Harassment and bullying are never acceptable or excusable.

"It really is never just one bad actor that ruins things in any community. It's on to the people around them — you and me — to either shrug and let their shit slide, or do our best to counteract it."

https://www.readonlymemo.com/one-rotten-fan-can-spoil-a-community-but-only-if-we-let-them/

Apple’s API Review team is hiring.

https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/details/200605934/api-review-design-engineer

The job description says “you’ll have a unique opportunity to help shape the technologies that inspire developers” and that’s no exaggeration.

Dramatic decrease in air pollution near 4th & King in SF when Caltrain went fully electric. BC = black carbon, a proxy for diesel particulates.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.estlett.4c01096

Yep, Windows XP icons were designed and produced on a Mac in FreeHand.

Microsoft was our first paying client back in 1997: we made the icon suite for Outlook Express on Mac OS 9. It was the email counterpart to Internet Explorer 5.

https://news.microsoft.com/source/1998/01/06/microsoft-announces-march-availability-of-office-98-macintosh-edition/
https://techhub.social/@maccatalan/114155754052920748

It’s important we tell our own stories if no one else does. Here is my memory of the Unisys ICON and some ICON games, a computer that only Xennials from Ontario would have used. They were almost all destroyed and no archives or emulators exist. True lost media.

https://postgamecontent.com/post/771726085147803648/the-unisys-icon-one-canadian-xennials-memories