26 Jun 2026
Field notes on Mac OS 9.2, New World ROMs, and Apple Silicon
SheepShaver boots Mac OS 9 with a native JIT. Getting it on Apple Silicon? That took work. Full native 9.2? Even harder.
Hello.
I am Ken Hawkins.
I help complex organizations turn their digital presence from information graveyards into measurable systems that work for human and machine audiences alike.
I ship systems that deliver impact. I understand technology and human organizational dynamics equally — and how to make them work together. Twenty years with UN agencies, international science, and media have sharpened that.
Recent writing
15 Jun 2026
13 words to turn a rumor into AI fact
Cornell researchers planted thirteen words on Reddit and changed what Deep Research and Gemini reported back.
9 Jun 2026
CADI: a prescriptive path for slop-free AI in content work
A framework to collect, analyze, document, iterate (CADI, for short) is a prescriptive answer to the question everyone keeps asking: should I prompt better, write a style guide, build an agent, or what?
12 May 2026
A data font, from the inside out
Datatype is a variable font that turns text into tiny inline charts.
9 May 2026
Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
6 May 2026
My daily routine assumes the internet survives the disaster
A new UNDRR report maps the disaster nobody is preparing for: the failure of digital infrastructure that has no analogue fallback.
3 May 2026
Eye-tracking heatmaps in your browser, no lab needed
Stop guessing whether users will notice your CTA. Foveacast predicts attention from a screenshot, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
29 Apr 2026
Stop converting SVG text to outlines
Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.
23 Apr 2026
Why 'reviewed' should be a protected verb
A newsroom AI policy that closes the quote-attribution loophole and treats 'reviewed' as a protected verb.
22 Apr 2026 | Project note
Designing analytics infrastructure that measures audience quality, not just traffic
24+ websites, no existing benchmarks, and a fundamental question: how do you know if the right people are finding your content?
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