It's fun finding a 20-something and telling him/her tales of the olden days. Like how you could go to a store and buy an entire box of save icons.

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This is not to say he was perfect where UI stuff was concerned (The old OSX Notes app for instance)

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For a company that has historically made clean and somewhat sane UI decisions, they've really fallen off the wagon with Messages.

The first time I looked at that I knew for certain that Steve Jobs was dead. If he had been alive, he'd have went into full, sadistic meltdown mode over that control.

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In which Tom learns new syntax1


  1. {Which Tom totally sucks at} < - Case in point

I bet most of that is widgets they're cramming into Messages.

Watching a video on Xamarin.

The presenter is one of those who gesticulates wildly. My brain keeps inserting kung fu movie sound effects.

If the video goes out of sync and his words cease matching his lip movements, the illusion will be complete.

I'm not going to learn a damned thing at this rate.

I fail at footnotes on 10C. That syntax works fine on Ghost. :(

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Reality.[^1]

[^1] Which is over-rated.

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1 Evan is a little too Millennial for my tastes2 I have no hair3 I am up to my armpits in Mac stuff already.

Bonus Item

4 Most of the people I know outside of here hate social media.

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Or Windows is just being a jerk. It can do that sometimes.

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