Apple's Bill Atkinson, creator of MacPaint, spent his final years developing an open-source vape pen for safer psychedelic experiences

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The engineer who helped create Apple's iconic Macintosh interface spent his final years developing a vape pen for administering psychedelics.

Bill Atkinson, who died on June 5, 2025 at age 74, was famous for being the creator of MacPaint and QuickDraw. But within a private psychedelic community called OneLight, he was "Grace Within" — a me…