jessegrosjean
Joined 17 years ago
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Member since
Jan 13
Recent submissions
Comment · 1 month ago
A new version of my app WriteRoom, after 16 years!
Comment · 4 months ago
I did! And I'm still using it to test Bike 2.0. Will will be release about 2 years ago. :\ Well soon anyway!
Comment · 10 months ago
I dislike Liquid Glass.
At the same time I make Mac apps and I've got to adopt liquid glass to keep my apps looking alive/updated. How to do this without making my apps UI worse?
I would love to see some "how to fix Liquid Glass" type articles. List out the problems, list out potential solutions.
Anyone run across articles like this? Please share relevant links.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've been self employed at Hog Bay Software [1] since 2004. I mostly build Mac apps. A few years I did some consulting. A few other years I worked with some other people, but generally it's been just me the whole time.
> Curious to know what sustains people.
It allows me to work on what I am interested in, for me that's the key. For whatever reason I've decided that text productivity apps are really interesting, and worth my time to build. So that's what I do. It hasn't lead to great riches, but I wake up pretty much every day excited to work on what's next. Pretty fun!
Comment · 2 years ago
Seems like the perfect way to make sure that all birds are shot in a war zone?
Comment · 3 years ago
One thing to decide maybe before specific books is if you want to do SwiftUI programming or more traditional Cocoa programming. They both have advantages, and they can be mixed, but if you are just learning probably best to focus on one approach to start.
SwiftUI is new future according to Apple, easy to start, but also unpolished compared to Cocoa. Cocoa is old and polished, but maybe eventually a legacy technology. I'm personally still in Cocoa world, but parts of SwiftUI are interesting.
Comment · 4 years ago
No it doesn't.
Comment · 4 years ago
Go Maine! Where are you based? Got any app links? And excuse me if I should already know your handle, I have a terrible memory.
Comment · 4 years ago
Eventually yes, but not anytime soon.
Right now Bike is very much a text editor, while notational velocity is more database of text files. At some point I hope to add a "workspace" aspect to Bike where you can open a directory of Bike files, but this is a long way off. For now the focus will just be to improve the text editor aspect of Bike.
Comment · 4 years ago
Heh, I'm actually finding MS Word a good source for autocorrect ideas.
Comment · 4 years ago
I find AppleScript very useful for this. I script the text input, menu items, and timings like this:
menuItem("Format:Bold", 0.2)
type("Efficient")
press("⏎")
Comment · 4 years ago
Unlikely in the near term. I feel like there are many other features that I need to do first. Longer term maybe?
https://www.hogbaysoftware.com