Daniel gets over the flu while Manton doubles down on coffee shops. The two discuss the value of “Office Hours” and “Coder Nights” as a means of getting out and meeting like-minded people. They discuss Facebook’s Instant Articles as a potential boon to the open web, react to the new Apple TV Tech Talk videos, and Daniel admits he never bought a 1st-generation iPhone.

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Links:

• Coffee Shops in Austin – Manton’s summary page for his 30 days, 30 coffee shops challenge.
• Isaiah Carew – Daniel’s old TA, and Manton’s current coffee-shop buddy.
• Cafe Bedouins – Weekly meet-up in Austin to work together on side projects.
• Damon Clinkscales – Organizer of Cafe Bedouins and friend of the show.
• Accelerated Mobile Pages – Project by Google to accelerate web page loading.
• Facebook Instant Articles – Fast content publishing platform from Facebook.
• Helps the Open Web – Dave Winer makes the case for Facebook Instant Articles’s value.
• Instant Articles Quickstart – Developer documentation for the technology.
• River5 – Latest incarnation of Dave Winer’s “river of news” RSS client software.
• Managing Bias – Collection of educational materials from Facebook aimed at helping people recognize their biases.
• WordPress VIP – The premium hosted WordPress service that many Facebook pages are hosted on.

Daniel orders a Brother, Apple defies the FBI, Manton continues to struggle with his Kickstarter, and the two discuss using structure and constraints to encourage tackling new goals.

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Links:

• Brother HL-L2340DW – Daniel’s, and the rest of the world’s, cheap monochrome printer of choice.
• Gigablock Bulk – Continuous ink system for ink-jet printers, courtesy of listener Brian L.
• A Message to Our Customers – Tim Cook’s defiant response to the FBI.
• I Wonder… – Jon Wight imagines the consequences if Apple employees refuse to back-door phones.
• iGotYourBack – Daniel’s post on Bitsplitting, responding to Tim Cook’s letter.
• Kickstarter Music – Manton’s latest Timetable episode.
• Sorrento’s Drive-Thru – A surprisingly hip, Austin drive-thru coffee stop.
• Tiny Challenges – Jaimee Newberry’s experiments at chipping away at challenges in a small way.

Daniel discusses his printer problems, Manton discusses his Kickstarter problems. They go on to discuss the challenge of following through on public and private commitments, and chat about the wisdom of discussing politics and other divisive topics on public Twitter accounts or blogs.

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• SmartGo: learn to play Go.
• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.

Links:

• Printopia – Mac App lets you print to almost any printer from iOS.
• Mac Supported Printers – List from Apple of printers with software drivers for OS X.
• Timetable – Manton’s short-format indie developer microcast.
• Kickstarter – Well-known crowdfunding site.
• Micropub – Publishing standard from IndieWebCamp.
• WebMention – Sort of a modern replacement for “Trackbacks” in blogging.
• Inessential – Brent Simmons’s blog.
• NetNewsWire – The venerable RSS reader for Mac, now developed by Black Pixel.
• Whether Daniel Worries – Clark Goble asks whether we fear tweeting about politics, etc.
• @electionpunkass – Daniel’s experiment with publishing political tweets to a separate account.
• DreamHost’s Super Lame Apology – Daniel’s 2009 post about the downside of overly-casual business communication.
• Manton’s Election Posts – Manton’s long history of blogging about elections.

Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s current and future stock price, and their potential to branch out into other technologies such as virtual reality. They discuss Facebook’s shuttering of Parse and the implications for iOS developers and Facebook’s PR. Finally, they respond to listener Q&A about getting up to speed on using and implementing your own web services.

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• Apple Going For Free – Kirk Burgess extrapolates on the possibility of Apple’s stock not rising.
• How Far – Jason Snell talks about the iPad and it’s downward fall.
• The Future of Television – Apple’s ads for the Apple TV.
• do{iOS} – Amsterdam-based conference where Daniel spoke last year.
• Moving On – News from Parse that they will be shutting down.
• Azure Welcomes Parse Developers – Microsoft responds to Parse’s closure by rolling out the red carpet.

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