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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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple TV development challenges, Apple’s executive team shakeup and its impact on the App Stores, and keeping a good attitude about successes and shortcomings as an ambitious indie developer.

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• Apple TV Tech Talks – Apple’s traveling technical boot camp for Apple TV.
• Headless Apple TV Development – Erica Sadun lays out a setup for developing with Apple TV plugged into a computer.
• Clipstart – Manton’s venerable video-management app for Mac.
• Sunlit – Manton’s photo-storytelling app for iOS.
• iCloud Photo Library – Apple’s cloud-based photo management service.
• Google Photos – Google’s photo hosting service.
• Carousel – Dropbox’s soon-to-be-shuttered photo gallery front-end.
• Dan Shot First – Home page for Dan Moren, modern bus-taking Boston guy.
• Six Colors – Apple-oriented tech blog by Jason Snell and Dan Moren.
• Ecosystem Responsibilities – Apple’s PR announcing changes to roles for Phil Schiller, Jeff Williams, and more.
• The Talk Show #139 – With special guests Craig Federighi and John Siracusa.
• Manton’s blog post about Apple PR – Links to earlier posts about Phil Schiller and the App Store.
• Fallback plan tweet – “If you have a fallback, you will fall back.”

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Daniel and Manton react to Swift’s open-sourcing, and the extent to which it adds momentum to the language and increases its appeal. They also discuss the open-sourcing of Microsoft’s MarsEdit-esque blog editor, Windows Live Writer.

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• Swift.org – Apple’s new home-page for the Swift open-source project.
• WebKit.org – Another example of a major open source project from Apple.
• Swift-Evolution – Apple’s project dedicated to mapping the future of Swift.
• IBM Swift Sandbox – Interactive Swift compiler web page from IBM.
• Perfect – Swift-based web server project.
• Lasso – Old-school software from Perfect developer Kyle Jessup.
• Ecto – The once-powerful competitor to MarsEdit.
• OpenLiveWriter – Open-source blog editor based on Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer.
• WordPress 4.4 – The latest open-source version of WordPress, code-named “Clifford.”
• WordPress.com REST API – Server-side API against which Calypso is built.
• WP REST API – Open-source API being gradually introduced to WordPress.org project.

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Manton and Daniel lament the long-standing shortcomings of the Mac App Store, discuss Bohemian Coding’s recent decision to pull Sketch from the store, and Daniel shares his growing admiration for Swift.

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• Leaving the Mac App Store – Bohemian Coding’s announcement of Sketch departing the store.
• Pieter Omvlee – Founder of Bohemian Coding and speaker at Release Notes.
• Too Late? – Manton’s blog post about the prospects for saving the Mac App Store.
• 59 Days – Round-up of Mac App Store news from Michael Tsai, including remark about his long approval delay.
• Swift Expert – Daniel’s do{iOS} post-talk interview.
• Swift Blog – Apple’s public blog about Swift, long predating the open-source project.

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Daniel and Manton celebrate Manton’s new Pencil, discuss the iPad pro as a sleeper hit, and talk about the marketing value of supporting the latest and greatest Apple technology in your apps. They also talk about changes at WordPress and the implications for Daniel and MarsEdit.

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• Pencil at Best Buy – The unlikely source of Manton’s Apple Pencil.
• iCape Solutions – The Cape Cod Apple reseller where Peter Cohen works.
• The Hype is Real – Gus Mueller reviews, and gushes about, the Apple Pencil.
• Fully Charged Pencil – John Gruber and Jason Snell find minor ergonomic faults in the Pencil.
• No Country for Old Macs – Jason Snell reviews the iPad Pro.
• Editorial – Manton’s favorite iOS text editor awaits an iPad Pro update.
• Target the Forward Fringe – Daniel’s 2012 blog post about embracing leading-edge tech in apps.
• A New Canvas – Federico Viticci reviews the iPad Pro.
• Better iPad Pro Apps – Ben Brooks highlights apps that work particularly well on iPad Pro.
• Byword – An app whose iPad Pro support wins Ben Brooks over.
• WordPress for Mac – New standalone app for WordPress from Automattic.
• Calypso – The open source project behind WordPress’s new JavaScript based UI.
• The Year Without Pants – Scott Berkun’s book about the experience of working for Automattic.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Apple’s acknowledgement of “MASpocalypse,” Manton’s continued waiting for an iPad Pro Pencil, sideloading iOS apps, and whether the iPad pro’s sophistication demands a “Gatekeeper for iOS” or Xcode for the iPad Pro.

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• Apple Acknowledges… – TechCrunch reports on the email sent by Apple to Mac App Store developers.
• Apple Pencil Stock – iMore describes the slow arrival of Pencils in stock at Apple Stores.
• I’ll Tell You in a Month – Diesel Sweeties comic for iMore about the shortage of Pencil supplies.
• F.lux Sideload – Short-lived App Store workaround to get f.lux installed on iOS devices.
• Saving the iPad – Jared Sinclair with a variety of suggestions to Apple regarding the iPad’s future.
• System 7 Pro – Strolling down memory lane with an OS release Apple targeted specifically at “power users.”
• Why the iPad Pro needs Xcode – Steve Streza makes the case.
• Coda for iOS – Web site editing software from Panic.

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Daniel returns from Amsterdam to find Mac App Store issues abound. Manton buys an iPad Pro but has to wait for the Pencil. The two discuss the Mac App Store’s 6-year failure to evolve substantially, and dig into the emotional highs and lows of enjoying and surviving Apple’s platform constraints.

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• Star Bikes – An affordable bike rental in Amsterdam.
• Connected #65 – Federico talks with Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett.
• The iPad Pro – John Gruber’s review.
• Desktop Computer – Horace Dediu’s video on the history of desktop computing.
• No One Minding the Store – Michael Tsai’s roundup Mac App Store issues.
• Just Inexcusable – Federico Viticci’s response to Mac App Store issues.
• #DirectOrGTFO – Dan Counsell tweet that embodies his change of attitude about Mac AppStore.

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Daniel frets more about public speaking, while he and Manton talk about taking inspiration from brilliant apps, and share impressions of the Apple TV now that it’s public.

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• Acorn – Gus Mueller’s image editing app for Mac.
• Sketch – Vector editing app for Mac from Bohemian Coding.
• Pieter Omvlee – Founder of Bohemian Coding and nice guy.
• Release Notes – Recent conference at which Pieter Omvlee spoke.
• Under the Radar – New development-focused podcast from David Smith and Marco Arment.
• ATP – Marco’s popular tech podcast with Casey Liss and John Siracusa.
• The Talk Show – Guy English joins John Gruber for a discussion of Apple TV.
• Amazon Echo – An amazing voice recognition device enjoyed by the Reece household.

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Manton and Daniel evaluate Daniel’s public speaking procrastination, confess their evolving attitudes about Swift, and discuss strategies for balancing paid consulting with personal indie pursuits.

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• Do{iOS} – Amsterdam-based conference that Daniel will speak at on November 9.
• BBEdit – Venerable Mac text editor that started life as a Pascal-based project.
• Stairways Software – Long-time Mac developer and Pascal-enthusiast Peter Lewis.
• Object Pascal – History of the object-oriented version of Pascal and Apple’s role in it.

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