@donbox

people that care about software create their own hardware. - Alan Kay

 Yarrow Point, WA, USA
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Joined October 2008
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Software is like the fashion industry. With few exceptions, there is no objective measure of what's objectively better or worse. But there are of course many subjective measures.
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Like many people doing composition or arranging, I'm spending time with @MusicXML. I'm already finding interop challenges. Is there a conformance suite?
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I have some friends who need to run MacOS in a virtual machine on their Macs. What's the easiest to use solution for non-techies? Ideally free or super cheap.
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When I worked on .NET, the CIL opcodes named box and unbox always caught my attention. I work on AR Glasses and we use the term don and undon to refer to putting glasses on/taking them off. I expect my retirement post and/or eulogy to have the phrase “undon unbox.”
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I love how the main iOS App Dev tutorial puts accessibility into the main flow and doesn’t make it an appendix. developer.apple.com/tutorial… @donasarkar - feel free to talk to our friends at MSDN about rising to the challenge… #accessibility

Develop apps for Apple platforms | Apple Developer Documentation

Learn the basics of Xcode, SwiftUI, and UIKit to create compelling apps.

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@shanselman - thoughts?
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Just posted a photo @ The Standard, East Village NY instagram.com/p/CiS3UkduYYJ/… – at Manhattan, NY

Don Box (@don.box) • Instagram photo

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I gave a talk to the AR CoreUX team earlier in the week. It included some historical stuff, starting with Thompson shell and going through what we are working on right now. I forgot how well written Inside Macintosh was - Caroline Rose was an inspiration during my writing days.
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Here’s what inspired me to write: Inside Macintosh I-III K&R UNIX Network Programming Stroustrup 1st Edition (before the book exploded) All but UNP by Richard Stevens were published by Addison Wesley, which is why there was no other publisher for me.
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Actually, K&R was also Prentice Hall, but by the time I signed my first book contract, Kernighan was a series editor at AW and Stevens had published APitUE in that series.
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I was pleasantly surprised a few months ago when I realized I was on yet another team that has a shader compiler. sparkar.facebook.com/ar-stud…
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I’m not sure which of these Paul Allen legacies I’ll miss the most. Seattle Cinerama or Living Computing Museum @BillGates - any interest in helping bring these Seattle institutions back to life? I’m happy to work a few days a year at either one if that helps.
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I love computing history and always have. Having now been full time in AR for 5-ish years, I wonder how history will judge HoloLens. Will it be Engelbart’s mouse? Xerox Alto? 128k Macintosh? I can convince myself of all three, but future humans will be the ones to decide.
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I’m officially having the most satisfying and fun time at work since Xbox in 2010-2013. Great people, incredibly hard problems, and an aim worthy of pouring my heart and soul into. AR is such fertile soil for product and technology people.
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Four more days until year two!!
Don Box@donbox24 Aug 2021
What an amazing week of presence and good will.
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I believe John Waite was editor over all of these - again, why I needed to be an AW writer.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside…

Inside Macintosh - Wikipedia

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I work at a company that is almost completely browser based some requiring (ugh) chrome. I now officially hate tabs. How do put Chrome into 1990’s era no-tab mode? The first three answers from a web search were stale or wanted me to install an extension, which feels broken.
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I suspect that when Apple finally ships a brown device, it will be hailed in the press as fashion forward, and mocked by Twitter, which will refer to it as Zune Brown.
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I really don’t mean to poke bears, but I just read @mnot’s recent post and can’t help but have XML Infoset flashbacks. mnot.net/blog/2022/06/06/htt…

A New Definition of HTTP

Seven and a half years ago, I wrote that RFC2616 is dead, replaced by RFCs 7230-5.

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Actually, I doubt that my twitter feed will change at all. I still am enamored with @LargoLosAngeles, Guitar Circle, Rust, Indian food, and sushi.
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