Mihai Parparita
mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Mihai Parparita
@mihaip.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Engineer at Sierra, formerly of Tailscale, Slack, Quip, Google Chrome and Google Reader.

On a classic Mac nostalgia kick, aiming to make things more accessible with the Infinite Mac project.
Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit when the Internet took off in 1995, and the same is still true 30 years later in Infinite Mac.

I figured out a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Infinite Mac now has a “Macintosh Garden” drawer that allows one-click loading of any of the 20,000 items archived by that site.

I wrote up a brief post with some behind-the-scenes details: https://blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infinite-mac-macintosh-garden-library.html
November 4, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Early preview of a new Infinite Mac feature: more direct access to the awesome software library from the Macintosh Garden.

https://infinitemac.org/1997/Mac%20OS%208.0?library=true gets a new drawer that lets you browse and "download" into the Mac any […]

[Original post on hachyderm.io]
September 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM