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Brent Simmons's weblog.
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- 4,504 from 7 Nov 1999 to 22 Sep 2026
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September 2026
August 2026
- After Fixin’ the Bugs
- Tech Choices
- James Dempsey’s Breakpoints Jam in Seattle Aug. 20
- James Dempsey’s Breakpoints Jam in Seattle Aug. 20
July 2026
June 2026
March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
November 2025
October 2025
August 2025
- Writing Mac and iOS Apps Shouldn’t Be So Difficult
- Tough Season in the Apple Fields
- Breakpoints Show Thursday in Seattle
June 2025
May 2025
March 2025
October 2024
August 2024
February 2024
January 2024
December 2023
June 2023
February 2023
November 2022
January 2022
October 2021
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
- Running with Colors
- The lack of a price tag seems almost criminal
- I’m Still Living with the Longterm Effects of a Disease that Now Has a Vaccine
- The Perfect To-Do System Is Not Just Around the Corner
March 2021
- NetNewsWire 6.0 for Mac
- NetNewsWire 6.0b4 Is a Final Candidate Release
- Benefits of NetNewsWire’s Threading Model
- How NetNewsWire Handles Threading
- New in NetNewsWire 6: iCloud Syncing
- The Hottest of All Xcode Tips
- New in NetNewsWire 6: Syncing Via BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS
- New in NetNewsWire 6: Twitter Search Feeds
- Six Beta
- NetNewsWire 6.0a6 for Mac
- Aunt Jen’s and Uncle Pete’s Live Online Show
February 2021
- Mysterious SwiftUI Crash
- Slow House
- Vampire’s Run
- In case they’re interesting or fun to mess with — here’s…
- Computer Music
January 2021
- URLSession’s Delegate Queue Should Be the Main Queue
- iOS Jobs at Audible
- New Domain for NetNewsWire
- Early Test Build: NetNewsWire 6.0d4 for Mac
- I’ve been haunted since hearing, in the early days of…
- Bogus Code Signing Crash
December 2020
- When Are We Back To Normal?
- I remember Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as my favorite of…
- Apple’s SSL Metrics Is Hanging My App
- The Big Sur Sneeze
November 2020
- My aunt Jen has narrated a book — Mermaid Eclipse by…
- No Jedi
- Normalizing Care
- I’m so happy today — and full of gratitude to everyone…
- NetNewsWire 5.1.2 for Mac
October 2020
September 2020
- From time to time, often around a new release of…
- NetNewsWire 5.1 for Mac: Feedly Syncing, Reader View, More
August 2020
- Worrying Effect
- NetNewsWire 5.1d3 with Feedly Syncing
- Desktop Means Web
- I just posted our current NetNewsWire plans on the NetNewsWire…
- Walking Home from School
July 2020
- The Overdog Lovers
- I Got Teed Off and Went on a Long Rant About This Opinion Piece on the App Store
- Apple’s Thirty Percent Cut
- When I was a kid, I put all of my hopes…
- I keep noticing that people say they “felt okay” about…
- Reminder: it’s a zillion times easier to hack Twitter and…
- On “the blind leading the blind”
- Imagining SwiftData
- Imagining an Open Source SwiftUI
- Apple Privacy Changes
- I Had Been Worried About the Mac
- Reporting in After More Than a Month at Audible
- Accessibility and the Dynamic Nature of Objective-C
June 2020
- Work at Universe
- Somewhat Live-ish and Around the Same Time as WWDC
- WWDC 2020 and NetNewsWire
- The App Store Doesn’t Make Apps Safe
- The iOS App Store Brings Users Only Because It’s the Only Choice
- I can’t reconcile in my mind the tension between Apple…
- One Advantage of the App Store That’s Gone
- Reading, Listening
May 2020
- Why NetNewsWire Is Fast
- Default Feeds Are Okay
- Focusing
- My New Job
- NetNewsWire 5.0.1 for iOS Released
- My Mac App Store Debate
- On Talking with the Duet Folks
- More on the Default Feeds Issue
- Heads-Up to RSS Reader Authors
- The Ideal iPhone App First-Run Experience Is None At All
- What Happened When I Looked at Two Mac Apps Today
- Interview Loops These Days
- Memory Hole
- Some people are starting to act as if this whole…
April 2020
- Me and Newark, NJ
- NetNewsWire Code Layout
- After Two Months of Quarantine
- A Coding Challenge Can’t Show How I Solve A Problem
- Practicing the Coding Challenges
- Proposal: instead of calling these video things we do “happy…
- NetNewsWire and Accessibility: the Podcast Episode
- NetNewsWire Status: April 2020
- Day 36: Radioactive but Uninteresting
- Overwhelmed in a Good Way
March 2020
- Looking for Work
- The iOS and Mac Markets Are the Same Size
- On Building NetNewsWire
- Slack Group for Socializing
- Proxyman
- Two Weeks at Home
- NetNewsWire Download Numbers
- On Alternate App Icons for NetNewsWire for iOS
- NetNewsWire 5.0 for iOS Shipping
- Adam Klobuchar
- More Life in Seattle
- Washington State Primary Next Week
- Life in Seattle
February 2020
January 2020
- More Bug Math
- Bug Math
- Crash Math
- Fair Isle Brewery Opens Today
- Jeff McLeman
- Uniform Type Identifier Bug on iOS — and How It Affects NetNewsWire
- On Replacing OperationQueue
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