Episode 99: Okay, I’ll Stay

Daniel and Manton talk about the return of ADC, Manton’s epic road trip, the death of upgrade pricing, and the death of Bento.

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July 31, 2013 at 3:58 pm.

Episode 98: The Spirit Of Translucency

Manton and Daniel talk about the Bitsplitting Podcast’s hiatus, prioritizing focus on multiple projects, and Apple’s unprecedented developer-program security breach.

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July 24, 2013 at 8:18 pm.

Episode 97: Some Little Achilles Heel Thing

Daniel and Manton talk about Tweet Marker’s new developer plan, dealing with deprecated APIs, WWDC videos on YouTube, and the futility of Apple’s NDA.

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July 18, 2013 at 6:30 pm.

Episode 96: An Exhilarating Refresh

Manton and Daniel talk about the loss of RSS feeds for Twitter searches, the joys of starting on a new app, and sweating the details of all the non-programming indie software-business work.

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  • RSS Feeds For Twitter – Advice from Amit Agarwal on hacking together an RSS feed for Twitter search results.
  • Yahoo Pipes – Yahoo’s visual programming toolkit for web-based data.
  • T Command Line Tool – Ruby-based command-line interface to Twitter’s API.
  • NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Beta-release of the next version of the popular Mac-based news reader.
  • Ship Everything – Manton’s year-old blog post on the credo to only start projects you will finish.
  • iOS Text Editors – Brett Terpstra’s extensive catalog of iOS-based text editors.

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July 10, 2013 at 4:47 pm.

Episode 95: Something That No One Else Has

Daniel and Manton talk about Daniel’s approach for the text editor app market, catch up on the latest in RSS syncing, and take 3 questions about iOS 7 development.

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  • Minimalist Text Editor? – Daniel’s Tweet asking for text editor opinions.
  • Byword – A popular minimalist text editor.
  • iA Writer – Another popular editing app.
  • Elements – And another, from Justin Williams.
  • NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Preview release of the popular Mac RSS reader.
  • Reeder – Another popular Mac and iOS RSS reader.
  • Feed Wrangler – A web-based RSS reader that also has an iOS client and a Mac client on the way.
  • Feedbin – Another web-based RSS reader.
  • Feedly – And another!
  • Mr. Reader – An RSS reader for iPad with a large variety of syncing options.
  • ReadKit – Mac RSS reader with custom support for many “read later” type services.
  • All Or Nothing – Marco Arment’s judgment of Black Pixel’s presumed choice to build their own sync solution.

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July 4, 2013 at 10:31 am.