{"id":36981,"date":"2022-09-08T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T18:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=36981"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:08:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T20:08:32","slug":"indie-anniversaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/indie-anniversaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie Anniversaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/06\/hazels-15th-16th-anniversary\/\">Paul Kim<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.noodlesoft.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/06\/hazels-15th-16th-anniversary\/\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s been 16 years ago today since Hazel&rsquo;s first release. Why celebrate the 16th anniversary? Because I thought it was actually 15 years but got the dates wrong. So, to mark the 16th anniversary (or a belated 15th, if you prefer), Hazel is 30% off.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2022\/08\/10-year-anniversary-ama\/\">Christian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2022\/09\/10-year-indieversary-ama-postmortem\/\">Tietze<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2022\/08\/10-year-anniversary-ama\/\">\n<p>I realized that my official 10th &ldquo;company&rdquo; anniversary is just around the corner!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2022\/09\/10-year-indieversary-ama-postmortem\/\">\n<p>Thanks everyone for joining <a href=\"https:\/\/christiantietze.de\/posts\/2022\/08\/10-year-anniversary-ama\/\">the AMA yesterday<\/a>! Was a fun experience :)<\/p>\n<p>We talked about a couple of technical and historic things.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/ready-for-ios-16-and-celebrating-30-years-of-omni\">Ken Case<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kcase\/status\/1567921980036493319\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/blog\/ready-for-ios-16-and-celebrating-30-years-of-omni\">\n<p>Speaking of time flying, today marks the 30-year anniversary of the day we started doing business together as &ldquo;the Omni Group.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve seen a lot of operating system releases over the last 30 years&mdash;coincidentally, 30 years ago today was also the day that NeXT shipped the NeXTSTEP 3.0 operating system!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catlan\/status\/1567972841219309568\">Christopher Atlan<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/catlan\/status\/1567972841219309568\">\n<p>I forgot to tweet this year, but Aug 29 marked 16 year of Letter Opener!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/23\/festival-of-artisanal-software-summer-2022\/\">Festival of Artisanal Software: Summer 2022<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/14\/bbedit-turns-30\/\">BBEdit Turns 30<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/04\/congratulations\/\">Congratulations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"indie-anniversaries-update-2022-09-09\">Update (2022-09-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peternlewis\/status\/1567426377074507777\">Peter N Lewis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/peternlewis\/status\/1567426377074507777\"><p>@keyboardmaestro\n is 20 years old this year. Michael Kamprath released Keyboard Maestro in 2002, but I didn&rsquo;t acquire it until 2004 for the release of version 2.0.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1568297511013449733\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stroughtonsmith\/status\/1568297511013449733\">\n<p>Tomorrow marks the 15th anniversary of me building apps for iPhone. Before App Store, before iPhone SDK, there was a passionate community of developers exploring that new frontier on jailbroken devices. I built my first app without access to any device, and debugged it via email<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"indie-anniversaries-update-2022-09-22\">Update (2022-09-22): <a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.rogueamoeba.com\/2022\/09\/18\/celebrate-rogue-amoebas-20th-anniversary\/\">Paul Kafasis<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RogueAmoeba\/status\/1571641663092662274\">tweet<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/weblog.rogueamoeba.com\/2022\/09\/18\/celebrate-rogue-amoebas-20th-anniversary\/\">\n<p>20 years ago this month, Rogue Amoeba <a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.rogueamoeba.com\/2002\/09\/30\/company-news-2\/\">unveiled Audio Hijack 1.0<\/a>, the very first version of what has become our flagship product. To celebrate that anniversary, we&rsquo;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.rogueamoeba.com\/2022\/09\/18\/celebrate-rogue-amoebas-20th-anniversary\/#saledetails\">a great deal<\/a> to share with you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2002\/01\/21\/dropdmg-1-0\/\">DropDMG<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2002\/09\/10\/spamsieve-1-0\/\">SpamSieve<\/a> are also 20 this year.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/indie-anniversaries\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/indie-anniversaries\/\">\n<p>There is something very special about using products made by independent developers like these. It is software with personality, driven by a level of care and passion that is understandably lost in larger organizations. When I am having trouble or want to request a feature enhancement, I can send an email from somewhere in the application and receive a response from a real person who has the power to make things happen. Institutional developers have their place, but I feel an level of individual care from the indie software projects I use on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/500\">Accidental Tech Podcast<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/atp.fm\/500\">\n<p>&#x1F389; ATP EPISODE 500!!! &#x1F389;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kim: It&rsquo;s been 16 years ago today since Hazel&rsquo;s first release. Why celebrate the 16th anniversary? Because I thought it was actually 15 years but got the dates wrong. So, to mark the 16th anniversary (or a belated 15th, if you prefer), Hazel is 30% off. 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