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Widget toolkit for AmigaOS

The Magic User Interface is an object-oriented system by Stefan Stuntz to generate and maintain graphical user interfaces. With the aid of a preferences program, the user of an application has the ability to customize the system according to personal taste. Wikipedia →

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📚 Books worth reading

📕Leadership, Management and Data ScienceJerry Ramonyai · 2022
Treaty Occupationay ToxicologySuelen Queiroz · 2010
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011
97 Things Every Programmer Should KnowKevlin Henney · 2010
TCP/IP IllustratedW. Richard Stevens, Kevin R. Fall · 1993
When digital becomes humanSteven Van Belleghem · 2015
📕Media archaeologyErkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka · 2011
Medicine meets virtual reality 13James D. Westwood · 2005

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