3: Sounded Like Nirvana with Brent Simmons

Pádraig and Oisín are joined by Brent Simmons to discuss indie app development in the wake of Vesper shutting down.

• Vesper by Q Branch:
  • Brent Simmons
  • John Gruber
  • Dave Wiskus
• Vesper shutting down:
  • Brent’s announcement: Last Vesper Update, Sync Shutting Down.
  • More notes from Brent: More Notes on Vesper.
  • John Gruber’s post: Vesper, Adieu.
• Brent’s earlier work:
  • NetNewsWire
  • MarsEdit
  • Glassboard
  • A look back over Brent’s career leading up to the launch of Vesper 2: The Record: Special #2 - Brent Simmons.
• Vesper 2 launch blog post: Vesper 2.0 and Vesper Sync.
• Brent’s blog post a year after the launch of Vesper 2: Love.
• Vesper Sync Diary: a series of posts Brent wrote as he worked on sync for Vesper 2.
• CloudKit: an Apple framework that powers iCloud and third party services.
• The Omni Group: where Brent works now.
• Unread: Our RSS Reader for iOS.
  • Jared Sinclair’s post about stopping development of Unread: My New Job.
  • Jared Sinclair: Five Hard Lessons Learned From Unread.
  • Our blog post about acquiring the app: Unread 🐙.
• References for Q Branch as they worked on Vesper:
  • Letterpress
  • Twitterific
• Simplenote is a cross platform notes app
• Dave Wiskus’s blog post about the design of Vesper: How to Make a Vesper.
• Andrew Cunningham on the visual overhaul introduced by iOS 7: Death to Textures.
• John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar.
• Brent’s secret project(s).
• MacWorld Eddy Awards:
  • 2013 Software Winners
  • “You could totally brain somebody with one of these.”