by Jason Snell
Brent Simmons is retiring
Veteran developer Brent Simmons is retiring, but on his way out the door he wrote a really great blog post about his assumptions about corporate app development (he spent the last five years working on Audible’s iOS app) and the teams who build those apps:
With retirement imminent — this is my last job, and June 6 is my last day (maybe I’ve buried the lede here) — I want to thank my team publicly for how they’ve made me a better engineer and, more importantly, a better person. From the bottom of my heart.
Good news: Brent says he’ll have more time to devote to NetNewsWire, his open-source RSS reading app, as well as other open-source, not-for-profit programming projects.
A hearty “job well done” and best wishes for a great retirement to Brent.