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Or in the case of Superbad, a film based on Seth Rogen's experiences as a Vancouver teenager in the late 90s, Vancouver is a stand-in for Los Angeles, which is a stand-in for Vanco…

I use the built-in `hidutil` utility to remap F3-F9 to my preferred keys. F3/F4 are remapped to the keyboard backlight brightness. F5-F9 are remapped to be plain old function keys.…

iTunes didn't go anywhere. Just about everything I watch or listen to is served from the same iTunes Library I've had for over 20 years. It's more important to me now than it has e…

It's always fun when an old relic pops up in ye olde RSS reader. His feed would have been one of the originals I started following 25 years ago or so.

I would really love to see something like EndBASIC built around a Lisp-family language. I've recently been playing around with some of the old Logo implementations from the 80s and…

Hypothetical question: Let's say that back in 1930s when they were assigning frequencies for the broadcast television channels, they allocated enough extra bandwidth for a future c…

I just use some old textbooks to raise the height of the display: - Design Patterns by the Gang of Four - Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu - Code Complete from the Microsof…

Release notes: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-note... Surprisingly, this version does not require MacOS 26 (Tahoe).

Computer Chronicles and MotorWeek were fixtures of my Saturday afternoons as a young kid in the 80s. 35+ years later both shows became fascinating and priceless time capsules of th…

That's also why Apple renamed OpenStep to Cocoa. Java was supposed to be the primary development language for Mac OS X (because Java and Cocoa go great together).

When you hear people complaining about Time Machine you can stop listening once they mention their NAS. Time Machine over the network has never been properly supported and is inher…

I'm very surprised it's organized as just a single 162 kB source document instead of being divided into smaller modules to make the code easier to work with, speed up build times, …

Bill Atkinson was a very fascinating guy. His interview with Leo Laporte from 2013 is a great listen. Here's a little 6 minute clip: An acid trip, and the origins of Hypercard. htt…

Sorry, but none of this correct. While it's true that early production machines had reliability problems, the same was also true for the C64. The machine we got for xmas 1983 was a…

If that kind of complexity frightens you then you probably want to stay away from C++ entirely.

It's not odd at all for a machine that was designed in 1976/77. However, for a machine released in 1983 (the Apple IIe) it is indeed very odd. But the IIe is an odd machine in many…

This game achieves its smoothness by synchronizing to the video refresh. That's not a particularly challenging thing to do, but it wasn't a viable option for commercial games back …

I never left RSS. After Google Reader shut down paid for Feedly for a while before switching to self-hosted FreshRSS. ( https://freshrss.org ) I'm not a web guy and I detest all fo…

Flashback to lurking around comp.sys.hp48 looking for downloads. https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.hp48/c/BS7c8hRAau0/m/P5...

It does not send your photos to be indexed on Apple servers.

It sounds like you're arguing against passkeys, two-factor authentication, and password managers. Do you use single, easy-to-remember plain-text passwords for all of your accounts …

I wish the same could be said of the Studio Display, which is quite power hungry. If the Mac is running then the display is using minimum 10 Watts of continuous power usage at all …

It needs https. Use https://48calc.org/db48x/index.html

It's just a bug. The system save panel (NSSavePanel) is only supposed to infer the file extension when it has been given a list of supported file types/extensions. If the user does…