The great news is that the blueberry butterfly iBook G3 has survived the travel after 6 months in a box in a container (3 of them blocked due to strikes in Spain) !
I never noticed before that back then the logo on the back was upside down when opened. Feels kinda weird nowadays.
Anyway this looks great for upcoming #Marchintosh and #GlobalTalk in 2026 (or 2027, if you know how I am).
Susan Kare
moma.org/artists/38483
moma.org/collection/works/1883…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Ka…
"Susan Kare is an American artist and graphic designer best known for her interface elements and typeface contributions to the first Apple Macintosh from 1983 to 1986. She was employee #10 and Creative Director at NeXT."
I couldn’t resist any further and got one of those mini BTLE thermal printers. I didn’t get the cat printer so I added googly eyes to it for some personality. It’s definitely a mood 😅
And what better things to print than #VintageMac ephemera 🥰 #MARCHintosh
Ps I blame @billgoats
Implemented the Preferences window for #Macstodon today, with a bunch of quality-of-life tweaks:
- The number of toots to load when the app launches (or a profile window is opened) can be customized. Older machines like the SE/30 might want to put this at 0. Newer machines can crank it higher.
- The number of toots to load when pressing the "Refresh" button on a timeline can be customized separately from the launch number.
- Avatars and banners can be disabled. I'm probably going to default to banners off since I can't solve the memory leak around them 😢 But if you have a lot of RAM then you can enable them!
- The image cache can be cleared, if your favourite poster has a new avatar and you want to see it.
I've attached a screenshot that shows the difference between the banner and bannerless profiles, as well as the new prefs window.
Next time: Finishing off profiles, probably. I'm hoping to have the 0.5 release sometime in March (for #MARCHintosh ) 😎
