Screwtapello on Nostr: I'm watching Bill Atkinson talking about 25 years of Hypercard and being ...
I'm watching Bill Atkinson talking about 25 years of Hypercard and being simultaneously impressed and depressed. I've definitely felt the joy of making a little software widget that did exactly what I wanted, and also the frustration that there's not really anything like that today—at least not without a custom build and deployment system, a quarter-gigabyte runtime, and ten-second startup.
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