1/16/2024 0 Comments MarsEdit 5 instal the new for ios![]() Iâve always been happiest when working at that intersection.)Īnyway⦠it seemed like a good idea to write up coding guidelines early, so I did. (All my ideas are Mac and iOS apps that have something to do with the open web. Ideally Iâll get to the point where Iâm managing several open source apps â assuming people are interested in helping, which is a big assumption â and itâs all going great. This isnât the only app I want to do: there are several others. If youâre interested in helping, I hope youâll forgive me as I take it slow and learn how to manage an open source app with many contributors. Or, rather, a few people who I know are starting to help, and I want to keep it small for now since Iâve never done this before. I posted this because Iâd like to have people help me with the app â but Iâm not ready yet. I published the first draft of Evergreenâs Coding Guidelines yesterday. My default position now is: if a format or API or syncing service makes sense for a feed reader, then Iâll (at least try to) support it. Thatâs just for starters: I also decided to look into everything else and see what makes sense to support. I may have a difference of opinion when it comes to feeds, but who the hell cares when thereâs so much good stuff to do? (Theyâre not holding my opinion against me why should I hold theirs against them?)Īnd so I decided to support the h-feed format in Evergreen (hopefully in 1.0). It took me a while, but I realized that I was acting like a Clinton or Sanders supporter still arguing with the other side about the 2016 primaries â after losing the general election to a monster, after the point where those small differences matter at all.Īnd then I started to get excited about IndieWeb. In the last couple years Iâve been chatting with Manton Reece, Micro.blog creator, a bit â and Manton agrees with me about feeds.īut Manton also works with IndieWeb, and has mentioned any number of good ideas they have that I should look into. ![]() (Iâm telling you about this so you can learn from my mistake.) Fast-forward Hereâs the thing, though: that was me being a total jerk. And, while I understand the elegance of microformats, side feeds have critical advantages that microformat-feeds donât. ![]() Feeds have been and remain tremendously successful â see podcasting, for one thing â and the way forward is to build on that success. I took it personally, since Iâd spent much of my career working with feeds, and I took this as a suggestion that my career was all wrong and they wouldnât be interested in someone like me, someone who would be an ally in their committment to the open web. I donât know which thought occurred to me first: The argument (I think I hope Iâm not misrepresenting anyone) was that microformats are simpler than mantaining a separate file. Their idea was that the data a reader might collect should be encoded in the page itself, using microformats. When IndieWeb started, some years back, the first thing I noticed was that they appeared to be against the idea of feeds â or, at least, what they called side feeds: RSS and similar. I wonder if more and more companies will find value in having a podcast too. (Though, of course, people can decline: itâs not required!)Īnyway: there was a time before companies had blogs, and now they have blogs. And itâs small enough to still be intimate â my goal is to eventually interview every single person who works here. It may be that Omniâs size is somewhat unique in the Mac and iOS world: itâs big enough that we wonât run out of people to interview and topics to talk about, which could be tricky for a 5- or 10-person company. And there are much larger companies (such as Microsoft) who create videos and podcasts. There is the Supertop Podcast from our friends who make Castro. ![]() Iâve been wondering if other companies in our world are doing similar podcasts. You can subscribe to the podcast or just listen to this episode â thereâs a player on the page. There will be new releases of OmniOutliner, OmniPlan, and OmniGraffle â plus a whole bunch of great stuff for OmniFocus 3.0 for Mac and iOS, including tags, JavaScript scripting, and OmniFocus for the web. Check out episode #7 (I wish we had called it 007) where Ken Case talks about all the good stuff coming up in 2018.
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