November 2, 2007
(This post is from my old, old, super old site. My views have changed over the years, hopefully my writing has improved, and there is now more than a handful of folks reading my site. Enjoy.)
"My experience of the Mac developer community has been that help and encouragement is freely given, but genuine respect is earned through shipping code. In some ways, living far from the centre of the tech/social scene provides a bit of space, time and quietness to get to the point of actually shipping and supporting code."