An Interview With Brent Simmons and Black Pixel’s Daniel Pasco
Brent Simmons: Black Pixel is the new home for NetNewsWire. There nothing held back: they own the name, the code, the websites, everything, all versions. It as straightforward as you can imagine.
Daniel Pasco: We totally on fire about this acquisition: most of cover samsung a3 neo us have had a love affair with NetNewsWire that goes back for several years (it was the first third party Mac willy wonka cover samsung grand prime app I ever purchased). We gotten big enough to be able to lavish a lot of attention on NetNewsWire, and I intend to restore it to cover iphone 5 5s its former glory.
Simmons: I could answer this. I could go on at length! But that because I know it best. I let Daniel go ahead. Daniel: you can hurt my feelings by pointing out NetNewsWire tarnish.
Pasco: I don see tarnish at all! What I see is a gorgeous plant that has outgrown its pot: there was a time cover samsung tab 4 8.0 when NetNewsWire could flourish under the care of a single person, especially someone as talented as Brent. But now you got four different versions to maintain: NetNewsWire, NetNewsWire Lite, NetNewsWire for the custodia samsung j6 plus trasparente iPad, and NetNewsWire for the iPhone.
No one of us cover samsung j7 2017 silicone morbido could stay on top of that many applications alone and keep them at the cutting edge. What exciting to me is that we actually have the manpower to not only maintain these applications, but help them realize the totality cover samsung galaxy note 9 of their potential.
Gruber: Brent, when did you start thinking about this Obviously you must have something new on your plate. But just three months ago you released a major new version of custodia cover samsung j3 NetNewsWire Lite on the Mac App Store.
Simmons: I started thinking about this a couple weeks after NetNewsWire Lite appeared on the Mac App Store. Having released the first of the new shared cover samsung galaxy s3 mini minions code apps, and this release having met with some modest appreciation, I was feeling pretty good. But then I started to think about how long it would take to get all versions using the new shared code, and then, more importantly, about how long it would take to make them really, really awesome, which was yet another cover samsung s9 plus hyperknit step.
At first I just thought of iphone 7 custodia 360 killing off the iPad and iPhone versions, since I figured I could handle the Mac version myself. That was a selfish idea, not in the best interests of users or the software. (Everybody has thoughts not worthy of them. Me too.)
It was, at least, an honest recognition of my own limits, though, and that was what led me, haltingly at first, against my own inner resistance, to consider selling NetNewsWire. I went back and forth on it in my mind, and I kept taking my own temperature on it. I finally admitted to cover samsung a3 2016 rosa myself that I was hot to find it a new home.
Earlier this year I was in the process of selling TapLynx to Push IO. And I totally excited about this: I think the Push IO folks are a perfect fit for TapLynx and they going to do a great job, just as the Black Pixel team is perfect for NetNewsWire. I done a bunch of work with both companies, and I know and respect them immensely as people and as professionals.
With TapLynx and NetNewsWire sold, do I have other things on my plate Yes. But iphone x cover apple that can custodia cover huawei p30 lite come up some other custodia speck iphone 7 time.
Gruber: But you have something to announce soon
Simmons: Yes! Soon. There will be some more news next week.
Gruber: Daniel, when Brent told me that you worked out a deal for Black Pixel to acquire NetNewsWire, my first thought was a good home, those guys do good work. But my second thought was, wait a second, I thought Black Pixel was focused on iOS. indeed, the Black Pixel home page says: passion is Apple iOS, and we specialize in rapid turnaround, high visibility projects requiring multiple developers. does this mean for the Mac version (or, versions, plural, counting NetNewsWire Lite)
Pasco: Good question. Our company gets a lot of clients asking us to take on Android projects, and that statement is targeted to set the tone for those discussions. Our love is for Apple platforms and we not interested doing anything else. We certainly aren avoiding Mac OS X (we just finished a design project for MoneyWell 2.0), but we traditionally only done touch, simply because there hasn been a Mac application to work on that we felt really passionate about until now.
We giving the iOS versions of NetNewsWire a lot more attention than they been given historically, but the Mac version is on the center stage, particularly in light of Lion and the Mac App Store.
Gruber: What about the balance between contract development for clients and managing resources for your own product You done it already with Bistromath, your iPhone restaurant bill custodia in pelle iphone xs max splitter, but, well, NetNewsWire is a larger app. Has an expansion in Black Pixel own apps been planned
Pasco: The plan has always been to split our time between doing projects for special clients and producing our own applications, but we didn reach the point where we had the resources to do both sustainably until earlier this year.
Now, between our development and design teams, we have a general surplus of three to five people that can either work on our own applications or shore up ailing client projects. We currently wrapping up an iPhone app we developing for Dan Benjamin 5by5 network, but we were already looking for a really interesting and exciting application to do for ourselves when Brent approached me about acquiring NetNewsWire.
What funny about that is that someone in the company had suggested doing an RSS application a year or so ago, and I resoundingly nixed the idea. I wasn interested in competing with Brent, and I didn feel like the world needed another NetNewsWire style offering.
On the other hand, the suggested acquisition was perfect: I love NetNewsWire, I interested in content aggregation and discovery, and this provided us with an opportunity that we felt good about, and didn involve putting yet another player on the field.
Gruber: I think it always a good thing and often iphone x custodia ufficiale downright essential for developers to be solving their own problems with the apps they create. Anyone who even cover samsung j5 2016 con animali a casual reader of Brent Inessential weblog knows custodia cover samsung s8 plus that he a lifelong news junkie. That to me has always been NetNewsWire appeal it an RSS reader for news and information junkies. That how it survived just fine after Apple added RSS support to Mac OS X in Mail. That RSS for non junkies. Do you see NetNewsWire that way
Pasco: We definitely feel the same way, which was why the subject of doing our own app had been broached on our team before. Safari RSS support is about as effective for serious information consumption as the notes feature in Apple keyboard cover samsung galaxy tab s2 Mail is for GTD.
Gruber: So, given the timing of the decision, is it good, bad, or unknown custodia cover iphone x xs that the first app in the new generation of NetNewsWires was a Brent Simmons app
Put another way for Daniel: do you feel like the first major Black Pixel release of NetNewsWire for Mac has already been defined by the new NetNewsWire Lite
Simmons: It good for me personally, in that I set a big goal develop a shared code base for all versions of NetNewsWire and achieved it. It the best code I ever done, by far. The last two years have been the most stressful and difficult of my more than 15 years as a professional, but, at the same time, I upped my game as a developer more in the past two years than in any other two years…