Edge Cases

ClickToFlash: Behind the Music

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about how he unexpectedly came to lead the popular and award-winning Safari plugin ClickToFlash, and how, after a wild ride, the project both ended and continued on.

Links:

• Graham Lee (secboffin) app.net post: “@apontious @rentzsch and now I’m on the clang episode. Clang-C creates its own thread that it does its indexing on, you get callbacks on that thread. See https://bitbucket.org/iamleeg/objectivebrowser”
• iamleeg/ObjectiveBrowser « Bitbucket
• Messing about with Clang « Secure Mac Programming
• Steven Frank tweet: “http://clicktoflash.googlecode.com/ Ahhh, finally!”
• ClickToFlash « Daring Fireball
• Flash Cookies « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “thanks to @ccgus @ctp and @jfroy an enhanced version of ClickToFlash that support site whitelisting: http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash”
• ClickToFlash Is Dead; Long Live ClickToFlash « Daring Fireball
• Wolf Rentzsch tweet: “my conspiracy theory: ClickToFlash was originally written by an Adobe peep. As @threeve pointed out, great care was taken to stay anonymous”
• One Little Package of Hate « Edge Cases
• My Lighthouse Ticket Settings (with Colors!) « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• rentzsch/setup github issues labels.sh « GitHub Gist
• ClickToFlash
• NS: Poor Man’s Namespacing for Objective-C « rentzsch.tumblr.com
• Contributors to rentzsch/clicktoflash « GitHub
• ClickToPlugin & ClickToFlash Safari extensions « Marc Hoyois’ Homepage @ GitHub

Rejected Episode Titles:

• Cofounder of Panic, Which Everyone Loves
• When the URLs Burned up Your One-Forty
• Flash Cookies Turn out to Be Really Strong Sauce
• An Infinite Cookie
• “You Really Love YouTube.” “I Wouldn’t Have Phrased It That Way…”
• Gathering up Their Patches
• GitHub Is Where Pull Requests Happen
• “Are You Sure It Wasn’t You?” “I Am Batman!”
• A Shadow Vigilante
• One Point Oh Plus Rentzsch
• At This Point You Should Cue the Foreboding Music
• Our Lifelong Hate of Installer Technology
• A Downward Spiral of Drugs and Alcohol
• Unfortunately I Wasn’t That Evil Back Then
• Just to Alleviate My Guilt
• Settings, Advanced Settings, Privacy, Content Settings, Click to Play
• I Basically Choked on This Pull Request
• He Was Already off to the Races
• Branded as a Flash Hater
• I Had a Ton of Fun Doing It, and I’m Glad It’s Over
• You Don’t Like Flash, Do You Like Green Lantern?