Way back in ~2008 I wrote the Newton Virus https://www.everita.com/how-the-newton-virus-was-made + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh75j6OHhRc (sorry for the broken images, need to update that site). Between that and using a hidden API to take screenshots of each individual element on your desktop (from icons, to taskbar, to windows) the effect was pretty believable. One of the most fun (and frustrating) projects I ever worked on.

I've tried to find this for so long. I remember seeing it at the time as a teenager and thinking it was SO COOL. Basically made me discover Apple and want a Mac. :)

When I saw the post the Newton Virus was the first thing I thought of. Thanks for making it. I remember showing my family the video and remarking about how cool it was.

Offtopic, but I have nostalgic feelings for the era of MacBook in the video

Troika! Hello from a friend in London :)

Pretty much..the combination to listening to a song about vampires on a cassette seemed like the perfect metaphor!

We add trackers, observers, and RUM scripts to understand how customers use our applications. The irony is that those same scripts often make the experience worse, especially on mid-range and low-end devices.

This essay looks at how monitoring tools can distort the very thing they measure, why performance costs are often hidden until they hit production, and how to rebalance the trade-off.

An essay about how a thirty-year-old mixtape led me to think about technology, memory, and the strange persistence of things we’ve already declared obsolete.

People are real quick to declare things obsolete without thinking about Pareto frontiers.

Tapes and floppies are "obsolete" if you don't have to worry about malicious controllers embedded in flash media or hard drives.

Paper is "obsolete" if you don't have to worry about cost per square inch of displaying static information, or about running without batteries.

Thanks. Digging out my shoebox of college mix tapes right now.

Thanks - you're absolutely right and I've added an edit at the end of the article mentioning this.

A manifesto for proactive loading in Angular and other SPAs.