He was exactly the kind of person you wanted in your corner â and it seemed like he was in everybodyâs corner. And when it came back to me, he was super-happy for me, and he encouraged me frequently and cheered on our work. He worked at Black Pixel for a while, and â among many other things â he played a significant role in their shipping NetNewsWire. I learned from every single conversation with him. ![]() He was also a walking computer history museum â he was a little older than me, and heâd worked on a number of projects during that heroic age when people wrote new operating systems because they were needed. Jeff was a long-time Seattle Xcoder, before recently moving away, and he was a beloved friend to me and many people. It is my sad duty to report that Jeff McLeman â whose work youâve used, even if you donât know it â suffered injuries from a very bad fall, and soon after passed away as a result of those injuries. Which sounds great! Sounds like a super-stable app!īut that would mean 100 crash reports a day, which is still a massive number of crashes. At that level, a given user could go, on average, 500 days between crashes. If we get it down to a 0.1% chance, weâd still get 100 crash reports per day. In other words, a 1% chance is very, very bad. So if we get it down to, say, a 1% chance that a given user will hit a crash on any given day, that sounds pretty good, right?īut that 1% chance means weâd get 1,000 crash reports per day. Itâs relatively high-profile, in a popular category, and free. NetNewsWire for iOS could have 100,000 users. Itâs about being responsible.īut itâs also about math. Ideally weâd go days or weeks between seeing a crash report. Weâre sticklers about crashes: while thereâs no way to guarantee the app will never crash â because there are bugs in other parts of the system that we canât control â we want to get the number of crash reports as close to zero as we can. The app is really close, but there are a few bugs to fix, including some crashes. Weâd like to ship NetNewsWire 5.0 for iOS in the first quarter of this year. This is app development, after all â a process so uncertain that it makes Chaos blush.īut still, it gives us an idea of when we might be done. (Weâll fix a lot more than 12 bugs in those eight days, but in the end weâll have no bugs left.) This tells me that weâll be down to zero bugs in eight days. In other words â despite the new bug reports â on average, every day weâre 1.5 bugs closer to shipping. However: the math says weâre netting 1.5 bugs fixed per day. And thatâs because, this late in the game, we have a lot of testers and bug reports â and also because any bug fix could result in another bug. That does not mean weâve fixed just 29 bugs: weâve probably fixed three times that many. Now, 19 days later, weâre down to 12 open bugs. I started keep tracking of the number of open bugs on Jan. The idea will be wrong, of course, but itâs still an idea. We hope you enjoy using NetNewsWire.When an app is under 100 bugs, you can start getting an idea for when it will be done. Save the OPML file to a location in the Files app. Be sure to choose a service like iCloud Drive if you want to use the subscription list on another device.Īfter you’ve saved the file, open NetNewsWire and import the OPML file. ![]() In Reeder, for example, go to Settings, tap on the account, and then tap on Export as OPML…. How to export your subscription list will vary depending on the app, though it often appears in the app’s settings. Moving from one app to another is usually a breeze because subscription lists are commonly shared using an open standard format: OPML. If you use another service, or none at all Other syncing services aren’t supported yet, but you can still use a local account. You can use your Feedbin or Feedly account directly in NetNewsWire. Though we hope NetNewsWire is right up your street. NetNewsWire is no different: coming is just as easy as going. Fortunately, it’s easy to switch amongst them to find the perfect one for you. ← Table of Contents Move from another RSS app NetNewsWire 5 for iPhone and iPad Help: Move from another RSS app NetNewsWire 5 for iPhone and iPad Help
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