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

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

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."

Gary Larson predicted this in The Far Side years ago. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/09/g-s1-81907/texas-big-game-hunter-killed-african-buffalo

For those of you who have my boosts muted, a thread worth reading. https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/114924938624931474

kinda wonky, but extremely relevant to what's been going on in tech the past couple of years: a change to the tax code in 2017 (which was engineered to fall outside the window of CBO scoring) fundamentally shifted how large companies calculate R&D, which has in turn led to a *lot* of layoffs. If […]

@CStamp what??? https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3loytaqjflj2w

Happy 36th Birthday Apple WWDC! On this day in 1989, I’d been at Apple for about 3-1/2 months working in Apple II Developer Technical Support. I worked at all of the WWDCs through 2019.

To those who hate it when someone posts a news article as an Apple News link, stop posting Flipboard links. Instead, please take the extra few seconds to get the link to the source article and post it. Flipboard doesn’t need the clicks; Apple News doesn’t need the clicks.

Terry Pratchett wrote the only text that matters on sin: "And sin, young man, is when you treat people as things. Including yourself. That’s what sin is.” “It’s a lot more complicated than that—” “No. It ain’t. When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they’re […]

History shows what happens to countries that trod the path the US is on now. https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/make-america-healthy-again-the-new-lysenkoism/

This has happened before. Those responsible in the past were punished. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3llexs4hmkk2z

Great thread. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3llejosohv22s

I noticed the retro Mac community was working on #globaltalk and although I'm not working on anything, I thought I'd contribute this suggestion: If you're using AppleShare on Mac OS 7.6 or later, you might want to use the AppleShare client extension that shipped with Mac OS 9.2.2. That's […]

@bitsavers I emailed this picture to you. Can you guess what this tool is for?

PSA: if you get a phishing email and you don't know the right place to send it for the organization the phisher is pretending to be, just forward it as an attachment to [email protected] (the Anti-Phishing Working Group). It will make its way into the block lists for most browsers.

@siracusa when looking for identical files, are all xattrs checked, or just the resource fork xattr?

@atomicbird my wife wants to know where you got your video birdhouse.

@mjtsai I know this may be outside your goals for SpamSieve, but it’s something it could probably do. I’d like software to notice mail from mailing lists that often is not read, and then offer to unsubscribe, add a rule to move to a new mailbox or delete, etc. I often get added to a […]

Did I miss anything g important? I fell behind by 300+ posts and skipped them.

Between mainstream media captured and neutered by the oligarchy and social media infecting people's minds with conspiracy theories, what mechanism could there be for getting back to something approximating a shared reality that's aligned with... reality? Is anyone studying this? Without a […]

I like the reply feature in iOS Messages which lets me reply to specific messages from someone. However, I have no idea how you get out of reply mode and back to seeing the entire message thread. There’s no button or other visual indication of what I should do. I always end up killing Messages […]

@ivory I might be missing something but Is there a way to get to the last unread toot in my home feed? If I search for something, I don’t know how to get back to where I left off before the search.

A story better heard than read. What are Trump’s final rally speeches like? Lower energy, less focused and running late https://www.npr.org/2024/10/28/nx-s1-5164570/trump-rally-speech-2024-election

My dog wants my wife’s cheese bone (Tootsie Roll Pop). It has the same sound in her mouth 🤣

I don’t subscribe to either the WA Post or the LA Times, but I know that BOTH of their editorial boards had endorsements of Harris ready. If my experience means anything, the owners of those papers blocking the endorsements caused more people to know about those endorsements than publishing […]

All done! I’ve voted!

My hobby before working at Apple was programming. Since retiring, I’ve written little code but I bake a lot more. Here’s this morning’s Cinnamon Bun Bread.