Reading List
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‘Under the Radar’ Now Over
Marco Arment and David Smith:
In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Thanks for listening, everyone!
I really liked the 30-minute format and the breadth of topics: everything from API details to broader design considerations, stats from their own businesses, and postmortems, plus all the stuff he mentioned.
I’ve never been an indie software developer, but I found the podcast extremely insightful. It’s influenced how I’ve thought about my non-indie software development career, not just as someone delivering bits that indies use, but also as a product person who writes software as a means to an end.
Apple Removes Gay Dating Apps From Chinese App Store
Zeyi Yang and Louise Matsakis (Bluesky): Apple has removed two of the most popular gay dating apps in China from the App Store after receiving an order from China’s main internet regulator and censorship authority, WIRED has learned. The move comes as reports of Blued and Finka disappearing from the iOS App Store and several […]
FSF EU Notarization Complaint
Free Software Foundation Europe (via Hacker News): The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) aims for a structural reset of power in digital markets, a shift from corporate control toward device neutrality, where users decide what runs on their devices. For Free Software, this legislation can be a unique opportunity by finally opening closed ecosystems - […]
Thanks for Under the Radar
Under the Radar: In our final episode, we reflect on how indie app development has changed over the past decade. Marco Arment: We’re incredibly proud of our ten-year catalog of 30-minute discussions on development, marketing, monetization, work/life balance, and mental health for app developers. I really liked the 30-minute format and the breadth of topics: […]
NetNewsWire 6.2
Brent Simmons (release notes): Long-time Mac users will understand when we say that this is a Snow Leopard release — it fixes a bunch of bugs, makes some things faster, and adds only a couple features. […] Note also that it doesn’t adopt Liquid Glass. We’ll be doing that in NetNewsWire 7, which we’re working […]