Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s new visionOS SDK, and debate the virtue of steering clear from “new shiny” technologies, vs. getting acquainted with them as soon as possible. How do we prioritize native platform development while maximizing the ability to deploy to all of Apple’s platforms? They talk about investing time into new platforms and frameworks when the investment will pay off, vs. when the work will be wasted on short-term workaround. When does it makes sense for a company to invest even a small amount of money in their competitors, like Automattic just did? Finally, they touch lightly on the possibility that Facebook will enter the ActivityPub realm, and the ridiculousness in general of NDAs.
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- Zig When Others Zag – Manton’s quip about focusing more on customers with $5 than with $3500.
- Inside Macintosh – Wikipedia article about the old documentation books for MacOS development.
- Automattic – The company behind WordPress.com and other products.
- Matt Mullenweg – Founder of WordPress and Automattic.
- Tumblr – Short-form blogging site that Automattic acquired.
- Drupal – An open source web publishing framework.
- Automattic Donates €20,000 – WP Tavern article about Automattic’s donation to the Drupal Gutenberg initiative.
- Gutenberg – Home page for the WordPress Gutenberg editor.
- Fedi Admins Meeting – Mastodon post by Michał “rysiek” Woźniak about Facebook’s effort to meet with ActivityPub admins.
- Google’s Evil NDA – 2007 blog post by a developer who also had to sign an NDA in order to interview at Google.
