On the NetNewsWire blog I’ve just announced NetNewsWire 6.2 for Mac and iOS. This release is almost entirely bug fixes but it does add a couple small features and one potentially interesting one: it now supports Markdown in RSS (via the source:markdown element). Read all about it on the NetNewsWire...

   Tim Bray writes, on Mastodon, I think correctly: The canceling of ICEBlock is more evidence, were any needed, that the Web is the platform of the future, the only platform without a controlling vendor. Anything controversial should be available through a pure browser interface. This is not the...

   In the ’90s and early 2000s I worked for UserLand Software Dave Winer was founder and CEO on a Mac app called UserLand Frontier. The app was a scripting system and hash-table-oriented database that powered the early blogging and podcasting worlds. (That sounds grand, but it’s probably an...

   We’re adopting Liquid Glass for NetNewsWire 7, which we’ll release some time after the new versions of macOS and iOS come out. Stuart Breckenridge has been doing great work on getting this done and he’s written up a couple blog posts (with screenshots ) on his progress. See: Adopting Liquid Glass,...

   James Dempsey and the Breakpoints will be appearing in a Breakpoints Jam this Thursday (Aug. 21) at Bale Breaker in Ballard. Free show Awesome songs The event starts at 6 pm and music will start around 7 pm. I’ll be on guitar and you can expect local superstars Ken Case (keyboard, vocals) and Laura...