In anticipation of WWDC week, Manton and Daniel discuss predictions for the event, rumors of an Apple home automation bombshell, and their game plan for socializing and learning at AltConf and peripheral events.

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• This is Healthbook – Mark Gurman’s scoop on Apple’s predicted health and fitness tracking software.
• Apple’s Nest – Daniel’s post from earlier this year wishing for touchscreen, smarter Airport Expresses.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Good podcast from some guys we like.
• Attendee List – Adam Swinden’s effort to catalog the various self-admitting attendees of WWDC or peripheral events.
• WWDC Parties 2014 – GitHub project from Orta Therox dedicated to listing various WWDC-week parties.
• WWDCParties.com – Another resource for folks looking for “something to do” … in case walking around meeting everybody isn’t enough 😉
• AltConf – The preeminent alternative conference to WWDC. Free, and being held across the street.

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Manton and Daniel acknowledge a birthday celebrated by working, discuss the perils of open source dependencies, react to Apple’s new WWDC App, and lament Panic’s Coda sandboxing saga.

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• Mercurial – Daniel’s preferred version control system.
• TinyMCE – Open-source JavaScript-based HTML rich editor.
• Node.js – A popular JavaScript application framework.
• Jake – A make-like build tool for, you guessed it, JavaScript and Node.js.
• ant – Java-based build tool.
• Duncan Davidson – Many-talented engineer and photographer who also significantly developed ant.
• WWDC app – The updated official app from Apple for WWDC 2014.
• Coda 2.5 – Panic’s post about giving up on sandboxing Coda for the time being.
• Sandboxing and Clipstart – Manton’s 2012 post about the decision to pull Clipstart from the Mac App Store.

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Manton and Daniel reflect on the Core Intuition t-shirt results, talk about Sunlit’s new Flickr support, acknowledge the change of strategy at App.net, and discuss the conventional wisdom that all customers deserve to be supported.

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• Core Intution T-Shirts – Our (sadly!) ended T-shirt campaign. We’ll sell other shirts again.
• All Star Sandwich Bar – Daniel’s less-than-stellar sandwich shop review.
• Zendesk – Customer support company that won’t support Manton even though he pays.
• Unconventional Wisdom – David Smith on the importance, or not, of providing customer support.
• FogBugz – In contrast to Zendesk, FogBugz provides full support even to free customers.
• Sunlit 1.2 – Manton’s announcement of Sunlit 1.2 with Flickr support.
• App.net State of the Union – Announcement from Dalton Caldwell about changes at App.net
• It Never Died Because it Never Lived – Accidental Tech Podcast on the App.net changes.
• MLKSHK Shutting Down – Another web service making drastic changes, albeit more terminal.
• Self-Sustenance is Dangerous – Daniel’s App.net post about the value of remaining in business, even if barely.
• Twitter Muting Functionality – New API endpoints in Twitter’s API share the love of new muting feature.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Automattic’s funding surge, getting to the bottom of Manton’s Twitter departure, and Daniel’s somewhat comparable sandwich shop vendetta.

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• New Funding for Automattic – Matt Mullenweg on Automattic’s significant new venture capital investment.
• Jetpack for WordPress – WordPress plugin for self-hosted sites that adds many WordPress.com-like features.
• Would I go back to Twitter? – Manton digs into his reasons for leaving his personal Twitter account.
• Getting Pretty Lonely – Daniel’s 2009 post about WordPress and the GPL.
• A Eulogy for Twitter – The Atlantic’s possibly premature proclamation of doom for Twitter.
• Write locally, mirror globally – Manton’s response to The Atlantic’s piece.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Apple’s recent stock surge and planned split, rumors about a Google-killing Apple search engine, and techniques for tracking user engagement with a product.

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• Dan Counsell – Founder of Realmac Software.
• Future History of Technology – Avram Miller’s piece about Apple’s alleged search engine plans.
• Cringley on Avram Miller – Robert X. Cringley discusses Avram Miller’s allegations.
• Bing – Microsoft’s search engine.
• Duck Duck Go – Another alternative search engine.
• Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas – Paul Graham enumerates a list of valuable challenges for entrepreneurs.
• Tracking User Activity – Marc Palmer on ADN asking Manton about his user-tracking techniques.
• Twitter Ads – Manton describes his rationale for, and initial experience with running ads on Twitter.
• Zendesk – Manton’s customer support solution, incorporating support for monitoring Twitter interactions.
• Tapstream – App install/conversion monitoring service.

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Manton buys a Drobo, Daniel buys a MacBook Pro. They discuss the merit of investing in tools and equipment, Apple’s recent environmental emphases, and Manton’s Sunlit pricing strategy.

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• Good as New – Apple’s refurbished hardware store.
• Dropbox Pricing – The cost of ubiquitous, convenient storage.
• Apple’s Green Dig – Apple’s full-page ad flaunting its environmentally friendly policies.
• Apple Hydroelectic – Apple’s own Prineville, Oregon electric station.
• Release Notes #41 – Charles Perry & Joe Cieplinski interview Manton Reece.
• Sunlit – Manton’s creatively priced iOS photo storytelling app.
• Core Int T-Shirt – Our t-shirt campaign enters its second week.
• Hypercritical – John Siracusa’s blog.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Featuring John Siracusa, Casey Liss, and Marco Arment.

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Manton and Daniel talk about missed WWDC opportunities, Core Intuition t-shirts, responding to Heartbleed fallout, and maintaining security of self-managed servers.

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• Core Intuition T-shirt – Our first-ever t-shirt, shipped in time for WWDC.
• WWDC 14 – Apple’s annual developer conference.
• Hypercrtical – John Siracusa’s blog.
• AltConf – Alternative conference to WWDC, located across the street.
• Heartbleed – The enormous SSL security vulnerability.
• Heartbleed Statement – Daniel’s statement about the impact of Heartbleed on Red Sweater’s store.
• Duncan Davidson – Web site of our famous photographer/programmer friend.
• Wunderlist – The productivity-software company Duncan now works for.
• Private Keys Accessible – Ars Technica story on confirmation that private keys could be extracted via Heartbleed vulnerability.

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Manton and Daniel recap Manton’s speaking experience at CocoaConf Austin, and discuss this year’s WWDC ticket apportioning system, and the pros and cons of attending.

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• Building Engaging UI – Picture of Manton at CocoaConf Austin, by Conrad Stoll
• WWDC 14 – Apple’s annual developer conference information page.
• AltConf – The free alternative conference hosted in proximity to WWDC.
• Dub Dub Don’t Care – Chris Adamson argues that the makeup of WWDC attendees matters little to Apple.
• Jonathan Wight’s GitHub – Some of Jon’s open source contributions to the Mac and iOS community.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s upcoming talk, the merits of code vs. ideas in presentations, and the risk of sudden rejection on Apple’s platforms.

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• Debug #30 – Interview with Casey Liss about C# and other things.
• Accidental Tech Podcast – Podcast featuring Casey Liss, John Siracusa, and Marco Arment.
• CocoaConf Austin – The April 4-5 conference at which Manton will be speaking.
• Sunlit – Manton’s iOS photo-storytelling app.
• Marco Arment Çingleton 2012 – Marco’s talk in which he eschewed the use of slides.
• Deprecated API Usage – Screen capture from Drew McCormack highlighting Apple’s rejection of QuickTime APIs in Mac App Store apps.
• QuickTime X – Apple continues to market QuickTime even as it rejects apps that use its APIs.
• QTKit Framework – The specific QuickTime framework which Drew’s app used and was rejected for.
• FastScripts – Daniel’s scripting utility that does not fit well with sandboxing.
• Clipstart – Manton’s movie clip organizer that likewise does not suit sandboxing.

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Manton and Daniel devote the entire episode to a discussion of handling customer service mishaps, and how accountable indie developers should be to various support channels.

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• What Gives? – Customer inquiry from App.net user @amro to Manton’s @riverfold.
• Tweet Library – Manton’s iOS Twitter client.
• Zendesk – Customer service management software.
• Not Getting a Response? – Daniel’s support page for Red Sweater, including a caveat about alternative contact channel.
• Vaynerchuk @ Elevate NYC – Via Marco Arment, Gary Vaynerchuk on the value of being present as a company on the big social networks.

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