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When Overcast 1.0 launched last year, I expected some pushback for its pricing model (free with limits, $5 to unlock everything). I knew there was a chance I’d be perceived by some indie-development commentators as a...

After a year of work, Overcast 2 is now available as a free update for everyone. It’s mostly a major under-the-hood improvement, with relatively few user-facing changes. But they’re pretty good, I think. And now, al...

Apple notified me this afternoon that they’ll be proactively refunding all purchases of Peace. It will probably take a few days to process. As far as I know, this effectively never happens. When I decided to pull the...

I’ve pulled Peace from the App Store. I’m sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days. It’ll keep working for a long time if you already h...

I’m Marco Arment: a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. About • Podcast • Best Of • Twitter First published on September 7, 2015. Will be updated over time. It’s hard to find useful microp...

More than fifteen years ago, in response to decreasing ad rates and banner blindness, web advertisers and publishers adopted pop-up ads. People hated pop-up ads. We tolerated in-page banners as an acceptable cost of b...

That place is great. Nice staff, casual atmosphere, good food. You didn’t like it? Really? Why? It’s great. Oh, you got the fish? Rookie mistake. Don’t order the fish, it’s terrible. But everything else there is g...

The best battery life in the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro line is the base model (without the high-powered GPU), but Apple’s stated 8–9 hours of battery life is only achievable with very light use — if you’re using ...

MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. I’ve had mixed luck with impulse buys. As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis. I saw it in Electronics Boutique, the box looked ...

I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app’s structure. This seemed like a sensible adaptation of my iOS app to the Apple Watch. In practic...

Matias is known for their mechanical keyboards, and — unusually for mechanical or ergonomic keyboards — available Mac key layouts and function keys. I’ve been looking forward to their first ergonomic keyboard for a...

John Lagomarsino at The Verge, in Stop listening to podcasts at 1.5×, presents an argument commonly made by radio and storytelling purists against speeding up your podcasts (including my Smart Speed feature). Unsurpri...

Have a blog? How has your traffic been for the last year or two — say, since July 1, 2013? Mine’s been clearly flat and slowly declining — the first time the trend has ever gone down — even in periods where I writ...

Nobody ever wants to talk about money. But current and prospective indie app developers could really use more information on the subject. I’ve seen some very informative and helpful posts from developers revealing th...

Last night, I wrote a quick post about Apple’s software quality. Originally, it was just a link to the Linux post. I had too much commentary, so at the last minute, I changed it to an article and came up with a quick...

Apple’s hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has taken such a nosedive in the last few years that I’m deeply concerned for its future. I’m typing this on a computer whose ...

I often get asked about supporting chapter marks in podcasts. After consideration and research, I’ve decided not to support them in Overcast for the foreseeable future. The least important reason is that it would be ...

I’m Marco Arment: a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. About • Podcast • Best Of • Twitter November 13, 2013 • ∞http://www.marco.org/2013/11/13/roast-grind-brew-coffee-machine I once day...