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Brent Simmons

Creator of NetNewsWire; indie Mac & iOS pioneer

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The work

What we are celebrating, specifically.

  • Created NetNewsWire, the RSS feed reader that became a standard tool on the Mac, and maintains it today as a free, open-source app.
  • Created MarsEdit and co-created the Vesper note-taking app (later open-sourced); contributed to OmniFocus and OmniOutliner at The Omni Group.
  • A foundational voice for the open web and indie Mac development, blogging at inessential.com since 1999.

NetNewsWire / Ranchero Software

Developer · current

The open-source RSS feed reader for Mac and iOS, and a long line of indie apps

Why

Why we celebrate them.

For decades of indie Mac and iOS craftsmanship, for keeping NetNewsWire alive and open, and for championing the open web the whole community grew up on.

Sources — their own pages, so you can check us

  • inessential.com
  • GitHub · @brentsimmons
This page is yours

Brent Simmons, this belongs to you.

We built this from your public work because we think it deserves celebrating. You did not ask us to, so the only fair thing is that you decide what happens to it. Claim it and it is yours to edit. Ask us to change something and we will. Ask us to take it down and it is gone within 72 hours — free, no account needed, and nobody will try to talk you out of it.

Claim or remove this pageEveryone we celebrate