Over the years, I have scoured the internet for various versions of the Mac HIG PDFs. Here is my collection so far.

Some neat ones include HIGs for Mac OS 8 & a preliminary Mac OS X version from the Public Beta.

These HIGs contain general desktop guidelines that still apply today & that you can't find in the modern HIG.

Please retoot! Everyone should read these.

iCloud: https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/03elmPnR30gJQkCs-7pkmNoeA#Macintosh_HIG_Collection

DB: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/gziho6zcerb8n2jvwn2vh/AFTncRmOaOkSS0Z6HoqaLDo?rlkey=6eby48c1tm5uayzbacd8tfyc6&st=97rkv6j1&dl=0

#Mac #HIG #Macintosh #UIUX #UserExperience #macOS #MacHIG #MacOSX

Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we're not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

“Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.”

— Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, on X, defending Gov. Tim Walz against accusations by Sen. J.D. Vance.

Pretty good.