“Releasing” My First App

I have “released” my first Mac application, Meshmaker, on GitHub as a public repository, so anyone can download the project and run/install it using Xcode. I’m proud of this guy. Now, this isn’t really “A release”. The project isn’t finished, but it’s functional1. I still think it’s already quite usable as a way to make nice gradients pretty easily, with a good amount of depth. It took me (what I felt like was) very long to get it to this point, because not only did I need to get basic functionality up to speed, but also small things that mattered a lot to me, like multi-point selection and keyboard shortcuts. In this time, I’ve learned a lot about what actual apps take. I’ve done something I consider quite scary, which is use an external dependency, code written by someone other than the programming language inventors2 to get something done (the Help window is a markdown file, for my own ease of editing). There’s so much jargon in every field of programming, and always more things.…