A macOS desktop fly, Mario Kart's real cars, and Susan Kare's icons
Max Glenister
I was away on holiday this week, so slimmer pickings than usual. Everything I shared on social.omgmog.net between 17 and 23 August: a simulated fly walking around a Mac desktop, why Nintendo put real cars in Mario Kart, and Susan Kare’s icon work for the original Mac.
A 3D fly that walks around a macOS desktop, driven by a simulation of 668 real neurons and about 19,000 synapses from the actual FlyWire connectome. The bug is INSIDE the machine.
A DIY-ethos case for running your own site instead of renting space on a platform, own data, own domain, no algorithm deciding what gets seen.
A collection of old UI style guides, Apple, Windows, Amiga, Palm and more, as a record of how interface design thinking has shifted over the decades.
The 1996 Quake shareware CD shipped the whole id Software catalogue encrypted, unlockable by phone. The “secret” code was just proof of payment, so it got cracked in 39 days.
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