Engineer at Sierra, formerly of Tailscale, Slack, Quip, Google Chrome and Google Reader.https://bsky.app/profile/persistent.infohttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3mwqupibzw222I've started to add BeOS to Infinite Mac - you can see the first few versions on infinitemac.org?filter=beos Not having been much of a user back in the day, I'm looking for suggestions of software to include, or pointers to canonical archives (is there a Be version of the Macintosh Garden?)30 Sep 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwqupibzw222https://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3mw2hc7v3v222I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to recently-released and awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: infinitemac.org?filter=aux There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at https://blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infinite-mac-snow-and-aux.html detailing this and other site updates.21 Sep 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw2hc7v3v222https://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3movo7ogl722bThe nice thing about making your own weather app is that you can make features just for yourself. I'd always wanted to know every morning if work (nominally 45 miles away, but an entirely different climate) had different weather, and now I can. https://apps.apple.com/app/weather-text/id6532596655 https://blog.persistent.info/2026/06/weather-text-work-location-mode.html22 Jun 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3movo7ogl722bhttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3mnf64dbsds2oTwo new tools on www.streamspigot.com: - Sky Feeder generates a feed of your Bluesky timeline - Tweeter Feeder generates per-account feeds for that other site Together with the existing Masto Feeder tool, this lets me continue to pretend to live in 2011, consuming everything in a feed reader.03 Jun 2026 13:00 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf64dbsds2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3lz4kgl5nkc2aClassic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit on the Internet in 1995, and the same is true 30 years later with Infinite Mac. I found a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives – a brief writeup: https://blog.persistent.info/2025/09/infinite-mac-resource-forks.html18 Sep 2025 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3lz4kgl5nkc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3ltk6lisbo22mInfinite Mac can now be embedded into any website: infinitemac.org/embed For a demonstration of what this can enable, see @aresluna.org's amazing "Frame of preference" article: https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/09 Jul 2025 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltk6lisbo22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3ll4xq2ovw22qMac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web: https://infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1 (technically 10.1, but that’s the first release that actually worked acceptably)24 Mar 2025 14:28 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4xq2ovw22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3lkblp336qk2nNew company, new corporate blog for me to post on. https://sierra.ai/blog/gardening-week-evergreen-engineering describes an engineering team ritual that we've developed. You can tell that it was not ghost-written because I got to cram in a lot of links to obscure articles.13 Mar 2025 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkblp336qk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3lgmqvyvtvs24Holy Hyrum's Law [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jan 2025 06:03 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgmqvyvtvs24https://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3la54346dlp23Infinite Mac now has a “Macintosh Garden” drawer that allows one-click loading of any of the 20,000 items archived by that site. I wrote up a brief post with some behind-the-scenes details: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infinite-mac-macintosh-garden-library.html04 Nov 2024 16:09 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3la54346dlp23https://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3jzujcdfwbq2sI’m still team “if you didn’t blog it, it didn’t happen”. So here’s a post about how much Quip technology is in Slack canvas (spoiler: a lot): https://blog.persistent.info/2023/07/slack-canvas-quip.html06 Jul 2023 16:14 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3jzujcdfwbq2shttps://bsky.app/profile/persistent.info/post/3ju7vgugqrc2thttps://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life describes battery life work we're doing at @tailscale.com. It's been a fun few months going beyond just Darwin spelunking to also hack on the Go standard library and explore different aggregation and visualization options.25 Apr 2023 20:20 +0000at://did:plc:hotqikm3it2culpyqqbdmyez/app.bsky.feed.post/3ju7vgugqrc2t