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.

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.”