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Mihai Parparita

@persistent.info

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Engineer at Sierra, formerly of Tailscale, Slack, Quip, Google Chrome and Google Reader.

I've started to add BeOS to Infinite Mac - you can see the first few versions on infinitemac.org?filter=beos Not having been much of a user back in the day, I'm looking for suggestions of software to include, or pointers to canonical archives (is there a Be version of the Macintosh Garden?)

BeOS R3 running inside Infinite Mac showing GL Teapot, a movie playing, a terminal, a CPU meter and the Tracker desktop.

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 21/09/2026

I've switched over Infinite Mac's classic Mac emulation to recently-released and awesome Snow, which unblocks A/UX emulation: infinitemac.org?filter=aux There's a behind-the-scenes blog post at blog.persistent.info/2026/09/infi... detailing this and other site updates.

A/UX 3.1 running inside Infinite Mac, showing the Finder opened to a Photoshop Window, the xlogo X11 program, and a command shell

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 03/06/2026

Two new tools on www.streamspigot.com: - Sky Feeder generates a feed of your Bluesky timeline - Tweeter Feeder generates per-account feeds for that other site Together with the existing Masto Feeder tool, this lets me continue to pretend to live in 2011, consuming everything in a feed reader.

NetNewsWire showing Bluesky, Mastodon and Twitter posts

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 18/09/2025

Classic Mac's OS file system innovations (resource forks, metadata) were often lost in transit on the Internet in 1995, and the same is true 30 years later with Infinite Mac. I found a workaround using modern macOS's built-in .zip archives – a brief writeup: blog.persistent.info/2025/09/infi...

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 09/07/2025

Another demo is my Infinite Monkey: infinitemac.org/monkey/ It lets OpenAI's or Anthropic's computer use models control an emulated Mac, based on your chat instructions. This means that it's possible to run @simonwillison.net's "draw me a pelican riding a bicycle" test in 1984's MacPaint 1.0.

Emulated System 1.0 instance running MacPaint 1.0. It is being controlled by the OpenAI computer-use model, and attempting to draw a pelican riding a bicycle.

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 09/07/2025

Infinite Mac can now be embedded into any website: infinitemac.org/embed For a demonstration of what this can enable, see @aresluna.org's amazing "Frame of preference" article: aresluna.org/frame-of-pre...

Infinite Mac embedding dialog, allowing parameters of a instance to be customized and the resulting HTML to be copied. It uses the Platinum appearance from Mac OS 8.

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 24/03/2025

Mac OS X was released on this day 24 years ago. On this anniversary, here it is on the web: infinitemac.org/2001/Mac%20O... (technically 10.1, but that’s the first release that actually worked acceptably)

Mac OS X 10.1 running under Infinite Mac, showing the Finder, NetNewsWire Lite and Terminal.

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 04/11/2024

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: blog.persistent.info/2024/11/infi...

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