Let’s talk technology. When these newspapers were published, they were done so with brand-new desktop publishing technology – to a point. In 1986/87, the typesetting was done mostly in headlines and columns, which was then was physically pasted-up on boards using hot wax. The black and white photos were developed in-house, and …
This is one of those pointless blog posts where you want to keep up the momentum, but you have nothing to write about.
And, really, it’s all about the momentum, isn’t it? Gaining inertia is hard, and I really do have a lot of junk. …
Back when Mac OS X was young, and Apple hadn’t yet settled on their toolchain, wget was included as a CLI tool for getting files from URLs. When 10.1 came around, wget disappeared in favor of cURL . I have no idea if there were internal political reasons at Apple …
