Mihai Parparita
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Engineer at Sierra, formerly of Tailscale, Slack, Quip, Google Chrome and Google Reader.
Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit on the Internet in 1995, and the same is true 30 years later with Infinite Mac. I found a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives – a brief writeup:
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Infinite Mac can now be embedded into any website:
infinitemac.org/embed
For a demonstration of what this can enable, see
@aresluna.org
's amazing "Frame of preference" article:
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I wrote something new! It’s a UI design history essay about Mac’s Control Panel, and it uses emulation in some… maybe new and maybe interesting ways?
aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...
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Frame of preference
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference
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Mac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web:
infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20O...
(technically 10.1, but that’s the first release that actually worked acceptably)
6 months ago
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New company, new corporate blog for me to post on.
sierra.ai/blog/gardeni...
describes an engineering team ritual that we've developed. You can tell that it was not ghost-written because I got to cram in a lot of links to obscure articles.
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Gardening Week: Evergreen Engineering
At Sierra, we value intensity and craftsmanship—Gardening Week is an investment in the long-term quality of our software.
https://sierra.ai/blog/gardening-week-evergreen-engineering
7 months ago
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Holy Hyrum's Law
add a skeleton here at some point
8 months ago
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Infinite Mac now has a “Macintosh Garden” drawer that allows one-click loading of any of the 20,000 items archived by that site. I wrote up a brief post with some behind-the-scenes details:
blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infi...
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11 months ago
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I’m still team “if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen”. So here’s a post about how much Quip technology is in Slack canvas (spoiler: a lot):
https://blog.persistent.info/2023/07/slack-canvas-quip.html
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Slack Canvas In The Streets, Quip In The Sheets
https://blog.persistent.info/2023/07/slack-canvas-quip.html
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https://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life
describes battery life work we're doing at
@tailscale.com
. It's been a fun few months going beyond just Darwin spelunking to also hack on the Go standard library and explore different aggregation and visualization options.
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Battery life instrumentation
We’ve added instrumentation and taking a more systematic approach to investigating battery life issues in the Tailscale mobile clients.
https://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life
over 2 years ago
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