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I hate to say it because people seem to have some weird affinity for Pasco in the Mac community, but Black Pixel is where good apps go to die. They bought up Ka

I hate to say it because people seem to have some weird affinity for Pasco in the Mac community, but Black Pixel is where good apps go to die. They bought up Kaleidoscope and have effectively stopped all development on it (a paid diff viewer that still has no syntax highlighting).

sbjs 8y ago
Why does that app even exist? All its features are natively implemented in git. And an RSS reader? I'm starting to get the feeling that Mac apps are stuck in 2005. Say all you want about Microsoft or Electron, but VS Code is the only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place or have a strange and outdated UI. I don't care that it's consuming the resources of my cheap desktop computer slightly faster than another app might, it gets the job done and it's intuitive and works well.
- dewey 8y ago
  Kaleidoscope has a bunch of great features, like diffing images and easily resolving merge conflicts with a few clicks. It also integrates into other git GUI tools like Tower for Mac. Of course if you live in the Terminal it's probably not very tempting to use. It's a matter of personal preference. I still use it from time to time even though I know that it's probably at the end of it's life.
  - awinder 8y ago
    I use kaleidoscope with the git cli. I like using git from the command line, except for dealing with merge conflicts, so I have kaleidoscope pick up merges through its mergetool hook.
- favorited 8y ago
  > only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place VS Code feels nothing like any other app on my Mac. The window chrome doesn't look like a Mac app. Resizing a window resizes like an app from the 90s (content doesn't layout until the resize finishes, only the window border resizes live). The scroll bars aren't consistent with any other app, neither are the tabs. Scrolling content doesn't overscroll and rubberband like other scroll views. You might personally prefer the UI in VS Code, but it is the poster child for "strange UI" on that platform.
licyeus 8y ago
What relationship does Black Pixel / Pasco have with Evergreen? Brent works for Omni, but Evergreen is a side project (through Ranchero).
- ary 8y ago
  I believe Black Pixel took over NetNewsWire (which was originally developed by Brent Simmons). http://netnewswireapp.com http://netnewswireapp.com

sbjs 8y ago

Why does that app even exist? All its features are natively implemented in git. And an RSS reader? I'm starting to get the feeling that Mac apps are stuck in 2005. Say all you want about Microsoft or Electron, but VS Code is the only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place or have a strange and outdated UI. I don't care that it's consuming the resources of my cheap desktop computer slightly faster than another app might, it gets the job done and it's intuitive and works well.

dewey 8y ago
Kaleidoscope has a bunch of great features, like diffing images and easily resolving merge conflicts with a few clicks. It also integrates into other git GUI tools like Tower for Mac. Of course if you live in the Terminal it's probably not very tempting to use. It's a matter of personal preference. I still use it from time to time even though I know that it's probably at the end of it's life.
- awinder 8y ago
  I use kaleidoscope with the git cli. I like using git from the command line, except for dealing with merge conflicts, so I have kaleidoscope pick up merges through its mergetool hook.
favorited 8y ago
> only developer app on my computer that doesn't feel out of place VS Code feels nothing like any other app on my Mac. The window chrome doesn't look like a Mac app. Resizing a window resizes like an app from the 90s (content doesn't layout until the resize finishes, only the window border resizes live). The scroll bars aren't consistent with any other app, neither are the tabs. Scrolling content doesn't overscroll and rubberband like other scroll views. You might personally prefer the UI in VS Code, but it is the poster child for "strange UI" on that platform.

licyeus 8y ago

What relationship does Black Pixel / Pasco have with Evergreen? Brent works for Omni, but Evergreen is a side project (through Ranchero).

ary 8y ago
I believe Black Pixel took over NetNewsWire (which was originally developed by Brent Simmons). http://netnewswireapp.com http://netnewswireapp.com