PhillyCocoa Presents Side Project Spotlight is a podcast for app builders, documenting the process of producing real apps for the Apple App Store.

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#120: Mike Zornek Fights For the Users

Mike Zornek wants your software to keep working even when the company behind it disappears. He joins The Trio to explain local-first software, Automerge, and CRDTs, th...

#119: Hello, John Apple

John Ternus is Apple’s new CEO, and The Trio have a wish list ready. Kotaro, Steve, and Aaron size up his practical hardware legacy, imagine a stronger developer story...

#118: Even LLMs Hate Jira with Bill Atkins

Bill Atkins put a Mac mini in his spare room so local models can handle the coding chores he would rather skip, all without sending Stylebook's code to the cloud. Bill...

#117: Assumption One: You’re a Hoarder

The desktop has barely changed in decades, even as we’ve all become digital hoarders. Scott Jenson’s Local-First Conf talk, “How the Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep...

#116: BentoFit in the Loop

Steve puts BentoFit in the loop, using agentic coding to add themes and straighten out the app's Swift package structure. The Trio digs into Mike Zornek's three-year A...

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