Gus, You Dawg

So Gus Mueller interviews this mystery developer, I call him Mr. Redacted:

MUELLER: So you figured, what the heck—why not make another redacted?
DEV: Sure. There's a ton of Mac users out there now, we can all share. A rising tide lifts all boats, right? Plus, the problem space just really interested me. It was a ton of fun to write.
MUELLER: I've played with redacted a bunch, and it's pretty nice. I like it. But it's obvious that there are some missing features. Why are you shipping a 1.0 without redacted, or even redacted?
DEV: It's a 1.0, remember? Redacted is coming in a future release, but I can't tell you when that is. It's high up there on the todo list for sure. That was one of the big challenges with redacted; what goes in a 1.0, and what doesn't? It's almost a philosophical question.

And tonight (mid-September) in the middle of the night, bing-bong, in comes the mail ... and it's Gus, announcing what he and his alter ego have been up to ... Acorn! Beautiful new Mac graphics app, so smooth, so uncluttered.

I admire Gus, he's the only person whose funnies are dryer than mine. Gus is a master at having people on, but also, I suspect, so fundamentally goodhearted, he tends to drop more clues. But not many. This kind of thing, you have to keep 'em guessing. Unsettle the little buggers. Leave 'em never quite sure. That's the whole point. My, how some of us do play at the disguise of creative aggression.

You might even say it's an art.