Recorded 24 May 2013.

Brent and Michael talk to Jonathan Deutsch from Tumult Inc., which makes Hype. Which is awesome software.

This episode is sponsored by CheckBook Pro from Splasm Software, Inc. It’s a personal finance manager for Mac OS X — with an iOS app in development. It makes it easy to figure out what you’re spending too much money on. It even makes it easy to get your totals ready for taxes. (Taxes. Ugh. Gotta do it, though!) Simple and powerful. The new version 2.5 is on sale for $19.99 until the middle of June.

Some things we mention

Patty Duke Show
Ronald D. Moore
J.J. Abrams
Flat tax
United States tax code
Apple at Congress
European VAT tax
Tumblr
Marco on the Tumblr acquisition
Yahoo
Marissa Mayer
Google
Twitter
Instagram
Flickr
Bing
David Karp
Ryan Nielsen
HTML 5
WWDC
AltWWDC labs
Talk Show Live
HockeyApp
PLCrashReporter
iOS 7 and Ive
Popovers
Sidebar basement hamburger menu
OmniPresence
iCloud Syncing
Microsoft
Eddy Cue
macminicolo
OmniOutliner
Sandboxing
Mountain Lion
MacBook Air
Haswell

You can follow Jonathan on Twitter.