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Apples, Trees, and Quasimodes
A while back, Ars Technica published a thoughtful piece about Jef Raskin , tracing his long pursuit of the “humane computer” and the cul-de-sacs where that pursuit ended. It’s a generous, well-told account of the designer who wanted to make machines simpler, kinder, and more aligned with the way people actually think. But part of what makes Raskin interesting is that his story…
Hidden Agendas, Lost Cities
I first really spent time with Lotus Agenda was because of a guest post I wrote for 512 Pixels , which meant I approached it with the half-serious curiosity of someone who’d long harbored a suspicion that MS-DOS software might change the way he thought. I’d been Agenda-curious for a long time, but never tried to actually use it for real. I booted it up on my Pocket 8086, watched cards…
A New Old Idea
I finally decided to sit down and collect my thoughts about permacomputing, and the main thing I discovered was that I need to do more thinking. Contents I. The seed is planted II. The Dream III. The hardware IV. The software V. What’s next? The seed is planted I’ve been thinking about permacomputing since I first read Steve Lord ’s excellent piece about “ heirloom…
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This is System Stack , a blog. I used to have a big high-minded mission statement for this site here, because I wanted it to be dedicated to a certain line of thinking, a long-term project about how people do stuff with computers and how/where that intersects with what we now loosely call “productivity.” Thing is, I don’t want to have a mission statement; I just want to have a…