I don’t often visit the Daring Fireball home page, since I’m a dues-paying member and get the luxury of full-content feeds delivered straight to NetNewsWire. But today I found myself there and was charmed by this minor tweak to the usual logo: Nice touch! Amy and John, sittin’ in a tree…

I’m working on an application now that uses a custom document format. Since my code manipulates this format and spits it back out to disk, I find myself frequently examining the resulting documents using Peter Ammon’s excellent Hex Fiend to examine the resulting files, and make sure the content is still format-compliant. But while I’m [...]

John Gruber was recently featured for a second time on Dan Benjamin’s instantly-awesome Hivelogic Podcast. I’m glad that Jesper heard and was intrigued by some of the same comments I was, because he reminded me that I wanted to comment on a subtle but worth-repeating impression that I took away. The comments are those pertaining [...]

I’m working on an application that has some simple networking needs, among them fetching small bits of data off of a variety of user-configured web sites. Since the needs are so straight-forward I thought using NSURL and its “resourceDataUsingCache:” method would be the way to go. It so happens that this application already has a [...]