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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

I love waking up to good news! Vancouver elected Pete Fry (Green Party) as its new mayor, and kicked out the incumbent Ken Sim. Good! Fry would not be my first choice but he’s orders of magnitude better. Fuck Ken Sim! Looks like a lot of One City councillors also got elected which is great! I […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Does anyone have the schematic for the Mac Classic analog board 630-0420? It seems somewhat similar to Bormac’s 820-0398-A / 630-0398-2, but I think that schematic has at least one error (missing RP1, which is quite important). If you have more test points than the Bormac in the PSU area, I […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Ready to test the recapped board, for now with a sacrificial HD and voltmeters on all rails. This is it, folks! #RetroApple

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Pulled out a bunch of caps from the Classic analog board and for the first time I can confirm it really smells like rotten fish. Yuck. And my fingers are covered in it. #RetroApple

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

All real companies out there, but not ironically. Also, this site is gold! alignmentalignment.ai/caaac

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I (and well, everyone else) criticizes Xcode flaws but bloody hell I seriously don’t understand people who use Visual Studio Code willingly as their first choice. This is likely the worst IDE I have ever seen. I want to throw the Mac out the window.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Remember when thinking something taking a whole lot of work and a bunch of people to get done was looked at as a good thing?

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Really sad to see Apple pushing so many good people out. It’s hard to believe there were no good positions for these folks in different teams. The new CEO is definitely not starting well. You don’t treat your best people like a disposable resource.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Elon Musk actively supports far-right parties, including participating via video link in the AfD campaign launch. Any post or interaction in X, especially from a popular account, directly generates revenue to X from advertising and paid subscriptions. These are not opinions. These are facts […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Vacations are over. Back to work tomorrow. 😭

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I’m in a place with a lot of herons, day and night!

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Sweet! I spent a good part of the morning aligning the zero track sensor of the Classic floppy disk drive. 0/10, absolutely do not recommend. But it can now format and verify disks! 😁

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The carnival 🎡 is in town which means it’s the third night I have obscene amounts of questionable food for dinner. I may not survive the week.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Same exact PowerPlant class, running on Mac OS 9.2.1 and System 7.1 😁 #retroApple #retroCoding

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So, huh, one more thing! ☀️ It still needs some work because reading an analog channel on the Pico interferes with sampling for some reason, like if the PIO has to pause while the analog value is read, and causes black lines and random garbage to appear on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Has anyone restored a Sony HD FDD that reads but won’t write? I spent the afternoon restoring the Classic drive. Unlike all others I worked on before it had the top head stuck. I was able to bend the thing up so it somehow comes down successfully. Not sure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This tube employs integral implosion protection.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Is there any Mac app that allows me to search for text in a photo? I thought Preview did that but apparently not really.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile my city is not doing great, but we got to 2020 so it’s accurate.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

And it's merged! MacDVI, the adapter I built to wire a compact Mac logic board to a modern DVI/HDMI display, now supports the Mac Classic out of the box (with just an extra wire)! With previous support for the 128K/512K/Plus and a report it works without any modifications on the SE, assuming it […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I truly don't understand how CMake became so popular.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Added a few buttons to MacDVI help development. However I don't seem to be able to sample the Classic output properly. Weird. #retroApple

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

This was surprisingly more complicated than I expected… still working for headers only, and the spacing I'm using is slightly different than the real thing (Apple uses some sort of multiplier to calculate the header height, I'm just adding a fixed size to the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

For those who think software is conscious or at least find the concept of torturing software unsettling, you do realize any self respecting software project runs thousands of tests, including stress tests, on every commit, right? I’m so tired of this dumb timeline.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

#FreeBSD is really getting on my nerves. Upgraded a fail from 15.0 to 15.1, the /bin is empty now. This system used to be reliable. How did it become such a mess?

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Meanwhile, DataBrowser implemented as a PowerPlant class is progressing. I created a LScrollerView class that handles a header and accessory view, and scrolls the header in sync with the content! 😁

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Wow, this week’s episode of Dark Matter on Apple TV+ was beautiful. Extremely well done.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Looks like Golden Gate hasn't fixed the emoji pop-over problems that exist since I don't even remember when. Because why would it. Sigh. I remember (and miss) when keynote slides actually mentioned fixing specific bugs. Long long ago.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Back home, time to do some #RetroApple! Pulled out the caps from the Classic board. Lots of nasty under them. Good thing I didn’t try to power this board before recapping. I use the twisting method to remove them, while applying pressure down against the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

There’s some stupid regulation (Portuguese? European? Who knows) that mandates scrambled eggs at hotels to be made out of liquid egg (sold in bottles) instead of actual eggs due to “health and safety” concerns. The hotel I’m staying since yesterday uses those. This stuff is inedible. Taste […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I’ve posted a photo in this street a few years ago about how in this region with extremely hot climate they use this technique to create shade over a popular pedestrian street. What I didn’t realize at the time (because the sun had already eaten it all away) […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

To folks into electronics, PCB manufacturing and/or #retrocomputing: this is a very broken membrane of an LC keyboard (M0487). Many traces are bad. I was wondering if this could be manufactured like any regular PCB. JLC apparently does flexible boards […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Folks as posting stories about their first Mac on 68kmla, so I posted mine, with a little tribute to Bill Atkinson: 68kmla.org/bb/threads/stories-of-fi…

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Sunset seen from Praia Fluvial de Mourão (Mourão lake beach). I have no words. The peace, the silence, the pace of the Nature display, even the temperature. Everything is just perfect. I have been wanting to watch the sunset here since 2017, the last time I was here. I finally did.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Aldeia da Luz has a history like no other. The location of the original village would be under water as the lake filled after the dam construction was completed. So the government decided to build a new village, exactly like the old one. Same streets, same […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Alqueva (the largest artificial lake in Europe), deep in Alentejo, Portugal, close to Aldeia de Luz. The peace in this place is hard to put in words.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I know this is so last year but iPhone 17 Pro night mode is kinda cool. I just don’t get why the configuration is an exposure of 3s, 10s or off, and it really does 30s if the iPhone is steady enough. But I don’t get a lot of things in modern Apple UIs so I’m sure I’m holding it wrong.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

My custom table view (aka DataBrowser implementation) is starting to look real, using an API somewhat inspired in AppKit, with a data source and everything. 😁 Appearance Manager only for now, and all very smoke-and-mirrors-y, but one problem at a time! #retroApple

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Chris Adamson @invalidname.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Always impressed when a literary agent / AI bot wants to chat me up about a book I wrote 21 years ago. Hey, why don’t we talk up the advantages of PowerPC Macs while we’re at it?

Email from literary agent asking about the book “QuickTime for Java”, grabbing buzzwords and phrases from the book’s metadata in a facile attempt to make me think anyone has read it, oblivious to the fact that the book came out 21 years ago and the underlying tech is long since obsolete.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I was trusted a Mac Classic to restore! I couldn’t test the logic board today since I’m an idiot, thought I had the right terminals to build a connector so I told the person who actually went to the electronics store before driving here to buy just the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I wouldn’t get too excited with the new Xcode project file format regarding git merges. The merge hell is caused by everyone touching the same file all the time, not the file contents (JSON and PLIST and semantically equivalent). Unless they simplified the file dramatically (as in removed all […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@GrantMeStrength/11726… I had never seen this clip before. It’s brilliant! Space 1999 was the best space show ever made! #space1999

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117264962… “Retrieval computer” could only be a term imagined by some AI bro (or in this case someone profiting immensely from them). I never imagined a computer as “retrieval” because I use a computer to MAKE stuff. Not consume it. This is what […]

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Was there any API to build tables like the Finder ones on MacOS 8 & 9? Or was that all private inside Finder? #RetroApple #retroAppleDev

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

@twvd Hi! Quick question, I downloaded Snow for macOS yesterday and the OS complained it’s not notarized. Just want to confirm if that’s expected. Thanks!

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

We are absolutely terrified and deeply believe what we are doing will exterminate humanity a few years from now. Therefore we keep working hard every day to be the first ones shipping it. Sure, buddies. Whatever you say.

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Also, if anyone knows why BasiliskII keeps crashing on launch, I would appreciate it…

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Miguel Arroz @arroz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The Snow mac emulator is not signed on macOS? #RetroApple

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