Notes

Tired: Making an app that achieves critical mass
Wired: Making a SaaS that is useful to like three people in the whole world

ReStuff extracts StuffIt 5 archives and re-archives them in StuffIt 3 so they can be opened in System 6

http://restuff.jcs.org/

I previously mentioned using the Creative BT-W2 for Bluetooth audio on OpenBSD, but there's a new USB-C model that has hardware volume control

https://jcs.org/2020/11/18/openbsd_btaudio

The M1 Air is silently encoding a video with ffmpeg compiled for x86_64 (under Rosetta) at 1.8x while the Intel Air is doing the same with a native binary at only ~1x (with its fan screaming)

I wonder how fast a natively compiled/optimized ffmpeg would run...

Come on, Apple. The drives in your laptops haven't ever looked like this but it's still the default icon.

One of these is slow and constantly has its fan running. The other doesn't have a fan :)

THINK Reference is like a hypertext man page viewer (Microsoft Help anyone?)

It's as if Symantec translated all the Inside Macintosh volumes from Pascal to C and added detailed explanations of struct members and stuff. I wish I had known about this months ago!

Unboxing software from 30 years ago

SOCKS! Five of them!

https://jcs.org/2020/11/12/socks5

The show was 91 Abstractions, aired on WRVU in Nashville in the late 90s. I only heard it through the internet but it's how I heard new drum & bass songs back then. I had a CD-R of all the RealAudio files but lost it, and all I can find now are those 3.

https://web.archive.org/web/19991117124459/http://113audio.com:80/

Yeah, vinyl has a nice warm sound but have you ever heard 40kb/s mono RealAudio recordings of a drum & bass radio show from 1998?

https://archive.org/details/chek-980713/chek-980706.ra

Coil whine has replaced spinning hard drives as the noise to let you know the computer is doing something

When your normal keeb is too loud to use at night...

Let's ignore the world around us for an hour and add a proper GUI to our ported diff(1) utility

https://jcs.org/2020/11/04/diff_gui