I Tried to Explain What I Do 3 Mar 2026, 5:15 pm

I’ve known for decades that most of family and friends (except for family and friends in tech) have no idea what I do — they just think it’s math-heavy and mysterious.

Well. It’s definitely not math-heavy and it shouldn’t be mysterious. So I figured I’d write up What I Do.

Even if I never actually send this page around to everybody — because that would actually be kind of weird, like giving them homework to understand me, me who suddenly (suddenly?) seems like a complete narcissist — it was a good exercise for me to do anyway. Especially the part about explaining why I write NetNewsWire.