Mastodawn

I can’t begin to tell you how much fun I had talking to people who were present at Apple’s creation—Woz, of course, but so many more. I learned so much, and really did feel like I was there. So will you, I think. Here’s a gift link which you’re welcome to share: https://www.fastcompany.com/91514404/apple-founding-50th-anniversary-apple-1-apple-ii-jobs-wozniak?mvgt=E5Loo3fO74zl

How Apple became Apple: The definitive oral history of the company’s earliest days

The true story of how Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and other bright young tech hobbyists of the 1970s joined forces to ignite a revolution.

Fast Company

Ken Ryall 6d ago

Greg Pierce 6d ago

you know there is simple system to control which Waffle House you are teleported to…

Ken Ryall Mar 16

Mignon Fogarty Mar 16

How do you pronounce "Celtic"?

If you're a basketball fan, you probably say "Seltic." If you study history or linguistics, you probably say "Keltic." So who's right?

Both pronunciations are in the dictionary, but they have different histories. The original Greek word used a hard K sound. But English got the word from French, where is starts with the S sound.

For centuries in English, the S pronunciation dominated — which is how Boston's basketball team got its name in 1946. 1/2

Ken Ryall Mar 16

James Thomson Mar 12

Some updates to my PCalc scientific calculator!

Consider this the "new features that should have shipped last year" release. Includes some frequently requested things like woodworking fractions, support for the Indian numbering system for separators, and three new conversion categories, "Flow Rate", "Jewelry", and "Typography".

I've also tried to unify a lot of features that were only on iOS, or only on the Mac.

Mac:
https://pcalc.com/store/pcalcmac

Everything else:
https://pcalc.com/store/pcalc

Enjoy!

Ken Ryall Mar 11

rands Mar 11

Ken Ryall Mar 5

Michael Steeber Mar 5

What a fantastic video https://youtu.be/sbCVETsmtoM?si=Lso0Yvli0NO8Yj56

Historic Apple Buildings Walking Tour with Early Employees

YouTube

Ken Ryall Feb 28

Esther Schindler Feb 27

You could go a lifetime without the opportunity to write a headline like this.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/12-02-2026/our-possums-are-a-problem-is-selena-gomez-the-solution

Our possums are a problem. Could Selena Gomez be the solution?

How one pop star's limited edition Oreo flavour became a vital weapon in the war against one of Aotearoa's biggest pests.

The Spinoff

Ken Ryall Feb 27

Dan Gillmor Feb 27

A reminder that Molly White (https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is, by far, doing the best job of covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- her latest newsletter post, replete with Epstein Class dot-connecting, should make you furious.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/

Issue 101 – Bought and paid for

Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms.

Citation Needed

Ken Ryall Feb 24

Dare Obasanjo Feb 24

Summer Yue, a director at Meta Superintelligence Labs working on AI safety and alignment, shared how OpenClaw ignored requests to confirm before acting and deleted emails from their inbox.

This is the same technology the Pentagon can’t wait to use to build weapons.

https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363

Ken Ryall Feb 17

Sunset at the airport (84R) #aviation