Daniel and Manton talk about surviving WWDC without a ticket, reflect on App.net’s progress, discuss the merits of early compatibility fixes, and consider Apple’s public shaming of Scott Forstall.

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• altWWDC – Successful alternative to the official WWDC 2013 conference
• App.net Hackathon Recap – Summary of the pre-WWDC event.
• TinyUmbrella – Tool to make restoring iOS versions easier.
• Multiplane – Manton’s blog post about iOS 7 UI.

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Manton and Daniel weigh the pros and cons of entering a popular app market, discuss finding a suitable acquirer for one’s product, and offer WWDC party-selection advice.

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• WWDC 2013 – Apple’s upcoming developer conference.
• Byword 2 – The popular minimalist text editor, now with blog publishing features.
• Fantastical – Popular alternative Calendar app for Mac OS X
• Cheddar – Example of a product whose acquisition price might be out of most indies’ reach.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Manton’s switch to Linode, the pragmatism and insanity of running your own server, and the old-timer/newbie mix at WWDC.

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• Heroku – The cloud platform that Manton is moving away from.
• Linode – The VPS hosting service Manton switched to.
• Redis – Open-source key value storage system.
• Heroku’s Ugly Secret – Criticism from James Somers of Heroku’s usage accounting tactics.
• Rackspace – The VPS hosting service Daniel uses.
• nginx – Alternative HTTP server to Apache.
• Copland – Wikipedia page on Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system.
• Pay Attention – Mike Lee’s App.net post reminding folks to pay attention when people are speaking.
• mur.mu.rs – Mike Lee’s blog.

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Manton and Daniel talk about Flickr’s redesign, Yahoo! as a potential strategic partner for Apple, and techniques for branching and refactoring older code.

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• Dropbox Camera Upload – Instructions from Dropbox on enabling the automatic photo uploads Manton described.
• Apple Photo Stream FAQ – Q&A from Apple about their Photo Stream feature.
• One Momento – iOS app that allows customers to upload just one image — ever.
• The One-Person Product – Marco Arment reminisces about the early days of Tumblr.
• Yahoo Mail reset – Manton’s blog post from 2002 about deleted email (his temper has cooled in the intervening 11 years).
• Mr. Wilhelm’s Flickr Photos – Story from 2011 about a Flickr user’s lost photos and — phew! — their ultimate recovery.
• Clipstart – Manton’s movie-management app for the Mac.
• A Successful Git Branching Model – Description of branching approach that is referred to often as “Git Flow.”
• HG Flow – Mercurial adaptation of the branching approach described by Git Flow.

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Manton and Daniel talk about CocoaConf Alt’s cancellation, WWDC’s protracted sell-out, and making time for indie projects with a busy life schedule.

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• CocoaConf Alt Canceled – Blog post from CocoaConf’s Dave Klein about the cancellation.
• altWWDC – The alternative, free conference put on by folks from Appsterdam.
• A Word About CocoaConf Alt – Follow-up from Dave Klein clarifying that he does not begrudge Apple for cancellation.
• You Can Check Out… – Daniel’s blog post reacting to CocoaConf Alt cancellation.
• Mac Software Business Year One – Roundtable from iDeveloper TV where Gus Mueller talks about focusing on one product at a time.

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Manton and Daniel talk about adopting new technologies, choosing system requirements, version numbering (again!) and Adobe’s shift to all-subscription sales for Creative Suite.

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• FMDB – An Objective-C wrapper around SQLite, by Gus Mueller.
• Tweet Library 2.3 – Manton updates his archival Twitter client.
• Instacast 3 – Example of a major update that focused more on fit and finish and less on bold new features.
• Adobe Creative Cloud – Announcement from Adobe that “new product innovation” will be exclusively through cloud subscriptions.
• NSConference Videos – $149 pack of all the videos from NSConference 5, including Manton’s and Daniel’s.
• Dead Man’s Switch – Concept mentioned by Daniel in context of guaranteeing product functionality after abandonment.
• TextMate – The venerable Mac OS X text editor that still works in spite of halted development.
• Upcoming.org – Wikipedia page about the site Yahoo! summarily dispensed with weeks ago.
• Save Upcoming – Upcoming founder Andy Baio rallying support for a rogue archival effort for the site’s content.
• Archive Team – “A loose collective of rogue archivists, programmers, writers and loudmouths dedicated to saving our digital heritage.”

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Daniel and Manton talk about WWDC ticket sales, alternative conferences ticketless attendees, and the vibrancy of the Mac software market.

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• WWDC – Apple’s annual developer conference.
• altWWDC – Free, alternative conference to WWDC during the week of the show.
• CocoaConf Alt – A paid, single-track alternative to WWDC during the week of the show.
• App.net Hackathon – Hacking marathon for App.net developers, on the eve of WWDC.
• Acorn – Light-weight image editing application from Flying Meat.
• Briefs – iOS-focused app UI-prototyping software from the folks at MartianCraft.
• Software Indie – New podcast from Scotty of iDeveloper fame, focused on empowering indies.

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Manton and Daniel talk about WWDC ticket sales, Ambrosia Software’s major layoff, and Google Glass terms of services.

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• WWDC June 10 – News release from Apple about the dates and ticket-sale strategy for WWDC 2013.
• WWDC 2013 – Detailed information about the conference from Apple.
• AltWWDC – Alternative gathering for the week of WWDC, put on by folks from Appsterdam.
• Ambrosia Software – The stalwart Mac software maker that recently issued mass layoffs.
• Ambrosia Still Alive – Piece by Jeff Garnet of the Mac Observer about Ambrosia’s prospects.
• Panic – Another Mac software company that seems to be around for the long haul.
• Google Glass API – Terms of service for the Google Glass API.
• App.net Developer Incentive Terms – A contrasting API terms agreement.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Boston, Panic’s Status Board, Google’s Glass UI guidelines, and Google Fiber.

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• Panic Status Board – New iPad app from Panic for customizable passive data displays.
• Panic’s examples of plugins – Blog post from Panic highlighting many custom 3rd party panels.
• Dashcode User Guide – Apple’s documentation for their widget-devleopment IDE.
• Glass UI guidelines – Google’s user interface guidelines for their glasses-based devices.
• Google Fiber Austin – Announcement page for Google’s initiative to bring super-high-speed internet to Manton’s home town.
• AT&T Fiber in Austin – Announcement from AT&T that it plans to build gigabit fiber in Austin, as well.
• Verizon FiOS – Fiber internet service from Verizon that is decidedly slower than gigabit.

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Manton and Daniel discuss CocoaConf Dallas, subscription app pricing, Google’s fork of WebKit, and the Facebook Home debut.

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• Google Blink – Google’s fork of the WebKit rendering engine.
• Recapitulating History – WebKit engineer Maciej Stachowiak comments on the Blink fork.
• Facebook Home – Facebook’s Android-based home screen and mobile apps suite.
• HTC First – The first Android phone to come bundled with Facebook Home.
• Motorola Razr – Wikipedia page on the phone collaboration between Apple and Motorola.
• Home Turf – Matt Drance weighs in on the significance of Facebook Home.
• Instagram – Facebook-owned social photo-sharing site that is open to younger children than allowed on Facebook proper.

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