Nathan Pitman’s open letter to developers encourages them to create a light-weight competitor to Adobe’s Fireworks, the latest version of which has major bugs that remain unpatched five months after its release. I’m a Fireworks devotee since version 1.0; its approach is streets ahead of Photoshop for me, but the latest version feels like messy beta software at best, with most of the effort having gone into features I won’t use. (via Jon Hicks) (via matthewb)