The only #LiquidGlass I’ll accept…

My 20” iMac G4 still had a few more updates to take from Apple.

Mmmmmm, usable UI that just works...

Here are some screenshots of MarsEdit 1.1.2 running on Mac OS X Tiger. You can see the sweet drawers too!

Celebrating 20 Years of Vienna RSS

I bounced around RSS clients in the early Mac OS X years, and certainly used Vienna for a while. It was noteworthy to me because it was open-source—something that was comparatively rare for fully featured, well designed applications on Mac OS X at the time. Congrats to all involved for keeping the project going for 20 years.

https://www.vienna-rss.com/blog/news/2025/07/07/Celebrating-20-years-of-ViennaRSS.html

Typora, un editor markdown minimale
Un prodotto semplice e professionale per leggere e scrivere documenti MD...

https://www.selectallfromdual.com/blog/1536

#editor #elaboratoreditesti #linux #macosx #markdown #tool #toolperlinux #toolpermacosx #toolperwindows #windows

I have to say I am pretty lcuky that this was the OS I got to use during my senior year of high school and first year or so of college... #MacOSX #Aqua

So I have this ADC book from Apple on #MacOSX when it first came out. Look at how it describes the (new) #Aqua interface…

- “properties of water infuse…”
- “polished blue gems”
- “active buttons pulse”
- “like a genie into its bottle”

I am building gcc-15.1.0 on my iMac G4 (Tiger) machine. It is on stage2, which is a good sign.

It will include C, C++, Fortran, Modula-2, Objective C, and Objective C++ compilers.

It will depend on my new PowerPC Mac OS X modernization library, libpcc: https://github.com/ibara/libppc

I'll write a blog post about how to use it once it is all compiled; my goal is to produce a turnkey solution that just works(TM), including assembler, linker, and other utilities, as recent as possible for PowerPC.

And libppc can be instantly extendable to incorporate more C11 and later features. Hopefully others in the retro Mac community are interested in building that up with me.

My ultimate goal is to build some flavor of WebKit some day and have a modern web experience (even if slow, and possibly using X11). But in the meantime we will probably build a lot of excellent modern software to keep these machines going.

The OG Burn CD button in iTunes was *chef’s kiss* — it really tied the UI to the job of hardware in such a sci-fi way. It was so cool if you got to live through this era. Keep in mind this was also 2001. #iTunes #MacOSX #Aqua

Took advantage of the long week-end to make a new release of my personal project: QuickDraw viewer, a tool to visualise and convert QD images used on old Macintosh computer into something modern like PDF or PNG.

This was mostly a maintenance release, switching to Swift 6 and adding the relevant synchronisation annotations. It's far from perfect but it works. I also improved the localisation, and some the documentation.

#quickdraw #retrocomputing #swift #macosx

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

Bring back Camino for Mac OS X.

https://www.alojapan.com/1275493/japan-moves-closer-to-requiring-third-party-app-stores/ Japan moves closer to requiring third-party app stores #adobe #AppStore #Apple #AppleComputer #AppleComputerInc. #AppleInc #AppleTv #Google #IMac #iBook #IBookStore #iMac #Intel #Ios9 #ios9 #ipad #iPhone #IPhone6+ #Iphone6s #IPodClassic #IPodNano #IPodShuffle #IPodTouch #iTunes #ITunesStore #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseNews #MacBook #MacOsX #MacOsx #MacPro #MacBookPro #MagicMouse #MagicPad #Microsoft #news #Nokia #nvidia #ResearchInMotion #RIM #samsung

A friend sent me this screenshot of FCPX running on OS X Mavericks:
1. Everything is compartmentalized; sections, subsections, content, tools
2. Clear on/off state for controls
3. Even with icons lacking color, they have detail; far clearer than SF Symbols could ever be
4. Buttons have borders; you can tell what is a button vs. symbol (representing a status)

This is what Dark Mode should have been; a "lights out" version of standard window chrome. Not just black.
#macOS #MacOSX #UIUX #Aqua

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Ahh yes, when #iTunes got rid of Aqua table view headers and scroll bars for more "plastic-y" ones... Still looked pretty damn nice and well designed.

Look how color and depth aid in compartmentalization of the UI and user's content. So gorgeous.

Added Graphite styling which corresponds to the System Accent Color if it is Graphite as well as the muted look for when the window isn't the main window... as well as the more appropriate sorting indicator from the time.

Overrode NSTableHeaderView and NSTableHeaderCell yesterday to get an Aqua appearance by custom drawing them myself in their respective draw functions... but refined it a lot more today!

(I removed most of the UI to call out the table view headers a bit more in this video)

Maaaaaan, AppKit is so fucking fun to use and make shit with.

No... I won't be shipping with #Aqua headers for the NSTableView but at least I now know I can override NSTableHeaderCell and draw whatever the hell I want and not keep the snoozeville boring flat UI headers they ship now. :) Flat UI sucks.

I will probably make some subtle gradient for the column headers that will make them stand out a bit more.

But look, AQUA!!!

Slowly but surely bringing back #Aqua...