When people say the Mac was weird and funny in the early 90’s, it’s stuff like this little utility from Altura Software that they were talking about.
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I’ve been working on some classic Mac projects but I kept tripping over text encodings. My toolchain for the projects is Rust and assumed there’d be a solid, maintained crate for this, but I couldn’t find one. So I made one that follows Apple’s official Unicode maps.
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Plenty of people are aware of Clarus the dogcow (who says “moof!”), but I bet far fewer have ever laid eyes on a Wild Eep.
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the end of the singular iphone
Continue reading →For most of the twentieth century, you couldn’t buy a Coca-Cola in the Soviet Union. It was one of the most American things in existence, and like Levi’s and Michael Jackson, the Iron Curtain kept it out.
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the yak is back
Continue reading →Today is Apple’s 50th birthday. Tim Cook shared a letter about “50 Years of Thinking Different.” There are animated homepages, Paul McCartney concerts at Apple Park, commemorative t-shirts, David Pogue just published Apple: The First 50 Years and there’s a lot of well-earned celebration for a company that really has put a dent in the universe.
But I’ve been thinking different about a lost side of Apple’s legacy. The side that hides yaks in software.
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bruce the wonder yak didn't understand when it wasn't weird
Continue reading →On the Macintosh episode of Version History, David Pierce and Nilay Patel had a lot of fun riffing about Mr. Macintosh, Steve Jobs’s obscure concept for a digital cryptid who lives in your computer.
About 15 years later, Apple actually shipped something very similar, except instead of a mysterious little man it was a yak named Bruce.
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vision pro-dictions
Continue reading →Yesterday Apple announced the new Vision Pro spatial computer (aka headset). One of the things I do at my job is kind of try to predict the future, or at least imagine how to get ahead of it so we can make the right moves today. With that, I’ve been assembling some predictions (most of which I assume will be proven wrong very quickly) on how I think the Vision Pro will change the current state of product, experiences and technology.