jessegrosjean

danielpunkass, 9 days ago to random

I go to fix one bug and pretty soon I'm revamping an entire interface. It's the story of my life. This is what happens when indie developers don't have product managers telling them what to do. The agony and the ecstasy.

jessegrosjean, 20 days ago to random

2 hours trying to figure out why DMG build script is failing. Restart fixes the issue. Of course restart fixes issue!

jessegrosjean, 2 months ago to random

If you are looking for a fun Swift project to play with I recommend trying out automerge-swift. Support data merging and syncing without the requirement that you need to build a custom server. Seems ideal for indie Mac developers. https://buff.ly/3IlUFP9

drdrang, 5 months ago to random

@kjaymiller Thanks for the Conduit interview with @jessegrosjean. Although the focus was on Bike (which I love), I found myself thinking about how simple and effective Taskpaper was for me. I’m trying to avoid productivity systems nowadays, but I think Taskpaper is light enough to not be a system. Which was kind of Jesse’s point.

danielpunkass, 5 months ago to random

IMO the ability to use Spotlight to open an app has degraded in recent years, to the point that now (14.1.2), if you want to actually open the app you're focused on in the Spotlight UI, you have to press Shift-Return. Gonna take some relearning...

jessegrosjean, 6 months ago to random

Bike Outliner reaches for 100 in the Mac App Store (US)

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bike-outliner-writing-app/id1588292384?mt=12

jessegrosjean, 6 months ago to random

TaskPaper as an interstitial journal: https://decoding.io/2023/10/taskpaper-as-an-interstitial-journal/

danielpunkass, 7 months ago to random

Following up on the duplicate library issue, I go deep on how you can use nested build settings in Xcode to conditionally include a build setting depending on the version of Xcode you're using: https://indiestack.com/2023/10/conditional-xcode-build-settings/

mattiem, 8 months ago to random

wrote up a few techniques I've used for dealing with non-sendable values

https://www.massicotte.org/crossing-the-boundary

jessegrosjean, 9 months ago to random

Bike Outliner's new "Focus Heading" combobox is almost done. Try out the preview today and help me get the details right:

https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-1-14-149/5428

jessegrosjean, 9 months ago to random

I don't think I've ever spelled availible or accross correctly the first time. From spelling tests in 4th grade to right this moment 35 years later.

jessegrosjean, 9 months ago to random

Thanks everyone for good Bike 1.13 release yesterday. Now I'm on-to the next feature... Go to heading! :) If you have any thoughts on how that should work, now's the time: https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/adding-go-to-heading-ui/5421

jessegrosjean, 9 months ago to random

I'm starting on Bike's next release tomorrow. Vote on next features: https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-row-types/5418/2

jessegrosjean, 9 months ago to random

Bike Outliner 1.13 adds row types–this means you can now have task lists, ordered lists, headings, and more in your outlines. https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/

Demonstration of Bike Outliners new "row types" feature.

craiggrannell, 10 months ago to random

@jessegrosjean Was Bubbles a day-one App Store release? (Someone added it to my spreadsheet, and it’s one of the few things I can check!)

jessegrosjean, 1 year ago to random

#introduction I'm a Mac indie developer working on Hog Bay Software since around 2003. I live in Bangor, Maine.

I'm interested in writing and thinking tools. Apps that I've built include Mori, WriteRoom, TaskPaper, FoldingText, and now my main focus is Bike Outliner.