Notes

If you've ever gotten this annoying error when trying to restart or shut down System 6 because StuffIt Expander 4.0.1/4.0.2 was running in the background, you can fix it by opening StuffIt in ResEdit and changing the existing 'mstr' resource 100 to have an id of 103.

'mstr' resources tell MultiFinder which menu items to generate fake clicks for in order to quit or open another file from Finder when the application is already open in the background. StuffIt needs one because its File->Open menu item is named File->Expand... but Aladdin goofed and numbered it 100, which is supposed to be the name of the 'File' menu if it's not named 'File'. By changing it to 103, it lets MultiFinder know how to remotely open a file and also unbreaks its ability to select File->Quit at shutdown time.

A new version of my Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for BlueSCSI is out that fixes password entry on Mac OS 8+:

https://jcs.org/bluescsi

Slowly making my way through turning these 30 battery packs into PowerBook 140-180c batteries

https://www.tindie.com/products/jcs/powerbook-1xx-battery/

Isn't this kind of a ridiculous number of expansion slots?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/296098141133

Street Fighter II: Ultrasonic Cleaner

Why is it that Apple can set up an API and leave it running for a decade but Google has to change their way of doing the same thing every 2 years and every consumer of it suddenly has to migrate to the Next Thing?

I've had to migrate Pushover to a different Google thing (push notifications, billing library, etc.) half a dozen times now and it always goes like this:

1. Receive e-mail that I have to migrate to some new version of a thing
2. Ignore it
3. Login to one of Google's dozen dashboards for something unrelated and see warnings that I have to migrate by such-and-such date
4. Read the documentation and see it's now much harder to do the same thing I was doing before with no benefit to me or my users
5. Nope out of it
6. Receive more dire e-mails from Google as the migration date gets closer
7. Read on Stack Overflow how to do it in a succinct way that condenses Google's awful documentation into a few steps, pointing out all the gotchas
8. Finally do the migration and hate Google just a little bit more

do you think in the future mechanical keyboards will be silent like EVs and you'll have to play the thonk sound from your speakers

I guess my car is Intel powered

The Brother SuperPowerNote, CP/M, and you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYo0fhXl754

I had to get a copy after reading about it on @WillFlux's SystemTalk

Anyone have a recommendation for a decent quality ultrasonic cleaner for PCBs?

Not looking for a huge one, but something that can clean maybe an 8x4" board at max.

Something I really like about working on my Macintosh Plus is that event loops in the system and applications often respond to the mouse and keyboard before window redrawing, so as I remember where things will appear in a window I'm familiar with, I can click or use a keyboard command to do something before the window is even fully redrawn. When I'm closing a dialog or an old window that was just brought forward, it saves time not having to wait for it to draw just so it can be dismissed.

It makes me feel like I'm able to think faster than the machine which seems like it would be a negative but it's rewarding.

On a modern machine, I'm so often frustrated at web pages that are mostly drawn but blocking on some stupid Javascript or font download that won't let me interact with it yet, even though I'm just trying to click something to get off of that page anyway.