Mac the Knife - Hackdot

Re:Mac the Knife by bayindirh on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:31AM (#27194288)

This is awesome and hard work. As a side note, seeing the screenshots made me remember how much I miss my old Handspring Neo PDA and it's somewhat wonky 16 tone gray screen, and the old PalmOS.

Old computing has a certain charm to it. Is it limitations, aesthetic or the simplicity? I don't know.

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Re:Mac the Knife by bantunes on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @09:55AM (#27194583)

Constraints breed elegant designs.

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Re:Mac the Knife by recursivedoubts on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @10:44AM (#27195278)

"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations" -Orson Welles

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Re:Mac the Knife by com2kid on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:47PM (#27199233)

When I owned I PalmOS device I was at my most productive. One button access to my to-do list kept me focused and on track all day long.

Nothing on modern smart phones can compare to less than 1 second access to my todo list. Pull out of my pocket, press button, by the time my device was up to eye level the todo list was shown.

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Re:Mac the Knife by mshaler on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @10:43AM (#27209338)

With a similar sentiment, I still keep a VM around with NextSTEP just because I still think Improv/Quantrix is such a charming portal to the past--and still amazing apps.

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