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Morgan Aldridge

@morgant@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06
  • Open on mastodon.social

Design, development, discourse. He/him.

Here to learn and share what I've learned, but -- knowing me -- probably man(1)-splaining. Please tell me when that's the case.

246 Followers
196 Following
25 Posts
Joined February 09, 2023
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@falken@qoto.org @likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @csilverman@mastodon.social Yeah, somewhere between the early #AppleNewton 'Cadillac' #prototype and an #eMate300 (sans keyboard), if it had been in the PowerBook color palette. See @splorp@mastodon.social's photos of the 'Cadillac': https://flickr.com/photos/splorp/albums/72157623287193080/ And, Sonny Hung's: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sonnyhung/albums/72057594095135157/
Newton “Cadillac” Prototype
Flickr

Newton “Cadillac” Prototype

A functioning prototype of the larger, tablet-style Newton. Sonny Hung also has images of the OS running on this device in this set. This item is part of a collection obtained from Russ Uzes, October 2004. Russ originally purchased it on eBay from a company called Mac-Pro Systems. When asked about the device’s history, they told him … “We just found the Cadillac in a box of stuff in the office. We have no idea where it came from.”

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@tantramar @gumnos Not arguing against forms, they're just better as an optional alternative as opposed to a replacement for providing an email address. I have _zero_ interest in going back to the early days of the Internet with people emailing orders, contact info, credit cards, etc.! Or, marginally better, emailing with instructions to call to provide those details.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Fragile is right.

https://lists.newtontalk.net/pipermail/newtontalk/2026-April/003801.html

#AppleNewton #MessagePad #WaterFieldDesigns #AprilFoolsDay

lists.newtontalk.net

[NTLK] Newton leather holster (April Fool's joke)

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Apparently, I don't post much here on Mastodon when my mental health is poor.

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @csilverman@mastodon.social OMG! I had no idea!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@polpo @BigBadBiologist Way cool! And here I was making my modern webcam emulate a Connectix QuickCam under #OpenBSD: https://github.com/morgant/CU-SeeMe-OpenBSD (Still way too much contrast & clarity, despite being 4-bit grayscale.)
GitHub

GitHub - morgant/CU-SeeMe-OpenBSD: A faux CU-SeeMe webcam view for OpenBSD powered by mpv

A faux CU-SeeMe webcam view for OpenBSD powered by mpv - morgant/CU-SeeMe-OpenBSD

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

_Finally_ upgraded my 12.9in #Apple #iPadPro (4th gen) to #iPadOS 26.x a couple days ago.

Glad I waited! I'm not seeing any of the major UI bugs reported in the early days, at least in the apps I use. I am using #WindowedApps and the #MenuBar implementaton is _very_ odd, but it's better than not having it (for me.) I do like the pointer being arrow-shaped, since I mostly use the trackpad and/or controller these days.

I certainly suggest Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass = Tinted.

mastodon.social

Mastodon

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@tantramar @gumnos I'll counter that using a form has many downsides (naturally, many still shared by email):

  1. Still a target for spammers, often requiring JS captchas and such
  2. No guarantee the destination is checked or left to collect spam
  3. Doesn't provide the user with actual contact info
  4. Higher liklihood of message data loss (user must remember to copy form content before submitting because an error often results in loss of the message content)
  5. Privacy concerns
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@csilverman@mastodon.social @splorp@mastodon.social @proedie@mastodon.green @likesoldmacs@bitbang.social @falken@qoto.org The hardest parts of really creating a new market is decisiveness. Especially in one so personal as to be carried on one's person all of the time and to store & retrieve intimate details. Then try pushing the envelope with new technologies and interfaces that aren't yet proven. It was much easier for Palm to then create a stripped down and affordable (if significantly less powerful & resilient) PDA, once it had been fully realized.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@flameshot@fosstodon.org I thought that might've been the case, but I didn't want to assume. I _very much_ appreciate you not gathering metrics and polling for such helpul info in other ways, plus the inclusion of BSDs in the first place! Furthermore, that you're polling re: #X11 and DE/WM use. I daily #OpenBSD and the Wayland ports/packages are "getting there," but I don't see it moving into base anytime soon. Thanks all around for Flameshot and the above!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@flameshot@fosstodon.org I will admit, I'm not actively using Flameshot, but have considered it in the past. (Still using maim/slop/``Gromit-MPX` under X in the ancient WM I maintain.)

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@flameshot@fosstodon.org Any particular reason that these followup questions are "Linux" and not "Linux/BSDs"? Seems like they'd all be applicable to and useful to know about the BSDs too, no?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 9mo ago
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@floppy @pauljrobinson And they're clearly labeled as 2HD 1.44MB, so you can't even _pretend_ they're single-sided 400MB floppies and that _maybe_ you're using the non-data side!
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 9mo ago
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@nGFX@oldbytes.space @kwramm@mastodon.gamedev.place @vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net @konstantinosd@mastodon.gamedev.place Are these just those QuickTime VR files?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 9mo ago
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@cstross@wandering.shop Where's the controversy? Seems pretty accurate to me.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 25mo ago
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@Natsura Looking back through history, "pants" are a relatively new and -- let's fact it -- pretty inconvenient invention.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 14mo ago
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@eri @uliwitness #OpenBSD user: Uh, I'm not actively using it right now, so the privacy shutter is closed, it's physically turned off at my USB hub, and audio & video recording is disabled in my kernel. Whoever you're spying on, it isn't me.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 25mo ago
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@sinituulia Yup, _everything_ is car oriented here. It's utter insanity and to the detriment of everything that could be good. And I'm a _car person_! (That said, I like to _drive_, which is also negated by having everything be car centric.)
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 25mo ago
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@maxleibman And, being the 90's, that meant "Jurassic Park" for biology, "Indiana Jones" for history, Baz Luhrmann's "Romeo + Juliet" in english, etc.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 28mo ago
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@saddestrobots@jorts.horse Funny and I agree with the overall sentiment, but #OpenBSD breaks ABI with every release. I don't know Theo de Raadt, so can't say whether he would punch a wall, but he would likely have responded so gruffly as to make the typoist punch a wall.
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago
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@jimmyb @HourlyWolves To get that chonky in the wild is quite the feat! Maybe growing some little ones?
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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 6mo ago

Something very #SesameStreet meets #AppleCommercial, but still 100% #SpikeJonze about this:

https://youtu.be/6NVAzWEgTXo

It's really lovely. Just the kind of thing I feel like I needed right now.

#On #ShapeOfDreams #Zendaya #ShortFilm

On | Shape of Dreams, starring Zendaya. Written and directed by Spike Jonze.

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Morgan Aldridge @morgant@mastodon.social
· 28mo ago
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@AmishSuperModel@mastodon.social I've been trying for years (read: decades), but it seems to release more cortisol than dopamine & serotonin, so the overall benefits are... uh, overall effects are... I mean, there have to be some non-downsides, right? Right?!
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