Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
After the stress of moving (tomorrow!) is passed, I’ll be tackling a slate of new challenges this fall, including the usual work at Red Sweater, developing future versions of MarsEdit and my other apps. But I’ll also be punctuating the season with a few speaking opportunities at three great conferences. Çingleton. October 14-15. Montreal, Québec. […]
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
I was hired at Apple on May 13, 1996. I was twenty years old, and had been using a Mac for approximately two years, during which time I had been contracting for Apple on and off as a QA engineer, while I finished my B.A. at UC Santa Cruz. Gil Amelio was the CEO. I […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Those of us who do a lot of typing on Macs are familiar with a variety of keyboard shortcuts for navigating lines, words, and characters in text editors that use standard “Cocoa key bindings.” Among those common keyboard shortcuts are cmd-arrow to move to the beginning or end of a line, and option-arrow to move […]
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
I’m on the verge of a major move from New York back to the Boston area, but I wanted to get a quick release out to address some long-standing glitches in MarsEdit. These are the kinds of little issues that aren’t likely to cause major disruption for most users, but which are nonetheless infuriating if […]
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