss*
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These indeterminate progress bars in modern macOS are just * not it *... They remind me of something Android OS would do. Plus, in screenshots, if captured at the right time, they could look just like a regular determinate progress bars.
I've said it before and I will say it again. I miss the old barber pole style indeterminate progress bars. They were uniquely “#Macintosh" and they were fun.
These are just... boring.
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Howard Oakley - the all-in-one Macs:
https://eclecticlight.co/2025/05/10/a-brief-history-of-the-all-in-one-mac/
The Eclectic Light Company · A brief history of the all-in-one MacFrom the original Macintosh 128K in 1984, through the divergence into SE and Mac II, then the unique Twentieth Anniversary Mac, to the first iMac in 1998, and its successors.
ive published "resurrecting a Macintosh IIci for music", a writeup of the first part of my journey towards livecoding music on a 68k Mac! this one is mostly about getting the hardware into a usable state, more on the coding later :) https://pulusound.fi/blog/macintosh-iici #Macintosh #VintageApple #LiveCoding
pulusound.firesurrecting a Macintosh IIci for music
Just a word of warning—from experience! If you’re thinking about getting a Power Mac or anything in that modular/tower format… don’t do it. For your own good. It will become a slippery slope. I thought I was safe when I picked up an old Power Mac Graphite during #marchintosh 2024, and now here I am, somehow at my 10th Macintosh tower. I never even had a Mac tower growing up—only all-in-ones like the Performa, later iMacs, and PowerBooks. You’ve been warned!
This is glorious on multiple levels: https://macthemes.garden/
Not least because @eramdam manually generated new screenshots for ~~all 4000~~ many of the themes.
More details about building the website here: https://damien.zone/introducing-mac-themes-garden/
macthemes.gardenMac Themes Garden
In which All the Adventures finally embarks on The Hobbit (1982)
I clear up a great deal of history that has been muddled over the years
and get lost in the game fairly early.
I mostly grew up without a computer at home, but public terminals, old Macs, and a high school programming teacher gave me access.
That access shaped how I see the politics of tech to this day.
https://blog.sanfranciscan.org/2025/05/04/before-our-attention-was-a-commodity/
#PreWeb #OpenWeb #Technology #Linux #Macintosh
That access shaped how I see the politics of tech to this day.
https://blog.sanfranciscan.org/2025/05/04/before-our-attention-was-a-commodity/
#PreWeb #OpenWeb #Technology #Linux #Macintosh
Chema Hernández Gil, A San Franciscan · Before our Attention Was a Commodity: Memories of a Pre-Web InternetHow public terminals, old Macs, and a programming teacher shaped my political imagination and tech skills.
Hey, wenn Ihr Programmieren unter dem klassischen MacOS (System 6 und 7) lernen wollt:
Das Internet-Archiv hat Carsten Brinkschulte's hervorragendes Buch “Macintosh Programmieren in C” als PDF (das ePub ist auto-generiert und ziemlich unleserlich):
Internet ArchiveMacintosh Programmieren in C : Carsten Brinkschulte : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveDieses Buch ist eine praxisorientierte Einführung in das Programmieren des Macintosh. Es eröffnet den Zugang zu speziellen Konzepten des Betriebssystems...
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And I can't resist showing off the beautiful box 
Amiga version, as it was on this computer that I first played it 
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Happy 35th anniversary to Loom! 
(May 1990)
Have you ever seen the 5-minute demo presented at CES in Las Vegas in January 1990? 
Full video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=6PxHvPNZl-o
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Why this Mac always dies?, by @ActionRetro
these ~1000 page user guide / getting started books for MOTU Digital Performer 3 dont exist in digital form, afaik. if anyone with the resources to digitize them is interested, i would be happy to send them your way (ideally in Europe) #Macintosh #VintageApple #DigiPres
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On the Frootloop Monkeytosh computer front the key thing is: AeroSpace: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
If you're a "tiling" Window Manager user like me then AeroSpace totally transforms the Mac experience. You can almost forget there's a mouse attached. It's all very familiar if you're an XMonad* user. It isn't quite perfectly seamless, but it's a whole other world of usability for me.
I've got quite a nice modernised setup working at the moment, with AeroSpace, iTerm2, Fish shell, Atuin shell history, and Neovim... still more to enhance, I've barely dipped my toe in with Neovim's capabilities (and currently have nothing like my old vim uber-config running, that's on the TODO list.)
* My dev-box window manager history is: WindowMakXer => FVWM => PWM => Ion => XMonad... admittedly this home desktop currently runs XFCE because I've never really needed it to be a hardcore coding environment.
GitHubGitHub - nikitabobko/AeroSpace: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOSAeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS - nikitabobko/AeroSpace
tell me about your version control workflows for classic Mac development!
ive used git via MacRelix for things where only the data fork matters. but now i need resource forks too #VintageApple #Macintosh
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just in case you weren't familiar with Dorling Kindersley Multimedia - the short-lived educational software division of the book company - its crowning achievement is this Macromedia Director-produced animated re-imagining of stephen biesty's Incredible Cross-Sections: Man-of-War
PPC/OS X users: has anyone come across successful builds of *recent* love2d (sdl2) binaries for PPC?
i'm fascinated by the possibility that exigy could be backported to the iMac G4/G5 and OS X 10.4 if i could just figure out a good way of distributing binaries.