jessegrosjean

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by jessegrosjean 20d ago
A new version of my app WriteRoom, after 16 years!
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by jessegrosjean 3mo ago
I did! And I'm still using it to test Bike 2.0. Will will be release about 2 years ago. :\ Well soon anyway!
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by jessegrosjean 9mo ago
I dislike Liquid Glass. At the same time I make Mac apps and I've got to adopt liquid glass to keep my apps looking alive/updated. How to do this without making my apps UI worse? I would love to see some "how to fix Liquid Gl
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by jessegrosjean 3y ago
I've been self employed at Hog Bay Software [1] since 2004. I mostly build Mac apps. A few years I did some consulting. A few other years I worked with some other people, but generally it's been just me the whole time. > Curiou
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by jessegrosjean 3y ago
Seems like the perfect way to make sure that all birds are shot in a war zone?
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Bike Outliner adds row types(hogbaysoftware.com)
1 points by jessegrosjean 3y ago|0 comments
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
One thing to decide maybe before specific books is if you want to do SwiftUI programming or more traditional Cocoa programming. They both have advantages, and they can be mixed, but if you are just learning probably best to focus on one app
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Improving macOS autocorrection user interface(hogbaysoftware.com)
1 points by jessegrosjean 4y ago|0 comments
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Mac text editing: mark, kill, yank(hogbaysoftware.com)
1 points by jessegrosjean 4y ago|0 comments
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
No it doesn't.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Go Maine! Where are you based? Got any app links? And excuse me if I should already know your handle, I have a terrible memory.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Eventually yes, but not anytime soon. Right now Bike is very much a text editor, while notational velocity is more database of text files. At some point I hope to add a "workspace" aspect to Bike where you can open a directory of
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Heh, I'm actually finding MS Word a good source for autocorrect ideas.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I find AppleScript very useful for this. I script the text input, menu items, and timings like this: menuItem("Format:Bold", 0.2) type("Efficient") press("⏎")
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Unlikely in the near term. I feel like there are many other features that I need to do first. Longer term maybe?
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Nice work on Sciter. When I came up with this feature in Bike I was pretty proud of the idea and it seemed original. Then a few weeks later I came across your post on StackExchange UX... everything already been invented I guess :) I'm
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I agree code editor autocomplete is a good design for searching through space of options efficiently. I'm not sure if that design works for "autocorrect" in general writing instead of code editing. I guess you could popup a l
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Eventually I hope to add theme support so that links can look how you want, but that's not a feature that I'll be working on super soon. The affinity is just treated as a new character position. When caret moves through that posit
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
> I have it disabled on MacOS, so no idea how it works there Well that's really at the core of my question. Why do you have it disabled? What need to be improved so that you don't disable it. I think almost everyone would agree
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
For links or for just general formatting? For links I just decided to leave out. Seemed blue was enough, and especially since link interaction in Bike only happens through link button. For general formatting I left out because underline for
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I agree it's not perfect. In particular it's a little weird to highlight the link text blue since it's not what you interact with. Mostly just makes it easy to see and then find the link button, also useful if you are plannin
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
> But there isn’t a way to edit the hyperlink itself quickly? Correct. For that you need to use Formatting pallet (also in video). I did initially build it so clicking link would open a pallet with option to follow link or edit link (Pag
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Your outline project looks great. Hard to beat an app that you make yourself and can change when you see fit. Bike does have a keyboard shortcut for expand/collapse, but truth is I don't remember what it is without looking. Instea
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Yes... kinda... I've been doing indie Mac software since around 2003. Mostly full time with some consulting mixed in. I've had varying levels of success. Generally business grew into (enough to support me and three others for a fe
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Thanks, I didn't know about Control-Space on MS Word. Looking in menu's I see "Clear Formatting" menu item, but the shortcut isn't listed. How did you know about this shortcut?
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
Thanks. I agree the way that programmer text editor handles snippets is nice. I think this is a pretty good and clear UI already. For autocorrect I'm talking about corrections that are less predictable such as spelling or grammar error
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I personally use it for a thinking tool... as opposed to document creating at this point. So I store notes and ideas. Process ideas. I don't author final documents. Currently there is no way to add multiple lines to a row. I "thin
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I've spent a lot of time reading through these codebases and found that reading very useful. - https://codemirror.net - https://prosemirror.net - https://xi-editor.io
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
This is correct.
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by jessegrosjean 4y ago
I'd like to see what emacs/org mode is doing ... is there a link to documentation, of demo video somewhere?

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