{"id":27484,"date":"2019-12-03T16:55:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=27484"},"modified":"2019-12-03T16:55:28","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T21:55:28","slug":"drinking-the-sk8-kool-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/03\/drinking-the-sk8-kool-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"Drinking the SK8 Kool-Aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameronesfahani\/status\/1201104398643941376\">Cameron Esfahani<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/threader.app\/thread\/1201104398643941376\">thread<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/1201144040676302850\">Daniel Jalkut<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameronesfahani\/status\/1201104398643941376\"><p>One day my boss asked me to fly down to LA for the day. Apparently there was a developer there working on an app showcasing QuickDraw GX.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>And right away I could tell something was weird. Structurally, most Mac apps look very similar. But this app was like nothing I&rsquo;d ever seen before: heap and code were off.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Oh, we&rsquo;re writing it in SK8.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>SK8 was a weird Lisp-like multimedia authoring environment that Apple ATG was developing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, it wasn&rsquo;t ready for production use.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameron Esfahani (thread, via Daniel Jalkut): One day my boss asked me to fly down to LA for the day. Apparently there was a developer there working on an app showcasing QuickDraw GX. [&#8230;] And right away I could tell something was weird. Structurally, most Mac apps look very similar. But this app was like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-12-03T21:55:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"78c47b79-8009-49da-8fbf-b44a9f299f9d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-12-03T21:55:39Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AeMR7eYAJSdqPv7RKnymfnQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,770,56,295,30,402,71,1430],"class_list":["post-27484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-assembly-language","tag-debugging","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-powerpc","tag-programming","tag-quickdraw-gx"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27485,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27484\/revisions\/27485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}