{"id":48403,"date":"2025-07-08T16:25:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48403"},"modified":"2025-07-08T16:25:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:25:16","slug":"vienna-rss-at-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/vienna-rss-at-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Vienna RSS at 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vienna-rss.com\/blog\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/Celebrating-20-years-of-ViennaRSS.html\">Barijaona Ramaholimihaso<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.vienna-rss.com\/blog\/news\/2025\/07\/07\/Celebrating-20-years-of-ViennaRSS.html\"><p>After some minor fiddling, I got the initial version of Vienna running on VirtualBox on <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/barijaona\/OpenCore_GA-Z170X-Gaming5\">my retro hack<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Founding father of Vienna, Steve contributed mostly from 2004 to 2008, made a short comeback in 2010, and is definitely at the root of Vienna&rsquo;s ethics: making a clean, spartan, and highly useful app.<\/p><p>He almost never publicized his bio, but I finally found an <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20041229120628\/http:\/\/www.opencommunity.co.uk:80\/About.html\">&ldquo;About me&rdquo;<\/a> (he was from the UK and a software developer working in the US for Microsoft Business Solutions), and some reflexions on  writing software : <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20051215061510\/http:\/\/www.opencommunity.co.uk\/blog\/blog.html\">part 2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20050308113454\/http:\/\/www.opencommunity.co.uk:80\/makingsoftware.html\">part 1<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>While I was finishing the Google Reader support started by Adam Hartford and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ansani\/\">Salvatore Ansani<\/a>, Google announced it would end Google Reader&#8230; That is far from being the single reason why Vienna 3 had 20 beta versions and 9 release candidate versions before being released in November 2014!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/27\/news-explorer-2-1\/\">News Explorer 2.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/05\/reeder-rebuilt\/\">Reeder Rebuilt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/09\/netnewswire-6-1-6\/\">NetNewsWire 6.1.6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/04\/readkit-3-3\/\">ReadKit 3.3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/02\/unread-rss-reader-for-mac\/\">Unread RSS Reader for Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/11\/rss-readers-rejected-from-the-app-store\/\">RSS Readers Rejected From the App Store<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/20\/feedbin-pages-read-later\/\">Feedbin Pages (Read Later)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/24\/the-state-of-rss-on-the-mac\/\">The State of RSS on the Mac<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/22\/the-10-best-feed-readers\/\">The 10 Best Feed Readers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/google-reader-over-and-out\/\">Google Reader Over and Out<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barijaona Ramaholimihaso: After some minor fiddling, I got the initial version of Vienna running on VirtualBox on my retro hack.[&#8230;]Founding father of Vienna, Steve contributed mostly from 2004 to 2008, made a short comeback in 2010, and is definitely at the root of Vienna&rsquo;s ethics: making a clean, spartan, and highly useful app.He almost never [&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":"2025-07-08T20:25:18Z","apple_news_api_id":"7df295f5-3578-416e-9e69-1092204cf6f0","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-08T20:25:19Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AffKV9TV4QW6eaRCSIEz28A","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":[2070,30,32,2598,74,52,1450],"class_list":["post-48403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-anniversary","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-15-sequoia","tag-opensource","tag-rss","tag-vienna-rss"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403","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=48403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48404,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48403\/revisions\/48404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}