Notes

Something I've been working on for a few months...

Simple Spooler 0.3 can be found on #GlobalTalk in the Cloudbusting zone, at Puppet Head:Ken's Stuff:Simple Spooler 0.3.

I've also put the source on AmendHub (thanks @jcs !) Amend is a nifty source code control system for classic Mac OS. https://amendhub.com/thecloud/SimpleSpooler

#MARCHintosh #VintageMac

got a reply from one of the macintosh garden admins - it appears that the site now officially welcomes slop coded submissions. i can't express how disappointed i am with the direction the site has taken with the new ownership. after 15+ years of archival contributions, i'm no longer going to be submitting anything there.

https://macintoshgarden.org/forum/rfc-llmai-project-policy#comment-119699

#macintosh #vintageApple #noai

I ported enough of NetBSD's armv7 MP code to OpenBSD to do a 'make -j4 build' on my DM250X.

It brings a full system compilation from ~5.1 days to ~3.5. Compiling LLVM is still multiple days :(

The only thing I needed to hear from the new Framework 13 Pro reviews is that after 5 years they still haven't fixed the wobbly screen hinge

https://youtu.be/_xjxwl1zLMc?t=272

Some scattered thoughts on AI

https://jcs.org/2026/07/23/ai

And writing software feels like being Marge in that go-kart race. Work slow and steady for a year writing something neat that had never been brought to a platform before, but someone can hear about it and use Claude to whiz by you in a week and make something with 10 times the functionality.

I have lost all enthusiasm for reading about new software projects, especially dealing with vintage computing. What would have sounded amazing a year or two ago and made me want to engage with the author, I now just assume was something AI spit out and feels hollow and boring so I skim past it.

we all directly and indirectly live in the shade, but not the shadow, of colossus

Another Pomera DM250 special release: the DM250XYZ in a translucent purple color

Interesting that the keys aren't translucent like on the DM250X and DM250XY

https://kingjim.com/products/dm250xyz

What good is a laptop that can't go to sleep

well that's gonna cost some money

has AI figured out how to put toothpaste back in the tube yet

really happy to have discovered something hiding in plain sight for several years: robyn & rand miller's original Myst pitch document from 1991.

it's a succinct work of art in itself. i'm surprised at how much of the world design was already on paper.

as all of the copies found elsewhere online are heavily compressed webp/jpeg, i've uploaded the robyn's original PNGs to IA here:

https://archive.org/details/myst_proposal

originally from robyn's site:

http://www.robynmiller.net/video-games-films

#digiPres #softwarePreservation #archival #gamedev #myst #cyan

🚫 root
✅ privilegemaxxing

they're good barrels brent

CRT friends: how would you describe what is happening with the image on this?

wow, has apple used their old rainbow logo on anything else since they switched to the flat one?

https://www.motorsport.com/imsa/news/porsche-penske-motorsport-running-throwback-apple-computer-livery-at-laguna-seca/10816610/

does anyone remember this