{"id":47147,"date":"2025-03-21T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47147"},"modified":"2025-03-21T16:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T20:17:01","slug":"two-decades-of-bjango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/21\/two-decades-of-bjango\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Decades of Bjango"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/twodecades\/\">Bjango<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bjango.com\/articles\/twodecades\/\"><p>In the beginning, Bjango was just a couple of friends making free OS X Dashboard widgets. We started working on those widgets prior to OS X 10.4 Tiger&rsquo;s release on 29 April 2005, so my best guess is we started working together some time in March 2005.<\/p><p>After releasing a few successful widgets, we moved on to what we really wanted to create &mdash; full Mac apps. iStat Menus 1.0 was released May 2007, and has seen constant updates since. I can&rsquo;t believe we&rsquo;ve been working on iStat Menus for almost 18 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/24\/provue-at-the-first-macworld-expo\/\">ProVUE at the First Macworld Expo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/08\/indie-anniversaries\/\">Indie Anniversaries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/01\/istat-menus-7\/\">iStat Menus 7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/29\/snowflake-weather-1-3-for-ios\/\">Snowflake Weather 1.3 for iOS<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bjango: In the beginning, Bjango was just a couple of friends making free OS X Dashboard widgets. We started working on those widgets prior to OS X 10.4 Tiger&rsquo;s release on 29 April 2005, so my best guess is we started working together some time in March 2005.After releasing a few successful widgets, we moved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-03-21T20:17:04Z","apple_news_api_id":"77292b25-05c9-44c8-b946-a531efcb919c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-03-21T20:17:04Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdykrJQXJRMi5RqUx78uRnA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2070,101,1742,31,1581,30,32],"class_list":["post-47147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-business","tag-dashboard","tag-ios","tag-istat-menus","tag-mac","tag-macapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47148,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47147\/revisions\/47148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}