Back on the Classic Mac OS, I was one of the early users of The Bare Bones Software text editor called BBEdit. It's been my go to editor for at least 20 years, and so I've been wanting to interview the mind behind BBEdit, Rich Siegel, for a long time. Rich tells the story about how in the late 80's, he was working for Think Technologies, a company that made its living building development tools for the Mac. During that gig, Rich, realized that there was a need for a standalone text editor for the Mac. In April 1992, a freeware version of BBEdit was released, and its success led to that always tense developer decision: quit the day job? Listen in to hear how it all turned out. Hint. Fabulous.