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Orange Juice Liberation Front
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Orange Juice Liberation Front is a personal blog at orangejuiceliberationfront.com about programming, games and culture. Since 2011, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 24 times, most often “Raw graphics output on Linux: Part 1”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-02-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog's posts on classic Mac OS history: HyperCard colour support, the 68k emulator's Mixed Mode, and Linux raw graphics output. Links are cited as sources, not praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Uli’s blog on programming, game development, pop culture and other boring things.
Most-linked posts?
- Raw graphics output on Linux: Part 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-03
- How to write a compiler2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-01-25
- Hypercard got its Color Back2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-09
What Hacker News says?
It did get color support though, no? Kind of kludged in (iirc you had to manually add Color Tools support to a stack), but Myst was famously put together in HyperCard, and that came out in 1993. Edit: Myst apparently used a plug-in (InColor from Heizer Software), and 2.3 officially added Color Tools https://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/how-hypercard-got-its...
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on “Why Hypercard had to die (2011)”Submitted Can you recreate Objective-C in C? as a story · 62 points
HN discussionYou are in good company: "According to various reports, when someone suggested to include a touch-typing tutorial in this intro as well, since many people did not know how to use a keyboard, steve Jobs simply said not to bother as those people would die out eventually." * http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/theyll-die-out-eventua...
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on “The Flat Design Era”Submitted Raw graphics output in Linux: Part 2 as a story · 27 points
HN discussionA while back I tried learning Objective-C on Linux. My end goal was to do iOS development, but I wanted to try it out before I spent the money on a Mac. Maybe I'd hate Obj-C and know immediately it wasn't for me... Using the Objective-C language on Debian was as easy as doing "apt-get install gobjc". But, as you stated, most of the utility comes from Cocoa. Even though it's technically possible to use Objective-C wi…
Comment linking /playing-with-objective-c-on-debian
on “I loved C. But it always fell short for me. Objective-C fixed that.”Submitted Designing an Atomic Block File Format as a story · 20 points
HN discussion"Mixed Mode Magic" was a key feature of the 68k emulator. 68k code could call PowerPC routines through "universal procedure pointers", and vice versa. This included Toolbox routines as well as third-party code, and it extended to the point that 68k CDEFs (system extensions) which patched system traps could still be used on PowerPC systems. Some further details are at: https://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/universal…
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on “Transplanting the Mac’s Central Processor: Gary Davidian’s 68000 Emulator (2020)”Submitted Myopic version-control islands as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI'm surprised behind the huge push behind a "soft yellow" colored bulb. The articles makes a claim that humans prefer the yellow/orange glow due to prevalence of fire as lighting. But I don't see a single mention of the color termperature of pure sunshine, which is much, much closer to pure white (5500K). Flourescent bulbs that glow at 5500K are considered "pure white" [0] and seem to be demonized in the article as…
Comment linking /theyll-die-out-eventually
on “The Future of Light is the LED”Submitted A proposal for categories in C++ as a story · 4 points
HN discussionPart 1 is at http://orangejuiceliberationfront.com/raw-graphics-output-on... but mostly covers setting up a VM.
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on “Raw graphics output in Linux: Part 2”Submitted How to Write a Compiler as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hypercard got its Color Back as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Raw graphics output on Linux: Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-compiling Classic Mac apps on macOS X as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted X-Macros in C as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why is C not an object-oriented language? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Difference Between Compiler and Interpreter as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Solo Developers Need Source Control as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How HyperCard got its color back as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write a compiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to write a compiler as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Cocoa programmers can’t have nice things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted From Project to Product as a story · 1 points
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