Daniel and Manton discuss the temptation to conserve money when outsourcing could save precious time, the challenge of resisting the attraction of doing everything on one’s own, and the many advantages of running a dedicated build & release server.

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• SpamSieve – Powerful Mac-based spam filtering app from C-Command Software.
• MailRoute – Exceptional (so far!) server-side spam filtering service.
• Marco on MailRoute – The sponsorship blurb that pushed me to try it.
• BareMetrics – The $69/month service that Manton insists is worth the dough.
• FastMail – A popular email hosting service that is not Google.
• iOS Build Infrastucture – The engineers at Square share their dedicated build server approach.
• Riverfold – Manton’s full-time self-employer.

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Daniel and Manton acknowledge celebration as a survival tactic, discuss the urgency of making ends meet as an indie, and examine changes underway at Twitter with interim CEO Jack Dorsey.

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• Overcast – iOS podcast listening app whose developer knows how to celebrate.
• Two Weeks Notice: Accounting – Manton’s blog post about keeping track of revenues, profits, and paying himself.
• I Just Emailed Twitter – Kim Kardashian West files a feature request with Twitter.
• Great Idea! – Twitter interim CEO Jack Dorsey responds.
• The Case for Jack Dorsey, Twitter CEO – Ben Thompson argues that Mr. Dorsey is the man for the job.
• One Of Our Strategic Errors – Twitter co-founder Evan Williams mea culpas on behalf of Twitter’s API restrictions.
• Today’s Twitter Ecosystem – 2012 post by Twitter’s VP of Product at the time, Michael Sippey.
• Hatching Twitter – Book about the evolution of Twitter, recommended by Manton.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Manton’s big decision to quit his job and go full-time indie. They also discuss the challenges of freeing up one’s mind to focus on work, the freedom of indie development, and the psychological benefits of a dedicated workplace.

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• The First Weekend – Manton breaks the news that he will be quitting his job and going full-time indie.
• Full Time Indie – Daniel responds to Manton’s news.
• Riverfold Software – Manton’s Mac, iOS and web software company.
• VitalSource – Manton’s employer of 14 years.
• We Work – Co-working space with offices available in Austin, TX, among other places.
• Capitol Factory – Austin-based co-working space.

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Daniel and Manton talk about customer support attitudes & techniques, sustainable pricing as a pre-requisite to providing good support, and more generally to supporting the kind of company you want to run or work for.

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• FogBugz – Email-based support and ticket-tracking system from Fog Creek.
• Zendesk – Another popular email-based support and ticket-tracking system.
• Great User Support – Daniel’s talk from NSConference about customer service.
• Omni Support Lab – The Omni Group’s adventures in face-to-face support (and free usability testing!).

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Manton and Daniel consider the debate over whether Apple is impeding the advancement of web technologies, the company’s tendency to “drag their feet” in many arenas, and their higher priorities.

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• Safari is the New IE – Nolan Lawson argues that Apple is holding back the web industry with slow feature adoption.
• Web Developers are Grumpy… – Jason Snell responds to Nolan Lawson.
• More on Safari is the New IE – Jason Snell follows up.
• WebKit – The open-source project powering Safari and most web content on Mac and iOS.
• Blink – Google’s fork of the WebKit project.
• Instagram – An example of a native-first iOS app that mostly shuns the browser-based web.
• CloudKit Web Services – Apple opens up CloudKit to web-based clients.
• Hot Dog… the AVMovie – Chris Adamson digs into the new video API including AVMovie.

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Daniel and Manton talk about the 10.10.4 release without discoveryd, Apple Music with Beats 1, and the efficacy of filing bugs with Apple.

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• Jenkins – An ugly yet effective Java-based continuous integration solution.
• (Mac) OS X 10.10.4 – Apple’s latest official OS X update “improves network reliability.”
• Beats Music – The music streaming service which Apple has superseded with Apple Music
• Apple Needs Beats Music – Before Apple acquired Beats, Manton argues for the value of doing so.
• Apple Music – Music now has a top level directory URL position on Apple.com.
• Beats 1 Radio – The custom Apple domain name that, intriguingly, redirects to Tumblr.

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Daniel and Manton talk more about WWDC, watchOS 2.0, and the value of being first to market with a product.

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• watchOS 2 – Apple teaser site for the forthcoming Apple Watch OS upgrade.
• Photoshop – The venerable image editing app with a huge installed base.
• Acorn – Indie image editing app with a smaller, but passionate user base.
• Pixelmator – Another popular image editing app for the Mac.
• eBay – Come on, its eBay, you know what it is!
• ello.co – Venture-backed, ad-free Twitter alternative.
• Why Ello Isn’t Enough – Blog post by Manton about the inherent problems of centralized social networks.

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Manton and Daniel discuss their impressions of the biggest news from WWDC, and answer related questions from the Core Intuition Slack team.

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• OS X v10.11 – Developer documentation summarizing the key changes in 10.11.
• iOS 9 Preview – Marketing preview of upcoming features in iOS 9
• Xcode 7.0 Beta – Summary of new features for Apple’s IDE.
• Swift 2.0 – Blog post from Apple highlighting changes in Swift.
• CloudKit Web Services – Preliminary docs for Apple’s web-serving API for CloudKit.
• Safari View Controller – WWDC session introducing the new view for embedding a complete Safari-like browsing experiencing in your app.

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Manton and Daniel discuss Daniel’s emergency reaction to Blogger authentication changes, anticipation and excitement about WWDC, and Apple’s evident backtracking from discoveryd to mDNSResponder.

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• ClientLogin Shutdown – Google’s blog post announcing the forthcoming shutdown of ClientLogin authentication.
• MarsEdit 3.7 post – Red Sweater’s post announcing a fix for MarsEdit to accommodate Google’s changes.
• The end of OS X – Jason Snell proposes “Mac OS 11”.
• Jeff Williams at the Code Conference – Apple’s COO in an interview with Walt Mossberg.
• Google I/O Recap – The Verge summarizes the highlights of the conference.
• Apple Drops Discoveryd – 9to5Mac’s story revealing that a 10.10.4 beta release has reverted to mDNSResponder in favor of discoveryd.

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Manton and Daniel chat about Apple’s 1.0.1 Watch software update, the potential benefits of Siri with contextual knowledge of your activity, and Apple’s respectful collection of personal data.

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• Apple Watch OS 1.0.1 – Apple’s release notes for the 1.0.1 update.
• Overcast – Marco Arment’s iOS podcast app, featuring watch support.
• OmniFocus – The Omni Group’s task-management app, also featuring watch support.
• Too Soon – Marco Arment warns that performance of 3rd party watch apps seemed to get worse gradually after rebooting.
• Calendar Day View – Fraser Speirs reacts to the UI improvements to Calendar in Watch OS 1.0.1.
• Amazon Echo – The Siri-like household appliance that Manton bought and has enjoyed.
• CocoaConf Austin – The conference at which Manton is speaking imminently.

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