Brent Simmons
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsMany hours of coding later: stuartbreckenridge.net/netnewswire-... #NetNewsWire
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsNetNewsWire 7 for Mac is shipping! netnewswire.blog/2026/01/27/n...
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsSpecial Fifth Thursday at Waterwheel Tonight: xcoders.org/2025/10/30/special-…
- On my blog — Why NetNewsWire Is Not a Web App: inessential.com/2025/10/04/w... “I still bristle, after all these years (now more than ever), at having to publish NetNewsWire for iOS through the App Store.”
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsNo Longer on Meetup: xcoders.org/2025/09/17/no-longe…
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsJust posted: Last Summer Social Meeting: xcoders.org/2025/09/17/l...
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsHappy 79th birthday to musician and composer Ralf Hütter - best known as the lead singer, keyboardist and founding member of Kraftwerk.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsTonight on Twitch I’m hosting “The Best of 1991” shoegaze, dream pop, electronic, hip hop, trip hop, industrial, grunge, college rock, indie, etc ... the assortment was and will be vast. Live (and free of charge) starting at 8pm central here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsNew single-page site from Brent Simmons: No Learnings.
- Retirement day! inessential.com/2025/06/06/r...
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsTonight I’m presenting “The Best of 1985.” With releases by New Order, Kate Bush, INXS, Tears For Fears, REM, The Cure, The Smiths, The Cult, Replacements & The Jesus & Mary Chain alone, there will be no lack of stellar content! Live at 8pm central here: twitch.tv/djjakerudh
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsStarting at 8pm central tonight, I’m hosting ‘The Best of 1984’ in sound & vision via my Twitch channel at twitch.tv/djjakerudh. 5+ hours of Depeche Mode, The Cure, Bunnymen, REM, Replacements, Psychedelic Furs, Cocteau Twins, New Order, Talk Talk, Smiths, Siouxsie & more.
- My Wildly Incorrect Bias About Corporate Engineers: inessential.com/2025/05/23/l...
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsThings are getting worse. Apple developer community has a responsibility to respond and WWDC is our opportunity. www.massicotte.org/resolve
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsIt’s come to me desperately asking for help via a GoFundMe. I have no money for health insurance, rent, or medication. I’m screwed as of June 1st without help. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. gofund.me/5dfd5a7b
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsGoing live now via my Twitch channel at twitch.tv/djjakerudh presenting ‘The Best of 1982’ and the 5th anniversary of the channel! The Cure, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, XTC, Simple Minds, Yaz, The Clash, Siouxsie & the Banshees, INXS, Roxy Music, Talk Talk, The Jam, Devo, Bauhaus, etc
- I’ve been doing some C programming lately — not NetNewsWire, don’t worry! (it’s a personal project) — and just last night I learned about pthread_once and I’m over the moon. What a wonderful thing! (I used to use dispatch_once frequently in Objective-C code. I assume it uses pthread_once.)
- Just today I learned about Codeberg, “a non-profit, community-led effort that provides Git hosting and other services for free and open source projects.” I have open source projects, and plan to have more, and getting away ... micro.inessential.com/2025/02/17/just-tod…
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsWe’re 22 years old today! Shipped 1.0 on this day in 2003. Happy that the best years are still ahead! 🐣🎩🎸
- I hadn’t looked at my Safari Privacy Report in a while. Wow Google! Holding the top five spots. Amazing work!
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsTo be clear about the multiple windows thing — there are several ways on iPad (split view, Stage Manager, etc.) to create multiple windows for apps that support multiple windows. Which NetNewsWire does. But we think maybe nobody ever uses this feature with NetNewsWire.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsDo people use the feature on iOS where you can create multiple NetNewsWire windows at a time? This feature adds complexity to the app that we’d like to remove — but not if people are using it!
- Engineers — new rule — pay attention: whenever you hear or read the word learnings, as said or written by someone in your company, you have to take the rest of the day off.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsAre we ready to make January 4th a holiday yet? Happy birthday to: New Order’s Bernard Sumner ‘56 REM’s Michael Stipe ‘60 Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie ‘62 Prefab Sprout’s Martin McAloon ‘62 Portishead’s Beth Gibbons ‘65 The Pogues Cait O'Riordan ‘65 RIP Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis (1955 - 2019)
- Reposted by Brent Simmons…Kinch introduced Williams to the group. “He’s not the feds. And if he is, he’s doing a damn good job.” 😬 Read the whole thing. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsStarting at 8pm central tonight, I’m hosting 5+ hours of classic new wave and alternative music videos from the ‘70s, ‘80s & ‘90s. Simply click twitch.tv/djjakerudh then and enjoy the show worldwide cover free.
- This has been the greatest long-term technical challenge of my life, off and on for years — but I finally figured out how to get my shell prompt to 1) show me the current git branch 2) in color. Whew! I gave the path a color too, since I was on a roll. Extra credit, gold star for me. 🐥
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsNetNewsWire 6.1.7 for Mac: netnewswire.blog/2024/12/16/netnewsw…
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsNetNewsWire 6.1.5 for iOS TestFlight: netnewswire.blog/2024/12/07/netnewsw…
- I get that “stop doing Combine!” sounds like an old guy thing to say — but I’m in on Swift structured concurrency and SwiftUI. My argument is the opposite of curmudgeonly — Combine is not the future, and we want to use future things. But I get that Combine tastes like honey and sparkles.
- I keep telling the younger developers “stop doing Combine!” and… they keep doing Combine. To be fair, though — and I mean this sincerely — they’re all smarter than me. :)
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsAre there any Bluesky client apps that preserve my reading position in the timeline? I’ve tried the official app, Skeets, and Openvibe, none of which seem to know that reading position is even a thing. A fresh launch of the app puts me at the very top of the timeline every time.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsStarting live now at www.twitch.tv/djjakerudh, I present 5+ hours of new wave, post-punk and classic alternative music videos. Beginning in 1980, I'll play four songs from every year that represented "alternative" music and move up through the years until we run out of time.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsDave Gahan and Annie Lennox backstage after a recent gig.
- It’s Seattle Xcoders night! Standard place and time — 7 pm at Bale Breaker in Ballard. We’re usually outside by the fire things.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsMy hottest web standards take is that RSS has never been more healthy (basically every site besides social apps support it) and there have never been a better crop of RSS reader services than there are today. The best RSS services aren't made by Google and they've been around for 10+ years 😄
- Added an account for @netnewswire.com — no posts yet, but there will be, and it will respond to replies and messages, of course.
- Reposted by Brent SimmonsOn this day in 1985, the Duran Duran side project Arcadia released their only studio album “So Red the Rose” featuring singles “Election Day" "Goodbye Is Forever" "The Promise" and "The Flame"
- Am I using the Bluesky app wrong? When I’m looking at a post, and then new stuff appears, I lose my place — I’m scrolled to the top, and I have to read by scrolling down until I get to where I was (if I can remember, even). I’d rather new stuff fill in above my current place, without disturbing it.
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