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Daniel Jalkut
Daniel Jalkut is a Mac and iOS indie developer who founded Red Sweater Software in 2002 after seven years engineering Mac OS at Apple. He is best known for MarsEdit, the long-running desktop blog editor he bought from Brent Simmons in 2007, and for FastScripts, a scripting automation utility. For 16 years he co-hosted Core Intuition with Manton Reece, one of the defining podcasts of the indie Apple-developer scene, and he runs the long-form interview show Bitsplitting. He is a fixture of the indie web and micro.blog community, writing about software craft, the business of going it alone, and the texture of a programming life.
Jim Nielsen
Jim Nielsen is a design engineer, writer, and curator with 20+ years at the intersection of design and code on the web. He writes the popular Jim Nielsen's Blog covering web development philosophy, design thinking, and the craft of building for the web. He's the founding engineer at Quadratic, co-creator of The iOS App Icon Book (€136K Kickstarter), and maintains the beloved iOS/macOS/watchOS icon gallery sites. A champion of the open web, HTML-first thinking, and the emerging 'design engineer' role, Nielsen bridges the gap between visual design and front-end engineering with rare fluency.
Robin Rendle
Robin Rendle is a British-born designer, writer, and developer currently working as a Software Designer at Apple. Known for his deeply humanistic approach to web design and typography, he has spent over a decade shaping how the web community thinks about CSS, type, and craft. He ran the CSS-Tricks newsletter for years, launched The Cascade - a member-supported blog about CSS - and maintains one of the web's most thoughtful personal sites with over 900 published notes. He holds an MA in Typography from the University of Reading and writes with a rare blend of technical precision and literary sensibility.