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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · 2d

pretty freakin’ good 👍

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 16d

We are going to win.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 17d

wizard frog is insane

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 16d

we lost a queen 👑

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 16d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 21d

WATCH: "They are underwater across the board, and they know it. And that is causing them to double down in public. But it is backfiring. That is why—whether it's a shutdown, whether it's all of this—they want us to blink first. And we have too much to save," says AOC.

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · 23d

Beat perfect edit by Andy Jurgensen

John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Sep 14

This feels like @gruber.foo take on Days of Thunder aka Days of Silence. #apple #cupertino

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Sep 10

Apple engineer Steve Milne recalls.

Which chord to use for the Mac II boot chime. A major chord (tonic, major 3rd, fifth) has a positive, perhaps corny sound. A minor chord (tonic, minor 3rd, fifth) sounds sad. We settled on a power chord (tonic, fifth) - the most neutral.

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Sep 10

Bob McNinch recalls.

Jobs said, 'If there's anything I can do for you, come to my office'. I did 'To make more sales in Europe we need a localized Lisa keyboard with characters like Å and Ö. "Don't worry. We're going to fix it in software". And walked away.

books.by/john-buck #apple #jobs #design

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Sep 1

Tom Erickson notes:

This was before Apple turned into a vampire ecosystem where everything tries to suck money out of people. We were on a mission. Whatever you could do to make something attractive, engaging, and understandable for people. And nothing else.

books.by/john-buck #apple #HIG #design

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 24

Jim Reekes recalls:
I had a music background, and was put in Apple tech support to fix sound problems. Developers contacted us with very technical programming questions. If we couldn't answer, we'd go to the actual engineers working on the OS to find the answers.

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 18

Another unique Steve story from Inventing the Future.

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#apple #jobs #unix

Unix on the Mac

Unknown to Steve Jobs a team at Apple was working on a Unix Macintosh. Former Lisa software manager Ron Johnston recalls: A friend of mine from college, Steve Smith, also went to HP after graduating ...

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 17

A fabulous Woz story from Chuck Mauro.
And a typical Steve story.

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#apple #wozniak

Chuck and Woz

I had built the first 80-column video card but I still hadn’t decided on a name! Grant (Jasmin), my business partner, and I put our heads together and came up with SmarTerm®, an amalgamation of “Smart...

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Alex ‘4D’ Gollner @alex4d.com · Aug 14

Watching the first episode of #AlienEarth inspired me to make a free Final Cut Pro title template that emulates the MU-TH-UR chat user interface, and also on-screen titles.

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It’s about time I got back into making free tools for Final Cut users!

Alex4D Interface 2038 | Alex4D

A free Final Cut Pro for Mac title that emulates text seen in Alien (1979) and in Alien: Earth (2025). […]

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 15

this is fantastic. thank you. thank you.

John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 12

i’d rather they could spell Off rather than Of

kottke.org @kottke.org · Aug 12

Will you watch a tire rolling down a massive sand dune for three minutes? Yeah, I didn’t think I would either, but here I am telling you that you probably will. It’s definitely a metaphor for something! [kottke.org]

Roll On, You Crazy Tire!

The team at Tuk South visited one of the tallest sand dunes in Chile and did the obvious: threw a tire down it and followed it with a drone to see how long it would roll. The answer: almost three minutes. Take a break

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 8

"Apple is in danger of looking like a laggard, not a leader. It must prove that it can introduce new technology, get it to market in a reasonable timeframe, and at a reasonable price.
It has to continue to attract good work from third-party developers. We'll be waiting."

InfoWorld, Oct 1990

John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 4

Jeremy Jones recalls:

"What Steve Hain and I had written in a basement, was now good enough for former Xerox PARC scientists, Larry Tesler and Alan Kay, as well as Newton's Steve Capps and Steve Sakoman to tell John Sculley to buy Coral Software and create Dylan."

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 3

Vicki Brown recalls Project Oreo:

Our building was off campus and there wasn't any of the Tech-Bro culture. This was Apple, and this was Unix. And between the two of those, if you knew what you were doing, you were a member of the team, and that's all that mattered.

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Aug 1

Rod Perkins recalls ATG in '87

"We laid out what users would want from ‘Spider’, adding live audio capability gave rise to voice calls between Macs, like what we have now with Teams and FaceTime, and we saw the need to leave a Voice Message if the respondent was busy or away."

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jul 29

Chris Crawford, pioneer game designer:

"With the benefit of hindsight it's easy to see the Apple II's success but that wasn't clear in 79. Computer junkies bought the less expensive TRS-80 and PET. The II's color display advantage was shattered by the Atari 800's debut"

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jun 24

SuperMac’s Steve Edelman recalls Apple in 87:

That Steve (Jobs) was in exile and not able to resist or even kill an expandable platform was crucial. It allowed the development of products allowing functionality over costs, coming from individuals, inside the company and outside.

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jun 18

Should chyron read ‘assassination’ rather than shooting? @msnbc.com @nicollewallace.bsky.social #deadlinewhitehouse

John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jun 13

Rumor is Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig have a new book in the works. “Sharpest Bulb aka Trump 2” 😵‍💫 @carolleonnig.bsky.social

John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jun 8

If the Mac was to get millions of colors, it meant someone had to turn Atkinson's QuickDraw into Color QuickDraw. @geprgec.bsky.social recalls: "Steve Jobs told me I must consult Bill Atkinson on any changes I had planned for QuickDraw. Steve held Bill in extremely high regard."

Vale Bill Atkinson

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John Buck @hellojohnbuck.bsky.social · Jun 7

HyperCard was ahead of its time.
“I grew up in a box-centric culture at Apple. If I'd grown up in a network-centric culture, like Sun, HyperCard might have been the first Web browser. I thought everyone being connected was a pipe dream. Boy was I wrong."

Vale Bill Atkinson
@karaswisher.bsky.social

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