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Critics are the harshest at times. Ashes has made over $1300 in 6 days, so I could easily blow it off, but I want to respond. Know that I don’t do so to get your love, but to hopefully offer some explanation.

I used the first version of Ashes and thought it had promise. I considered it abandoned after it went months, then years without updates. Imagine my surprise when I discovered a new, universal version for sale last week. I’ve installed it and tried it out - it’s good. There is one big feature in 1.1 (the ability to view unread items on a per-feed basis) that I am waiting for before really digging in full time, but I like what I’m seeing. I appreciated this note from the developer letting us know exactly what happened and where they went.

bigger boat required

i love this so much. i love pretty much anything oktotally does but this just makes me smile. the chum counter is about as perfect as you can get.

2013-03-23

The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. It is somehow reassuring to think that there are also men and women who take the risks themselves, who pit themselves not against their fellow beings but against the immensity and the violence of the natural world, who are brave enough without cruelty to others and impassioned with an idea that dignifies all who contemplate it. They are the things that are undertaken not for some definite, measurable result, but because someone, not counting the costs or calculating the consequences, is moved by curiosity, the love of excellence, a point of honor, the compulsion to invent or to make or to understand. In such persons mankind overcomes the inertia which would keep it earthbound forever in its habitual ways. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that man is no mere creature of his habits, no mere cog in the collective machine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

— Walter Lippmann - A Requiem for Amelia Earhart, July 8, 1937