Daniel and Manton discuss Apple’s growing engineering presence outside of Cupertino, weigh the merits of minimally and maximally viable products, and address Daniel’s persistent fear of public speaking.

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• Apple’s Hydroelectric Plant – News report from earlier this year about Apple’s Prineville, OR project.
• Apple’s Seattle Office – News story confirming Apple’s establishment of a permanent engineering office in Seattle.
• Microsoft Azure – Cloud services from the Seattle software giant.
• Maximum Viable Products – Allen Pike’s blog reaction to Cabel Sasser’s video quip.
• CocoaConf Boston – The Dedham, MA conference where Daniel will be speaking.

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Manton and Daniel talk about momentum in shipping software, and how arbitrary deadlines, lucky breaks, and the presence of new system features can all get the movement going again. They also revisit Apple’s app review stance in the wake of PCalc’s recent short-lived rejection.

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• Black Ink – Daniel’s Mac-based crossword solving app.
• Timed Releases – Facebook’s announcement that it would release an update every month.
• “Just 1068 Days” – Gus Mueller’s classic post about going indie.
• Long and Winding Road – Paul Kim of Noodlesoft on his route to indie success.
• Luck Being Indie – Manton’s short post about taking advantage of opportunities.
• FastScripts – Daniel’s relatively un-profitable script utility that nonetheless had a big windfall.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s Twitter client for iOS.
• Tweet Marker – Manton’s infrastructural place-saving service for Twitter.
• PCalc – Long-lived, well regarded calculator app for iOS and Mac.
• No Longer Rejecting – Good news from TechCrunch for James Thomson, developer of PCalc.

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Daniel and Manton draw premature conclusions about celebrities in tech, take stock of our own product goals, and weigh the costs of adopting Apple’s latest SDKs vs. sticking with a tried-and-true build environment.

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• Taylor Swift’s 1989 – Manton reflects upon challenging perceptions of Taylor Swift’s music.
• Hollywood – Kim Kardashian’s iOS game.
• Vector 61 – Christina Warren and the Vector crew talk about Kardashian’s game.
• It started as a joke – The official creation myth for Paul Newman’s salad dressing.
• Technical debt – Wikipedia article for anybody unfamiliar with the (valuable, IMHO) concept.
• Clipstart – Manton’s video-management app for Mac.

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Manton and Daniel are joined by very special guest Brent Simmons to talk about assorted topics including Brent’s podcast, Seattle, the Omni Group, and importantly, the promise of the internet as a guarantee of free speech.

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• Inessential – Brent Simmons’s bastion of free speech on the internet.
• What is Frontier? – Description of UserLand’s Frontier, courtesy of Dave Winer.
• Scripting.com – Home page of Dave Winer.
• The Record – Oral history podcast from Brent Simmons and Chris Parrish.
• BusyMac – Seattle-area indie software shop founded by Dave Riggle and John Chaffee.
• Roderick on the Line – Seattle-tinted podcast from John Roderick and Merlin Mann.
• The Omni Group – Long-time Mac developers and new employers of Brent Simmons.
• Vesper – iOS note-taking app from Brent Simmons, John Gruber, and Dave Wiskus.
• Manila – An early blog publishing system.
• Riverfold – Manton’s indie software business.
• Twitpic shutting down – Announcement from the popular photo-hosting service.
• Bitsplitting with Brent Simmons – Daniel’s interview with Brent.

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Daniel and Manton observe the endings of Cingleton, Macworld Expo, and Glassboard, then revisit the issue of privacy policies in the wake of news from Apple that they’ll be more widely required.

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• Çingleton – The Montréal based conference.
• Macworld Expo Hiatus – Announcement from IDG that the venerable trade show would not go on.
• Macworld Expo Is Over – Jason Snell’s less optimistic take on the Macworld “hiatus.”
• Glassboard Closing Down – Official announcement that Glassboard will be shuttered November 1.
• Moonshots – Justin Williams’s announcement from earlier this year that he was going all-in with Glassboard.
• iubenda – Privacy policies as a service … with a weird name.
• TermsFeed – Service offering more broadly-applicable legal boilerplate.

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Manton and Daniel follow up on Apple’s delayed app approvals, TestFlight expectations, iCloud Drive compatibility, a long discussion on microblogging and the value of owning your own domain and content, and Manton teases a new project.

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• Tweet Library 2.6 – Manton announces the latest version of his iOS Twitter app.
• Gatekeeper’s Opaque Whitelist – Daniel’s analysis of Mac OS X 10.9.5’s code signing whitelist.
• What To Do About Code Signing – Daniel’s more concise advice about fixing your Mac code signing.
• Apple Open Source – All of Apple’s open source, categorized by shipping product and version number.
• Blogging Every Day – Manton responds to Matt Mullenweg’s post about blogging.
• The Web Ahead – Jen Simmons’s weekly podcast about web technology.
• IndieWebCamp – A “creator camp” dedicated to people-focused use of web technology.
• ello – Another social network you probably haven’t heard of.
• MarsEdit – Daniel’s blog editor for Mac OS X.
• RapidWeaver – Intuitive web content editor from RealMac.
• Sandvox – Intuitive web content editor from Karelia.
• Medium.com – A site for giving up ownership of your blog posts.
• Mint – Shaun Inman’s web stats product.
• 15 lessons – Anil Dash reflects upon his 15 years of blogging.
• Feedbin sharing upgrade – Starts with the point that content posted to Twitter originates on blogs.
• Easy To Game – David Jacobs coaxes a tweet reply out of Manton.
• Twitter At Its Best – Manton’s final Twitter post.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Brent Simmons’s new job at the Omni Group, weigh the risks and rewards being indie vs. taking a full-time job, and despair about Apple’s current App Store review delays.

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• Brent Goes to Omni – Blog post from Brent Simmons about his new job.
• The Omni Group – The well-loved Seattle-based software company.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s iOS based Twitter client.
• Upload and Instantly Publish – Google’s review-free app publishing process.
• Upgrade Podcast – Jason Snell’s new podcast on the Relay FM network.
• A Form Factor Worth Keeping – Daniel’s blog post about the iPhone 5’s suitability for sporting activities.
• Day Phone / Night Phone – Manton’s quip about needing a smaller phone for leaving the house.
• Thoughts on the iPhone 6 Plus – Conrad Stoll mentions switching Twitter apps because of screen size support.

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Manton and Daniel react to the shipment of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6+, talk about the challenges of updating apps to look good on iPhone 6, and speculate about the future expectations for developers adapting to varying screen sizes and layouts.

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• iPhone 6 – Apple’s little-known new mobile phone.
• One Direction – A little-known pop boy band.
• 12” PowerBook – Much-loved but cancelled smaller form factor Mac.
• Tweet Library for iOS – Manton’s Twitter client for iOS.
• App Extensions – Apple programming guide.

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Daniel and Manton take stock of their off-the-cuff podcasting style, follow up on Apple Pay, discuss Tim Cook’s interview with Charlie Rose, celebrate the acquisition of Unread by Supertop, and get serious about the future of micro-blogging.

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• Moto 360 – The smartwatch from Motorola/Google that definitely beat Apple’s watch to market.
• Contactless Payment – Wikipedia page about the genre of payment mechanisms that includes NFC-based solutions such as Apple Pay.
• Google Wallet – Google’s long-available equivalent of Apple Pay.
• Paid for Shake Shack – Matt Mullenweg tweets about his experience using Google Wallet.
• Tim Cook Interview Part 1 – Charlie Rose interviews Tim Cook.
• Tim Cook Interview Part 2 – Second part of Charlie Rose’s interview.
• Swift Blog – Apple’s blog dedicated to the Swift programming language.
• Unread Acquisition – Blog post from the folks at Supertop, who recently acquired Unread.
• Now a Supertop App – Jared Sinclair announces the acquisition of Unread from his own perspective.
• WordPress.org – Self-hosted version of the popular blog hosting software.
• Defining a Microblog – Manton starts digging into what it means to be “a microblog.”
• Noah Read’s Snippets – Another approach to microblogging.
• The Web We Lost – Anil Dash reminisces about the more open nature of the web only a few years ago.

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Manton and Daniel react to Apple’s September, 2014 special event at the Flint Center in Cupertino. They work through questions surrounding the types of apps that Apple Watch may support, whether WatchKit may be Swift-only, and coming to terms with bigger iPhones.

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• iPhone 6 – “Bigger than bigger” — ain’t that the truth?
• Apple Watch – Apple’s massive new product category.
• Nickel allergy – Condition that Daniel suffers from and hopefully does not affect Apple’s watch!
• Swift Language – Apple’s newest programming language.
• Location Services – Documentation from Apple about Location Services.
• Apple vs. ITV – 2010 article about Apple’s thwarted plan to name the Apple TV iTV.
• Stripe: Apple Pay – Documentation from Stripe about supporting Apple Pay purchases using their payment framework.

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