Special #2 - Brent Simmons
This episode was recorded 26 May 2014 live and in person at Brent’s office in sunny, lovely Ballard.
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Brent has worked at UserLand Software and NewsGator and as an indie at his company Ranchero Software. These days he’s one-third of Q Branch, where he writes Vesper. He is also the co-host of this podcast.
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Things we mention, more or less in order of appearance:
- NetNewsWire
- MarsEdit
- Glassboard
- Vesper
- Manila
- The University of Chicago
- DuPont
- Punched cards
- University of Delaware
- Newark, Delaware
- Fortran
- 1980
- Apple II Plus
- PLATO
- Brent's Mom
- 6502 Assembly
- 80 column card
- ALF II
- Music Construction Set
- Beatles
- Rolling Stones
- Pil Ochs
- Judy Collins
- Boby Dylan
- West Side Story
- Hair Broadway Soundtrack
- Delicious Library
- Epson MX-80
- Columbia House Records
- Cindy Lauper
- Born in the USA
- The Clash
- London Calling
- Pascal
- Evergreen State College
- 1992
- 1989
- Seattle Central Community College
- City Collegian
- QuarkXpress
- LaserWriter
- Mac IIcx
- Radius monitor
- Silo
- Goodwill
- Symantec C
- Grenoble, France
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Seattle
- Boeing
- Photovoltaics
- University of Washington
- Institut de Biologie Structurale
- CEA
- CNRS
- Alps (the mountains)
- Gopher
- Pine
- International Herald Tribune
- Kronenbourg
- Killian’s Red
- Isère River
- Chinook's
- Eskimo dial-up account
- Zterm
- Lynx
- AltaVista
- Seanet
- MacTCP
- MacPPP
- AppleTalk
- Yahoo
- Info-Mac Archive
- Kagi
- Maelstrom
- Performa 604
- After Dark
- Bungie
- Andrew Welch
- Usenet
- fuckingblocksyntax.com
- Dave Winer
- UserLand Frontier Aretha release
- UserLand Software
- AppleScript
- HyperCard
- WebSTAR
- MacPerl
- MySQL
- Spotlight
- Filemaker Pro
- Indianapolis Star News
- Woodside, CA
- Jake Savin
- San Francisco
- Robert Scoble
- Millbrae
- Palo Alto
- Windows
- Visual Studio
- CodeWarrior
- PowerPlant
- MacApp
- Toolbox
- Xcode
- Project Builder
- Carbon
- QuickDraw
- Open Transport
- Manila
- EditThisPage.com
- Daily Kos
- joel.editthispage.com
- Aaron Hillegass’s Book on Cocoa
- Radio UserLand
- Python
- MacNewsWire
- RSS
- WebKit
- Safari
- MSIE for Mac
- Camino
- NetNewsWire 1.0 screen shot
- RealBasic
- BBEdit Lite
- TextWrangler
- Carmen’s Headline Viewer
- Syndirella
- AmphetaDesk
- My.Netscape.Com
- Safari/RSS
- Ecto
- Movable Type
- Mac OS X Server
- NewsGator
- Palm Treo
- FeedDemon
- Nick Bradbury
- Greg Reinacker
- Outlook
- TapLynx
- Push IO
- Sepia Labs
- Cultured Code and Things
- Black Pixel
- Red Sweater
- Oracle
- Justin Wiliams
- NetNewsWire Lite 4.0 for Macintosh
- Vesper Sync Diary
- WWDC
- Parc 55
