I occasionally use AppleScript to avoid repetitive tasks. I quite enjoy writing scripts. My scripting tend to follow the guess and check procedure. It can be weeks or months between these efforts so I need to look up the library or search for many basic things. In my part time job, I quite often report […]
The other apps I remember from those days included Claris Works1 and HyperCard2Amazing to see a Mac with kid pix running in emulation at archive.org. It feels snappier than the LCs we had back then. A pity I can’t get it going on iOS as I’d love to see my current class using it. The […]
The Psychedelic Inspiration For Hypercard – Mondo 2000 One of the more bizarre HyperCard Links I’ve collected. HyperCard was a precurser to the first web browser, except chained to a hard drive before the worldwide web. Six years later Mosaic was introduced, influenced by some of the ideas in HyperCard, and indirectly by an inspiring […]
Bookmarked https://maggieappleton.com/programming-portals. Small, scoped areas within a graphical interface that allow users to read and write simple programmes Had me at HyperCard The remarkable thing about HyperCard is it gave users an enourmous range of control and flexibility. It came with a high-level, built-in programming language called Hypertalk that let users any edit any element […]
Yesterday I was posting a note about a book and though of a slight visual joke. I needed a bit of css animation added and it seems a bit too much to either have it in the customiser or my child theme. It turns out there is a block for that: Blocks CSS: CSS Editor […]
Listened to & enjoyed Alan’s 2015 talk. He compares WordPress and its approachability, flexibility and extendability with HyperCard. As always interesting & provocative (in the best way). Also HyperCard!
I’ve just read “On Reshaping: Tooling WordPress with nothing other than it’s URLs” by @cogdog. This has given me some thoughts…
Ever since I updated my home Mac to Monterey, OneDrive has been a bit flaky. I updated the app and it has been syncing. But I could not open the app itself or click on it in the menu bar. Attempting to do so grave me a beach ball of doom. Restarting, etc had no […]
I prefer keynote’s simpler interface, but this is a great description of using open ended software in the classroom.
