The Micro.blog challenge word for day 24 is “court”. I was courting danger to my G4 iMac with this taunty screensaver in 2002. 📷 #mbmar
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On the Sinclair Trails blog, an RV addition: a propane fire pit. 🔥
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My home office back in 2011, with a height-adjustable desk, iMac and Apple Cinema Display, PowerMac G5, PowerBook 17”, early iPhone, and Bluetooth headphones. And a couple of cats, Pippin and Padmé. #ThrowbackThursday
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Since some people asked, our estate sale is scheduled for September 9-12. The old Macs I’m selling include:
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As part of preparing for our estate sale, I’m wiping my many old Macs and hard drives, all of which will be sold. Here’s my old PowerMac G5, running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. (If anyone in the Portland region wants some old Macs, plan to come to the sale!) 🖥
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Another picture from WWDC in 2006; looking down at people at charging station tables. Mac laptop batteries didn’t last all that long back then.
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The answer to the #WhatsItWednesday question today: it’s the bottom-right corner of a 2002-vintage 23" Apple Cinema HD display.
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a limited-edition “iCEO” plush toy (mint in box) of a certain mercurial fruit company CEO.
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The answer to today’s #WhatsItWednesday question: it’s a Mac OS X 10.1 installer CD-ROM, to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the general release of Mac OS X 10.0 (while I used 10.0, unfortunately I don’t have an installer disc for it). 💿
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 29 (a bonus day) is “light”. The sunlight reflecting off my desk in the morning is blinding; I need to put something there to reduce that glare. 📷 #mbfeb
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 25 is “code”. I write macOS and iOS code for a living. Also I need to clean my screen. 📷 #mbfeb
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 11 is “machine”. I have a collection of old Macs in a corner of my office; antique PowerPC-based machines, including an early iBook, an original iMac, a G5 tower, a Mac mini, plus some ancient displays etc. 💻🖥📷 #mbfeb
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In July 2006 I unboxed a new white first-generation MacBook laptop. 💻 #ThrowbackThursday
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Jason Snell's 20 Macs for 2020 project wrapped up today with his number 1: the iMac G3. While I had some misgivings at his relegating the original Mac to number 3, I can’t argue with his first choice. It was truly a game-changer for Apple and the world.
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A couple more old reference books: the manuals for THINK’s Lightspeed Pascal (1988) and THINK Pascal (1991), plus some more books on my shelf. 📚
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I dug out my ancient Inside Macintosh reference books from storage. Remember when Apple’s developer documentation came as paper books? Volumes I-III on the original Mac APIs, IV on Mac Plus, V on color Macs, and the truly massive volume VI on System 7. 📚
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Yesterday I moved back into my upstairs office, after being downstairs since October 2016. As a bonus, I now have another screen (as if I didn’t have plenty). Some leftover junk to tidy away still. Jenn has now moved to the downstairs desk (3rd pic, when empty). 💻🖥🖥
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 19 is “possible”. With everyone raving about Apple’s new M1 Macs, I can feel my resistance to buying one breaking down… it’s possible I’ll end up getting one after all… for my work, yeah. 💻 #mbnov
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Congrats to the people at Apple on the release of Macs using the new Apple Silicon M1 chip. Looks like excellent improvements in several kinds of performance. I’m not in the market for a new Mac yet, but will be keen to upgrade when the iMac joins the transition.
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Apple has announced an event for Tuesday next week, expected to introduce their first "Apple Silicon"-based Macs. As a Mac developer, you can bet I’ll be watching that.
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The Micro.blog challenge word for day 2 is "concentrate". As many will observe, it will be hard to concentrate on work for the next couple of days… but I’ve got lots to do, so will leverage my ability to not worry about things I can’t control. 📷 #mbnov
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