Daniel and Manton talk about the return of ADC, Manton’s epic road trip, the death of upgrade pricing, and the death of Bento.

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• Apple Developer System Status — more green lights for the dev portal.
• Daring Fireball post on Bob Mansfield — John Gruber says there’s no backstage intrigue.
• Om Malik video — “A Lot of Love for Mansfield at Apple”.
• Logic Pro X released — major update from Apple without upgrade pricing.
• Apple’s Answer on Upgrade Pricing — David Smith reacts to Logic Pro X.
• Coda 2 — upgrade pricing for everyone.
• Bento cancelled — FileMaker’s press release.

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Manton and Daniel talk about the Bitsplitting Podcast’s hiatus, prioritizing focus on multiple projects, and Apple’s unprecedented developer-program security breach.

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• Bitsplitting Podcast – Daniel’s other podcast, now on hiatus.
• Justin Williams – Justin Williams’s Twitter account.
• Second Gear Software – Justin Williams’s software company.
• Tweet Marker – Manton’s Twitter timeline sync service.
• Alpha App.net – The social network that Manton uses more ardently than Twitter.
• Apple Developer Site Hack – Run-down by The Guardian about Apple’s developer site downtime.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Tweet Marker’s new developer plan, dealing with deprecated APIs, WWDC videos on YouTube, and the futility of Apple’s NDA.

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• Tweet Marker Developer Program – Manton’s page for developers who want to support Tweet Marker in their apps.
• What is the WWDC NDA Protecting? – Cabel Sasser wonders on Twitter why we have to abide by NDA for WWDC content.
• NDA Invalidated? – Watermark collection of tweets spawned by David Barnard about the validity of Apple’s NDA after divulgence.

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Manton and Daniel talk about the loss of RSS feeds for Twitter searches, the joys of starting on a new app, and sweating the details of all the non-programming indie software-business work.

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• RSS Feeds For Twitter – Advice from Amit Agarwal on hacking together an RSS feed for Twitter search results.
• Yahoo Pipes – Yahoo’s visual programming toolkit for web-based data.
• T Command Line Tool – Ruby-based command-line interface to Twitter’s API.
• NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Beta-release of the next version of the popular Mac-based news reader.
• Ship Everything – Manton’s year-old blog post on the credo to only start projects you will finish.
• iOS Text Editors – Brett Terpstra’s extensive catalog of iOS-based text editors.

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Daniel and Manton talk about Daniel’s approach for the text editor app market, catch up on the latest in RSS syncing, and take 3 questions about iOS 7 development.

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• Minimalist Text Editor? – Daniel’s Tweet asking for text editor opinions.
• Byword – A popular minimalist text editor.
• iA Writer – Another popular editing app.
• Elements – And another, from Justin Williams.
• NetNewsWire 4 Beta – Preview release of the popular Mac RSS reader.
• Reeder – Another popular Mac and iOS RSS reader.
• Feed Wrangler – A web-based RSS reader that also has an iOS client and a Mac client on the way.
• Feedbin – Another web-based RSS reader.
• Feedly – And another!
• Mr. Reader – An RSS reader for iPad with a large variety of syncing options.
• ReadKit – Mac RSS reader with custom support for many “read later” type services.
• All Or Nothing – Marco Arment’s judgment of Black Pixel’s presumed choice to build their own sync solution.

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Manton and Daniel speculate about Scott Forstall’s future, talk more about WWDC, and discuss the pros and cons of Apple’s major iOS 7 changes.

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• Apple’s Executive Shakeup – Press release from October 2012 announcing the departure of Scott Forstall.
• upthere – Palo Alto company widely considered to be Bertrand Serlet’s new startup.
• Painting The Future (ADC Membership Required) – Lunchtime special feature at WWDC 2013 featuring Pixar demos with new Mac Pro.
• Fertile Ground – Blog post by Marco Arment about the opportunities for software developers on iOS 7.

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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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