Episode 115: All Day At The Magic Kingdom

Daniel and Manton discuss the Thanksgiving holiday, possible defects in the iPad Mini screen, and Yahoo’s hiring of Katie Couric and general increases to their mojo.

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November 26, 2013 at 2:51 pm.

Episode 114: Making It So Easy For Us Rich Fools

Manton gets a new iPad mini retina, while Daniel continues to imagine uses for his. We talk about the economic challenges of indie software, diversifying or unifying product lineups, and pricing conundrums.

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November 22, 2013 at 8:39 am.

Episode 113: Unusually Dedicated To My Craft

Daniel and Manton discuss Twitter’s new custom timelines, Manton buys a share from the flock, and Daniel describes his Auto Layout frustration/fulfillment.

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  • Custom Timelines – Twitter announcement of the new feature for Tweetdeck and select developers.
  • Tweet Library – Manton’s iPad Twitter client which offers features akin to custom timelines.
  • Storify – Third-party service also offering custom timelines style features.
  • Tweetdeck – Twitter’s own mega-featured Twitter client.
  • Wolf Rentzsch – Core Intuition’s first guest.
  • Craig Hockenberry – Core Intuition’s second and thus far last guest.
  • Changes Coming to Twitter API – Original announcement from Twitter about the 1.1 API and “quadrants.”
  • Sunlit – Manton’s forthcoming photo-sharing app.
  • Auto Layout Guide – Apple’s introductory documentation to Auto Layout.
  • Carbon’s HIView Programming Guide (PDF) – HILayoutInfo was what Manton was thinking of, but it’s not Auto Layout.
  • Cassowary – The University of Washington “constraint-solving toolkit” upon which Auto Layout is at least partly based.
  • F-Script – Open source scripting language that offers utility for injecting into running apps and inspecting e.g. view hierarchies.

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November 13, 2013 at 8:01 am.

Episode 112: It Wasn’t Done Enough

Manton and Daniel talk about Twitter’s IPO and Manton’s slightly softening stance on Twitter, Apple’s response to iWork ’13 complaints, the sale of Flying Meat’s VoodooPad app, and the challenge of killing off beloved software.

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November 7, 2013 at 7:37 pm.

Episode 111: A Dead End Product

Daniel and Manton discuss feedback on public speaking, hype vs. pragmatism in releasing a 1.0, and weighing the pros and cons of supporting users on older OS versions.

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  • CocoaConf – Travelling conference for Mac and iOS developers.
  • Sunlit – Teaser page for Manton’s upcoming iOS social photo-sharing app.
  • Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter client for iOS.
  • Cheddar Sold – Conclusion to the effort by Sam Soffes to sell his ToDo software.
  • Roon – New blog-hosting software from Sam Soffes.

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November 1, 2013 at 11:56 am.