The mystical style mixed with computing subjects reminded me very much of aphyr's excellent "technical interview" series, which I very much recommend if you enjoyed the OP:
https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...
I love Aphyr's writing already!
Speaking of Bill Atkinson and the Macintosh, here is a great story about him: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Lots of great stories on folklore.org! Highly recommend spending an hour there for anyone bored of the current Valley.
And, for anyone who's spent that hour and still wants more, the AMC show Halt and Catch Fire on Netflix is, while not truly historically accurate, very much in the spirit of the early 80's tech scene.
Re:Your First THINK C Program
by EdwardDiego on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:08PM
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>the picture of the Mac Plus is dithered using Bill Atkinson's dithering algorithm.
That explains how that it had that classic Macintosh feel. Thanks!
Glad to share what I know!
http://gazs.github.io/canvas-atkinson-dither/ lets you dither any picture
That's awesome.
Re:Your First THINK C Program
by bangonkeyboard on Thursday March 26, 2020 @05:51PM
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Relatedly, if you're reading the page on a high-DPI screen and wondering why the pictures are so dark and blurry, try opening your browser's JS console and running this:
document.head.appendChild(document.createElement('style')).sheet.insertRule('img:not(:hover) { image-rendering: crisp-edges !important; }', 0)
Very few posts on the WWW have the same attention to detail and wonderful playfulness as this one. It's an incredibly rare thing, and insanely pleasant to read.