A few days ago I bade farewell to an old friend.
That’s how it felt, at least. The mechanics were decidedly less dramatic than the feeling: all I did was drag a long-residing application from my macOS dock and watch its application icon poof, in signature Mac style, into nothingness.
The app is called “BBEdit.” For those steeped in the history of independent software development on the Mac, this name will be a legend. It is a dead-simple text editor—the “BB” in the name references the company that makes the app: “Bare Bones Software.” Primarily intended for coding—but outstanding for writing too, especially if you write, as I often do, in Markdown—BBEdit is perhaps the canonical example of what is sometimes called a ”Mac-assed Mac app.”
