Bill Atkinson is the programming genius behind HyperCard, MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, but these days he's wistful about what could have been. Like, for example, the ...

Almost by necessity, Apple grew out of the homebrew movement, in which enthusiasts swapped knowledge and parts for building computers, and were as much tinkerers and electrical engineers as they were ...

Update: It's Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and the Ars staff has a long weekend accordingly. Many will spend that time relaxing or traveling with family, but maybe someone will dust off their ...

I remember in high school my friends and I put together a Hypercard program which integrated some TrueBasic graphics programs that did a simple "Orrey" simulation of the solar system, and an actually ...

A now-discontinued computer tool that allowed people to create their own software even if they didn’t have programming experience has been surprisingly influential. Last year I set out to build a ...