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Heron's Perch

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Mostly Apple, GNUstep and stuff about me personally. I'm the Chief Maintainer for the GNUstep project.

CLinux / UnixApple / classic Mac

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107 from 27 May 2005 to 4 Aug 2026
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2026 1

  1. Open Source Is Hobbling Itself Over Generative AI

2024 2

  1. What Apple has forgotten...
  2. Keysight laid me off in January!

2023 3

  1. Objective-C end of life?? Not a chance...
  2. Swift->ObjC interop
  3. Compatibility project almost complete

2020 1

  1. Foundation is now close to Catalina compatibility

2015 3

  1. The results speak for themselves...
  2. Still waiting on you, Apple...
  3. Swift 2.0 Going Open Source.... great news!

2014 5

  1. The Reasons I Love GNUstep -- Speaking for Free Software
  2. Recent Article About Swift Confirms Apple's Position
  3. ToDo for GNUstep
  4. GNUstep's position on Swift
  5. Swift and why it hurts you

2013 13

  1. GNUstep Ohloh Stats
  2. GNUstep Kickstarter Campaign
  3. The Dangers Of Walled Gardens
  4. GNUstep Mythbusting...
  5. This is version 1.2.20 of Gorm.
  6. Version 0.23.1 of the GNUstep GUI library (`gnustep-gui') is available
  7. The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.4, is now available.
  8. The GNUstep Makefile Package version 2.6.4 is now available.
  9. Viking by brilliant service is using
  10. The GNUstep Base Library, version 1.24.3, is now available.
  11. GNUstep GUI 0.23.0
  12. GNUstep-make 2.6.3
  13. Interview with Saul Mora on NSBrief

2012 3

  1. Apportable using GNUstep to port applications from iOS to Android
  2. Someone Finally Said It...
  3. Official GNUstep presence on GitHub

2011 4

  1. Banning software patents....
  2. Building clang for use with GNUstep
  3. Talk in Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh) April 21, 2011 - Report
  4. How to build the GNOME theme...

2010 18

  1. Menu Separator goodness...
  2. More GNOME Theme Improvements
  3. GNOME on GNUstep: First look
  4. Sony SNAP using GNUstep as it's development environment...
  5. GNUstep Is Not OpenStep...
  6. GNUstep Development Visualization using Gource :)
  7. Analysis of the Bilski case
  8. Spam on my blog.... changing to members only for now...
  9. Progress on Plans for Change...
  10. An Artist's Concept of GNUstep's redesigned UI
  11. A little fun with SIMH and OpenVMS
  12. Here's Toetag. Another example of portability. :)
  13. TestPlant announces eggPlant for Windows based on GNUstep...
  14. Native File Panels done...
  15. Progress on Theming...
  16. Even more Windows stuff....
  17. More Windows stuff...
  18. Native Menus on GNUstep coming...

2009 6

  1. Windows Theming Progress
  2. New Theming Capabilities...
  3. The Right Choice
  4. New Debian maintainer needed for GNUstep
  5. NEWS: eggPlant application by TestPlant, LLC ported to Linux using GNUstep...
  6. SCALE Progress Report

2008 10

  1. GNUstep in the year 2009: A look back and a look forward...
  2. Update on Bean and Flexisheet...
  3. Porting two new apps to GNUstep
  4. FLOSS Weekly #44: GNUstep
  5. Appearance on FLOSS Weekly
  6. Blog post
  7. On the market again...
  8. Death knocks on our door again...
  9. New Gorm Release!
  10. Bad Company

2007 3

  1. Linus and Linux: Sycophantic Hero Worship
  2. Recent Fix for Gorm allows Mac style menus
  3. Linus, Linux and the GPLv3

2006 12

  1. What GNUstep is and is not....
  2. Plans for Change
  3. Chief Maintainer for GNUstep
  4. Qt, Interface Builder and "Modern C++ programmers"
  5. Nice To See Someone Feels The Same Way
  6. New Release of GNUstep available!
  7. Nib Encoding Now Working in GNUstep
  8. NeXTbuntu?
  9. Nib loading working in GNUstep
  10. Why Linux is boring
  11. A couple of ideas
  12. GUI Maintainer

2005 23

  1. A Phone Call From An Old Friend
  2. GUI Builders: Data vs. Code
  3. A Father's passing
  4. Slashdot finally posts Gorm Announcement
  5. Slashdot's incessent rejection of Gorm 1.0 announcements
  6. Gorm 1.0 Released
  7. IB/Gorm vs. Java GUI Builders
  8. Why Gorm could never be done in C++
  9. The infamous "Burn-In Period"
  10. Potential for GNUstep
  11. Got the new machine
  12. Broken computer
  13. Preparing for Gorm 1.0
  14. Many a new feature added this week
  15. Nicolas Roard's amazing StepTalk palette
  16. The Book of Rules
  17. Love/Hate with IBM
  18. Comcast calls right on que
  19. My Disappointment with Apple
  20. Apple goes Intel -- Implications and predictions
  21. Busy week
  22. The Trip To Massanutten
  23. Family Dilemma