Still going after all these years.
Brent Simmons: “My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers.” Great blog post from Brent, who I had a beer with once, long ago, in Seattle, and whose work in the early days of this blog I frequently followed and linked to. (I had written an AppleScript based blog posting client for my old blog platform, … Continue reading “Brent Simmons on corporate developers”
Everyone’s favorite local independent software development house, Ranchero Software (otherwise known as Brent and Sheila Simmons), won a MacWorld Editor’s Choice Award for their NetNewsWire product. NetNewsWire is my favorite RSS aggregator on any platform, and I can write blog posts in it too! Congrats to Brent and Sheila, who are truly living the dream.
Reposting from earlier today, during the blogoutage: Happy birthday to Brent Simmons, author of NetNewsWire, who turns 0x0023 today. (For all you Microsoft Excel users out there, that’s =DECIMAL(“000023”).)
The rumors were true: NewsGator is acquiring NetNewsWire from Brent Simmons’ Ranchero Software—and hiring Brent as a product architect. Big congrats to Brent. I look forward to the day when my NNW subscriptions sync seamlessly with every aggregator under the sun—though I want to see support for Bloglines continue in something more robust than “bug … Continue reading “NetNewsGatorWire”
Tim Bray: Atom 1.0. “It’s cooked and ready to serve.” Congrats to the Atom team. Now that the spec has reached 1.0, I look forward to seeing how Atom does things that RSS can’t do—with or without extensions—and how Atom does the core job of syndication better than RSS does. Along those lines, I’ll be … Continue reading “Atom 1.0”
UserLand (t) Product News: Frontier and Manila: New Enclosure macros and updates to Manila RPC and MetaWeblogAPI. This is the other shoe whose dropping I anticipated last week when UserLand rolled out a new enclosure support feature. By extending the support for the new feature into the API and into user interface macros, Manila (t) … Continue reading “The other shoe drops for Manila enclosure support”
Brent Simmons talks about the issues with feed items that are about the same thing showing up in an RSS aggregator. I’m reposting the comment I made on his post here because I think managing the relationships between items is an important feature for RSS aggregators: The ability to group feed items together based on … Continue reading “Managing aggregator overlap”
Other stuff: Brent Simmons waxes ecstatic about SpaceShipOne’s X-Prize-winning second flight today. Always good to see someone reaching out a hand to touch the face of God. (See also MetaFilter.) Tony Pierce is turning entertainment blogger for a week. I’d suggest a link, Tony, but “Moonshot Manny” came out last week and so it isn’t … Continue reading “Around the ‘sphere”
Ranchero Software (aka Brent Simmons) just announced public betas for NetNewsWire 2.0 and MarsEdit 1.0. I’ve been privileged to be a tester for both apps, and I can say without reservation that NNW 2.0 is the finest news aggregator I’ve used on any platform. And MarsEdit? Well, I’ve used it to compose my weblog entries … Continue reading “NetNewsWire, MarsEdit public betas”
Courtesy MacRumors’ coverage of the WWDC Keynote, it looks like Apple will be adding an integrated RSS aggregator and search capability to Safari in Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4). My first thought was, “Somebody buy Brent Simmons a drink.” Brent is at WWDC, and his company, Ranchero, has one big product, NetNewsWire, which is the … Continue reading “Apple WWDC 2004: RSS is everywhere”
WriteTheWeb: The writeable web: lather, rinse, repeat (an interview with NetNewsWire creator Brent Simmons). I’m a few days late picking up this item; the last time I went to look at it I couldn’t reach the website. But it’s still good reading on a bunch of levels: application developers, bloggers, Internet philosophy, and on. I … Continue reading “Prescience”
Esta is doing her Thanksgiving blogging a day early, and gives thanks for a long list, including the keiretsu, our Pop-pop, and Parliament, among others. I’m thankful too, for: My loving and patient wife Lisa; Esta: her encouragement, wit, and blog; My Pop-pop, for his enduring humor, strength, and everything else; My parents and in-laws … Continue reading “Thanksblogging”
Brent Simmons, author of the very good NetNewsWire news aggregator software, showed a screenshot of a weblog posting tool today that he’s playing with. It’s Cocoa, it is compatible with the Metaweblog and Blogger APIs, and it remembers your past posts. Plus it will be supported by NetNewsWire… I have a funny feeling that this … Continue reading “A shot across my bow”