Rasmus Andersson: Why I wrote a programmer's text editor

rsms:

bla bla bla bla bla the less productive is the result. There’s an unfortunate common pattern when people open up a new application for the first time: They start by going into the “Preferences” UI and dig around like it was a game of Zelda. Instead Kod will have a very limited set of preferences which can be configured through a bla bla bla bla

YES! I need to do that! The preferences dialog for my next productivity app, there won’t be a standard Cocoa control in sight! It’ll be an RPG! And you have to explore the game world for *hours* to find the most obscure preferences! Want to change the default app to use for Frobnitzing? It’s right there, first room. Want to configure the font size of the auxiliary extension panel? You’re going to have AN ADVENTURE finding it.