Thread: An OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software

An OS 9 odyssey: Why these Mac users won’t abandon 16-year-old software (arstechnica.com)

L 13 pts 0 comments by calvin Sep 11, 2016 culturemac Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

My wonderful world of macOS (github.com)

L 30 pts 30 comments by pgl Aug 28, 2017 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Emacs users are like Terry Pratchett’s Igors (2013) (chrisdone.com)

L 35 pts 23 comments by zge Jul 28, 2019 emacsphilosophy Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Sorry macOS users, but Apple has gone too far for some of us devs (gridsagegames.com)

L 20 pts 14 comments by calvin Oct 4, 2019 macrant Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Mac SE/30 odyssey (axio.ms)

L 26 pts 5 comments by projectgus Oct 6, 2021 hardwaremac Apple / macOS / iOS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread

Nix Survival Mode: macOS upgrades won't break Nix anymore (determinate.systems)

L 41 pts 28 comments by grahamc Oct 25, 2023 macnix Systems / Low-Level / OS Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Java users on macOS 14 running on Apple silicon systems should consider delaying the macOS 14.4 update (blogs.oracle.com)

L 67 pts 63 comments by sanxiyn Mar 18, 2024 javamac Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Why can't/won't Linux desktop utils offer unified configuration like Emacs? (old.reddit.com)

HN 2 pts 0 comments by vfclists Oct 10, 2024 Systems / Low-Level / OS thread

Rage against the (checkout) machine: Why I won't do self-service with a smile (csmonitor.com)

HN 4 pts 0 comments by Tomte Dec 20, 2024 thread

MacOS for KDE Users (matklad.github.io)

L 31 pts 42 comments by cgrinds Feb 24, 2025 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

MacPad: How I Created the Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet That Apple Won’t Make (2024) (macstories.net)

L 6 pts 1 comments by kwas Apr 14, 2025 iosmac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Why won't the Wayback Machine archive my page?

~ 9 pts 1 comments by unknown Aug 8, 2025 ~tech Internet / Digital Culture thread

Apple Explains Why Mac Users in the EU Can't Use iPhone Mirroring (thurrott.com)

HN 18 pts 15 comments by SoKamil Sep 17, 2025 Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Why won't Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? (arstechnica.com)

HN 48 pts 15 comments by saghm Dec 4, 2025 thread

Abusing Emoji in iOS and Your Mac (zachholman.com)

L 3 pts 1 comments by b Sep 20, 2012 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

brew-cask: a friendly homebrew CLI workflow for the administration of Mac apps (github.com)

L 15 pts 4 comments by phinze Sep 28, 2012 macruby Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Inception - gain root on any machine you have physical access to (breaknenter.org)

L 12 pts 5 comments by phinze Oct 12, 2012 linuxmacsecuritywindows Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

"Inception aims to provide a stable and easy way of performing intrusive and non-intrusive memory hacks on live computers using FireWire SBP-2 DMA. It is primarily intended to do its magic against computers that utilize full disk encryption such as BitLocker, FileVault, TrueCrypt or Pointsec."

Disable scroll acceleration introduced in Mac OS 10.8 Mountain Lion (github.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by jcs Oct 17, 2012 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Apparently Mac OS Mountain Lion introduced this behavior of accelerated scrolling, where making incremental scroll movements on the trackpad while viewing a long document will eventually speed up and start scrolling a much larger amount for the same amount of scrolling. For some reason I only not...

fusuma - window management for OSX written in MacRuby (github.com)

L 3 pts 0 comments by jcs Oct 24, 2012 macreleaseruby Programming (General)Apple / macOS / iOS Productivity / Career / Business thread

Heard - a Mac application that locally records what you listen to in iTunes (macwright.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by jcs Nov 29, 2012 macreleasevisualization Design / UX / Visualization Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Emacs Conf to take place on March 30th in the UK (lists.hugadev.com)

L 6 pts 2 comments by JoelMcCracken Dec 20, 2012 emacseventlisp Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory thread

"Fixing" Slow Wake for MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display (ewal.net)

L 4 pts 0 comments by anthony Jan 9, 2013 mac Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Airmail – Lightning fast mail client for Mac. (airmailapp.info)

L 4 pts 3 comments by edward Mar 25, 2013 macrelease Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Your Mac, iPhone or iPad may have left the Apple store with a serious security risk (troyhunt.com)

L 1 pts 1 comments by jcs Apr 30, 2013 macnetworkingsecurity Data / Databases / Infrastructure Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Mac OS X FileVault encryption and OpenBSD encrypted softraid on a Macbook Air (gist.github.com)

L 6 pts 0 comments by jcs May 14, 2013 macopenbsd Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

I've had to do this a few times and I forgot the steps each time, so I finally decided to write it all down.

Signed Mac Malware Using Right-to-Left Override Trick (f-secure.com)

L 7 pts 1 comments by jcs Jul 16, 2013 macsecurity Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

Modernization of Emacs (Simple Changes Emacs Should Adopt) (ergoemacs.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by joshuacc Jul 23, 2013 emacs Programming (General) thread

emacs bites (screencasts) (emacsbites.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by puffnfresh Aug 10, 2013 emacs Programming (General) thread

Anatomy of a killer bug: How just 5 characters can murder iPhone, Mac apps (theregister.co.uk)

L 2 pts 0 comments by jcs Sep 4, 2013 macreversingsecurity Systems / Low-Level / OS Security / Privacy Apple / macOS / iOS thread

How Apple Makes the Mac Pro (atomicdelights.com)

L 5 pts 0 comments by jonbaer Oct 23, 2013 hardwaremac Apple / macOS / iOS Maker / DIY / Hardware thread