Daniel and Manton talk about 1Password’s decision to use Electron for its next major update, and what that says about Apple’s confusing and conflicting platform frameworks. They talk about the continuing role of AppKit as a the only way to achieve many expected macOS behaviors, and wonder if the next-generation standard for desktop apps might actually be a “web technology.” Finally, Manton presses Daniel about his alleged ambition to “focus on shipping MarsEdit 4.5.”

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Links:

• 1Password 8 Early Access – Announcement of an upcoming major upgrade, which astute observers determined is Electron-based.
• Some Bugs Here for Sure – Dave Teare of 1Password responds to Casey Liss’s criticisms of the early access release.
• I Would Gladly Suffer – Daniel’s tweet about being open to cross-platform compromises if the UX is good.
• Chameleon – An early open-source UIKit adaptation to Mac, by Sean Heber of the Iconfactory.
• UXKit – Guillermo Rambo’s analysis of Apple’s private cross-platform UIKit adaptation.

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Manton and Daniel review how Micro Camp went, and how Manton might refine the format in the future. Manton asks Daniel why he decided to ship an update to Touché when he’s allegedly focused on MarsEdit 4.5. Finally, they talk about Manton’s update to Micro.blog to support the new Glass photo-sharing service.

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Links:

• Vi.to – The online conference-running service used by Micro Camp.
• Jason Burk – Micro.blog user, designer, and Micro Camp co-organizer.
• Start with No – Basecamp’s (née 37signals) Getting Real chapter on ignoring (some) feedback.
• Glass – New photo-sharing social network.
• Micro.blog 2.2 – Featuring new supoprt for sharing Glass photos.
• Puzzazz – Popular puzzle-solving software with an iOS app.
• I Recently Took Another Look – Daniel tweets about Puzzazz and celebrates its merits.
• Touche 1.1.5 – Daniel’s announcement that Touché has been revived.
• Sunlit – Manton’s and Jonathan Hays’s photo-sharing app for Micro.blog.

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Daniel talks to Manton about his last-minute preparations for Micro Camp, and the extent to which he’s had to drop everything to focus on the virtual conference. Daniel describes the process of reacing to the New York Times dropping Across Lite support, and his ultimate delivery of an updated version of Black Ink to work around the change. Finally, they talk about the merit of staying engaged with customers who have made feature requests, even if it was a long time ago.

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Links:

• Micro.camp – Manton’s virtual conference for Micro.blog users and developers.
• Vi.to – Online conference-running solution from the makers of Ti.to.
• Black Ink 2.1.7 – Daniel’s announcement of the update to Black Ink that preserves NYT support.
• OmniFocus – Productivity app that Daniel uses to manage his ToDos and recurring task lists.
• Brené Brown – Episode of NPR’s “How I Built This” featuring the vulnerability expert.

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Manton talks to Daniel about his upcoming Micro Camp conference, and the process he went through in acquiring the associated micro.camp domain. They talk about taking advantage of the benefits of “content marketing” without being sleazy about it, and the value of trying lots of different things. Daniel shares his reaction to the New York Times announcing they are dropping support for the puzzle file format that Black Ink uses, and the impact it’s having on the Times’s and his customers.

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Links:

• Micro Camp – Two-day Micro.blog conference happening Aug 13-14.
• Jean MacDonald – Manton’s collaborator with Micro.blog and Micro Camp.
• Jason Burk – Logo designer for Micro Camp.
• Hemispheric Views – A podcast with Jason Burk, Andrew Canion, and Martin Feld.
• Influence – The Robert Cialdini book that Daniel cited erroneously as “Persuasion.”
• Serial Entrepreneur – How I Built This interview with Gary Vaynerchuk.
• No Longer Available – New York Times announcement that it will drop support for Across Lite files.
• Drop Dead – Jason Snell of Six Colors links to the NYT Crossword announcement.
• Everdeen Mason – Editorial Director of the New York Times Games department.
• Across Lite – Official app for the Across Lite puzzle format.

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