What distinguishes developers on the Mac from those who design for other platforms such as Windows and Linux? We often answer the question with a flip response that makes us feel good about ourselves: Mac developers are perfectionists. Mac developers are community-oriented. Mac developers are not obsessed with the bottom line. Mac developers are passionate. […]

The latest ridiculous App Store power-play to make it into the public limelight is Apple’s alleged censoring of Ninjawords, an iPhone interface to a community-edited dictionary called Wiktionary. Before being approved, even as a 17+ rated title, the app’s developers were asked to remove specific words from the dictionary’s index. (Edit 8/6/2009: Since I wrote […]

Brent Simmons writes beautifully about a frustration that most indie software developers can relate to: the payoff proposition. He highlights the all-too-common scenario where a user offers a cash bounty, $50 for instance, to add a particular feature: “The developers I know would rather rip up $50 bills, long sequences of them, than do something […]

This very post is delivered to your browser or news reader by the famous and fabulous WordPress blogging system. In my work as the developer of MarsEdit, I am exposed to countless blogging options, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. And yet, I stick with WordPress because it strikes a balance of power and […]