Manton and Daniel celebrate iTunes Connect reopening, discuss Twitter 4.0 and scrutiny it received, compare end of year goals, and consider the value of a personal code of conduct for directing business ambitions.

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• TweetBot for Mac – Native Mac Twitter client from Tapbots.
• Twitterrific for Mac – Native Mac Twitter client from IconFactory.
• Black Pixel – Alleged outsource developers of Twitter 4.0.
• Blame Black Pixel? – The Verge’s article citing Black Pixel as developers.
• Pride of Ownership – Daniel’s semi-regretted Twitter quip about Twitter 4.0.
• Ben Sandofsky – Once the internal maintainer of Twitter’s Mac app.
• Atebits – Loren Brichter’s company, original developer of Twitter’s Mac and iOS apps.
• WordPress.com – Full-featured blogging platform.
• Medium – Is it really a blog platform?

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Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s annual iTunes Connect shutdown, Manton’s application for Slack’s developer venture fund, the magic of financially successful companies who remain seemingly small, and the relative merits of public vs. private social networks.

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• iTunes Holiday Shutdown – Information from Apple about implications of their annual shutdown.
• The Slack Platform Launch – Blog post from Slack on new features and the Slack fund.
• Year In Numbers – Infographic from Slack demonstrating their massive growth during their first year.
• HipChat – Atlassian’s group-chat service.
• HipChat Pricing – Standard pricing and server pricing.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple TV development challenges, Apple’s executive team shakeup and its impact on the App Stores, and keeping a good attitude about successes and shortcomings as an ambitious indie developer.

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• Apple TV Tech Talks – Apple’s traveling technical boot camp for Apple TV.
• Headless Apple TV Development – Erica Sadun lays out a setup for developing with Apple TV plugged into a computer.
• Clipstart – Manton’s venerable video-management app for Mac.
• Sunlit – Manton’s photo-storytelling app for iOS.
• iCloud Photo Library – Apple’s cloud-based photo management service.
• Google Photos – Google’s photo hosting service.
• Carousel – Dropbox’s soon-to-be-shuttered photo gallery front-end.
• Dan Shot First – Home page for Dan Moren, modern bus-taking Boston guy.
• Six Colors – Apple-oriented tech blog by Jason Snell and Dan Moren.
• Ecosystem Responsibilities – Apple’s PR announcing changes to roles for Phil Schiller, Jeff Williams, and more.
• The Talk Show #139 – With special guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa.
• Manton’s blog post about Apple PR – Links to earlier posts about Phil Schiller and the App Store.
• Fallback plan tweet – “If you have a fallback, you will fall back.”

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Daniel and Manton react to Swift’s open-sourcing, and the extent to which it adds momentum to the language and increases its appeal. They also discuss the open-sourcing of Microsoft’s MarsEdit-esque blog editor, Windows Live Writer.

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• Swift.org – Apple’s new home-page for the Swift open-source project.
• WebKit.org – Another example of a major open source project from Apple.
• Swift-Evolution – Apple’s project dedicated to mapping the future of Swift.
• IBM Swift Sandbox – Interactive Swift compiler web page from IBM.
• Perfect – Swift-based web server project.
• Lasso – Old-school software from Perfect developer Kyle Jessup.
• Ecto – The once-powerful competitor to MarsEdit.
• OpenLiveWriter – Open-source blog editor based on Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer.
• WordPress 4.4 – The latest open-source version of WordPress, code-named “Clifford.”
• WordPress.com REST API – Server-side API against which Calypso is built.
• WP REST API – Open-source API being gradually introduced to WordPress.org project.

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Manton and Daniel lament the long-standing shortcomings of the Mac App Store, discuss Bohemian Coding’s recent decision to pull Sketch from the store, and Daniel shares his growing admiration for Swift.

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• Leaving the Mac App Store – Bohemian Coding’s announcement of Sketch departing the store.
• Pieter Omvlee – Founder of Bohemian Coding and speaker at Release Notes.
• Too Late? – Manton’s blog post about the prospects for saving the Mac App Store.
• 59 Days – Round-up of Mac App Store news from Michael Tsai, including remark about his long approval delay.
• Swift Expert – Daniel’s do{iOS} post-talk interview.
• Swift Blog – Apple’s public blog about Swift, long predating the open-source project.

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