Jim Luther

jimluther@techhub.social

<p>Retired Apple software engineer. I used to polish, refine and fix things, and sometimes I created completely new things (virtual memory, HFS Plus, iDisk, CarbonCore, parts of CoreFoundation/Foundation, and lots of stuff nobody sees but must work correctly).</p><p>Now I cook a lot, play fast paced video games, and play bass guitar.</p>

Posts

Post #2384409
Happy 37th Anniversary WWDC! (for those who celebrate). I was in the Apple II Developer Technical Support group at that time, and got a t-shirt 😄
Post #1868571
I noticed the retro Mac community was working on #GlobalTalk and although I&#39;m not working on anything, I thought I&#39;d contribute this suggestion: If you&#39;re using AppleShare on Mac OS 7.6 or later, you might want to use the AppleShare client extension that shipped with Mac OS 9.2.2. That&#39;s AppleShare version 3.9.2. One of the last things I worked on in Mac OS 9 was the AppleShare client that shipped in Mac OS 9.2.2. The AppleShare team had moved on to work on Mac O...
Post #1700033
Help my friend Becky fight her recent cancer diagnosis. Like many, I played games Becky helped create on the Apple II/IIgs, Macintosh, and other personal computing platforms. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@burgerbecky/115316833728680548
Post #1106515
Check out this podcast about Atlantic Records and the producers, engineers, songwriters, etc. who worked there. https://offtherecordonthecharts.podbean.com The hosts are the children of 3 of Atlantic’s most important producers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The first full episode is an interview with Jerry Wexler’s son. The second episode is with Mike Stoller (of Leiber and Stoller).
Post #465091
@mdavis I plan to cancel accounts with several companies whose services are sometimes useful, but I don’t like who the profits are going to. PayPal and Venmo top my list.
Post #68379
@Cdespinosa@mastodon.social @scottknaster@hachyderm.io @shawnhooper@fosstodon.org if I remember correctly, Don Lancaster’s “Enhancing Your Apple II” explained some interesting video tricks, too. The Internet Archive has his books available for viewing.
Post #23003
To those who hate it when someone posts a news article as an Apple News link, stop posting Flipboard links. Instead, please take the extra few seconds to get the link to the source article and post it. Flipboard doesn’t need the clicks; Apple News doesn’t need the clicks.