Stephen H. Gerstacker
@sgerstacker.bsky.social
Software developer, mostly on Apple platforms.
Score Card 5.0.0 is out with support for iPhone Duo. It also fixes some issues with deleting recent players. gerstacker.us/2026/10/21/s...
I over-engineered a method of getting my #quicktake photos on to modern macOS. Why use a shell script when you can make a full GUI instead? gerstacker.us/2026/09/21/t...
There's nothing happening on Twitter in 2026 that is the lynchpin of your brand. You might have started there, but the audience you're playing to is one you can survive without. Don't let sunk-cost fallacy trick you. The numbers are gamed anyway. Stop giving that joyless loser money. Leave. Now.
I'm doing a YouTube Premiere in 35 minutes, stop by and say hi in the chat! 👋🍿 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRrb...
The WOOTswitch: A Modern ADB Keyboard & Mouse Switch for your Classic Macintosh
YouTube video by Mac84
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Hijacker: Everyone stop talking. I am armed and I am taking control of this plane. Guy from the Netherlands: Wow, in Netherlands we just purchase a plane if we want one. But typically we will bike somewhere Guy who has been to Japan once: In Japan planes are rarely hijacked. It's a cultural taboo
A little retrobright before and after. The mouse was the worst. The keyboard just had a mask from a photoshop keyboard template. #vintageapple
Big #BlueSCSI update yesterday with tons of improvements, but one of the nicest for end users is: You can now update BlueSCSI directly from your vintage computer! Use the latest BlueSCSI Toolbox beta + this release. FW updates from retro.bluescsi.com (no https) github.com/BlueSCSI/Blu...
Release v2026.04.27 · BlueSCSI/BlueSCSI-v2
This release brings a new build system, a much simpler firmware update flow, broader SCSI command coverage, and a long list of fixes across CD-ROM, CD audio, tape, DaynaPORT, initiator mode, and th...
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This is pretty cool. Apple's old Time Capsule devices run NetBSD, so in anticipation of their deprecation of AFP in the next version of macOS this guy got samba running on it https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
GitHub - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB: Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba
Hacking the Apple Time Capsule to run modern Samba - jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB
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The antique mall Newton MessagePad 100 is alive. The audio cap seems to have destroyed things, and there’s one row of dead pixels, but otherwise it’s functioning. #vintageapple
And here it is, the #MARCHintosh #GlobalTalk Canvas timelapse. Thank you to everyone who participated, it was lots of fun to host!
Nothing to see here, just a beautiful new Swift Evolution pitch that allows complex #Predicate building 🤯 It's early days, but this could perhaps become the NSCompoundPredicate equivalent SwiftData has been missing all this time 👀 forums.swift.org/t/pitch-init...
[Pitch] Initializers for joining a sequence of predicates
Dear Swift community, Below is my pitch for constructing conjunctions and disjunctions from a variable number of predicates. I’ve designed the solution to address several use cases, including those d...
forums.swift.org
Swift 6.3 has landed! 🚀 This release brings community-driven Android support into the official toolchain, along with major improvements to C interoperability, the build system, and embedded Swift. Read more: www.swift.org/blog/swift-6... #AndroidDev #iOSDev
The Dan Kottke signed Macintosh SE is cleaned up, upgraded, and back together. I’ll be floating around #GlobalTalk with it this weekend. #MARCHintosh
Running from now until Friday, March 13th, I need your help with some research I'm conducting. Full explanation in the survey. Let's have fun with this! forms.gle/cqrzW7sZ3Aje... (Please share this link. The more responses, the better the data collection.)
Got my first print to my Netatalk -> CUPS -> PDF setup. We hung it on the fridge. #MARCHintosh #globaltalk
In less than 3 hours, Return to Dark Castle makes a "return" to Steam, launches TODAY. I'm a rabid fan of the original DC and Beyond DC from the b&w mac days. I'm excited to play this entry - never had the platform for it when it released Precision platform with cartoon humor! 14.99 USD 1st 2 weeks!
