Daniel talks to Manton about his experience debugging an AppKit issue in Micro.blog, and his satisfaction with AppKit’s debugging ease. They compare the relative debuggability of SwiftUI, AppKit and JavaScript web frameworks. Daniel talks about diving into a long-postponed effort to migrate away from legacy WebView framework to the newer WKWebView design.
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- AppKit – Apple’s preeminent Mac development framework.
- menuForEvent: – The standard Cocoa method that supports contextual menu presentation.
- Cocoa Bindings – Apple’s much beloved and much hated framework for AppKit UI/model synchronization.
- WebKit – The open source project for the web engine that powers Safari.
- SwiftUI – Apple’s Swift-based framework for UI develeopment.
- Micro.blog for Mac – The native Mac app for Manton’s microblogging service.
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Manton and Daniel share the results of their applications to attend Apple’s live WWDC 22 event, and talk more about whether they will or won’t end up making the trip to California. They react to a recent 37signals podcast about selling the byproducts of one’s work, and wonder about the more abstract benefits of promoting one’s general philosophies about software as a kind of “byproduct.”
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Daniel and Manton follow up on their applications to participate in the WWDC 2022 special event at Apple Park. They talk about the slightly expanded details about the event, justifications for and against attending, and ultimately share whether they think they will go or not.
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- Special Day – Apple’s enrollment page, now closed to new applicants, for their keynote-viewing party.
- Just Feels Over Now – Manton’s short post about regretting applying for the special event.
- The Third Era of WWDC – Manton’s 2014 post about the changing nature of WWDC.
- Release Notes 2019 – Indie developer conference held in Playa Mujeres, Mexico.
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Manton and Daniel talk about the WWDC screening event and whether Apple should even be moving forward in light of Covid-19. They compare notes about whether they’re planning to apply to attend or not, and what the relative chances of them actually going is. Finally they talk about the challenge Apple faces in managing an unpredictable attendance count, and whether the event will be indoors, outdoors, or a mixture.
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In the midst of Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s long history with Twitter, starting with enthusiasm, continuing to active development for the platform, and ending with disgust. They psychoanalyze Elon Musk and his propensity for seeking adulation on Twitter, and compare him to Jack Dorsey. In the second half of the show they follow up on Help Scout and talk about the service’s statistics reporting on customer service performance. Finally, Manton shares an example of a less than stellar customer support experience he had with another company, and they discuss when and how often automated responses should be used.
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- RobinHood – Mobile-friendly stock-trading service.
- Micro.blog – Manton’s microblogging service, often seen as an alternative to Twitter.
- NetNewsWire – A popular, long-lived, and now open-source RSS reader for Mac and iOS.
- Bluesky – Twitter-initiated organization building decentralized social networking technology.
- Everything in its Right Place – Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Twitter thread about Elon Musk.
- Email Response Time – Manton’s blog post about his Help Scout customer service statistics.
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Daniel and Manton follow up on button sizing in SwiftUI. They compare SwiftUI and React Native in terms of maturity and how much you can expand the frameworks on your own to fill missing gaps. Then, they discuss why all previous cross-platform development approaches have “failed” with respect to matching expectations of the native platform, and what native apps can provide in addition to web counterparts.
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- SwiftUI Button – Apple’s documentation for the different ways to make a button.
- React Native Diary – Manton’s blog post series about learning React Native.
- Brent Simmons – Inspiration for blog post “diary” series and developer of NetNewsWire.
- NetNewsWire 6.1 – New version of NetNewsWire with themes, backed by web views.
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April 20, 2022 at 2:17 pm.
Daniel talks to Manton about Setapp’s efforts to support the war in Ukraine by offering developers the option of donating a percentage of proceeds. They talk about how Setapp is doing in general, and explain a bit about the compensation scheme for developers. Manton talks about the release of a React Native version of Epilogue for Android, and how satisfied he is with the approach. Daniel wonders whether web frameworks are leapfrogging native ones, and what Apple could or should do about it.
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- Setapp – Subscription based service for Mac software.
- MacPaw – Software company that also owns and operates Setapp.
- @vixentael – Ukrainian security researcher/engineer.
- Vincent Ritter – Android developer for Micro.blog.
React Native – Facebook-sponsored cross-platform app framework.
Redwood.js – New web development framework led by Tim Preston-Werner.
- Storybook – User interface development tool that is included with Redwood.js.
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April 17, 2022 at 4:01 pm.
Daniel and Manton talk about accents, and why Manton doesn’t have one after growing up in Texas.
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April 8, 2022 at 8:01 pm.
Manton and Daniel react to Apple’s announcement of WWDC 2022, ponder the merits of the modest in-person viewing opportunity, and wonder about what Apple thinks is in it for them. They struggle to must excitement, wondering whether Apple can still surprise us, but hold out hope for being … well … surprised!
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Daniel and Manton follow up the claim from previous episode that crosswords are “mostly an English-language thing.” Daniel shares more about his experience implementing a custom calendar picker for macOS, and how the AppKit version he emulated differs from Apple’s separate SwiftUI implementation. Manton talks about his positive experience using using React Native, and how SwiftUI would be a tough sell given his desire to target Android. Finally, they speculate briefly about whether WWDC will continue being virtual-only this year, and in years to come.
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April 1, 2022 at 5:24 pm.
