We just passed $3 million raised for St. Jude since 2019!
We are excited to share with you that Relay will be recognized on the wall inside St. Jude that highlights corporations and organizations with exceptional fundraising efforts for its life-saving work.
Here’s a short video of Myke and me speaking about it:
Since 2019, the Relay community has raised $2.98 million in support of St. Jude’s life-saving work.
TWO POINT NINE EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS, YALL!
That number staggers me.
With $3 million in sight,1 today we are launching Relay’s sixth annual fundraising campaign for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
In May 2009, my wife Merri and I received news that would change the trajectory of our family’s life forever. Our oldest son Josiah was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Just two years later, I wrote this:
When I started this project, my goal was to untangle the messiest of all Mac product lines. In my initial blog post I wrote:
At its heart, the Performa line is the fruit of badge engineering. This is often found in the car market, perhaps most famously in the Chrysler K-car platform that debuted in 1981. Over 14 years, Chrysler, Dodge, and Plymouth shipped a dizzying array of front-wheel drive cars, all based on the same platform. Features, options, and prices ranged between them, but under the covers, these were all the same car, more or less.
Following weeks of speculation, NASA finally made it official on Saturday: Two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft in June will not return home on that vehicle. Instead, the agency has asked SpaceX to use its Crew Dragon spacecraft to fly astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth.
“NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return with Crew-9 next February,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the outset of a news conference on Saturday afternoon at Johnson Space Center.
Aria Alamalhodaei, writing at TechCrunch:
After a nearly three-year interlude, Jared Isaacman is returning to space. The billionaire entrepreneur first went to orbit as part of the Inspiration4 mission, which made history for having a crew comprised entirely of private citizens, not professional astronauts. But with this next mission, Polaris Dawn, he and mission partner SpaceX have set their sights even higher.
Literally: Polaris Dawn will fly farther than any mission using SpaceX’s Dragon capsule to date, while also soaring through portions of the Van Allen radiation belt for the first time since the days of the Apollo missions.
We’ve done it; we have come to the final three Performas. It’s taken 11,000 words to get here, but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
In a world of weird 1990s Macs, the 6400 may take the prize for the most awkward. Here it is, in Power Macintosh form, in an official Apple photo:
Launched in August 1996, this is the first (and only) Performa to use the traditional vertical tower case, and as you can see, it was quite the case.
Lex.Games is a website and iOS app for playing daily word games. If you like Wordle or Connections or crossword puzzles, there’s a good chance you’ll like Lex.Games.
Lex.Games offers:
It also includes a Mini crossword; a full-size crossword; and Mind Control, which is a whole lot like Mastermind and not actually a word game at all, but who’s counting?
Marco Arment joins to discuss his podcast app for iOS, Overcast, which just received a major rewrite for its 10th anniversary. David and Stephen talk to Marco about that project, how he thinks through user feedback, and Apple’s annual release cycle.
In the spring of 1996, Apple updated its all-in-one Performa across two collections of models: the 5200 and 5400.
Thankfully, not all of them were beige…
In 1996, the Performa 5200 line was updated with three new models:
| Model | CPU | Memory | HDD Size | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5260CD | 100 MHz PowerPC 603e | 8 or 16 MB | 800 MB | $1,699 |
| 5260/120 | 120 MHz PowerPC 603e | 8 or 16 MB | 1.2 GB | $1,499 |
| 5270CD | 100 MHz PowerPC 603e | 8 MB | 1.2 GB | Unknown |
The 5260/100 came out in the fall of 1996, following the 5260CD and 5270CD, which both shipped in April of that year. All three of these systems shipped with a 14-inch CRT, running at 640 x 480 resolution, despite earlier Performas in the same enclosure using a 15-inch CRT capable of running at 832 x 624.
By the fall of 1995, the final pre-PowerPC Performas were still available for purchase by those looking to potentially procure a personal computer. Despite 68K-based Performas being on the market until 1996, Apple was already moving on, and now so must we.
These machines were an update to the 5200 all-in-one that debuted in the summer of 1995. The 5200 Series would remain on sale even after the 5300 models were announced, in true 90s Apple fashion.
The guys cover some iPhone rumors, changes at Apple Podcasts, the announcement of Monument Valley 3, and iOS 18’s final days in beta, all before discussing the idea of the “Apple cult” starting to fade.
