It's even worse than it appears..
Tuesday September 22, 2026; 2:09 PM EDT
A functional Frontier#
  • I'm using Frontier on a Mac running MacOS v26.6.2, which is the current version of the OS. #
  • Frontier running on a new Mac. And that's my computer. #
  • It's like the moment I realized, in 2010, that I had succeeded in relocating to NYC. It had been a life ambition to live in Manhattan since I was a kid growing up there. There were a lot of hoops. I got through them. I woke up when I was walking down Bleecker St going to pizza with a few of the students I had just spoken with in a classroom. It hit me. I'm doing it. This is how I imagined my life when I was 17.#
  • About box for Frontier v4.0b4, apparently 1995.#
  • For a very long time it seemed ever more certain that the hope of a usable Frontier on current systems was slipping away, but now it's here. Improbable, even impossible things do happen. Something to ponder when you think things can't change. The opposite is true, you don't have to create the change, when it's time it happens. #
  • That's something to think about. All the buried software that was good, that had ideas worth learning from, being prior art and solved problems for future generations of developers. And also as part of the vocabulary of the Claudes of the world. #

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