20 Years of Apple Retail Stores
Michael Steeber: Twenty years ago this week, Apple opened its first brick and mortar retail stores to applause, cheering, and seemingly endless lines of smiling faces. What started at two malls in...
View Article30 Years of the Web
CERN (via Hacker News): The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer. In 2013, CERN launched a project...
View ArticleFigma and the Num Lock Quasimode
Figma: In short, pressing Shift+2 using one key worked, but pressing Shift+2 using the numeric keypad key didn’t. Curiously, the bug only happened on Windows, and not on a Mac. […] Pressing Num Lock...
View ArticleWWDC 2021 Preview
Parker Ortolani: Every WWDC has its moments, but there are some moments in particular that are impossible to forget. From earthshaking announcements to retrospectively goofy quotes, there are so many...
View ArticleMore Documents From Epic vs. Apple
Ryan Jones: Here’s all the Apple vs Epic court files OCR’ed. […] I also converted all the PPT to PDF, so they can be searched now too. Steve Troughton-Smith: Ooh there are plenty of interesting...
View ArticleOld Apple Conceptual Documentation
Daniel Martín: Just found that the old Apple conceptual documentation is still available for offline searches. Extract the .docset from the .dmg and load it in a tool like Dash. There’s a lot of good...
View ArticleOldOS: iOS 4 Built in SwiftUI
Zane Kleinberg (via Hacker News): OldOS is a testament to the days of yesteryear, showcasing what iOS once was ten years ago. The ethos of the app is to merge the technologies of today with a...
View ArticleTesting the Apollo Spacecraft
Ken Shirriff (via Alexis Gallagher): To test all the components of Apollo, NASA created (and patented) a complex system called Digital Test Command System. The testing control room (pictured below)...
View ArticleWWDC 2014 Video With Larry David
Sam Henri-Gold: today’s vibe: scrapped WWDC 2014 intro film feat. Larry David, JB Smoove, and Evan Spiegel See also: YouTube. John Gruber: One joke that might have played as funny in 2014 but wouldn’t...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s April 1998 Meeting With Steve Jobs
Internal Tech Emails has an interesting letter from Microsoft’s Ben Waldman that discusses negotiations over ClarisWorks (Apple agreed not to advertise their own product and instead preload a video...
View ArticlePanic’s 2016 App Store Feedback
Internal Tech Emails: Panic’s @cabel shares App Store thoughts with Phil Schiller Some of these sentences seem very familiar, so I wonder if this e-mail has been published before, though I can’t seem...
View ArticleWoz on Right to Repair
Derek Wise (Hacker News): Apple is often brought up when talking about right to repair, usually in reference to their anti-repair practices. In response to a Cameo request, Steve Wozniak spoke for...
View ArticleApple’s Camera Design Choices
System Plus Consulting (PDF, via Hacker News): This report aims to offer insight into the physical and cost evolution of the camera modules and CMOS image sensors in the last six years of Apple...
View ArticleThe Print Shop Club
Benj Edwards: In 1984, Brøderbund Software released “The Print Shop,” a pioneering desktop publishing app that allowed anyone with a PC to easily make large banners, signs, and greeting cards at home...
View ArticleBrief Reviews of (Nearly) Every Mac Keyboard
Griffin Jones (via John Gruber): The Apple Desktop Bus Keyboard is first to include a power button, the Snow White design and the ADB port, three welcome additions. The lower key travel makes sustained...
View ArticleKid Pix as a JavaScript App
jskidpix (via Hacker News): JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation. […] Just like the original Kid Pix, there’s no guide—have fun! Most of...
View ArticleAfter Dark Screensavers Recreated in CSS
This, from Bryan Braun, is great (via Hacker News). Matt Birchler: Younger readers may not be familiar, but After Dark was a piece of software you could get for your Mac that had a bunch of...
View ArticleWorking on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome
Hadi Partovi: 25 years ago Microsoft released Internet Explorer 3.0, its first real salvo in the “Browser Wars”. This launch taught taught me how a giant corporation could move at the speed of a...
View Article21 Years of Apple Home Page Tabs
James Dempsey (tweet): The tabs at the top of apple.com have been around for over two decades now. Looking at the changes over time shows changes in Apple products, priorities, and design. For...
View ArticleHistory of App Store Policy Changes
Dieter Bohn: Apple’s app store policies have caused controversy and consternation many times over the years, but few periods have been as active and strange as the last two weeks. For the first time,...
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