David Lerner, RIP
Sam Roberts: David Lerner, a high school dropout and self-taught computer geek whose funky foothold in New York’s Flatiron district, Tekserve, was for decades a beloved discount mecca for Apple...
View ArticleAbstract App Icons Within Icons
Matthew Cassinelli: The App Store icon is made up of three app icons supporting each other (like apps on the App Store do). Just like the Shortcuts is two app icons, connected in the middle (like...
View ArticlemacOS Icon History
BasicAppleGuy: With macOS 26, Apple has announced a dramatically new look to their UI: Liquid Glass. Solid material icon elements give way to softer, shinier, glassier icons. The rounded rectangle...
View ArticleThe Tim Cook Era
Jason Snell: But here we are, living in an era where Cook has now served as Apple CEO longer than Jobs did. The Apple of 2025 is quite different from the company Cook took control of back in 2011....
View ArticleSizes of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
Alexander Gromnitsky (via Hacker News): At the time of writing, the most recent Adobe Reader 25.x.y.z 64-bit installer for Windows 11 weights 687,230,424 bytes. After installation, the program includes...
View ArticleVintage Macintosh Programming Book Library
VintageApple: Nick R. was generous enough to send me his entire vintage Mac programming library to be destructively scanned and shared with the community. We’ve added a few of our own for a pretty huge...
View ArticleThe Steve Ballmer Interview
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal: We sit down with Steve Ballmer, the legendary former Microsoft CEO and owner of the LA Clippers, for an epic conversation covering his 34 years at Microsoft. Steve...
View ArticleJavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade
Whatever, Jamie (via Hacker News): This last decade has seen an inundation of new JavaScript runtimes (and engines in equal measure), enabling us to run JavaScript in all manner of contexts with...
View ArticleWoz’s Ongoing YouTube Lawsuit
CBS (via John Gruber): Steve Wozniak, who helped introduce new technologies by inventing the earliest Apple computers, is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age:...
View ArticleApple: The First 50 Years (Forthcoming)
David Pogue (tweet): In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again...
View ArticleA History of Mac Settings
Marcin Wichary: As a designer, I’m meant to dislike settings. As a user, I love them. Every year I celebrate Settings Day: a day when I take a look at the options and toggles in all the apps I use. I...
View ArticleLisaGUI
Andrew Yaros (via Marcus Mendes, Hacker News): LisaGUI is a “web OS” - a website that mimics the look, feel, and functionality of an operating system. More bluntly, it’s a giant JavaScript program...
View ArticleAlmost Fired for Color Picker Poetry
John Calhoun: It was frankly a thing I liked about working for Apple in those days. The engineers were the one’s driving the ship. As I said, I wrote an HSV picker because it was, I thought, a more...
View ArticleFakespot Shuts Down
Bryson Thill (via Hacker News): Fakespot’s technology revealed some eye-opening statistics. About 43% of the best-selling Amazon products had reviews that were unreliable or fabricated, according to a...
View ArticlePaula Bozinovich, RIP
Brian Croll, quoted by John Gruber: Paula was an employee who you are not going to see profiled in any books on the history of Apple or Steve Jobs. She worked closely with the ops team to ensure CDs...
View ArticleChrome Doesn’t Support JPEG XL
Jim Bankoski (2022): Helping the web to evolve is challenging, and it requires us to make difficult choices. We’ve also heard from our browser and device partners that every additional format adds...
View ArticleBill Atkinson, RIP
Facebook (Hacker News): We regret to write that our beloved husband, father, and stepfather Bill Atkinson passed away on the night of Thursday, June 5th, 2025, due to pancreatic cancer. He was at home...
View ArticleApple in China
Issie Lapowsky (Amazon, Reddit, John Gruber): But Cook was in Beijing that day to do the opposite: to impress upon President Xi Jinping’s government that Apple was so committed to China that it planned...
View ArticleRust at 10
Graydon Hoare (Slashdot): Rust turns 10 today, or at least it’s been 10 years since the 1.0 release. In this decade (and the near-decade of development before!) it has undergone growth and change I can...
View ArticleThe Macintosh Repository
Davo: The Macintosh Repository is a community driven effort to preserve old software from the classic Mac OS era.It has ~18k entries of software images from floppys & cds, scans, fonts, icons and...
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