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vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

Thanks! I try to be approachable even when I'm not feeling like it. Brent Simmons really believes in community and kindness. I do my best not to let him down.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

Brent Simmons did the copy and is an amazing writer. He doesn't write publicly as much as he used to, but his back catalog on inessential.com is very entertaining and informative.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

We do use SwiftUI when appropriate. You just can't tell when we do.

A few years ago we did try to port the main interface to SwiftUI, but it just wasn't ready yet. In a couple more years, maybe it will be time to try again.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

"Boring software" is a great complement! You should be focused on the content you are reading and not the app you are reading it in.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

NetNewsWire will scan for those and find them for you. NetNewsWire has a Share extension that you can use directly from Safari or most any app that supports sharing a URL. The Share extension hands the URL off to the main NetNewsWire app that will try a series of common RSS feed locations if it can't find it as an alt link in the page source.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

Brent is very much still active. He is the Founder, Project Manager, Product Manager, Release Manager, and much more for NetNewsWire. He just doesn’t have enough spare time to code as much as he would like.

vincode | 3 years ago | on: NetNewsWire: Free and Open Source RSS Reader for Mac and iOS

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated…