So much to shun, so little time.

internet, AI, intelligent agents, neural networks, tablet computers, virtual reality… The 1990s are here!

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Thanks for the book tip.

Somewhat related to that: I'm in the middle of www.goodreads.com/book/show/22... now, which I can recommend.

The Phone and Text apps were green in iPhone OS 1.0.

SMH

Achievement unlocked.

6 countries, 43 hours of train/bus

FYI I dug this up web.archive.org/web/20100308...

"mail or fax this form to NeXT Technical Services"

I found myself in an elevator with Mister Rogers. He looked at me and said "Make it good" when I was getting out.

This is fantastic. @trts.bsky.social revived an app I wrote 20 years ago and got it running on modern macOS. Impressive work!! Code sometimes lives a lot longer than you'd think.

Hi Scott! Thanks for the invite! Sorry, Pontus and I are both traveling right now (I'm on vacation with family). I haven't been on social media much. We'd love to talk to you. Can we DM you later in the summer?

ABC of FSRS A modern Anki custom scheduling based on Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler algorithm - open-spaced-repetition/fsrs4anki

Yes, I made the app for myself, and so it was never a commercial product or full-time effort. Anki did start to take over that space, and there's continued innovation there, namely github.com/open-spaced-.... Have you thought of making Genius into an alternative front-end for Anki?

Oh wow!! 😲 This is amazing. Just goes to show, software never dies :)
(Also the quality of the code is terrible so please don't look at it, but maybe Claude could rewrite it! :)

I thought I was going to have a normal day.

OMG

I enjoyed that talk as well!

Decades later, there's still a lot of love for HyperCard out there. Why might that be?

"Only unpickle data you trust."

Sorry, the sync server went down yesterday (config mistake on my part) but it's back up as of this morning. Which issues are you seeing?

Civilization IV - Baba Yetu (Movies editon) YouTube video by Mark Magnar

YT recommended this remake of the Civ 4 intro to me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Cb.... It was fun to compare it to the original. But it becomes clear that humanity has no better idea of The Future than escaping Earth and living in outer space.

Scrappy make little apps for you and your friends

As a kid, I learned to program in HyperCard, a fantastic thing from Apple in the 1990s which empowered normal people to make homemade software. Last fall @pontus.granstrom.me started exploring and reinterpreting these ideas for 2025. Excited to share our writeup: pontus.granstrom.me/scrappy/

Computational Public Space YouTube video by Dynamicland

Bret Victor: Instagram on every phone is like McDonald's on every street corner www.youtube.com/watch?v=PixP...

this was not obvious at all. posting for others.

"You need an adult to buy this. / We can't send a request for this one, so you'll have to ask another way"

Solution: go to account.microsoft.com/family/, the child's account > Spending, and temporarily turn off "Require approval for every purchase".

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www.reddit.com/r/programmin... the top comment suggests EC2 was invented after Amazon bought a ton of HW to deal with non-performant microservices (lol), though the timeframe mentioned is Q3 2006, which is already when EC2 is announced. Hmm

i would use lowerercase tom7.org/lowercase/

@pontus.granstrom.me here's the thesis behind the (now defunct) Icelandic startup doing "graphical recipe" software: skemman.is/bitstream/19...

Smart! It doesn't show focus but I managed to find the forward button (with Option-Tab) and your idea works! I already entered my passport expiration date the hard way, though.

I just want to enter a date in 2029, but it won't let me type; I have to click. And the click target keeps moving.
If & when you mess up, it resets to the current month.
(Also in this locale, the first weekday should be Monday.)

Why pay €€€ to build this, instead of using a native widget? Sigh.

Someday

they priced the original v10.0 high because they didn't really want users, only developers; and making phone calls wasn't even working 1 month prior to announcing iPhone