Daniel gets over the flu while Manton doubles down on coffee shops. The two discuss the value of “Office Hours” and “Coder Nights” as a means of getting out and meeting like-minded people. They discuss Facebook’s Instant Articles as a potential boon to the open web, react to the new Apple TV Tech Talk videos, and Daniel admits he never bought a 1st-generation iPhone.

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Links:

• Coffee Shops in Austin – Manton’s summary page for his 30 days, 30 coffee shops challenge.
• Isaiah Carew – Daniel’s old TA, and Manton’s current coffee-shop buddy.
• Cafe Bedouins – Weekly meet-up in Austin to work together on side projects.
• Damon Clinkscales – Organizer of Cafe Bedouins and friend of the show.
• Accelerated Mobile Pages – Project by Google to accelerate web page loading.
• Facebook Instant Articles – Fast content publishing platform from Facebook.
• Helps the Open Web – Dave Winer makes the case for Facebook Instant Articles’s value.
• Instant Articles Quickstart – Developer documentation for the technology.
• River5 – Latest incarnation of Dave Winer’s “river of news” RSS client software.
• Managing Bias – Collection of educational materials from Facebook aimed at helping people recognize their biases.
• WordPress VIP – The premium hosted WordPress service that many Facebook pages are hosted on.

Daniel orders a Brother, Apple defies the FBI, Manton continues to struggle with his Kickstarter, and the two discuss using structure and constraints to encourage tackling new goals.

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Links:

• Brother HL-L2340DW – Daniel’s, and the rest of the world’s, cheap monochrome printer of choice.
• Gigablock Bulk – Continuous ink system for ink-jet printers, courtesy of listener Brian L.
• A Message to Our Customers – Tim Cook’s defiant response to the FBI.
• I Wonder… – Jon Wight imagines the consequences if Apple employees refuse to back-door phones.
• iGotYourBack – Daniel’s post on Bitsplitting, responding to Tim Cook’s letter.
• Kickstarter Music – Manton’s latest Timetable episode.
• Sorrento’s Drive-Thru – A surprisingly hip, Austin drive-thru coffee stop.
• Tiny Challenges – Jaimee Newberry’s experiments at chipping away at challenges in a small way.

Daniel discusses his printer problems, Manton discusses his Kickstarter problems. They go on to discuss the challenge of following through on public and private commitments, and chat about the wisdom of discussing politics and other divisive topics on public Twitter accounts or blogs.

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Links:

• Printopia – Mac App lets you print to almost any printer from iOS.
• Mac Supported Printers – List from Apple of printers with software drivers for OS X.
• Timetable – Manton’s short-format indie developer microcast.
• Kickstarter – Well-known crowdfunding site.
• Micropub – Publishing standard from IndieWebCamp.
• WebMention – Sort of a modern replacement for “Trackbacks” in blogging.
• Inessential – Brent Simmons’s blog.
• NetNewsWire – The venerable RSS reader for Mac, now developed by Black Pixel.
• Whether Daniel Worries – Clark Goble asks whether we fear tweeting about politics, etc.
• @electionpunkass – Daniel’s experiment with publishing political tweets to a separate account.
• DreamHost’s Super Lame Apology – Daniel’s 2009 post about the downside of overly-casual business communication.
• Manton’s Election Posts – Manton’s long history of blogging about elections.

Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s current and future stock price, and their potential to branch out into other technologies such as virtual reality. They discuss Facebook’s shuttering of Parse and the implications for iOS developers and Facebook’s PR. Finally, they respond to listener Q&A about getting up to speed on using and implementing your own web services.

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• Apple Going For Free – Kirk Burgess extrapolates on the possibility of Apple’s stock not rising.
• How Far – Jason Snell talks about the iPad and it’s downward fall.
• The Future of Television – Apple’s ads for the Apple TV.
• do{iOS} – Amsterdam-based conference where Daniel spoke last year.
• Moving On – News from Parse that they will be shutting down.
• Azure Welcomes Parse Developers – Microsoft responds to Parse’s closure by rolling out the red carpet.

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Daniel talks to Manton about his new podcast, Timetable. The two discuss unmet goals and the risk of perpetually failing to meet one’s own expectations. They affirm the merits of releasing software updates often, and minimizing friction for procedures that companies should do often in order to succeed. Manton discusses his App Store rejection for a forthcoming product, and Daniel tries to talk him into changing his approach to marketing the paid version of his upcoming microblogging service.

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• Timetable – Manton’s new podcast featuring short thoughts about indie business.
• Kickstarter – Crowd-funding site on which Manton plans to launch a campaign.
• Done! – Advice from 37 Signals about decisions being temporary.
• FlexTime 1.3 – Daniel ships an update with changes that were mostly done a year ago.
• Panic 2015 Report – Year-end summary from one of the Mac’s most beloved indie software companies.
• Wii Transfer – Mantons’ discontinued Mac app for managing Nintendo Wii content.
• Purchasing and Currencies – Sections of Apple review guidelines pertinent to Manton’s app rejection.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac desktop blogging app.
• WordPress for iOS – Open source iOS blog editing app from WordPress.org.

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Manton talks to Daniel about re-releasing Shush as Swish and the value of trademarking an app’s name. They discuss comments on blogs, and pros and cons of mixing business and. personal blogging. Finally, they recognize Manton’s partial return to Twitter and whether it constitutes Daniel winning a 3-year-old bet.

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Links:

• Swish on the App Store – Daniel’s white noise app for iOS.
• TESS – The US Patent Office’s trademark searching system.
• Like Watching Paint Dry – Release Notes episode #140 on splitting company and personal blogs.
• Red Sweater Blog – Daniel’s company blog, which used to be more of a personal blog.
• Leaving the Mac App Store – Bohemian Coding with an example of a company blog post that criticizes Apple.
• Pieter Omvlee – Founder of Bohemian Software and speaker at the Release Notes Conference.
• Panic Blog – A company blog done well.
• Manton.org – Manton’s personal blog, which incorporates business oriented articles.
• Bitsplitting – Daniel’s personal, technology-oriented blog.
• Indie Stack – Daniel’s personal, programming-oriented blog.
• Civil – Portland, OR startup dedicated to increasing civility of online discourse.
• Webmention – IndieWebCamp’s proposal to modernize “pingback” style notifications of URL linkage.
• Disqus – Popular plug-and-play commenting system.
• @manton2 – Manton’s second personal account on Twitter.
• Not Back On Twitter – Brent Simmons on his decision to remove Twitter from his daily life.
• I’ll Leave You With This – Manton Reece’s last tweet from his first personal account.

Daniel and Manton reflect on their experience at the Apple TV tech talks, brainstorm app category ideas for Apple TV, and discuss the use of Twitter for customer support and how a 10K text limit might impact that. They also talk about Apple’s iOS 9.3 preview, rumors of a new iPhone 4-inch model, and speculate whether WWDC would ever move from Moscone in SF.

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• Apple TV Tech Talks – Apple’s official page for the talks.
• Session Resources – Compendium of Apple TV developer resources from the talks.
• Clipstart – Manton’s Mac-based video management utility.
• Living Room Engagement – Daniel’s thoughts about Apple TV app genre opportunities.
• Airbnb for Apple TV – Preview of the now-available app.
• iOS 9.3 Preview – Apple’s early marketing of the forthcoming release.
• Google I/O Venue – The company announced they will hold the event at Shoreline Amphitheatre.

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Manton and Daniel react to Twitter’s rumored plan to support 10K of text in tweets, answer listener Q&A about product versioning and milestone strategies, and check with thoughts on Swift upon Daniel’s completion of “reading the fine manual.”

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• Twitter is Public Messaging – Jack Dorsey defendes the 10,000 character text attachment concept for tweets.
• Welcome to the Dark Side – Manton Reece reacts to the 10K text proposal with comparison to Facebook.
• Six Colors – A repository of Jason Snell’s (and Dan Moren’s) writing that lives independent of Twitter.
• Milestone Strategies – Listener question from Sander van Dragt, whose name we pronounce many ways.
• Swift Language Guide – Apple’s primary, high-level documentation about the many features of Swift.

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Manton and Daniel celebrate iTunes Connect reopening, discuss Twitter 4.0 and scrutiny it received, compare end of year goals, and consider the value of a personal code of conduct for directing business ambitions.

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• TweetBot for Mac – Native Mac Twitter client from Tapbots.
• Twitterrific for Mac – Native Mac Twitter client from IconFactory.
• Black Pixel – Alleged outsource developers of Twitter 4.0.
• Blame Black Pixel? – The Verge’s article citing Black Pixel as developers.
• Pride of Ownership – Daniel’s semi-regretted Twitter quip about Twitter 4.0.
• Ben Sandofsky – Once the internal maintainer of Twitter’s Mac app.
• Atebits – Loren Brichter’s company, original developer of Twitter’s Mac and iOS apps.
• WordPress.com – Full-featured blogging platform.
• Medium – Is it really a blog platform?

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Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s annual iTunes Connect shutdown, Manton’s application for Slack’s developer venture fund, the magic of financially successful companies who remain seemingly small, and the relative merits of public vs. private social networks.

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• iTunes Holiday Shutdown – Information from Apple about implications of their annual shutdown.
• The Slack Platform Launch – Blog post from Slack on new features and the Slack fund.
• Year In Numbers – Infographic from Slack demonstrating their massive growth during their first year.
• HipChat – Atlassian’s group-chat service.
• HipChat Pricing – Standard pricing and server pricing.

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