Mastodawn

The MacBook Neo is such an interesting machine that it coaxed a thousand-word-essay out of me: https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

John Link Feb 23

Halcyon Feb 17

I've gone down a deep rabbit hole working on a strange new project: a standalone After Dark module player for modern macOS. No OS emulation or ROM required -- just the original classic Mac OS AD module files! I can't believe this is working!

John Link Jan 20

Brett Terpstra 🏴🐈‍⬛Jan 19

Hey MN (and everywhere), Crimethinc has an anti-ICE poster you can print and share. Plaster it everywhere.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/stop-them-before-they-kill-again

Stop Them Before They Kill Again

CrimethInc.

John Link Jan 14

Sumo55 Jan 11

Old Chattanooga (banjo)

https://makertube.net/w/1xcTrJhftv3rhEnPNHpRwr

Old Chattanooga on banjo

PeerTube

John Link Jan 11

Brent Simmons Jan 6

I’m working on the macOS 26 update for NetNewsWire, and I wondered how difficult it would be to get rid of all the menu item icons.

Turns out to be quite easy! Just a few lines of code and they’re all gone.

https://gist.github.com/brentsimmons/8dbe00e8acbeede26baaaebd06a867fc

Disable all menu item images in a Mac app.

Disable all menu item images in a Mac app. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

Gist

John Link Dec 28

Scalzi Dec 26

Cool stuff going into the public domain in 2026:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law

January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

John Link Dec 11

Hadas Weiss Dec 10

post like it’s not all meaningless anyway

John Link Dec 7

@atpfm My daughter once told Siri on my phone to “Call me ‘Fabulous’.” For a week I couldn’t figure out why Siri was so enthusiastic about everything. (“OK, Fabulous, Five minutes, counting down.”)

John Link Nov 11

Benjamin Young Savage (ᐱᓐᒋᐱᓐ)Nov 11

Bed Bath & Beyond is Currently Selling a Bust of Karl Marx for \$228.59

John Link Nov 11

They should call it the “East Wing” healthcare plan.

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