Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

andrewshaw.nl

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 34 posts

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#21

Post by shawa_a_a »

Since going down this rabbit hole, I gave Anki another fair shot and actually RTFM :) the blog post warrants an update

https://docs.ankiweb.net/deck-options.html#learning-steps Details what _actually happens_ when you pick again/hard/good etc. I much prefer understanding this to the vibes-based approach of “did you pause before answering”.

Secondly turns out you can indeed very easily set up type-to-answer in a deck by editing the front template and adding

{type:Field}

where field is the answer part of the card’s data.

So… I’m actually using Anki again. I’m still very happy I did this, it was a fun little journey!

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#22

Post by shawa_a_a »

busymom0 wrote: post #4

I understand the whole retro look of the website but it's very unreadable with the white text on bright stars background. Fortunately reader mode on Safari helped me read it. On a similar note, a few months ago, I took over a 14 year old Objective-C iPhone app called Painteresque and brought it back to life. Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43222099 If OP is interested, maybe I can help with the S…

It’s not the most accessible colour scheme - I’ll have a look and tweak it so dark mode is more readable.

I’d definitely be really grateful for help with that! I’m not planning to publish to the Mac App Store, but it would be great to have the build step a bit more compliant with current practises.

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#23

Post by therein »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #5

- and + denote instance and class methods respectively, not public and private. Source: my first released Mac OS X app came out in 2003. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster

Yeah, and that's even more confusing than using it for public/private. It just shouldn't have been a thing. I think I stopped trying to seriously gain experience with Objective-C after noticing that.

I was even kinda okay with the [callee verbingTheSubject withFooValueBeing 7 andBarValueSetTo "good argument"] but that was just too much.

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#24

Post by brnt »

There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1].

I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my late teens and Windows ME. It is simple, just as this tool. To this day, it's a piece of freeware that gives me good memories of a forgotten era.

Since the author describes learning Dutch, I though I might mention its existence.

[1] https://www.efkasoft.nl/overhoor-download/

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#25

Post by robin_reala »

TMWNN wrote: post #15

I have one c. 2010 Intel app that I am absolutely dependent on. Commercial, so no chance of recompiling the source code. I am not looking forward to Rosetta going away.

Worst case, I guess you could set up an emulated VM running an Intel variant of macOS?

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#26

Post by micheljansen »

brnt wrote: post #24

There's actually an excellent Dutch piece of software for this (Windows only though, but works fine in Wine on other platforms): Overhoor [1]. I used it under Windows 3.11 as a child, and kept using it for French and German into my late teens and Windows ME. It is simple, just as this tool. To this day, it's a piece of freeware that gives me good memories of a forgotten era. Since the author describes learning Dutch,…

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.

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#27

Post by frou_dh »

therein wrote: post #23
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #5

- and + denote instance and class methods respectively, not public and private. Source: my first released Mac OS X app came out in 2003. https://github.com/aaronbrethorst/irooster

Yeah, and that's even more confusing than using it for public/private. It just shouldn't have been a thing. I think I stopped trying to seriously gain experience with Objective-C after noticing that. I was even kinda okay with the [callee verbingTheSubject withFooValueBeing 7 andBarValueSetTo "good argument"] but that was just too much.

[flagged]

Re: Show HN: Reviving a 20 year old OS X App

#29

Post by johnisgood »

Angostura wrote: post #19
johnisgood wrote: post #3

Speaking of old OS X apps, I liked iWeb a lot when I was a kid. I must have been around 12 when I was messing around with it.

It was a really nifty visual website builder. I was sad when it went. Fantastic in the days when ISPs threw in a bit of webspace for customers to play with

Yeah, remember "Macromedia Dreamweaver" (specifically Macromedia Dreamweaver 4[1])? I remember having tried that as a kid. It did not work out for me well, but iWeb was perfect to me.

[1] Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 is the fourth major version of Dreamweaver that was released by Macromedia on November 27, 2000.

Post reply on HN