@britt BRB, turning on notifications so I don’t miss when you launch this 😁
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Scott Murray :neurodiversity:
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I’m SO excited to have finished my first round of prototypes for my new keyboard clicker fidgets!! -
Just introduced my daughter to MacPaint via the incomparable https://infinitemac.org.She had so many questions.
“Whoa this is what computers looked like???”
“It’s only black and white???”
“How do they make it look gray???”
When I mentioned having met MacPaint’s creator, Bill Atkinson, her head exploded. “You met him?!??”
Meeting Bill many years ago was truly an honor. What a kind, generous man. A truly original artist and engineer, he wrote most of the original Macintosh graphics routines and invented or refined numerous GUI conventions we now take for granted (menus, dialog boxes, proportional type), not to mention — later — HyperCard, still unsurpassed (conceptually) decades later.
This minuscule toot won’t do him justice, but his work shaped my life in a very dramatic way (and probably yours, too, even if his name is new to you).
❤️
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Just introduced my daughter to MacPaint via the incomparable https://infinitemac.org.Just introduced my daughter to MacPaint via the incomparable https://infinitemac.org. She started drawing right away, then asked how to change the paintbrush.
Without thinking, I double-clicked on the brush tool, and the brush picker overlay appeared.
Then my jaw dropped, as I realized I still had muscle memory for — but not conscious awareness of — that interface shortcut from *40* years ago.
😮 😮 😮 🤓🎨