Daniel declares to Manton that he is finally starting to feel comfortable as an iOS developer, and looking forward to shipping Black Ink for iOS. Manton, meanwhile, is getting more interested in ReactNative as a means to possibly porting Epilogue to Android.
They talk about the virtue of venturing into unfamiliar technologies, waiting to get over the learning curve, and adapting what you like about other technologies back to your favorite platforms. Finally, they talk about the value of embracing “essential tools” and about what distinguishes an essential tool from a merely useful one.
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January 27, 2022 at 9:27 pm.
Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s response to South Korea’s legal requirement that they support 3rd party payment processing in the App Store, and whether Apple’s insistence that it continue to be paid a cut is realistic. They also talk about what has changed since the early days of the App Store with respect to Apple’s sense of entitlement to a share of all revenue earned on its platforms.
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January 23, 2022 at 12:03 am.
Daniel and Manton talk about the persistent allure of finding a better bank, weighed against the daunting tedium of successfully shutting down an existing account. Then they talk about Apple’s AirTags, the growing controversy about how “bad guys” are using them, and whether Apple should discontinue the product or mitigate the risks of continuing to sell them.
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- Wise – The international money-changer formally known as TransferWise.
- Mercury Bank – Banking services for businesses with an emphasis on free wire and ACH transfers.
- Stripe – Payment processing company with a beloved API.
- Setapp – Mac and iOS app subscription service which includes MarsEdit.
- Backblaze – A good remote backup service that nonetheless earned Manton’s wrath.
- Wordle – The web-based word puzzle game taking the world by storm.
- Letterle – Parody of Wordle in which you guess one letter.
- Sweardle – Parody of Wordle based on profane 4-letter words.
- AirTag – Apple’s general-purpose tracking device.
- Responsible – Nick Heer writes about Apple’s AirTags and the ways people abuse them.
- Tile – Predecessor to and ostensible competitor of AirTags.
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January 14, 2022 at 10:34 pm.
Manton and Daniel open the new year with more talk about increasing productivity and focusing on the tasks that are most important to us. They talk about the merits of “settling for good enough” as a valuable thing both in life and, more pertinently, in shipping software or completing any creative works.
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- TextExpander: Communicate Smarter. Listeners get 20% off their first year.
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- 4000 Weeks – The book by Oliver Burkeman that Daniel is reading.
- Personal Kanban – The methodology evidently at the root of the “three slots” attention management system.
- Basecamp – Software that prompts Manton weekly to ask what he’s going to work on.
- Epilogue – Manton’s book tracking app for Micro.blog
- The Starry Night – Wikipedia page on the famous Van Gogh painting.
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January 8, 2022 at 8:28 pm.
