After the stress of moving (tomorrow!) is passed, I’ll be tackling a slate of new challenges this fall, including the usual work at Red Sweater, developing future versions of MarsEdit and my other apps. But I’ll also be punctuating the season with a few speaking opportunities at three great conferences. Çingleton. October 14-15. Montreal, Québec. [...]

One of the thrills of software development is how much power is placed into the hands, literally, of a single engineer. Software takes work, and lots of it. But thanks to frameworks of reusable code, individuals are consistently able to “outbuild” the work of our predecessors, while exerting the same or less effort. Consider the work [...]

Facebook has acquired Push Pop Press, the tablet-oriented publishing company that was co-founded by one of the Mac community’s most successful young designers: Mike Matas. I learned about the news via Lessien on Twitter, a woman about whom I know little, except that she offers reliably intelligent opinion about the tech world, and the mobile industry [...]

I’m pretty excited about most of the enhancements in OS X Lion, and in Safari 5.1, which was released along with it. But one of the most annoying changes in the version of Safari that ships with Lion is the removal of any keyboard shortcut for showing and hiding the active downloads list. Downloads used [...]