I’ve been so busy working on the next release of MarsEdit that I haven’t had a lot of time to do much else, aside from my normal second job as head of customer support! But I’ve been seeing a lot of exciting things happening, and I want to help spread the word, along with my […]

Brent Simmons writes about designing the first-launch experience for NetNewsWire 3.1. I find his reasoning especially interesting because MarsEdit also has a strong incentive to provide users with a smooth first-launch experience. One of the points that resonates most for me is Brent’s point about friction: Present as little friction as possible—don’t overwhelm the new […]

Something is changing. In the past few years, more and more of my developer friends have started talking about “going indie.” That is, going out on their own to develop, market, support, and profit from their own software. Many years ago, while I was working at Apple, the notion of striking out on one’s own […]

Iron Coder 7 is coming up, and Jonathan Wight just announced that the top prize will be an iPod Touch! In other news the contest will run over the course of a week this time around, instead of the usual 48 hours. I am going to need something to develop my iPhone/iPod applications on pretty […]