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by rezmason 1y ago
I haven't heard much about Cory Arcangel in a while, this is a great way to learn what he's been up to
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by rezmason 1y ago
> Yea but why use a mac at that point? I ask myself that with increasing frequency. Looking at all the Linux options feels like wandering through Akihabara, but one day the macOS that remains will be so unlike the macOS I enjoyed, that I
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by rezmason 1y ago
I should have mentioned a couple other things: 1. Kaleidoscope (the most common OS 9 theme system extension) runs fine under emulation, so if you just want to _enjoy_ these themes, your best bet is the SheepShaver emulator (in my opinion).
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by rezmason 1y ago
The short answer is, sadly, no— Apple has the modern macOS UI locked up. The long answer is, if you're willing to disable systemwide security features, you can experiment with modifying the appearance of macOS, but to my knowledge no o
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by rezmason 1y ago
Almost twenty years ago, a lady walked into my former employer, from right off the street, to ask that they unsubscribe her from the mailing list. She was in town on vacation and realized their offices were there, and just thought it'd
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by rezmason 1y ago
Keep making cool things, kuberwastaken
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by rezmason 1y ago
If there was a product that let me convey "Come back later" to a barging inquirer with a sharp and uncanny hand motion, I might consider paying $249 for it: https://cdn.flipperzero.one/lekyb_desktop_004.mp4
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by rezmason 2y ago
Shouldn't the galaxies in the northern and southern hemispheres spiral in opposite directions? /s
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by rezmason 2y ago
If RMS or Gruber released code with any frequency, I think the HN community would be very interested. I wouldn't necessarily warm up to either of them, but it would lend a lot of credence to whatever their stances are.
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by rezmason 2y ago
Apple's business relies tremendously on its developer relations. If Gruber doesn't regularly navigate that wedge of the ecosystem, then I don't think he can speak with authority on its soundness. I mean I wouldn't!
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by rezmason 2y ago
Maybe. I landed on "shill" because it's a word he chose, and it seemed to fit when I read it. Let me try and define what it means, and how it's different from an advocate, an apologist or a sycophant. A shill promotes so
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by rezmason 2y ago
I don't read your blog because your analyses ring true. I read your blog because you are an impactful pundit who I can stomach. Thoughtful people with large followings bore unspoken biases throughout the past and present, and it is my
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by rezmason 2y ago
Thanks for bringing my attention to the comment guidelines, I'll try to keep to them in the future. I assure you, I do write here in good faith. I'm open to listening to those who oppose the EU's position on Apple's ecos
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by rezmason 2y ago
This is my workhorse for any kind of Macintosh retrocomputing. I've tested HTML on old browsers with it, I've opened old documents and played old games, for longer than my time using real classic Macs. For a free and open source p
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by rezmason 2y ago
This was hard, but fun! One suggestion: make empty spaces visually distinct from filled spaces. Why? Because cell 73 in the tenth puzzle (today's) is small enough that I completely overlooked it, and used faulty logic to deduce all but
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by rezmason 2y ago
Took me a minute, too. :D
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by rezmason 2y ago
Besides, what's wrong with getting one's apparel at Banana Republic?
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by rezmason 2y ago
I think that if we tried, we could come up with a pretty large cookbook of stone soups.
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by rezmason 2y ago
Zachtronics Solitaire Collection inspired me to begin experimenting with Solitaire variants, and hopefully Balatro's well-deserved success will stoke people's curiosity in similar titles. For now, my web prototype lets you choose
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by rezmason 2y ago
I thought this was especially well said: > Don't choose tools that alienate you from your work. Choose tools that leverage the wisdom you've already accumulated, and which help you to cultivate a deeper understanding of the dis
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by rezmason 2y ago
What timing! I'd just worked out* the "stickfont" or "open-path font" or "stroke font" that one of my favorite defunct games rendered with GL_LINE_STRIP, and it seems to be from the Hershey glyph set. If y
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by rezmason 2y ago
As much as I like regaining autonomy, we should hold back those tears until a patient's implant outlasts a product cycle. I can't find the article to link to, but there's an ongoing issue with tech companies producing assisti
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by rezmason 2y ago
I think it's very sneaky, how the world manages to conceal so many alternative ways of life by situating them outside the United States /s
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by rezmason 2y ago
My college campus store sold colorful translucent floppy disks as recently as 2009. They felt anachronistic.
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by rezmason 2y ago
It helps that other people struggled with this macOS Ventura era stuff out in the open, so when my QA tester (hi dad!) told me my screensaver was misbehaving in System Settings, the discourse came up in GitHub's search results. Oh— and
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by rezmason 2y ago
HN is on fire today with visual spectacle. OP will you describe how color propagates through these?
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by rezmason 2y ago
The Mac screensaver ecosystem's going through some interesting shifts in recent years. The permissions and stated capabilities of 3rd party software are much more delineated now, but screensaver modules are architected in an old NeXTST
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by rezmason 2y ago
I know it's a few years old, but you've also got a great portfolio of previous work OP: https://thestrikeagency.com I know the kind of work and love that goes into this kind of project. From one software nostalgiac to
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by rezmason 2y ago
The article's author, this Maxime Heckel, has got an excellent online portfolio of shader work! https://maximeheckel.com
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by rezmason 2y ago
Oh, no. The machines have come to take my job.

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