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Two decades as a solo indie Mac dev (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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What's the Philosophy of Good Software?

i wanted to do cool computer things in high school. And i was interested in graphic design, mostly because i i liked mac for some reason. I came to the conclusion that it's really hard to get assuming interface, or any other fancy interface, to be nearly as productive as a plain text editor. Well, let's see, i put my grocery list in this text editor and it looks just as good and as easy to manage as some fancier tool. That sort of realization, which wasn't immediate, but, you know, i especially came to It with right room, where that was kind of just a a fun idea that i did in a week, and it got more attention

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