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Impressive, but oh man, the transition from the original ZSNES User Interface from my childhood to the UI of Super ZSNES was jarring to say the least. Nostalgia is powerful: https:…

This would be a clever time to introduce a "Mac Neo Mini" (e.g. a cheaper mac mini alternative with a mobile CPU like the A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo). Probably won't happen due to …

If you don't know Ben Eater, check out his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/beneater WARNING: nerd snipe material.

Thanks for making me feel old! One of my first real jobs involved MIDP/J2ME development. I cannot say I loved the platform, but it somehow felt more magical back then to develop so…

The way I understand it, the shader overlay can only modify what is already being rendered below. It does not have access to the underlying application logic, 3D geometry or other …

That's so clever! Plenty of emulators and games don't have native support for these kinds of shaders so just put a filter over it.

Ah yes, Bending Spoons. The company known for: * Acquiring Evernote, laying off most of its staff and raising prices. * Acquiring WeTransfer, announcing 75% layoffs and pissing off…

For mobile devices that matters, but plenty of use cases for stationary displays, including desktops.

"Let's be honest: The current generation of robotic lawn mowers sucks. Basically all of these bots drive in a random direction until they hit the border of the lawn, rotate for a r…

I came here to say the same thing! I used an ancient (DOS) version of it to get me through high school French, German, Latin and so on. Fond memories.

That’s by Jeffrey Zeldman

Thanks I will see if I can get my hands on an oscilloscope and look at the 12v and 5v rails.

Amazing that they were able to figure this out. I have a PET that also sometimes boots up into a garbled screen similar to the one pictured in the article. I am usually able to get…

I was doing mobile development on a home healthcare product during this period. The product was built around Nokia’s line of phones with NFC built in, so we had good ties with them…

Awesome proposition, but good grief what a terrible website. It looks like some dodgy knockoff site and scrolling is broken. Not really inspiring confidence.

'Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.'

Nightmares differ from night terrors though. To quote Wikipedia: Night terrors are distinct from nightmares.[31] In fact, in nightmares there are almost never vocalization or agita…

That may help for bad dreams, but not for night terrors (which are medically a different thing, where you are not consciously awake).

My son has night terrors and if I were living in the Middle Ages, I would probably have called in a priest for an exorcism by now. I can absolutely imagine that in less enlightened…

I don't have evidence for this, but my working theory is that there is too much money to be made in promoting certain artists / songs for music recommender systems to remain object…

We still have a ton of these in use for general office work and they are still more than fine. For light use these should be good plenty longer, but I would not pay full price for …

Shortcuts is indeed the (more than spiritual) successor to Automator. Scratch was pretty famous in interface design circles in the early 2000s (it was a pretty high profile MIT Med…

Apple's Shortcuts seems heavily inspired by the visual programming language that Scratch uses: https://support.apple.com/guide/shortcuts-mac/intro-to-how-s...