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R.L. Dane. I think I first heard about emulation in the early 1990s. Some kind of magical software could make your Mac pretend it was a PC, albeit quite slowly. It was very niche and expensive software, but it allowed folks to run software designed for a completely different architecture.
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Gratitude Day 4: Virtualization / Emulation
I think I first heard about emulation in the early 1990s. Some kind of magical software could make your Mac pretend it was a PC, albeit quite slowly. It was very niche and expensive software, but it allowed folks to run software designed for a completely
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Gratitude Day 3: Cats!!
Ok, seriously forget that supposed rule about the internet being for, uh, "spicy media." Forget that exploitative nonsense. Seriously. Call me a prude, I don't give a rip. The Internet is for CATS. I sense that Vint Cerf, Bill Joy, Kirk McCusick, Al Gore,
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Gratitude Day 2: Personal Music Libraries
Over the past few years, I've been on a journey of migrating from streaming services to personal music libraries. I haven't yet made the jump from streaming video services to personal video libraries, but it's definitely on my radar. I got an Apple Music
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Gratitude Day 1: Text
I wanted to start this month's theme off with something pretty light and easy to write. Indeed, I've written about the beauty of "plain text" at length last year: 2025-07-26 Why I Love the Command Line 2025-07-21 Why I love vim 2025-04-11 Why I love Markd
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A September Theme: 30 Days of Gratitude
This morning, I briefly skimmed through a post Robert Birming blog entitled "SepThemeBear - create your own theme." When I say skimmed, I don't think I read much more than the title, honestly. I was on my phone, and reading on my phone is not an enjoyable
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My Failed Tech Predictions
Tech writers love making at times outlandish predictions. I remember in the early 90s thinking back very glibly about John C. Dvorak's prediction (more of a comment, really) that the mouse was a questionable, unproven peripheral, and probably wouldn't eve
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Re: Ghosts in my phone
Earlier today, I put out a call to see if anyone wanted to do a July Reply collab, and Hyde answered that call! In his post Hyde talks about doing "spring cleaning" on his phone, removing old photos and contacts. I have a similar routine, removing a year'
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Re: Linkdump No 117, or "Thoughts on Computer Snobbery"
Andreas writes , The Amiga turns 40 this week. I had an Amiga 500 as a kid, some time in the early 90s. And I remember being made fun of for having an Amiga, because PCs were supposedly so much cooler and better and whatnot. But the first time I visited …
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Re: Praying to St Jude: counselling the re-Googlers
Background/Reply Kevin Boone wrote an excellent article about "de-googling," and how to counsel people who are encountering the "costs" of living the de-googled life. I've been mostly de-googled since September 2021, and it of course hasn't been super eas
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Re: 5 Albums
I saw Noisy Deadlines ' recent post entitled " 5 Albums ," and it reminded me of fun "getting to know you" viral copypasta posts on social media before social media turned into a pile of garbage . So, here's five albums to get to know me, based on release
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