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A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
Join me on a journey through the first twenty years of Mac’s control panels.

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In memoriam of Bill Atkinson, when Steve Jobs asked him to invent rounded rectangles for QuickDraw, where he leveraged some clever programming to draw circles and ovals incredibly quickly.
Then Jobs wasn't impressed — he wanted rounded rectangles.
This is just a great anecdote. Steve Jobs had such incredible product sense, to realise that the tech (drawing circles quickly) wasn't enough. For it to be a great product it had to do a bit more.
(via Restored Apollo 11 Moonwalk - Original NASA EVA Mission Video - Walking on the Moon - YouTube)
Selling real things to real people means writing a steady stream of nonsense text that only web crawlers will ever read.
Mia Sato, writing for The Verge:
“I would never use an AI for an article that’s being written by me giving people advice,” Dziura says.
But for the online store, AI-generated text weaves in and out of shoppers’ perception. Recently, she demonstrated updating the page for a cannabis-themed apron and using the Shopify AI text generator for help. She added keywords like “pot lover,” “funny gift,” “men or women,” and “smoking marijuana gift” to the prompt. She then instructed the AI tool to use a “supportive” tone of voice and to add a few emoji into the description.
“Gift the pot lover in your life this funny cooking and BBQ apron,” the resulting text read. “The perfect gift for the chef who loves a good smoke sesh, this apron comes in sizes for both men and women and will make them laugh every time they grill or cook! 🤣🤪” Dziura tweaked an error inserted by the AI system — the apron is one size — and pushed it live to the site. It was good enough to do the trick.
This is a great article covering a problem that gets worse every year.
Have you ever wondered how photographs were transmitted to newsrooms before modern tech? This is a wonderful video on the process of how photographs were transmitted "by wire" in the 1930s.
(via 1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937) - CharlieDeanArchives - YouTube)

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On this page you can see a wide range of products and services created by Sony designers. Please take a look at the history of Sony Design.
A short look at some of Sony's most iconic products throughout the decades. What a great company, so many hits.
The first obvious casualty of large language models is homework: the real training for everyone, though, and the best way to leverage AI, will be in verifying and editing information.
Ben Thompson for the always-excellent Stratechery:
Here’s an example of what homework might look like under this new paradigm. Imagine that a school acquires an AI software suite that students are expected to use for their answers about Hobbes or anything else; every answer that is generated is recorded so that teachers can instantly ascertain that students didn’t use a different system. Moreover, instead of futilely demanding that students write essays themselves, teachers insist on AI. Here’s the thing, though: the system will frequently give the wrong answers (and not just on accident — wrong answers will be often pushed out on purpose); the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator.
It's not just monkeys and typewriters. It's more interesting than that.
ChatGPT is the most transformational thing I've seen in the past 10 years. It can change everything, in deep, foundational ways.
This interview was originally published in Floppy Disk Fever: The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium, a new book published by Onomatopee. Tom Persky is the self-proclaimed “last man standing in the floppy disk business.” He is the time-honored founder of floppydisk.com, a US-based company
Just a wonderful story.
Niek Hilkmann & Thomas Walskaar:
When people ask me: “Why are you into floppy disks today?” the answer is: “Because I forgot to get out of the business.” Everybody else in the world looked at the future and came to the conclusion that this was a dying industry. Because I’d already bought all my equipment and inventory, I thought I’d just keep this revenue stream. I stuck with it and didn’t try to expand. Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster. If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me.
The NSButton class used for making buttons in Mac apps has as many as 15 different styles, not counting subclasses. But which should be used
Interesting look at all the different variants for NSButton.

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Tear-downs via CT scans. Monthly updates.
Really interesting look at the advanced miniaturization that went into engineering of AirPods and AirPods Pro.
Here I'm showing how to easily create a UI that triggers some Shortcuts to control your home. Excuse me , it's a bit hard to understand, I'm not used to talking english / creating tutorials 😉
I've used and enjoyed BetterTouchTool for the better part of a decade. The developer, Andreas Hegenberg, always updates BTT to keep pace and take advantage of the latest features on MacOS.
With Monterey, the story is no different. The latest version of MacOS brings the powerful Shortcuts app for the first time, enabling all sorts of powerful automations that were previously only possible on the prohibitively complex Automator, as well as plenty more third-party app integrations.
This simple tutorial by Andreas himself demonstrates how powerful the BTT - Shortcuts integration really is. In this short video, he creates a simple "Home Control" shortcut but gets it to present itself as a regular app.
This week marked the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission. The 9th crewed Apollo mission was the fourth to land on the Moon and the first to use a lunar roving vehicle (LRV), affectionately known as a 'moon buggy.' Join us as we look back at the historic Apollo 15 mission and the first lunar rover.
Just a superb achievement all around.
I saw a full-size replica of this at the Smithsonian in D.C.
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discov…
We’ve all heard this riddle: if you dig down deep enough in Windows 10, you’ll find elements that date from Windows 3.x days. But is it actually true? In this article we’ll discover just how many UI layers are in Windows and when they were first introduced.
Testament to backwards compatibility? Or symptoms of an incoherent, inconsistent, and incomplete design strategy?
Getting functioning tabs in your web app has typically required JavaScript. Not anymore.
I wrote a quick how-to coding article over on Medium.
For such a ubiquitous UI element, this should be achievable with pure HTML and CSS, and leave the heavy-lifting to JavaScript. This post achieves exactly that.

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Welcome! In this post, we’ll be taking a character-by-character look at the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine.
Most of this went over my head, but it's a terrific explanation of RNA and RNA-based vaccines
So what does that code DO?
The idea of a vaccine is to teach our immune system how to fight a pathogen, without us actually getting ill. Historically this has been done by injecting a weakened or incapacitated (attenuated) virus, plus an ‘adjuvant’ to scare our immune system into action. This was a decidedly analogue technique involving billions of eggs (or insects). It also required a lot of luck and loads of time. Sometimes a different (unrelated) virus was also used.
An mRNA vaccine achieves the same thing (‘educate our immune system’) but in a laser like way. And I mean this in both senses - very narrow but also very powerful.
So here is how it works. The injection contains volatile genetic material that describes the famous SARS-CoV-2 ‘Spike’ protein. Through clever chemical means, the vaccine manages to get this genetic material into some of our cells.
These then dutifully start producing SARS-CoV-2 Spike proteins in large enough quantities that our immune system springs into action. Confronted with Spike proteins, and (importantly) tell-tale signs that cells have been taken over, our immune system develops a powerful response against multiple aspects of the Spike protein AND the production process.
And this is what gets us to the 95% efficient vaccine.
Real world experience with the new M1 Macs have started ticking in. They are fast. Real fast. But why? What is the magic?
A lot has been written about Apple's M1 SoC. We've all seen video after video showing the M1 soundly beating much more power-hungry Intel CPUs. What we haven't got a lot of, is why.
Erik Engheim explains.
In real-world test after test, the M1 Macs are not merely inching past top-of-the-line Intel Macs, they are destroying them. In disbelief, people have started asking how on earth this is possible? If you are one of those people, you have come to the right place.