Episode 502: A Fancy Email Client

Manton talks to Daniel about his decision to switch from Zendesk to Help Scout, and gets Daniel excited about the prospect of finally switching away from FogBugz for his own work.

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  • FogBugz: Daniel’s current help desk and issue tracking system.
  • Zendesk: Manton’s current help desk system.
  • Freshdesk: A help desk system considered by Daniel.
  • Help Scout: The help desk system Manton is switching to, and that Daniel is intrigued by.

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February 20, 2022 at 6:29 pm.

Episode 501: We Are Going Down With Apple

Daniel and Manton talk about the specifics of Apple’s attempted compliance with the Netherlands’s new dating app requirements. They express their continuing disappointment with Apple’s apparent disdain for developers, and their surprise at the poor management of the situation on the PR front. Daniel talks about finally moving from Mercurial to Git and the advantages of standardizing on technologies that have “clearly won.”

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February 13, 2022 at 8:01 pm.

Episode 500: All The Things We Could Have Done

Manton and Daniel celebrate their 500th episode by looking back at several arbitrarily chosen episodes spanning the history of the show. They remark about the things that have changed, the things that have stayed the same, and their surprise that certain events happened when they did. They wrap up the episode with a discussion about their satisfaction with going full-time as indie developers, and unlikelihood that they will go back to “real jobs” any time soon.

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February 6, 2022 at 5:01 pm.