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The author of this post is a regular commenter on HN, JKCalhoun. Nice post, JKCalhoun! I love the three dozen dongles hanging on the wall of Dithering Heights.

The versions of these color pickers that were included in builds of Copland contain the strings "Hey what?" (for the HSL picker) and "Scheherazade" (for the crayon picker). Might those have been some of yours?

https://rezmason.net/chattin_with_jkcalhoun/copland_colorpic...

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He says of himself that he "wrote games for the Macintosh." That's an understatement. The guy wrote Glider!

Blast from the past! A handful of sacred Power Macs in my elementary school computer lab had the shareware version of Glider installed ("Glider Trial", or "Trail" [sic] as my spelling-challenged classmates called it who were unfamiliar with trialware) and every one of us jockeyed for one of these machines as we filed into the room so that we could play it. Circa 1999 I somehow got my mom to ask a hapless Wal-Mart employee whether they made Glider from Casady and Greene written by John Calhoun for Windows. We got a weird look and a devastating "no". Sometime in the next year or two my best friend and I fixed up his Grandpa's old Mac Plus which happened to have an older full version of Glider on it which made me quite happy.

Hats off to you, Mr. Calhoun!

Wait, that is him? JKCalhoun? I probably should read more closely.

Jeez JKCalhoun is one of my favorite commenters on HN. He is very knowledgeable about Apple stuffs and I knew he probably worked in Apple for a long, long time just by reading his replies. He is one of the people that I look up to (i.e., when I don't feel burned out).

Sheherazade, definitely me from my "The Tale of the 1001 Arabian Nights" period.

I can't recall the "Hey what?" though.

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