persistent.info

I wrote a post for the Sierra blog about building our internal "MCP Gateway".

“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” — Mark Twain While Mark Twain did not actually say that, I do share the sentiment - I commute into the city (from Cupertino) 3 days a week, and every summer there are days when I realize I am

tl;dr: I’ve added Sky Feeder and Tweeter Feeder to join my earlier Masto Feeder tool, allowing me (or anyone else who signs in) to follow accounts from all three social networks in a feed reader.

One of the frequent emails that I get about Infinite Mac is “I’ve been copying over these files to every mac I’ve owned for the past 20 (or 30 or 40) years, how can I load them into your site?”

I've been using Pair Domains (née pairNIC) as my default domain registrar for 20+ years.

tl;dr: You can now embed any OS from Infinite Mac into your website, from 1984’s System 1.0 through 2005’s Mac OS X 10.4.

tl;dr: Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions.

New company, new corporate blog for me to post on.

The Macintosh Garden is a great resource in the retro Mac community.

I was a happy user of the Dark Sky weather app for many years.

tl;dr: No, not Windows¹, but I’ve decided to expand Infinite Mac to the the black hardware that Mac users secretly lusted after in the 80s and 90s: NeXT.

I had previously mentioned that I ended up fixing some DingusPPC CPU emulation bugs.

One of my goals for Infinite Mac is to learn more about computer architecture and other fundamentals.

Infinite Mac has supported a limited form of persistence since its initial launch.

The first proper blog post on this site was 20 years ago today.

Here are a few highlights of what’s been happening with Infinite Mac since my last update.

I finally got access to the recently-launched Slack canvas feature.

It doesn't feel like it's been 5 years since my last post about Reader, but I guess the past few years have suffered from time compression.

I wrote a valedictory blog post about the instrumentation we're adding to the Tailscale client to get a handle on battery life issues.

Darwin was one of the first things Apple open-sourced (24 years ago).

tl;dr: Infinite Mac has a new home at infinitemac.org.

One of the less visible changes in Tailscale v1.36 is that the macOS binary is 35MB smaller.

tl;dr: I use Masto Feeder to generate a nicely-formatted RSS feed of my timeline, and then I can read it in my preferred feed reader.

I worked on adding iOS and macOS Shortcuts support for Tailscale's latest release.

I've been running lolcommits for 10 years, and it's captured some interesting moments from my time at Quip and Tailscale.