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Brent is in the process of re-booting Ranchero Software, where he writes iOS and Mac apps. He blogs at inessential.com, and is @brentsimmons on Twitter and @brentsimmons on App.net.
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Identical Cousins 11: Indie Life - Three Weeks In
Recorded 20 Feb 2013.
You can download the m4a file.
We talk about Brent’s first three weeks of indie life. Spoiler: he’s enjoying it.
Then, because Michael has a cold, we lose our senses entirely and talk for a while about the Mailbox queue. Brilliant marketing? Pure evil? Making lemons out of lemonade? A nice user experience? A mix of all the above?
Also: cousin Michael gives us a sneak peek at Fantastical 1.1. But his cold makes him misspeak: he says the app uses the word “pasteboard” but in reality it uses the word “clipboard.”
This episode is sponsored by Windows Azure Mobile Services. Mobile Services is a new component of Azure — a very high-level component that makes creating web services for mobile apps (database storage, user authentication, push notifications, email, and so on) easy. (Really easy. Startlingly simple.)
Some things we mention:
Okay, that’s just about it.
Brent’s audio is a bit noisy. He’s working on it. (He has a Blue Yeti. Good mic. The problem isn’t the mic.)
Also: we used a curse word somewhere in the podcast. The f-word. So we marked this episode as explicit for iTunes.