Yes, boys and girls. Back in 1991, I was an Apple guy. 1991. Thinking about those days gives me a headache. Back then, I was all Apple, all the time. It was not necessarily a good thing. I had two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...