15: Lots of Likes and Retweets

We discuss feedback to our App Store Review Prompts blog post, ideas for improving Castro’s notifications, answer a listener question about open source, and more.

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Follow-up: App Store Review Prompts (00:11)

• Mentioned in the last episode: Can Apple do better than the rating prompt as it is in 10.3?
• The Blog Post: Notification Are Better Than Alerts
• The Radar: SKStoreReviewController should not be modal
• Daring Fireball: Should iOS 10.3’S App Store Rating Prompts Be Notifications Instead Of Alerts?

Rethinking Castro Notifications for iOS 10 (08:23)

• Here’s a good overview of how notifications work in iOS 10: iOS 10 Notifications: One Step Forward, One Step Back
• Mic - News you actually care about, fast

Open Source Hygiene Features (13:30)

• A question from Philip Blackwell in Australia leads us to discuss the idea of contributing to open source projects for some of the basic “hygiene features” of podcast apps, so that individual developers can focus on the parts of their apps that distinguish them
• Our interview with Jared Sinclair: Having a Chat in Some Kind of Hell
• Pod Wrangler’s back end API

Sponsor: Steamclock (21:21)

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Beard Grooming Regimen (22:09)

Michael Laccheo asks about beard grooming.

Micro UI (23:39)

• Iconfactory’s new app: Linea
• Tweet from Vincent Bidaux

The guys at @Iconfactory are introducing “micro UI” things only accessible with pencil. Those mini-sliders are indeed functional

All of these things end up just being additive. You can make them available optionally but you can never commit to making your UI about them. That’s where any big ideas you get hit a wall. — Pádraig at (26:49)

Podcast Talk (27:01)

• Serial has set up its own production company: article on Variety.
• All episodes of their next show, S-Town, will be released simultaneously. We discuss ways that podcast apps might could adapt to better suit shows that are intended to be listened in sequence like this.
  • Pádraig listens to Hello from the Magic Tavern this way
• Starlee Kine, previously of This American Life, Mystery Show, and Election Profit Makers is on the editorial team for S-Town.
• Oisín recommends Under The Skin: Making Audio Visceral from the Third Coast Pocket Conference podcast.
  • Which reminds him of The Hospital Always Wins

Outro (35:10)

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• Keep sending in your audio comments and questions to future episodes.
• Jayson Kish has the final word