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Apple iPod Engraver (2019)
The gist
A former Apple engineer published a 2019 write-up of the 2005 iPod engraving page he built.
The post resurfaced on Hacker News and Reddit in September 2026.
How it unfolded
- 2004 –2006Dunstan Orchard worked at Apple as a UI engineer for the online store [1].
- 2005He built the interactive "Personalize your iPod" engraving page; with limited browser technology of the time, he later said those solutions seemed a little bit magical [1].
- 2019"Apple iPod Engraver (2019)" was published at dunstanorchard.com [1][3].