Jesse Grosjean
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Jesse Grosjean
@jessegrosjean.bsky.social
I'm a Mac indie developer working on Hog Bay Software since around 2003. I live in Bangor, Maine. Bike Outliner • TaskPaper • WriteRoom
Latest Bike Outliner 2.0 Preview has pretty nice drag and drop implementation. Try it out at: support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
October 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Latest Bike Outliner (2.0 Preview) supports round corners for groups of rows. The standard style uses for improved block selection and block quotes. Can also be used for new styles–here's a quick demo:
support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-0-p...
July 31, 2025 at 6:54 PM
More extension system experiments with the latest Bike 2 Preview. This one uses d3.js to present different outline layouts.
April 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Thanks! Hoping to reach gold standard level on document filtering in Bike 2. Still a ways to go, but here's what I have so far:
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bike 2 extensions in progress. Hope to release early demo that you can try by Friday.

support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-2-ext...
March 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
In Bike 1 links are styled to have a button after the link text. In Bike 2 (in progress) I wanted to build that UI via a user editable stylesheet. Here's what I've come up with:
January 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Iteration #tomany of Bike 2's style system is coming to life. Interesting thing this time around is all the UI (everything but text) is added via stylesheet, so possible to provide your own variations. Will this be the final approach... I hope so!
December 3, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Here's my share:
November 27, 2024 at 6:56 PM
I had promised a Bike 2 preview build "this week". Three hours to go and my build script is broken and I'm sleepy. So ... NEXT WEEK! 😞 In the meantime here's a fun and ugly preview of Bike stylesheet. More useful is it can also recreate Bike 1.0 look, but more fun is this!
October 19, 2024 at 1:26 AM
Bike 2 progress, preview next week
October 12, 2024 at 1:02 PM
The new Bike Outliner adds outline paths! Watch the Into movie here:

www.hogbaysoftware.com/posts/bike-o...

Updated icon too!
November 7, 2023 at 7:37 PM
Feeling silly posting in three different places, but in non-programming news my mushroom logs that I had almost given up on are ...
October 4, 2023 at 11:32 AM
The latest Bike Outliner adds "Focus Heading" for fast keyboard centric navigation • www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/
September 7, 2023 at 3:23 PM
Bike Outliner's new "Focus Heading" combobox is almost done. Try out the preview today and help me get the details right:

support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-1-14-...
August 24, 2023 at 12:41 PM
Latest Bike Outliner preview adds styling for quotes, code blocks, and notes: https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-1-13-preview-143/5385
July 28, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Row type work in Bike continues.

Latest preview release changes selection drawing, adds row type status to status bar, and fixes a bunch of bugs.

https://support.hogbaysoftware.com/t/bike-1-13-preview-142/5385
July 26, 2023 at 10:05 PM