Often, these documents promise that they contain very interesting information. People I don’t know send me documents all the time. Screenshot courtesy of BBEdit was built for coding, but it’s good for a lot more than that.Ģ. Who/Firefly mashup tee shirts slave all day keeping servers and apps running, “ Bare Bones Software” is uttered with the same reverence as “ Industrial Light and Magic” or “ WETA Digital.”

This use makes perfect sense because code editing is BBEdit’s most famous function.

So I use BBEdit as my code editor: It lets me edit my site’s files directly on the server it previews everything in place and when I’m about to move on to the next line without fixing an unbalanced bracket, the app gently coughs and points, rather than making me feel like an idiot. But I’m kind of a dope, meaning that every working scrap of CSS and PHP that I write is the result of trial and error.