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@atpfm if you want to give your listeners a reference point to the last time Apple released a lickable, glassy UI, Infinite Mac supports Mac...

@atpfm if you want to give your listeners a reference point to the last time Apple released a lickable, glassy UI, Infinite Mac supports Mac OS X now: https://infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1

And I know #MARCHintosh is more about classic Macs, but you can run older software here too.Create a custom instance with both 10.1 and...

And I know #MARCHintosh is more about classic Macs, but you can run older software here too.

Create a custom instance with both 10.1 and 9.2.2 mounted, and then Classic can be started from System Preferences: https://infinitemac.org/run?disk=Mac+OS+X+10.1&disk=Mac+OS+9.2.2&infinite_hd=true&saved_hd=true&machine=Power+Macintosh+G3+%28Beige%29

Mac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web: https://infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1...

Mac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web: https://infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1 (technically 10.1, but that’s the first release that actually worked acceptably)

Infinite Mac has a more complete collection at https://infinitemac.org/?filter=macosx, and https://blog.persistent.info/2025/03/infinite-mac-os-x.html is a blog post with technical details (two separate emulators are involved).

Enjoy!

New company, new corporate blog for me to post on. https://sierra.ai/blog/gardening-week-evergreen-engineering describes an engineering team...

New company, new corporate blog for me to post on. https://sierra.ai/blog/gardening-week-evergreen-engineering 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.

More seriously, it's been great to be at Sierra from the start and get to influence the engineering culture in such a fundamental way. I know tech company blog posts can paint overly rosy pictures, but Gardening Week is genuinely one of my favorite parts about working here.

XML is cockroach-level technology - it will never go away (c.f my 2005 post...

XML is cockroach-level technology - it will never go away (c.f my 2005 post http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2005/12/xml-errors-in-feeds.html vs @chockenberry in 2025).
https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/114005146021585361

What are good examples of early Mac OS X software (10.0-10.4 era, pre-Intel switch)? My list so far- OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and...

What are good examples of early Mac OS X software (10.0-10.4 era, pre-Intel switch)? My list so far

- OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and other Omni Group software
- Transmit 2, Unison, Candy Bar, Pixadex, and other Panic software
- Audio Hijack and other Rogue Amoeba software
- NetNewsWire and MarsEdit
- Watson
- Acorn
- TextMate
- Quicksilver
- VoodooPad
- BBEdit
- SubEthaEdit
- GraphicConverter
- iCab
- Camino
- Fetch
- Default Folder X
- MenuMeters
- DEVONthink
- CodeWarrior
- Resorcerer
- FruitMenu, WindowShadeX and other Unsanity haxies
- LiteSwitch X
- DragThing and PCalc
- TinkerTool
- LaunchBar
- Path Finder
- Konfabulator

@NetNewsWire did some local (uncommitted?) changes to the default theme get included in the 6.1.5 iOS release? I'm seeing all links...

@NetNewsWire did some local (uncommitted?) changes to the default theme get included in the 6.1.5 iOS release? I'm seeing all links being underlined. What's odd is that I can't reproduce when making own build (either from HEAD or from the iOS-6.1.5-6126 tag).

Side-by-side of the same content with the App Store build and the one I built with Xcode 16.2.

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...

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: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infinite-mac-macintosh-garden-library.html

@siracusa the compression speed and parallelism discussion on the most recent ATP reminded me of @saagar’s...

@siracusa the compression speed and parallelism discussion on the most recent ATP reminded me of @saagar’s https://github.com/saagarjha/unxip. Though it only focuses on decompression, it shows how much faster than Archive Utilityyou can be.

P.S. This should work with any instance running System 7 - Mac OS 9.0.4 (i.e. emulated by BasiliskII or SheepShaver), just append the...

P.S. This should work with any instance running System 7 - Mac OS 9.0.4 (i.e. emulated by BasiliskII or SheepShaver), just append the ?library=true parameter to its URL.

Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh...

Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh Garden.

https://infinitemac.org/1997/Mac%20OS%208.0?library=true gets a new drawer that lets you browse and "download" into the Mac any application or game from the Garden. This should make it easier to play around with almost any classic Mac software.

Let me know what you think! And many thanks to fogWraith (the Garden's maintainer) for the site catalog dump and enabling this to happen.

I couldn’t find a watchOS weather complication I liked so I ended up making my own app:...

I couldn’t find a watchOS weather complication I liked so I ended up making my own app: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/08/weather-text.html

@marcoarment happy to see that Intents/Shortcuts are back in Overcast. Any chance for a “Play Playlist” intent? I used to have a...

@marcoarment happy to see that Intents/Shortcuts are back in Overcast. Any chance for a “Play Playlist” intent? I used to have a shortcut to start my preferred playlist (regardless of what I was doing before), which I can’t seem to recreate.

@siracusa Based on https://infinitemac.org/?filter=next the Chess app first showed up in NeXTStep 1.0 (as a developer sample app), so...

@siracusa Based on https://infinitemac.org/?filter=next the Chess app first showed up in NeXTStep 1.0 (as a developer sample app), so it's almost 35 years old.

Combination of importing my high school era coding projects into GitHub and https://www.retrogit.com/ is generating a lot of feelings.

Combination of importing my high school era coding projects into GitHub and https://www.retrogit.com/ is generating a lot of feelings.

Infinite Mac is also a nice playground for newer web APIs. I spent a bit of time today adding view transitions...

Infinite Mac is also a nice playground for newer web APIs. I spent a bit of time today adding view transitions (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/view-transitions) when launching machines from the browser.

Worked pretty much as advertised -- nice to see the web platform catch up to native apps in this way.

@siracusa I don't remember exactly where in the Siracusa Podcast Universe you mentioned the Gerbils! QuickDraw 3D demo, but I was...

@siracusa I don't remember exactly where in the Siracusa Podcast Universe you mentioned the Gerbils! QuickDraw 3D demo, but I was reminded of it recently, and it's now in the "Multimedia" folder of https://infinitemac.org/1998/Mac%20OS%208.5

I’ve expanded Infinite Mac to cover NeXT operating systems, with the help of the Previous emulator. See...

I’ve expanded Infinite Mac to cover NeXT operating systems, with the help of the Previous emulator. See https://infinitemac.org/?filter=next for all releases between 1988 and 1997, and https://blog.persistent.info/2024/03/infinite-mac-nextstep.html for tidbits about the porting work and other site updates.

And to keep things in the #MARCHintosh spirit, you can use the Daydream/Darkmatter emulator to run System 7 on the emulated NeXT hardware and so have a replica of one of the more esoteric combos of the early 90s.

In my experience, it works well for double-clicking and dragging windows around, but opening of pull-down menus is still pretty finicky.

In my experience, it works well for double-clicking and dragging windows around, but opening of pull-down menus is still pretty finicky.

One of the impedance mismatches in running classic Mac OS on modern platforms is touch input -- double clicking and dragging is much...

One of the impedance mismatches in running classic Mac OS on modern platforms is touch input -- double clicking and dragging is much harder.

I'm working on a virtual trackpad for Infinite Mac that I'm looking for feedback on: on a mobile device to go https://infinitemac.org/1994/System%207.5 and tap "Trackpad" at the bottom of the screen.

When enabled, the entire screen becomes a virtual trackpad. It supports a tap-to-click gesture and a tap-then-drag one to do a drag while the virtual mouse button is down.