After Fixin’ the Bugs

Fixed ’em. Fixed ’em all. Well, almost all — down to 10 bugs on the NetNewsWire bug tracker. (See the Mac 7.1.3 release notes and iOS for the big list of just-fixed bugs.) This means I’ve gotten the app to the place I’ve wanted to get to for a long time, where the bug count is manageable and close to zero. So it’s 10 bugs at this writing — and 556 feature requests. Bug fixing never ends, yes, but the good news is that we can finally get going on these feature requests. So many feature requests Some of the feature requests are obviously popular: custom smart feeds, content filtering, thumbnails in the timeline, traditional layout on Mac, and similar. Other requests are less obviously popular but would be appreciated by a number of people: more syncing systems, appearance settings, sorting options, etc. Some other requests are very small, would take just one or a few lines of code, and seem like an easy win — like ignoring elements with the .instapaper_ignore class. There are also the…