I’m playing with some design changes for MarsEdit’s main window, and thinking it will probably end up mimicking the classic “Mail source list utility bar” appearance, where a few small buttons appear beneath a source list at the left-hand side of the window. With things in flux while I moved bits and pieces of the […]

Fraser Speirs recently tweeted some comments about strings in code: “I think that I particularly hate strings in code that have programmatic meaning. I’m looking at you, KVC. And you, KVO.” Reading this was one of those “yeah, that sucks!” moments, and it got me thinking about how the situation might be improved. The problem […]

If you’re lucky, you only get to say that phrase in a non-metaphorical, self-referential way once in your life. We just arrived home in Boston after a lovely two weeks in England. We visited London substantially, York briefly, and then Oxford quite substantially. My beautiful bride was an exchange student at Oxford around 10 years […]

This year’s C4 conference, C4[1], is now open for registration. I had a blast as an attendee last year, and will have even more fun this year as a participating speaker! PS It’s raining in Oxford, UK.