Mister Macintosh (2004)(folklore.org)

102 points by HypnoticOcelot 1 year ago | 47 comments

Scrooge McDuck: The first image on the first Macintosh (1980)(folklore.org)

81 points by spking 2 years ago | 14 comments

Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004)(folklore.org)

153 points by dtgriscom 1 year ago | 31 comments

Swedish Campground (2004)(folklore.org)

106 points by CharlesW 1 year ago | 31 comments

Steve wants us to make the Macintosh boot faster(folklore.org)

53 points by maayank 10 months ago | 52 comments

Joining Apple Computer (2018)(folklore.org)

425 points by tosh 1 year ago | 117 comments

Bill Atkinson's Folklore.org reflection on the 40th anniversary of joining Apple Computer in 1978, recounting how he left his neuroscience PhD to work there.

JSONB has landed(sqlite.org)

579 points by nalgeon 2 years ago | 181 comments

SQLite forum post by Richard Hipp announcing JSONB, a binary rewrite of SQLite's JSON functions that landed on trunk and can be several times faster.

The Future Is Niri(ersei.net)

388 points by mattjhall 1 year ago | 202 comments

A personal blog post giving the author's opinion on the Niri scrollable tiling Wayland compositor after years of using Sway and i3.

TODOs aren't for doing(sophiebits.com)

380 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 218 comments

A blog post by Sophie Alpert arguing that TODO comments are valuable as documentation of known issues even if never acted on, and shouldn't be auto-deleted or tracked.

Nobody knows how to build with AI yet(worksonmymachine.substack.com)

475 points by Stwerner 1 year ago | 368 comments

Scott Werner's Substack essay arguing nobody yet knows how to build software with AI, drawing on building Protocollie in four days without touching the code.

If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design(mastodon.social)

684 points by lateforwork 9 months ago | 260 comments

A social media post showing Apple's Pages app icons in reverse chronological order, joking it resembles a designer's improving portfolio, with replies.

Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance(larsfaye.com)

490 points by larsfaye 2 months ago | 479 comments

Blog essay by Lars Faye arguing that reliance on AI coding tools removes the friction needed to develop long-term programming expertise.