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This is amazing! Operating Systems: Timeline and Family Tree
Also, IBM created a lot more operating systems than I ever knew.
Via @512px
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Ordered a @Playdate! Looks like I got in early enough that it’ll arrive before the end of the year.
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Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works to Delay Them.
What a disappointment. Toyota used to be a leader here and it’s sad to see them pushing to delay improvements.
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See How Wildfire Smoke Spread Across America
I think 2020 was the first time I experienced a red sun and hazy sky due to distant wildfire. Now will this be the new normal for summer in the US?
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“When it comes to both feeding people and learning about space, we do not face an affordability crisis: We face a resource distribution crisis. Protecting the deeply human connection we all have to the wider universe should motivate us to ensure that everyone’s basic needs are taken care of. We can afford to do the caring work of sustaining people, including honoring everyone’s right to know and love the night sky.”
Opinion: What Richard Branson and his critics both get wrong about equal access to space
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This weekend I read A Battle Between a Great City and a Great Lake which is a story about climate change’s impact on Lake Michigan and Chicago. I thought this was a really great look at the history of Chicago’s relationship to flooding and water management.
I have a little firsthand experience with Lake Michigan’s water level fluctuations in recent years, but had no idea of the, at times, devestating effect it has on Chicago.
On a side note, I think the web presentation here is a cool use of multimedia, especially the 3d map views.
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Brood X is here!
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New 🚵♂️ day!
Happy to be getting into mountain biking. First ride was great!
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Reading
Internet 3.0 and the Beginning of (Tech) History – Stratechery by Ben Thompson
Here technology itself will return to the forefront: if the priority for an increasing number of citizens, companies, and countries is to escape centralization, then the answer will not be competing centralized entities, but rather a return to open protocols.
An interesting look at how the internet will potentially evolve. I’ve certainly been cognizant of the centralization of technology and means of communication. I do hope we find a good balance where the key technologies can be decentralized. Open protocols seems to be a major part of this.
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Spotted the first one of Brood X! Not the healthiest specimen, but still exciting.
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STARLINK REVIEW: BROADBAND DREAMS FALL TO EARTH:
And lastly, if you are a telecom executive or regulator in the United States, you have no choice but to see Starlink, its execution, and the unrestrained excitement and hype around it as a direct indictment of your rhetoric and efforts to properly connect this country to the internet over the past two decades. Dishy McDishface is a sign that reads YOU FUCKED UP AND EVERYONE HATES YOU. Read the sign. This is your fault.
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No one told me Python has type hints now! 🐍
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Re-reading Aqua and Bondi by Stephen Hackett @512px. This book covers Apple’s development of the first iMac as well as Mac OS X and felt like the right next step after reliving the early days of Mac OS X through emulation.
Now that I’ve got this book open, I have to say I’m tempted to buy one of the original iMacs. It’s so iconic…
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Trillions of cicadas are coming to the U.S. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
I’m unreasonably excited to see them emerge.
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An interesting response to Safari’s impact on the web and app ecosystem:
The main issue is, non-standard standards. I.e. the bad habit the web has taken to require devs to adopt new APIs that are not finalized and will break in a matter of years.
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Reading Software infrastructure 2.0: a wishlist:
Infrastructure feels like it’s been built to solve hard scalability and reliability problems. There’s some amazing infra and I’m in awe how much hard thinking must have gone into it. But things are rarely built to optimize for developer productivity.
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Reading Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied about Apple’s effect on the web due to Safari’s lag on web API support.
I use Safari for its privacy features and battery life. But now reconsidering my use of it.
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It seems a common reaction to the news of the M1 in the iPad Pro is that the iPad’s software is holding it back; you can’t fully utilize the hardware with iPadOS. There’s been speculation that the next step might be to run Mac apps or Mac OS on the iPad.
It’s amusing to see this swing when I feel like a few years ago there was fear that Apple was abandoning the Mac and the iPad was the future. I think this came from a place where the Mac hardware was in a bad spot and Apple wasn’t pushing forward fast enough (butterfly keyboard!).
Now, at a power and battery life level, Mac and iPad are roughly equivalent. That leaves form factor and software as the differentiators. I wonder for how long the iPad Pro’s form factor will be considered enough of a differentiator that people will find it worth the price in addition to a Mac. From the reaction, it seems that for most “pro” use cases, iPadOS doesn’t feel sufficient. I think I’m in this boat. I manipulate text all day (code and documents) and without the battery life advantage, there’s really no longer a selling point to the iPad for me. My work is worse or impossible* on an iPad, so why would I buy one when it’s similar cost to a Mac laptop?
It will be interesting to see what steps Apple takes here. I think WWDC will shed some light or at least give hints at where they are going.
*: Yes I can ssh to a server and code, but that’s a giant step down in UX for me.
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while designing mac os X with steve, he liked to tell us how the NeXT was better
so i started bringing in my cube to win arguments by showing him that things weren’t as good as he remembered
