A Year of Retirement: Modernizing NetNewsWire Through 2,188 Commits
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15 Jun 2026
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Summary
The author reflects on their first year of retirement, noting they've added nothing to shareholder value. They've focused their retirement on modernizing NetNewsWire, an RSS reader app, completing 2,188 commits over the past year. Key accomplishments include adopting Swift structured concurrency and async, along with other modernization and bug-fix work to pay down tech debt before adding new features.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledIt's been a year since I retired — my last working day was June 6, 2025 — and I like being able to say that I've spent the year adding nothing, not one penny, to shareholder value.
My hope for retirement was to get a lot of work done on NetNewsWire.
A year ago it was in sore need of modernization, tech debt pay-off, and bug fixes.
People were asking for features, but the foundation needed a ton of work before I could get on to adding new rooms.
Adopted Swift structured concurrency and async
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