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- peterbmarksBill Atkinson unfortunately has been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/13/atkinson-prayer... I'm sure everyone wishes him well.
- DesertVarnishMy wife has been working on a pixel accurate recreation of MacPaint on the web, and one of the things that I've learned from on-and-off helping with it was just how much of the magic in it is actually just handled by QuickDraw.Also, the text styling has a lot more complexity than you would expect.
- JKCalhounAtkinson writes QuickDraw, then writes an app, MacPaint, that essentially uses every aspect of it, then has Susan Kare using MacPaint. What a fantastic feedback loop for readying a framework before shipping.Contrast this with the "I Don't Know How To Count That Low" meme.
- userbinatorSomething felt a little "off" about the text of this article, but this fragment raised the most suspicion:demonstrate mechanical empathy with the 68k platform