Stephen H. Gerstacker

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Software Developer. Swift, C, Ruby, or whatever else gets thrown at me.
Websitehttps://gerstacker.us
GitHubhttps://github.com/stack
Trademark Violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac | Notepad++

@MuseumJoe is Retro Platinum PLA good for something like a Quadra 800? Or is there a better color for that era of Macs?
★ The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous
https://daringfireball.net/2026/04/nyt_wrong_crossword_grid
The New York Times Printed the Wrong Crossword Grid Last Sunday, and I Find That Timing Serendipitous

Software brain says *Go faster; do more; the only mistake you can’t fix is having gone too slow.* Hardware brain says *Slow down; do less; focus; strive for perfection and never settle for less than excellence; mistakes are forever.*

Daring Fireball
@RonsCompVids I should bring my Dan Kottke-signed SE and get it signed.
Announcing Swift 6.3.1, a maintenance release with reliability improvements. More details in the forum post here: https://forums.swift.org/t/announcing-swift-6-3-1/86080
Announcing Swift 6.3.1

We are happy to announce the release of Swift 6.3.1. Install Swift Toolchain Install via Swiftly swiftly install 6.3.1 or swiftly install latest Download toolchain directly from Install Swift | Swift.org Docker images will be available on hub.docker.com/_/swift soon (PR#21263) Xcode 26.4.1 contains Swift 6.3.1 Release Notes Swift Fixed stack-allocation bugs in async functions that caused “freed pointer was not the last allocation” crashes, particularly in swift_asyncLet_finish. These lon...

Swift Forums

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116365787273186708

[Another update, this time linking to Nils Streedain's wallpapers optimized for Macs with OLED displays.]

https://www.nilsstreedain.com/blog/2026/04/15/artemis-ii-oled-mac-wallpapers/

wiiMac - A Mac OS X Bootloader for the Nintendo Wii
https://github.com/bryankeller/wiiMac?tab=readme-ov-file
Mac OS X Cheetah Successfully Ported to Nintendo Wii

Developer Bryan Keller was curious whether an old version of Apple's Mac operating system was capable of running on the Nintendo Wii after seeing...

MacRumors

I am slightly obsessed with this. It's the sort of thing I wouldn't mind on a mug or a t-shirt 😅

As most people know, Apple owned a Cray for a relatively unsuccessful first stab at their own processor design.

This was uploaded by the wonderful @bitsavers recently!

(Original link is here: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/atg/aquarius/)