That picture wasn't what I was expecting, which was more like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lx6OiIb.png solid arrows show chronology, the colors highlight compatibility, dashed arrows are backporting.

Simple Perl interface to this API is now on CPAN: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebService::Prismatic::InterestGrap...

No, it's not. Several people have signed up saying "I don't know Perl, but this seems like a good opportunity to start learning it".

Let me check if it's on github ...

I gave up reading before I got to what it was he did to improve the development rate - TL;DR anyone? :-)

It seems to boil down to talking to people in the industry and figuring out what problems they have that the product could potentially solve.

TL;DR: Market Research - customer interviews.

He's a people person. He talked to the end-users so the engineers didn't have to. Then the engineers could focus on what those people told him they wanted.

One of the few titles on my list of books that I tell people not to read (http://neilbowers.wordpress.com/2012/06/23/book-review-atlas...)

$5 isn't a small monthly fee, for a newsreader.

* might be an idea to have a feedback link (why I'm posting this here) * scrolling becomes tedious very quickly. Needs a better overview mechanism. Eg only show the first N lines of a story unless I'm interested. * Without some notion of how you're going to define relevance, I quickly became way of disliking something. * You could have a way to like/dislike the author, as well as the post. Ie a way to say "I always/never want to read stuff written by this person".

Yep, OmniGraffle for me. I've been using it for the last 8 years.

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.” — Malcolm S. Forbes