“All in all, Bugify has avoided the common mistake of feature overkill and added a clear design to come up [with] a product with almost zero learning curve” via gbradley.com

I want to see a list of feeds, grouped in categories. I want to see how many unread items there are. I want to see the item titles either per feed or per category – I don’t want the article to show by default (I want to skim the titles for something interesting). I want to have a copy of all the articles archived so I can find them again later. I want to search the full content. I want to drag and drop the feeds to move them between categories. I want to add a URL like example.com and have the app find the feed(s) for me. I don’t want to “share” articles from the app, I don’t want it to be social – it’s about me and some websites I’m interested in reading every now and then, if I want to share a link, I’ll open the article in the original site and copy/paste the link.

I’m not sure I trust these companies to do this for me, and i’m not sure I want to put my feed reading in the hands of someone else again – it needs to be self-hosted (surely most people who read feeds like this are techy anyway). I’d be more than happy to pay for it if it was good.

Do I wait and see what the others come up with over the next couple of months, or do I make Feedify (hehe – unfortunately the domain is taken so can’t join the ranks of Bugify and Inspectify).

“I don’t want to extend Markdown by adding tons of crazy new functionality, or radically change the way it currently works, or anything like that. I’d be opposed to such changes. I just want to solidify and standardize the simple, useful version of Markdown that is working so well for everyone right now. I want there to be an unambiguous, basic standard that everyone using Markdown can expect to work when they begin typing.”

Jeff Atwood via Coding Horror

Read the full text here: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html.

It’s a privilege to be included!

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If this was a web app that was easy to install/manage/upgrade, i recon ISP’s would be all over it.  Have a look at the ideas here http://www.vanschneider.com/work/mail

“To those who argue programming is an essential skill we should be teaching our children, right up there with reading, writing, and arithmetic: can you explain to me how Michael Bloomberg would be better at his day to day job of leading the largest city in the USA if he woke up one morning as a crack Java coder? It is obvious to me how being a skilled reader, a skilled writer, and at least high school level math are fundamental to performing the job of a politician. Or at any job, for that matter. But understanding variables and functions, pointers and recursion? I can’t see it.” via codinghorror.com

“It’s been about a month since the last update to Bugify. I’d like to have an update out every 2 to 3 weeks while the app is still reasonably young, but that didn’t happen this month sorry. The biggest thing I’ve been working on lately is the new permissions system – which is not a simple addition. The last thing I wanted was a bulky permissions system that slows the app down, so it’s a lot of work trying to get it right.” via blog.bugify.com

To link an issue to another in Bugify, you simply need to reference the ticket in a comment, or in the issue description. For example, you could write “We need to get #123 finished first”. This would do two things: first, you would be able to click on the “#123″ and go straight to that ticket, and second, Bugify would asynchronously scan the ticket for links to other tickets. When it finds a link from #456 to #123, it creates a “link” from both #456 to #123, and from #123 to #456 (reciprocal linking). You’ll see the related issues on the side bar, and if something’s not right, it’s a single click to remove the link (every time you update an issue, it will scan for links, so you’ll need to remove the reference to the other ticket if you don’t want the link added back in again). And, of course you can also access the list of related issues through the API.