Steven Frank is a Mac developer who writes about programming, the App Store, retro Apple software, and small web tools like Shutup.css.
Commenters recommend Shutup.css for hiding comment sections and cite his Beagle Bros archive in retro Apple II nostalgia threads.
Great piece.
Haven't seen Beagle Bros mentioned. Their awesome catalogs:
https://stevenf.com/beagle/contents.html
Also haven't seen mentioned Pinball Construction Set- an absolutely amazing piece of engineering, by Bill Budge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinball_Construction_Set
Last I checked, Budge was still working- for Google- on the V8 runtime. Think he is on twitter.
And while there are a lot of 6502 assembly resources around online, fondly remembered books on 6502 assembly and graphics programming (still have em):
https://www.amazon.com/High-resolution-Graphics-Animation-Assembly-Language/dp/0810467585
https://books.google.com/books/about/Hi_res_Graphics_for_the_Apple_II_IIe_IIc.html?id=AnSeAAAACAAJ
Super cool memories from my childhood.
Steven Frank of well known Mac development house "Panic" blogged about the details lost trying to sync contacts through Google instead of MobileMe:
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/618349003/here-are-some-things-you-should-know-about-snow
His summary: "If you’re contemplating this change, I highly recommend setting aside a few hours for research first. You may be unpleasantly surprised."
Some more issues are discussed in today's TUAW article, "Sync Wars: Address Book vs. Google Contacts":
http://www.tuaw.com/2010/05/22/address-book-vs-google-contacts/
Since integrating shutup.css [0] in my browsers, my experience on websites with comments sections has been much more pleasurable. It's very good at recognizing comments sections and completely removing them.
I wish more sites disabled them and instead opened their blogs up to well-thought out letters to the editor.
[0]https://stevenf.com/shutupcss/
That's how I started - on Apple][/e clone (bulgarian version was called "Pravetz 8C"). Right there the ] prompt was waiting for me, and even CALL-151 was available for futher experimentation ;)
Oh, the joy when I've found Beagle Bross software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros
Also this: https://stevenf.com/beagle/where.html
I guess that's a good point if comments are truly important to you. Which they perhaps are, for a tiny minority of blogs.
(I personally don't find comments important at all, and even take advantage of the various browser extensions[1] to hide them on various sites that do have them.)
[1]: e.g. http://stevenf.com/pages/shutup.css.html
I've been blocking Flash for a while now. Not because of security, but because it's almost always annoying.
Check out Steven Frank's thoughts on the subject: http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/73315911/the-politics-of-flash