3: Sounded Like Nirvana with Brent Simmons
Pádraig and Oisín are joined by Brent Simmons to discuss indie app development in the wake of Vesper shutting down.
- Vesper by Q Branch:
- Brent Simmons
- John Gruber
- Dave Wiskus
- Vesper shutting down:
- Brent’s announcement: Last Vesper Update, Sync Shutting Down.
- More notes from Brent: More Notes on Vesper.
- John Gruber’s post: Vesper, Adieu.
- Brent’s earlier work:
- NetNewsWire
- MarsEdit
- Glassboard
- A look back over Brent’s career leading up to the launch of Vesper 2: The Record: Special #2 - Brent Simmons.
- Vesper 2 launch blog post: Vesper 2.0 and Vesper Sync.
- Brent’s blog post a year after the launch of Vesper 2: Love.
- Vesper Sync Diary: a series of posts Brent wrote as he worked on sync for Vesper 2.
- CloudKit: an Apple framework that powers iCloud and third party services.
- The Omni Group: where Brent works now.
- Unread: Our RSS Reader for iOS.
- Jared Sinclair’s post about stopping development of Unread: My New Job.
- Jared Sinclair: Five Hard Lessons Learned From Unread.
- Our blog post about acquiring the app: Unread ????.
- References for Q Branch as they worked on Vesper:
- Letterpress
- Twitterific
- Simplenote is a cross platform notes app
- Dave Wiskus’s blog post about the design of Vesper: How to Make a Vesper.
- Andrew Cunningham on the visual overhaul introduced by iOS 7: Death to Textures.
- John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
- Brent’s secret project(s).
- MacWorld Eddy Awards:
- 2013 Software Winners
- “You could totally brain somebody with one of these.”