Roben Kleene: The Era of Visual Studio Code
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This post is about two new command-line utilities: rep and ren. Both are available on GitHub.| Roben Kleene
I recently found out it’s surprisingly easy to add your own man pages from Markdown notes.| Roben Kleene
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From 2003 to 2004, O’Reilly Media ran the O’Reilly Mac OS X Innovators Contest, sponsored by Apple via the Apple Developer Connection (now just Apple Developer). I still think of these winners as some of the high watermarks of app innovation. Many concepts we take for granted today were either introduced, or popularized, by apps on this list. Here are a few of my favorite examples:| Roben Kleene
Apple’s strategy for years has been to trade desktop power for cross-device feature parity. As expected, macOS Big Sur continues this trend, emphasizing a consistent user interface across devices, and focusing on cross-device development technologies like SwiftUI and Catalyst.| Roben Kleene
TextMate is arguably the most influential text editor ever made. Among the numerous features it popularized are:| Roben Kleene
Gus Mueller has my favorite take on the news that Apple plans to announce the transition to their own ARM chips at WWDC. Of the various predictions people are throwing around, the only one Mueller gives any credence to is the prospect that ARM Macs will only running sandboxed apps1: Mysterious (former?) AppKit engineer (and fish shell maintainer) ridiculous fish also shares this worry. ↩︎| Roben Kleene
Before I switched to being a full-time developer in 2010, I worked as a user-interface designer for seven years. Something that always bothered me during that time is that so much of what I was learning was just how to use Photoshop really well. After I switched to development, I was hesitant to ever invest that much in just learning a big software package again. “What if I choose wrong? And waste all those years of learning by switching to another software package?” I asked myself. Recen...| Roben Kleene
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The appeal of the Mac has always been that it’s a great platform for making things. Software is the great equalizer: It’s inexpensive, sometimes even free, and it lets you do things that used to only be possible with expensive, specialized hardware. Software is Andy Warhol’s Coke for creators.| Roben Kleene
The iPhone might seem like a counterargument to my piece on innovation being easier than people think. If all it takes is a few smart people in a room, what happened with the iPhone? Why was one device so impactful?| Roben Kleene
