Brent Simmons retired in 2025 and is now spending that time making NetNewsWire, an RSS reader first released in 2002 and open-sourced in 2018, as good as it can possibly be. No revenue targets. No roadmap pressure. Just one developer and one piece of software.
The project page details current status across Mac and iOS. That combination, a 24-year-old app with active post-retirement development and a fully open codebase, is rare enough to pay attention to.
Read the original status update to see exactly what Simmons is working on and why the absence of commercial pressure changes what software development looks like in practice.
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