The epiphany

So, after sorting out Mac OS 9.2.2 on a neat QEMU setup, I asked ChatGPT to suggest 10 modern apps for classic Mac OS. This is the list the AI came up with:

  1. Basic Markdown Editor
  2. To-Do List App with Simple Sync (Local Sync)
  3. Local Weather Forecast App
  4. Lightweight Personal Wiki
  5. RSS Reader
  6. Pomodoro Timer for Productivity
  7. File Hashing Utility (MD5, SHA-1)
  8. Retro Messenger App
  9. Basic Image Viewer with PNG Support
  10. USB Drive Explorer

There are a few obvious messy ones, like a retro messenger app and a USB drive explorer, and a few that few a bit pointless like an image viewer, an RSS reader (do people still use that?) and a wiki. But overall, it's not too bad. I thought about starting with the markdown editor. Why not?

I tell you why not. It's painful, that's why. I soon realised that classic Mac OS has no git support. So I would have to code the old-fashioned way: comment out old code, update code, delete code, duplicate files, save a version with a date, rinse, repeat. Sure, I could use subversion or some other stuff, but.. I want git.

Soon it downed on me: forget markdown - I should to develop GIT for Mac OS!

Let's see where this idea takes me.

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