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My favorite HyperCard story is mostly well known: Myst was written entirely in it. HyperCard had some primitive reflection capabilities, where you could open a different HyperCard …

Reading this made me miss BeOS. Blazingly fast UI. Mandatory to use separate threads for app rendering and processing user input to stay responsive under load. File system was impl…

Agreed. The conclusion of the article feels pretty unsupported, especially considering that AppleTalk still survives to this day.

Which lead to a pretty magical moment for me as a kid. Turns out it’s trivial to write a HyperCard program that opens another HyperCard stack and extract its source code. Imagine t…

With the walled garden, Apple can set enforceable timelines for the software ecosystem to adopt to architectural changes. Remember the transition to arm64? Apple forced everything …