{"id":1354,"date":"2022-10-17T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2023-04-07T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2023-04-08T01:22:19","slug":"saving-old-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"Saving Old Software"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am preparing for my retirement and the question of what happens to all my software looms large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, I <a href=\"Http:\/\/latenightsw.com\/freeware\/ui-browser\/\">became the custodian of Bill Cheeseman&#8217;s wonderful UI Browser<\/a> application after it reached its end-of-life. Bill is retiring and wants to focus on other things in his life, but there is a community that continues to need access to his software as there isn&#8217;t a practical alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did this previously when I took over hosting the <a href=\"http:\/\/macscripter.net\">MacScripter.net<\/a> web site from Ray Barber. MacScripter has existed for a very long time and is a storehouse of macOS automation knowledge and history. It had to be preserved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.provue.com\">Jim Rea<\/a> reminded my of the question of my retirement when I corresponded with him about taking over UI Browser. How do we preserve software and web resources when their custodians are no longer able to support them?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am preparing for my retirement and the question of what happens to all my software looms large. This week, I became the custodian of&#8230;<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/?p=1354\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving Old Software<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AQk-lQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1359,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markalldritt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}