Mac on Syntopikon

Peter Lewis

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Who are you, and what do you do?

I’m Peter N Lewis. I include the N (for Neil) because I once worked out there are around 10,000 folks named Peter Lewis in the world (no idea if that is correct though), and several of them are quite famous. That said, I once walked in to a Mac tech store in Austin, TX and had someone recognise my name on my credit card and tell me that was “quite a famous name in this industry” (back in the early Internet days when I was relatively well known). I live in Perth, Western Australia, where I’ve been since I was 13 - before that I lived in Canada and I was born in Jamaica. I’ve got a fantastic wife and three kids, the youngest near the end of high school and the other two in uni. I’ve been writing and releasing Mac software for thirty years. I wrote a lot of early Mac Internet software, including Interarchy, and being part of what eventually became the system that maps URL schemes (like “http”) to applications. About twenty years ago I purchased Keyboard Maestro back when it was version 1, and my main focus since then has been building it into a very powerful automation tool.

Tyler Hall

Tue, 02 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Who are you, and what do you do?

I’m a software developer from Nashville. And while I still do web development occasionally, my focus (and love!) for the last seventeen years has been building products for Apple’s platforms - especially macOS.

How did you get interested in that?

My father was a high school English teacher in the 1980s. And part of his job was teaching the school’s typing class. Back then, the curriculum also taught students a few weeks’ worth of BASIC programming lessons. So when we bought our first family computer in 1992, he showed me a few simple commands, and I immediately fell in love with programming.

Charlie Monroe

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Who are you, and what do you do?

I’m a person who graduated from a college (software engineering masters degree) and decided not to contribute to someone else’s dream, but rather to build my own one. So I started my own software company, built a few apps (and acquired a few along the way), focusing on communicating with the customers myself. To me, it’s always frustrating getting support from someone who has learned a few phrases, but has no idea about how everything works. This is why to this day, I like to answer my customers’ support queries myself instead of hiring someone.