Manton and Daniel compare notes about that time they shared a hotel room together at a tech conference. Or did they?

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Links:

• Hivelogic Fanatics — 2008 picture of Manton and Daniel at the W Hotel in San Francisco.
• California Adventure — Manton blogs about his trip to California for WWDC 2004.

Daniel commits to wrapping up MarsEdit 4 by December 1. Manton also looks towards wrapping up for a public Micro.blog release. They reminisce about Apple’s abandoned system-wide help systems, and review Daniel’s approach to going freemium with in-app-purchases on the Mac App Store.

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• Carbon Copy Cloner: Don’t let disk failure be a showstopper – make your bootable backup today!

Links:

• Micro.blog for iOS – The iOS app for Manton’s microblogging service.
• Authoring Apple Help – Apple’s development guide to their in-app Help system.
• Apple Guide – Wikipedia article about Apple’s old guided tutorial help system.
• Balloon Help – Another of Apple’s abandoned system-wide help systems.
• Introducing Scrivener 3 – Announcement of the new version from Literature & Latte.
• Taking Longer Than Hoped – Pre-release blog post from the Scrivener folks that mentions waiting for Apple app review.

Daniel and Manton close in on committing to release dates for MarsEdit and Micro.blog. They weigh tough, last-minute decisions about keeping or cutting features. Manton admits to taking on new commitments as an event organizer. Finally, they talk about resources for teaching kids to code including App Camp, Hour of Code, and Swift Playgrounds.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.
• Digimarc: The best mobile scanning solution today. The only solution for tomorrow.

Links:

• StoreKit – Apple’s API for in-app purchases.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac-blased blog editing app.
• Micro.blog – Manton’s Web, Mac, and iOS micro-blogging app.
• IndieWebCamp Austin – Open web conference that Manton is co-organizing.
• Release Notes – The gold standard for podcaster-organized developer conferences.
• App Camp – App Camp for Girls fundraising campaign.
• Hour of Code – Program devoted to giving kids a cursory introduction to programming.
• Swift Playgrounds – Apple’s immersive, iPad-based programming education app.
• Minecraft – The popular world-building game.
• TinyMUD – Server-based world-building game from the 1990s.
• Moos (object oriented MUDs) – Object-oriented variation on MUDs.

Manton got his iPhone X, while Daniel patiently awaits his. Daniel admits fault for having been dismissive about Face ID, and Manton concedes the iPhone 8 and X seem to be complementary hits. They talk about Daniel’s decision to migrate his web server, and weigh the merits of taking on too many tasks vs. outsourcing to experts. Finally, they talk about the fear of shipping and the consolation that only a subset of all possible customers is ever reached by the news of a major release.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Ship better apps, faster with buddybuild.
• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• iPhone X – Apple’s newest new phone.
• Verge Review – Video includes night-vision filming of Face ID’s IR projection.
• Kinect – Microsoft’s 3D vision technology.
• Wii Remote Sensor – Information from Wikipedia on the sensor’s 3D viewing abilities.
• Face ID Skepticism – Daniel’s historically unfortunate malprediction.
• Upgrade 166 – Including Jason Snell’s take on Apple’s recent earnings.
• AAPL stock price – Yup. It’s past $900 Billion.
• Red Sweater – Daniel’s main site, recently migrated to Linode.
• Postfix – The venerable UNIX mail server.
• Craig Hockenberry – Friend of the show who is not a friend of self-hosting.
• Yellow Dog Linux – Manton’s 2003 web-hosting solution.
• Ubuntu – Daniel’s 2017 web-hosting solution.

Daniel and Manton recap their experience placing pre-orders for the iPhone X, discuss Apple’s unusual PR strategy for iPhone X reviews, and debate the appropriateness of Apple firing an engineer for letting his daughter film a YouTube video of his pre-release phone.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• TextExpander: Communicate Smarter.

Links:

• iPhone X – Apple’s product page for the new phone.
• Face the Future – The Verge’s iPhone X review.
• iPhone X at Disneyland – Matthew Panzarino’s review for Techcrunch.
• My iPhone X Video Went Viral – Brooke Amelia Peterson’s recap of reviewing her father’s iPhone X.
• Mike Allen’s Nephew – John Gruber’s take on Axios’s early impressions of the iPhone X.

Manton and Daniel anticipate the night of iPhone X pre-orders, and the shame of waking in the middle of the night to order a phone. They catch up with their faltering ambitions to ship MarsEdit and Micro.blog, and acknowledge the merit of sharing ambitions with others to help motivate progress. Finally, they contemplate whether eliminating a feature altogether is preferable to shipping it with obvious deficiencies.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Ship better apps, faster with buddybuild.

Links:

• iPhone X – Pre-order instructions from Apple.
• iPhone 8 – The incredibly great phone that you can buy today.
• Micro.blog for iOS – The app Manton is updating for iPhone X.
• Micro.blog for Mac – The beta version of Manton’s Mac app.
• Extra Intuition 2 – Members-only podcast episode featuring Gus Mueller.
• The Shape of Everything – Gus Mueller’s blog.
• Acorn – Gus Mueller’s Mac-based image editing app.

Daniel and Manton are joined by Gus Mueller of Flying Meat. They talk about their early days in the indie Mac community, and Gus’s commitment to developing for the Mac. Along the way Gus let us know about a new Mac app he’s working on, and invited listeners to get in touch about beta testing it!

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Links:

• Flying Meat – Gus’s company, developers of Acorn for Mac.
• Rock Climbing: Flying Meat – Information about the rock climbing locale that inspired Gus’s company name.
• Evening at Adler – Video from a special 2015 Mac developer event in Chicago.
• Brent Simmons – One of the speakers at Evening at Adler.
• Nicholas Jitkoff – Creator of Quicksilver for Mac and another speaker at Adler.
• Mac OS X Conference – Early OS X conference put on by O’Reilly.
• VoodooPad – Mac based desktop wiki app, originally developed by Gus.
• Rogue Amoeba – Developer of Mac audio software.
• FlySketch – Hey, Gus still has a FlySketch page up!
• Corel Painter – Painting app that originally inspired FlySketch.
• CocoaScript – Gus’s open source JavaScript scripting bindings for Cocoa.
• Sketch – Mac based drawing app with CocoaScript support.
• Omni Automation – New JavaScript-based scripting support from The Omni Group.
• Sal Soghoian – Former internal champion of scripting solutions at Apple.

Daniel and Manton talk about Daniel’s switch from PayPal to Stripe and choosing which version of macOS to require for our apps. Manton catches us up on his time at the Release Notes conference, and the two reflect upon Twitter’s latest troubles.

Many thanks to our sponsors this week:

• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.
• Digimarc: The best mobile scanning solution today. The only solution for tomorrow.

Links:

• Stripe – A great payment processing service.
• PayPal – A not-so-great payment processing service.
• Panic Coda Store – Panic’s store, featuring an Apple Pay button.
• Timetable – Manton’s micro-podcast.
• Starting Over – Blog post from Manton featuring a picture of him with Panic’s “Hi, I make Macintosh software” shirt.
• Release Notes Conf – Chicago-based conference that Manton attended.
• Release Notes Badge – Manton appreciates a fine detail of his badge.
• Twitter at 10 Years – Manton’s post a year ago about the state of Twitter.
• #WomenBoycottTwitter – Hashtag for a widespread protest that occurred against Twitter.
• Mike Monteiro – An outspoken critic of Twitter and its leadership team.
• One Person’s History of Twitter – Mike Monteiro’s essay about Twitter.
• Jack Dorsey – Twitter’s CEO.
• Twitter Stock – The Yahoo! Finance page.
• Square – Jack Dorsey’s other company.

🎉 Manton and Daniel celebrate the 300-episode milestone, and announce Core Intuition’s new Membership program. They talk about Manton’s trip to the Release Notes conference next week, and reflect on the benefits of indie conferences on the developer community. Finally, they feign competitiveness as Manton’s Mac Micro.blog app shapes up to be slightly more MarsEdit-like than he anticipated.

Many thanks to our sponsor this week:

• Linode: Cloud Hosting for You.

Links:

• Core Intuition Membership – Join now to support the show and hear Extra Intuition Episode 1.
• Memberful – A web-service and WordPress plugin for empowering membership programs.
• Apple Pay – Instructions from Stripe for supporting Apple Pay on the web.
• All the Great Shows – Relay.fm’s membership, one of our inspirations.
• Club Macstories – Another membership inspiration.
• Subscribe to Six Colors – And yet another inspiration.
• Release Notes – Chicago-based conference that Manton will attend next week.
• C4 – Wolf Rentzsch’s indie Mac/iOS community conference.
• Çingleton – Montréal-based Apple development conference.
• Every Beginning… – Dave DeLong announces his departure from Apple.
• Swift by Northwest – Seattle-based Swift conference from the folks who did CocoaConf.
• MacTech Conference – Los Angeles-based Apple IT conference.
• Micro.blog – Manton’s web-based blogging platform.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s Mac-based blogging app.
• XML-RPC – Dave Winer’s XML-RPC home page.
• Brent Simmons – Original MarsEdit developer.

Manton and Daniel talk about the early days of their friendship, and the origin of Core Intuition.

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Links:

• Macintosh Small Business – The mailing list that many indie Mac developers met each other through.
• Brent Simmons – Originator of the MacSB mailing list.
• New Mailing List – Brent’s announcement of the list on Jan 29, 2004.
• C4 Conference – Wikipedia page about the important indie Mac/iOS developer conference.
• Wolf Rentzsch – Organizer of the C4 conference.
• Paul Kafasis – The only person Daniel knew in person at C4[0]
• Promoting Ourselves Endlessly – Episode 7 of the show, shortly after Daniel’s first son was born.
• Wil Shipley – Founder of Delicious Monster and a generous tequila buyer.
• Lucas Newman – Developer of the early, pre-SDK iPhone game “Lights Off.”
• Daniel’s Holds an iPhone – Dan Moren lends his iPhone to Daniel at C4[1].
• The Talk Show – One of the extant podcasts when we started, featuring John Gruber and Dan Benjamin at the time.
• Lulled Into Submission – Daniel announces Core Intuition on Twitter: May 30, 2008.
• The Daily Life – Manton’s blog post announcing the show.
• Still Figuring That Out – Daniel’s blog post announcing the show.