Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit when the Internet took off in 1995, and the same is still true 30 years later in Infinite Mac.

I figured out a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives […]

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As a demo of what's possible, I put together Infinite Monkey: https://infinitemac.org/monkey/

It lets OpenAI's or Anthropic's computer use models control an emulated Mac, based on your chat instructions.

This means that it's possible to run the @simon
"draw me […]

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Infinite Mac can now be embedded into any website: https://infinitemac.org/embed

For a demonstration of what this can enable, see @mwichary's amazing "Frame of preference" article: https://aresluna.org/frame-of-preference/

And for a behind the scenes look […]

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https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/ is a great write up of finding a 27-year-old Easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM, and the best part is that you can experience it today in Infinite Mac

@atpfm if you want to give your listeners a reference point to the last time Apple released a lickable, glassy UI, Infinite Mac supports Mac OS X now: https://infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20OS%20X%2010.1

And I know #marchintosh is more about classic Macs, but you can run older software here too.

Create a custom instance with both 10.1 and 9.2.2 mounted, and then Classic can be started from System Preferences […]

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Mac 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)

Infinite Mac has a more complete […]

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New 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.

More seriously, it's […]

XML is cockroach-level technology - it will never go away (c.f my 2005 post http://googlereader.blogspot.com/2005/12/xml-errors-in-feeds.html vs @chockenberry in 2025).
https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry/114005146021585361

What are good examples of early Mac OS X software (10.0-10.4 era, pre-Intel switch)? My list so far

- OmniWeb, OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner and other Omni Group software
- Transmit 2, Unison, Candy Bar, Pixadex, and other Panic software
- Audio Hijack and other Rogue Amoeba software
- NetNewsWire […]

@NetNewsWire did some local (uncommitted?) changes to the default theme get included in the 6.1.5 iOS release? I'm seeing all links being underlined. What's odd is that I can't reproduce when making own build (either from HEAD or from the iOS-6.1.5-6126 tag) […]

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@siracusa @atpfm @macthemes Indeed it is. Infinite Mac is just a way for me to relive my youth (I did the initial designs for that scheme on my TI-83 during math class).

Infinite 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.html

@siracusa the compression speed and parallelism discussion on the most recent ATP reminded me of @saagar’s https://github.com/saagarjha/unxip. Though it only focuses on decompression, it shows how much faster than Archive Utilityyou can be.

P.S. This should work with any instance running System 7 - Mac OS 9.0.4 (i.e. emulated by BasiliskII or SheepShaver), just append the ?library=true parameter to its URL.

Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh Garden.

https://infinitemac.org/1997/Mac%20OS%208.0?library=true gets a new drawer that lets you browse and "download" into the Mac any […]

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I couldn’t find a watchOS weather complication I liked so I ended up making my own app: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/08/weather-text.html

@marcoarment happy to see that Intents/Shortcuts are back in Overcast. Any chance for a “Play Playlist” intent? I used to have a shortcut to start my preferred playlist (regardless of what I was doing before), which I can’t seem to recreate.

@siracusa Based on https://infinitemac.org/?filter=next the Chess app first showed up in NeXTStep 1.0 (as a developer sample app), so it's almost 35 years old.

Combination of importing my high school era coding projects into GitHub and https://www.retrogit.com/ is generating a lot of feelings.