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@octothorpe a good reminder that I still have a few apples from our tree to convert into a pie.

@pgor my nutmeg hat has a sprinkler top, too.

@octothorpe That’s a very nice gesture!

@dnanian I couldn’t see who it was but the guitar gave it away: Scofield.

@octothorpe our neighbors use a local service with the initials ELM. I’ve decided the L stands for LOUD. The have the loudest mowers and blowers know to man.

@octothorpe I live near the Everett airport and flight paths sometimes go over the house. I woke to a dream the other day that I was looking out the window and missiles were flying over the house. Too much news and jet sounds lately. 😬

Mac OS 8.6 chocolate bar.

@haineux @Eggfreckles The Mac OS 8.6 release was tastier.

@briankrebs or their last name is Trump.

@samhenrigold I’m reminded again of a change I made in Mac OS 8.1 for HFS Plus.

I had to change the Start Manager code that loaded extensions so extensions would continue to load in MacRoman order. To keep Conflict Catcher working, I had to add new API it could use to control the order of […]

Help my friend Becky fight her recent cancer diagnosis. Like many, I played games Becky helped create on the Apple II/IIgs, Macintosh, and other personal computing platforms.
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/115316833728680548

@briankrebs @Stattenf How many ways can you spell Stattenfield, Keith?

@briankrebs I have a friend who wrote an article for a magazine. They misspelled his name three different ways: on the cover, in the table of contents, and then on the first page of the article. 🤦‍♂️

@octothorpe And someday, Discord and Bluesky will start charging or advertising. Enshittification of free or low cost services from companies who eventually want profit always comes at some point.

@eschaton @gruber I donated my collection to the Computer History Museum. The only issue I have a few copies of is the one where I had the lead article.

My article started out as a Technical Note. It was ready to publish. Then, it took me another 6 months of rewrites to get it published in […]

@marioguzman This is a why I have scroll bars always on with macOS.

As I’m sure you know, scroll bars tell you with a glance if you can see the entire content or not, and if you can’t see the entire content, they tell you what part of the content you are seeing and how much of the content you […]

@liam @marioguzman I don’t have to worry about my 2020 Air… unsupported by 26. I’ll probably wait to update the rest of my devices.

@octothorpe burn to death

@marioguzman @octothorpe when I attempt to tell Siri to play music I like, it understands about as well as my dog

@octothorpe @marioguzman but better than anything I’ve seen from the auto makers

Warnings From Weimar Why bargaining with authoritarians fails.

How close we are to repeating history. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/warnings-weimar

@octothorpe @aparrish Native color was in HyperCard IIgs but at a lower resolution.

@marioguzman The sarcasm is strong in this one.

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/25/nx-s1-5517335/trump-federal-reserve-governor-lisa-cook

Donald J. Trump looked in a mirror today and said, "In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter, they cannot and I do not have such confidence in your integrity."

@uliwitness I’ve never noticed anything breaking and I’ve always had scroll bars always on (MacOS)

@timbray @GeekAndDad Congrats on getting the RFC published and avoiding the use of the dreaded “SHOULD” word.

I was involved with a few of the HTTP related RFCs back when I worked on Apple’s WebDAV file system and I know how much work goes into those documents.

@drahardja it’s like the super sharp high contrast settings on modern televisions. I can’t stand those settings, but there are lots of people who have gotten used to that look and think regular settings look faded and blurry.

@marioguzman I spent most of my working career at Apple at the R&D/Infinite Loop campus in IL1, IL2, and IL3. Over a dozen different offices - LOL.

@octothorpe it’s funny I’ve never heard this original version before today. I’d only heard Robert Palmer’s cover which is also very good.

@conorh Exactly. Larson liked letting animals have revenge on humans. My favorite of those had a bear with two human skulls as puppets telling cubs a story.