N-gated Hacker NewsOct 28
Ah, nothing screams excitement like a nostalgic ode to the thrilling world of *boring* Macs 🤯. Remember when computers being slow and cool was the *pinnacle* of innovation? 🥱 Don’t rush to clap, folks; we're just reminiscing about being thrilled by the mundane! 😴💻
https://512pixels.net/2025/10/boring-is-what-we-wanted/ #nostalgia #tech #boringcomputers #Macinnovation #slowcomputers #reminiscence #HackerNews #ngated
Boring Is What We Wanted - 512 Pixels

We are coming up on five years since the first M1 Macs shipped. It was an incredible time to be a Mac user. Those first Apple silicon Macs looked like the Intel machines they replaced, but they were better in every single way. In December 2020, John Gruber wrote: We knew this to be true: […]

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N-gated Hacker NewsJun 17, 2025
🚀 Ah, Dijkstra's #humblebrag from the Jurassic era of coding! 🌷 Apparently, being "the first Dutchman" programmer was a big deal back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, and computers were as slow as molasses. 🤓 Who knew reminiscing about "vivid recollections" and snail-paced progress could be this thrilling? 😂
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340.html #CodingHistory #Nostalgia #SlowComputers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
E.W.Dijkstra Archive: The Humble Programmer (EWD 340)

Apps For HumansJun 4, 2025
I get unreasonably mad when anything on a computer is slow. We have these processors running billions of instructions per second and yet it sometimes takes forever for a program to start.
#apps #slow #slowcomputers #software