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Archive for April 23rd, 2026

Shoe horning Arm Mac hardware plus OLED screen in a iMac G3 case 

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/23

Only do this when your G3 is broken beyond repair!

This particular example shows how to shoe-horn an Apple Silicon based Mac Mini into a the very first incarnation of an iMac: a classic iMac G3 case restoring both plastic, and using 3D printed mounts to ease assembly/disassembly.

Still cool as it is flexible so also allows for other Mac hardware like a Mac Studio.

The screen is a 14 inch 16:10 screen which is very expensive over here:

Video: [Wayback/Archive] I built a MODERN iMac… – YouTube

Query: [Wayback/Archive] mac studio in imac g3 3d print at DuckDuckGo

3D prints of a different project:

Likely a 4:3 OLED screen has less visible bezels.

--jeroen

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Is Agile dead? Only for places where it is suffocated by rules

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/23

Over the last few years I have seen more and more posts where people are fed up by Agile.

The whole fundament if Agile, or better any lightweight methodology, is to be able to flow as a team. That is only possible when the flow is not disturbed by a truckload of rules or schedules overloaded with ceremonies.

The best way to implement over the last 40+ years I have been in IT is to use common sense.

This basically has not changed since before “I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum), so please read this other quote from René Descartes‘s same book “Discourse on Method” where* he begins by allowing himself some wit:

Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess.

Or in other words*:

Everyone has a similar and sufficient amount of common sense, but it is rarely used well.

For me, lightweight methodologies vary by team and project and always involve both critical thinking and together with other team members regularly thinking about:

  1. why to do things
  2. how to do these things
  3. the steps to perform the how
  4. when to change parts or all of the above three points

Agile Software Development is that simple.

Oh: always think about why Software Development or any other work you are involved in differs much or little from Lean Management in car manufacturing (the place where many people advocate the Agile methodologies in Software Development are supposed to stem from: strongly disagree with that as they have their own origin. Try to think about why I disagree, even if your opinion differs from mine).

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