Hey everyone!
I stumbled across this thread completely by chance. I’ve been running a fairly large RAG-based AI setup, digging through years of old files and archives while putting together a presentation about my design career. One thing led to another, and somehow I ended up back here!
I’ve thought about Archive.vg on and off over the years. A fun bit of trivia: Auston, who built the Archive.vg mobile app, ended up joining me at Twitch after I hired him. We had a hell of a run there together. Funny how these things come full circle.
Anyway, to bring this somewhat back on topic, there’s so much interesting stuff happening on the Mac again, particularly with AI, reverse engineering, decompilation projects, and the tools emerging around all of that.
It makes me wonder whether there’s an opportunity for MacScene, or even a reimagined Archive.vg, to find a place in this new landscape.
I’m not entirely sure what that looks like yet, but it feels like we’re entering a period where some of the things we were passionate about back then could become relevant again, perhaps in ways we hadn’t anticipated.
There’s something interesting about the intersection of preservation, exploration, tinkering, and making obscure technology accessible to people. Those were always part of the appeal, at least for me. Love it or loathe it, but with AI dramatically lowering the barriers to understanding and working with old software and systems, it feels like there’s an entirely new frontier opening up.
I have no idea what that might look like in practice, but it does make me wonder whether the spirit of what we were doing back then might have a place in what’s happening now.
Anyway, just some ramblings from someone who unexpectedly found himself wandering down memory lane. Really nice to see some familiar names still kicking around here!
