Marc Edwards

Marc Edwards

@marc.bjango.com

Founder and designer at @bjango.com. Currently building @skala.app. I also write music. He/him.

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Small new game alert! Over the past week with @padraig.org and @marc.bjango.com, we created The Last Tomato, a puzzle game about solving world hunger by growing a tomato. It’s got colorful radio waves, a robot, and runs in the browser. Please try it out :) padraigk.itch.io/tomato

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The double-click detection time is 500ms by default on macOS. Be very careful when adding double-click interactions to views. If you do, it’ll slow down every other interaction by half a second. To see it, use this in Terminal: swift -e 'import AppKit; print(NSEvent.doubleClickInterval * 1000)'

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We’ve been working on Skala for 15 years. We’re almost done. Please, tell all your designer and developer friends about it. bsky.app/profile/bjan...

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Skala’s private beta is starting soon. We’re going to have a staged rollout, so signing up ASAP is critical if you’d like to be at the front of the queue. Skala is going to blow your mind. bjango.com/mac/skala/

bjango.comSkalaMakers of iStat Menus, Skala and other great apps.

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Skala has parametric components.

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Skala is fast. This test path has 1 million points and 1 million bézier curve segments. Editing the fill and stroke is 120hz on an M4 Pro Mac. For this test, Skala is around 1000× the performance of its peers.

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We’ve been working on Skala for 15 years. We’re almost done. Please, tell all your designer and developer friends about it. bsky.app/profile/bjan...

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Skala’s private beta is starting soon. We’re going to have a staged rollout, so signing up ASAP is critical if you’d like to be at the front of the queue. Skala is going to blow your mind. bjango.com/mac/skala/

bjango.comSkalaMakers of iStat Menus, Skala and other great apps.

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Press, journalists etc: Please get in touch if you’d like to be one of the first to see Skala. DM me or use this page: bjango.com/contact/

bjango.comContact BjangoGet in contact with Bjango or be resent your iStat Menus, Pinwheel, Robot Rocket, or Skala licenses.

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We’ve put everything into Skala. If I’m being honest, it’s been a huge mental challenge to work on something this big, for this long. Any support you can offer is appreciated.

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Very busy doing all the things today.

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Can you tall when C++ is compiling?

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In 2013, @lexfri.xyz gave a talk at the One More Thing conference, with advice on how indie developers and companies should contact journalists and news sites. I learned a lot, and started following his advice immediately.

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I look forward to hearing about other indie devs and their apps in upcoming articles. I really mean that — it’s getting harder and harder to find the smaller gems in a sea of giant companies and slop.

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There is a video of @lexfri.xyz’s One More Thing talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCx3...

youtube.comLex Friedman - One More Thing 2013YouTube video by One More Thing

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In 2013, @lexfri.xyz gave a talk at the One More Thing conference, with advice on how indie developers and companies should contact journalists and news sites. I learned a lot, and started following his advice immediately.

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I don’t think the talk is available as a video. Thankfully, Jelly did take some notes. jellystyle.com/2013/05/one-...

jellystyle.comOne More Thing 2013These are the notes I took during the talks at the One More Thing conference in 2013, including the slides which I’ve collected into one convenient place…

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It was an honour to chat to @lexfri.xyz about Bjango, and to be included in his Indie Developer Spotlight series. lexontech.org/indie-develo...

lexontech.orgIndie Developer Spotlight: Marc Edwards and the Bjango teamFirst of all, Bjango is fun to say. What a great name for a company. If you’re struggling to place how you know the name Bjango, you likely have familiarity with their long-beloved app iStat Menus. Th...

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In 2013, @lexfri.xyz gave a talk at the One More Thing conference, with advice on how indie developers and companies should contact journalists and news sites. I learned a lot, and started following his advice immediately.

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His talk was impactful enough that I took photos, and impactful enough that I still remember it today. The advice is still good and relevant.

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The next version of Pinwheel is going to have two new about window shaders. Here’s one of them. What’s Pinwheel? bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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I’m done with LG TVs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFV...

youtube.com216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV ProblemYouTube video by Gamers Nexus

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Totally unrelated: I hope there’s a new Apple TV released this week.

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iStat Menus 7.5 is coming soon.

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Chaos Line + Roto-Control + RE-303 + DS-1.

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Slowly getting better at making videos. This one took a lot of velcro and tripods to get the top down view working.

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A less glamorous view of the set. Time to get the next one happening.

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We hired a voice actor for our latest plugin video. I’m so happy with how it turned out. She did an amazing job. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdUV...

youtube.comReality Distortion: Reality bending resynthesis pluginYouTube video by Bjango

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You don’t need data centers for if statements.

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Doing some stuff with synthesizers today.

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Dave Blair has upgraded his video feedback machine to 4K. It looks amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=koDC...

youtube.com4K Video Feedback Device Complete! Custom 4K Screens with Analog Knobs, Fractals Without a Computer!YouTube video by Dave Blair

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In 2023, I made some feedback loop images using Dave’s technique (all digital, in Processing).

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Pinwheel 1.11.1 is out with a brand new Liquid Glass tool bar and a bunch of other design tweaks and bug fixes. Enjoy! bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

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Menu bar, tab bar, navigation bar, and… toolbar with no space?! I’m sure it’s intentional, but why?

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Modern living on the internet: Cookie banner? Inspect element, delete. Or, reeder mode. X or Insta video link? yt-dlp to download it. Want to sub to a YouTube channel? RSS reader.

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🔥 New blog post: Dark mode toggles that expose three states (system, light, dark) seem like the best option. Until you think about user goals, that is. Before rushing to disagree, hear me out. lea.verou.me/blog/2026/da... PS: As a data point, @jakearchibald.com was converted after reading this 😅

lea.verou.meDark mode toggles: two states are enough • Lea VerouYes, the underlying model must have three states, but one is always irrelevant to the actual user goal. Users do not seek out solutions to problems they don’t currently have. A lot of the hate towards...

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“Little computers you can flash with your own firmware.” Oh, no. I want to close the tab, but I can’t. Which one is your favourite? buildinpublic.com/gadgets

buildinpublic.comGadgets · Build in PublicLittle computers you can flash with your own firmware — see what the #buildinpublic community is hacking on.

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I’ve been obsessed for years with audio effects based on BBD (bucket brigade device) chips and PT2399 chips. I remember the moment when I realised a lot of the effects I love sound how they do because of a $5 chip they all share in common.

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The model sits in the feedback loop, so all the fun self-oscillation still works and sounds amazing. That experiment turned into a full plugin! bjango.com/plugin/bucke...

bjango.comBuckets And DecayBBD and PT2399 delay, chorus, and flanger plugin.

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As always, this plugin exists thanks to the amazing work of @rustyshelf.bsky.social. I’m incapable of shipping these things by myself.

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I’ve been obsessed for years with audio effects based on BBD (bucket brigade device) chips and PT2399 chips. I remember the moment when I realised a lot of the effects I love sound how they do because of a $5 chip they all share in common.

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PT2399 chips are newer and less famous. They were initially used in Karaoke machines and are now used in many guitar pedals. Like BBDs, they kind of suck and degrade the audio being passed through them. But also like BBDs, they sound great.

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I had an idea to try and isolate the chips themselves, use machine learning to replicate the degradation, then pair it with a transparent digital delay. This separates the sound of the chip from the delay, meaning we can then modulate the delay time.

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I’ve been obsessed for years with audio effects based on BBD (bucket brigade device) chips and PT2399 chips. I remember the moment when I realised a lot of the effects I love sound how they do because of a $5 chip they all share in common.

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Kurt Cobain used a small clone on lots of songs. The Roland Dimension D and the chorus on Juno synths are the sound of the 80s.

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BBD chips are a form of analogue delay that uses hundreds of capacitors, passing the signal from one capacitor to the next. They do a terrible job preserving the original sound, and the result is dark, gritty, and noisy. But, it sounds cool. Pristine digital delays are no fun in comparison.

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I’ve been obsessed for years with audio effects based on BBD (bucket brigade device) chips and PT2399 chips. I remember the moment when I realised a lot of the effects I love sound how they do because of a $5 chip they all share in common.

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Famous uses: The Edge used a Memory Man delay on Where the Streets Have No Name and lots of other U2 songs. Andy Summers used a Electric Mistress on Walking on the Moon and other Police songs. It was such an important part of the sound that the reissue pedal is now called “Walking on the Moon”.

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File transfer via flashing QR code. Cool idea. www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding...

reddit.comFrom the vibecoding community on Reddit: Had an idea for air gapped file transfer, able to get 120 KB/sExplore this post and more from the vibecoding community

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Busy drawing BBD and PT2399 chips for the next plugin.

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Really interesting project and talk on making C and C++ memory safe. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F-2...

youtube.comFil-C: Garbage In, Memory Safety Out! - Filip Pizlo | SSW 2026YouTube video by Software Should Work

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We were interviewed by Ighor from Reverse Everything. Thanks, Ighor! reverseeverything.com/blog/istat-m...

reverseeverything.comiStat Menus — An Interview with Bjango | Reverse EverythingBjango explains how iStat Menus grew from Dashboard widgets and what it takes to support changing Mac hardware for nearly two decades.

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If you’re creating Display P3 app icons in Icon Composer, QuickLook previews (FB23465822) and exporting (FB23826296) both look desaturated. It seems like colours are being clamped to sRGB. Tested in macOS 26, macOS 27, Icon Composer 1, and Icon Composer 2.

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It sucks if you plan to export from Icon Composer for use on websites or other places. The icons do look correct in built apps though.

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I don’t think Apple’s testing colour management well these days. Display P3 CSS colours in Safari on iOS 26 are also broken, and being clamped to sRGB. This does seem to be fixed in iOS 27.

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Is this the first instance of Apple naming a future OS version in the current OS?

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We’ve released another music plugin. This one is free, too. bjango.com/plugin/doubl...