I confess, your departure has unnerved me. Hardy Macia was not only an extraordinary programmer who never stopped being kind and gentle. Hardy Macia died this May 13 of cancer (Hodgkin lymphoma). Unfortunately the world has lost a valuable human being. Its simplicity, customization and intuitive approach have brought favorable results in my life and in the life of each of the people who have recommended installing it. I have traded financial software from large corporations for Pocket Money. Today I have been testing, installing and using Pocket Money for more than 10 years from the old Apple Newton, Palm OS, Pocket PC, iPhone, Android, Linux, Mac and Windows. In one of those emails he showed me how much fun it is to create charts and analyze in retrospect what has been spent month by month in recent years on electricity, nail polish or hair styling. Hardy answered everyone with kindness and a joke, always. In 2007, when I switched from Palm OS to an iPhone, Hardy helped me move all my data in Pocket Money without losing a single byte of information.ĭuring all these years and every so often, I sent him emails with technical queries. All applications created by Catamount Software were made by one man: Hardy Macia. You can read the full story of how you bought your first home here.īy Hardy I understood how difficult the economy is of an independent software developer who, despite the high piracy rate, always kept working hard. And even with the low number of users who paid for their applications, they were able to plan to buy a home. He was a software developer who enjoyed talking about economics and finance, it was his motivation to develop Pocket Money. He gave us important tips on how to make a long-term savings plan using Pocket Money and on the importance of keeping track of our smallest expenses. And we become the most passionate advocates and evangelizers of Pocket Money. Hardy continued to join PAM groups, eventually becoming a friend. Besides, we wouldn’t do it, and he who was a very intelligent man knew it.Ĭontrary to what we expected, Hardy asked us to share with him the modifications (including the Spanish translation) that we made to his application. We behave like first-rate scoundrels with Hardy, we treat him like an enemy, yet he treated us with respect and did not demand that we stop hacking his app. He identified himself as the developer of the Pocket Money application (which by then was among the most popular and pirated Apps on the forum). On DecemHardy Macia came to one of PAM’s Yahoo groups. In our ignorance we felt ourselves making a “great contribution to the world”. We received threats daily, especially from independent developers, but we didn’t stop. I remember a very serious one with the developer of Ultralingua. We not only hacked their apps, we also modified and translated them into Spanish. The PAM forum became the terror of the developers of apps for Palm OS. In those years, while I was moderating PAM (Palm Applications Maniac), a popular Spanish forum on Palm OS, I met Hardy Macia. There was a time when it meant an act – childish – of protest and freedom for me. Tribute to Hardy Macia: creator and developer of the Pocket Money application (Thanks to “Google translate.”) we found in internet here: Here follows a translation of an article regarding Hardy’s passing. You could find a brief biography about “Hardy” here Pocketmoney has been one of the very first app to be published in 2008 on then new-born Apple store. He was the pioneer who wrote for Pocketmoney for Apple Newton That Hardy Macia, was a special men, you can can perceive using his app Pocketmoney. Did you know that Pocketmoney app was one of the very first app for iPhone? A brief story of his most successful app you can find here. His name was Harland “Hardy” Arthur Macia, who died 43 May 13, 2013. An original man who develop the app we most love. We should celebrate not technology but those men who are the creators of those gadgets, those who gave life to that hardware or software that make our life better. It is the outcome of the development of the human intelligence, it is a creature of men who spent some years of their life studying stuff related to several technologies and then, only at a later time, their brains mix together knowledge and creativity. Technology, electronic, hardware and software belong at this point to the collective imagination as a fascinating world.Įverything we make and use has to do with technology and sometime it happens to linger and think how magic this world is. Thanks to some friends, like xromad or jen p, who recalled me this anniversary of passing of the great person who designed the probably best app ever, I post again a page published a couple of years ago to remember a great men. This Friday, 13th of May 2022 will mark the 9th anniversary of Hardy’s passing.
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