Daniel and Manton react to stock prices for Apple and Twitter, follow-up on WWDC ticket sales, and touch on the ethics of badge sharing and Apple theoretically overselling tickets. Finally, they appreciate that they’re now both working on Swift code in their respective work.

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

• Apple Earnings – Live conference call playback from Apple.
• Better Than Expected – News reporting on Tim Cook’s comments in the earnings call about iPhone SE availability.
• Icahn Out – The famously activist investor has divested of all his Apple stock.
• WWDC – The Apple developer conference you’re too late to sign up for!
• Jonathan Hays – Offered to cover the expense of Manton’s WWDC ticket for work with Jonathan’s iOS dev company, Silverpine Software… if only Manton had gotten one!
• Mutable Foundation Types – Pull request for Swift to support dramatically improved mutability semantics for Foundation classes.

Manton and Daniel take stock of WWDC announcement, fretting further about whether to attend and in what capacity. Daniel looks forward to speaking at try! Swift in NYC, and Manton admits he’s started work on his first Swift-only project. They wrap up with a discussion of Daniel’s new self-imposed estimation discipline for outstanding tickets in his bug-tracking system.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• WWDC – Apple’s annual developer conference is a go!
• Don’t Give Up on WWDC – Manton’s response to grumping in the community about WWDC.
• Finding SF Too Expensive? – Alternative conferences with a (sadly, now expired) 10% discount.
• FogBugz – Customer support and project planning software from Fog Creek.

Daniel and Manton discuss the iPhone SE’s evident popularity, touch on the challenges of designing for extremes in screen size, and bemoan some of Siri’s shortcomings when compared to competitors. The two also discuss tax time as an indie software developer, weigh the merits of heading to SF for WWDC, and finally delve into some deep reflections about the psychology of not shipping in too long.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Fabric, Twitter’s mobile SDK: Leverage the power of Crashlytics, Twitter and MoPub to help you build the best mobile apps.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• Google glass – Landing page from Google for the suspended, ambitious product.
• Amazon Echo – The voice-recognition based product that seems to eat Siri’s lunch in some respects.
• Echo Dot – Smaller-scale version of Amazon Echo for scattering about your living spaces.
• VoodooPad – Plausible’s desktop Wiki software, abused by Daniel for ersatz bookkeeping.
• Soulver – Part of Daniel’s bookkeeping suite: copy and paste a column of figures to sum them!
• Xero – Popular online accounting software.
• Less Accounting – Another online accounting system.
• Study Accounting iOS app – iOS based tutorial app introducing concepts of double-entry accounting.
• Halle Winkler – Twitter account of Halle Winkler, who recommended the Study Accounting app.
• Release Notes Conference – Indie software business conference based in Indianapolis.
• Vesper – iOS note-taking app.

Manton is happy with his new iPhone SE. Daniel gets Typewriter mode … mostly working in WebKit. The two discuss the merits of hybrid native/HTML interfaces in apps, and Manton approaches the long-awaited debut of his Kickstarter campaign.

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• NSScreencast: Join the thousands of developers who use NSScreencast to become better iOS developers.
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Links:

• No Room For Doubt – Daniel’s post about the design merits of the iPhone SE.
• iPhone SE Availability – Rumors pointing to the relative success of the iPhone SE.
• RapidWeaver – Popular OS X desktop app with WebKit-based editing functionality.
• Sandvox – Another popular OS X WebKit-editing app.
• Slack – Example of a very web-based OS X native app.
• Kickstarter Recording – Manton asserts he is finally recording his Kickstarter video.
• Screenshot Lightning – Daniel writes about Kent Sutherland’s approach to automating screenshot captures.
• Kent Sutherland – Twitter account for Kent Sutherland.
• Fantastical – Popular Mac calendar app, built by Kent Sutherland.

Manton and Daniel discusses the in-progress work on “Typewriter Mode” for MarsEdit and reflect on long-term evolution of UX vs. sticking with what people know. Manton waits anxiously for his iPhone SE, and sets a new personal monthly challenge to work from 30 different public libraries.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

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

Links:

• About Face – Alan Cooper’s classic book on interaction design.
• nvAlt – Brett Terpstra’s popular fork of Notational Velocity.
• Justnotes – Decommissioned Simplenote editor app for Mac.
• Ulysses – “Distraction free” editor for Mac and iOS.
• WriteRoom – Jesse Grosjean’s venerable distraction free editor for Mac.
• Strict Robot Definer – The Talk Show with John Gruber and Jason Snell.
• New Central Library – Austin’s downtown public library, still under construction.