BBEdit and Reeder are two apps that I use everyday, and both received significant updates this week.
Bare Bone Software debuted BBEdit 13.5 this week to include features that ensure that one of the Mac’s most venerable apps will make the step into the platform’s Apple Silicon era. BBEdit is something that I don’t use to its full potential, but rather an aspirational purchase, which has worked to some degree. In my time using BBEdit, I learned Markdown and I starting tinkering with regular expressions, and for that, BBEdit has been a great tool. For people who want to do what I did with Markdown, version 13.5 incorporates some features that help Markdown novices, something that would have been easier than tabbing between a text window and John Gruber’s Markdown reference page as I did when I was learning the ropes.
Developer Sylvio Rizzi also released Reeder 5 for iOS and macOS today to take advantage of new OS features from either platform. The iOS version now has support for widgets in iOS 14, which now has a prominent place in my Today view screen. The macOS version is now compatible with Apple Silicon, and its new app icon adopts the styl of macOS Big Sur. There are a lot of RSS clients for Apple platforms, but I always find myself going back to Reeder. Using InoReader as the back-end service to manage my subscriptions, I’ve yet to find a RSS client I like as much as Reeder.
I’m excited to see Mac apps get attention as we slowly but surely near the release of Big Sur. I’m sure there are more app updates in the pipeline, and I am, as the kids say, here for it.
Michael Miller 