MTJC podcast is a show about mobile development. Each week Jaime Lopez, Mark Rubin (sometimes Greg Heo and Tammy Coron) and myself, Tim Mitra, will convene from across the continent to discuss iOS and Mac development. We discuss current issues to find out what developers are talking about, what their apps are about, what they are using to create their apps and what advice they have for other developers (or those looking to become one). We also have news, notes and tech tips for developers.
The Vision Pro Moment
This week Tim, Mark and Jaime are joined by guest host Jonathan Kuehlein to discuss the impact of the Vision Pro on technology and entertainment.#Privacy: Facebook, TikTok, and Other Apps Use Push Notifications to Send Data about Your iPhoneApple CEO Tim Cook Compares Vision Pro 'Moment' to iPhone and Mac - MacRumorsApple Vision Pro international release roadmap leaked, and it's good newsAmazon is bringing a whole lot of AI to Thursday Night Football this seasonApple Vision Pro: Here are the first apps you should download | TechCrunchLaunch Apps - Donovan's Vision BlogToday in Apple history: Devs get iPhone SDK, unlocking power of appsVisionTube Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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2/10/2024 • 2 hours, 7 minutes, 1 second
Let's Do Something Stupid Next with Steve Lipton
This week Tim sits down with Steve Lipton, CIO Scientific Device Laboratory, Author and Speaker on creativity, iOS, watchOS, and SAP Business One. Steve is a serial educator who has been teaching iOS based courses for many years on Lynda.com and now on LinkedIn Learning.Make App PieSteve on LinkedInSteve on Mastodon - @[email protected] dips toe in the AI pool with new model framework Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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12/28/2023 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 41 seconds
Martin Woodward
This week I was joined by Martin Woodward, VP of DevRel at GitHub. We discussed developer relations, automation with GitHub Actions, code assistance with GitHub CoPilot, 3D printing, and in the After Show, Github's shiny new implementation of Apple Silicon build machines, custom installed racks of Mac Minis.martinwoodward/octolamp: A 3D printed, GitHub infused, smart lightmartinwoodward (Martin Woodward) · GitHubEddie Izzard "The Awesome Universe" Sketch From CircleIntroducing the new, Apple silicon powered M1 macOS larger runner for GitHub Actions Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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12/19/2023 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 43 seconds
Dave Verwer - Don't Forget Your Towel
This week Tim sits down with Dave Verwer to discuss his contributions to the Apple developer community. They chat about Dave's iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, the Swift Package Index, and the iOS Dev Directory. They also discuss Swift on Windows, Vaper and server-side swift, and the basics on how to publish a Swift Package. Don't forget your towel.Swift Package IndexSwift.org - PackagesiOS Dev Weekly - The best iOS development links, every FridayiOS Dev Jobshttps://iosdevdirectory.comSven A Schmidt on mastodonTed Kremenek on Twitter Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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11/25/2023 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 8 seconds
This Could Have Been An Email
This week we review the Apple Scary Fast Event on October 30, 2023Original Apple Watch, including $17,000 gold model, no longer eligible for repairsApple TV Plus is getting a price hike — and other Apple subscriptions are, too - The VergeApple Arcade is getting some great new games for the holidays - The VergeUIKit View Lifecycle - viewIsAppearingDebugging Improvements in Swift 5.9Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhoneApple ‘Scary Fast’ Mac launch event: the 4 biggest announcements - The Verge13″ MacBook Index | Low End Mac68K PowerBook Index | Low End MacPicksLApp Icon Generator🎙️ MacWhisperMaking Threads for iOS | At Scale Conferences Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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11/4/2023 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 23 seconds
It’s Shiny and has an Apple Logo
This week we review the Apple Event, Wonderlust, from Sept 12, 2023. We discuss the Watch Series 9, Watch Ultra 2, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, and the addition of USB-C.Picks: Vision Pro Hand's On, Advanced macOS Commands, Swift 5.8 Feature Flags, and GitHistoryApple's Unusual Headset Design Has Led to Unprecedented Production Challenges - MacRumorsVision Pro leak reveals how Apple plans to launch its futuristic headset | iMoreSystem in a package - WikipediaiPhone 15 lineup gets a price hike in CanadaApple releases detailed PDFs of iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma featuresiPhone 15 Pro fixes the worst thing about Apple's Vision ProContrary to rumors, the iPhone 15 has a standard, by-the-book USB-C port | Ars TechnicaRumors of Lightning’s death are just slightly exaggerated - The VergeiPhone 15 fulfills a vision for photography shared with Steve Jobs over a decade ago - 9to5MacVision Pro Developer Hands-onAdvanced macOS Commands - saurabhs.orgUsing Upcoming Feature FlagsGit HistoryJames Dempsey - Using Upcoming Feature Flags Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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9/17/2023 • 2 hours, 7 seconds
A Day at the Apple Vision Pro Lab
This week we play a short interview where Tim talks about his experience at the Apple Vision Pro lab on August 25, 2023. He talks about this unique 360° display that you wear on your head, about testing apps, watching videos, browsing the web, texting on his iPhone, all while sitting by the lake at Mount Hope. Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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9/2/2023 • 29 minutes, 44 seconds
Swift TO Speaker Series: Sommer Panage On Accessibility
Tim sits down with Sommer Panage, Engineering Manager, iOS Engineer and aerial acrobat. Sommer is passionate about accessibility, empowering app users and developing a company culture that includes accessibility from design to app execution.Sommer PanageSommer Panage on Twitter XSommer Panage (@[email protected])Sommer Panage (@sommerope) • Instagram photos and videosAccessibility: You're More Powerful Than You Think - Christopher Hills Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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8/4/2023 • 44 minutes, 30 seconds
Swift TO Speaker Series: Terry Latanville
This week Tim sits down with Terry Latanville, fellow goalie, Staff iOS Engineer at DoorDash. Terry will be speaking at Swift TO Conference in August 2023. They discuss some innovations, such as Reactive VIP, Observable, Unity and Smurf Berries.https://latanville.ca/https://twitter.com/terrylatanvilleTerry Latanville (@[email protected])Wayne Gretsky 100 yard dashHow to Speed Up SwiftUI Development and Testing Using PreviewSnapshotsAdopting SwiftUI with a Bottom-Up Approach to Minimize RiskSwift TO 2023 Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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7/10/2023 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 8 seconds
Danijela Vrzan, SwiftTO 2023 Speaker Series
This week Tim sits down with Daniel Vrzan iOS developer. bootcamp mentor and conference speaker. They discuss her career pivot to becoming an iOS engineer, her life in Croatia and migration with her husband to Canada. They discuss the Kodeco bootcamps and how Danijela became a mentor. They also dig into building website in Swift.https://www.danijelavrzan.com/speaking/ https://twitter.com/dvrzanhttps://www.kodeco.com/u/dvrzanhttps://www.swiftconf.to/This episode on YouTube Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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6/30/2023 • 45 minutes, 39 seconds
WWDC and the Curious Case of xrOS
This week we review the sessions at WWDC 2023. We fact check Unified Memory, MKBHD and the Caffe Macs doors. Paul Hudson's What’s New in SwiftUI for iOS 17 .It wasn't a mistake — Apple betas are now free. macOS Sonoma and iOs drops support for some Macs, iPhones and iPads.Sony refuses to increase Vision Pro screen production capacity for Apple. We discuss some more Passkey sources. WWDC23 sessions, macros, SwiftData, visionOS, privacy, security, storeKit, MapKit, WorkoutKit, PhotosPicker, and more. Picks: All new frameworks presented at WWDC23.https://twitter.com/gregheo/status/1668057517971353600What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 17 – Hacking with SwiftIt wasn't a mistake — Apple betas are now freemacOS Sonoma Drops Support for These Macs - MacRumorsiOS 17 system requirements – can Apple’s latest software run on your iPhone? | StuffSony refuses to increase Vision Pro screen production capacity for ApplePhasing Out Passwords: Apple To Automatically Assign Each User a Passkey | PCMagPasskeys.devPasskeys.directoryDeploy passkeys at work - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple DeveloperVerify app dependencies with digital signatures - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple DeveloperAll new frameworks presented at WWDC23 Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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6/25/2023 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 16 seconds
WWDC 2023 Highlights
This week Mark, Jaime and Tim review the WWDC 2023 highlights. Mark describes attending WWDC in person at Apple Park. We cover all the new MacBook Air 15-inch, updates to the Mac Studio and the introduction of the Mac Pro with M2 Apple Silicon. We review the new feature of iOS 17, iPadOS 17, tvOS and watchOS. Next up we talk about the Vision Pro and visionOS. Picks: 1Password's Passkeys, Tim's short story iViz 1.0, upcoming Feature Flags and applying to work with Vision Pro and visionOS.SwiftUI updates | Apple Developer DocumentationSee Apple Park's massive lunchroom doors open in epic fashion - CNETNow in beta: Save and sign in with passkeys using 1Password in the browseriViz 1.0Using Upcoming Feature FlagsWork with Apple - visionOSApple Vision Pro Impressions! Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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6/11/2023 • 2 hours, 2 minutes, 51 seconds
WWDC 2023 Pre-Show
This week we discuss our predictions on WWDC 2023, as well as events happening around Cupertino and elsewhere. askMTJC: GeoFreeman - What would you do with 96GB of unified memory?Support More Than Just Code podcast – iOS and Swift development, news and adviceApple mixed reality headset display specs leak ahead of imminent announcement - 9to5MacReport: iPhone 16 Pro to pack biggest iPhone screen ever; ProMotion still exclusive to 'Pro' devicesTop Apple leaker just gave the best hint at new Macs being announced at WWDCiOS 17 to Support App Sideloading to Comply With European Regulations - MacRumorsApple Park Special Event - WWDC23WWDC CommunityPicks:Awesome iOS BooksCode new worlds - Latest News - Apple DeveloperLIVE Near WWDC 2023Who’s going to WWDC - Flighty AppSwift TOInsideSticker.com — Holographic stickers for your MacBookThe Arm Manga Guide to the Mali GPU Get bonus content on Patreon Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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6/3/2023 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 25 seconds
Replay: Paul Hudson on Roundabout Creative Chaos episode 92 - Aug 23, 2017
On August 23, 2017 Paul Hudson joined Tammy Coron and Tim Mitra to discuss his writing about iOS and Swift.From the original broadcast:Join Tammy Coron and Tim Mitra on Episode 92, which was recorded on August 23, 2017.On this episode we talk with Paul Hudson.Paul spent eight years in computer journalism, writing features and tutorials for Linux Format, MacFormat, TechRadar, .net, and more. In his spare time, Paul has developed over 100 apps for iOS and Android. You can find out more about Paul at hackingwithswift.com. Get bonus content on Patreon Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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6/1/2023 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 24 seconds
Hacking With Paul Hudson
This week Tim sits down with Paul Hudson, the man behind Hacking With Swift, 100 Days of Swift and 100 Days of SwiftUI. They discuss what's to be expected from WWDC 2023, attending iOS conferences and Paul's recent family trip to Canada.Hacking With SwiftKathy Sierra - WikipediaSwift Style, Second Edition: An Opinionated Guide to an Opinionated Language by Erica Sadunmary beard (@wmarybeard) / TwitterStopTheMadnessEleventh Doctor Meets the Tenth Doctor | The Day of the Doctor | Doctor Who Get bonus content on Patreon Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/mtjc.
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5/31/2023 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 23 seconds
Matt Massicotte, SwiftTO 2023 Speaker Series
This week Tim chats with Matt Massicotte about his experience as a Mac developer, and early Mac enthusiast. They also discuss working with AppKit and SwiftUI, and Matt's upcoming talk on Swift Concurrency.massicotte.org@[email protected] TOChime - an editor for macOSResEdit - WikipediaArkanoid - WikipediaLearn C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS: 9781430245339: Mark, David, Bucanek, James Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
5/24/2023 • 35 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 362: Stewart Lynch, The Swift Professor
This week Tim sits down with Stewart Lynch to talk about his video teaching Swift coding. Steve has had a long career teaching computers in education, professional software applications and now in his own video series. Special Guest: Stewart Lynch.
5/5/2023 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 361: WWDC San Jose Travel Advice, Best of MTJC
We chatted about WWDC San Jose back in 2018. Here's a replay of Greg's experience at WWDC 2017. Mark gives some advice about traveling to San Jose. This year Mark is an attending WWDC 2023. Come say "Hi", take a selfie with Mark and maybe get some MTJC swag. (Unofficially, Greg might be lurking around as well)
4/23/2023 • 11 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 360: The Curious Case of Daniel Steinberg
This week Tim sits down with Daniel Steinberg to talk about his work, teaching, and his new book The Curious Case of the Async Cafe. The book explores Swift concurrency. They also discuss Daniel's experience as a broadcast radio host, his upcoming Top 40 format app, has his thoughts on WWDC 2023. Special Guest: Daniel Steinberg.
4/15/2023 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 359: WWDC 2023 Lottery
This week Jaime, Mark and Tim discuss the WWDC 2023 Lottery and what we expect to see at the June 5 WWDC 23 Keynote. The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS. Should you enable Apple's Advanced Data Protection for iCloud. Apple Pay is now available in South Korea. Apple introduces Apple Pay Later. Apple Passwords Deserve An App. Ability to change iCloud password with only user’s PIN code. Our WWDC 2023 predictions and wish list. iOS 17 Rumored to Drop Support for iPhone X, First-Generation iPad Pro, and More. Picks: 30th Anniversary Mac icons, Awesome newsletters for iOS and Swift developers in 2022, Visually learn Core Data in SwiftUI picture book, Understanding Swift Trailing Closure Syntax, Become A SwiftUI Navigation Pro, Syntax Color - How and why I present code the way I do.
4/8/2023 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 358: Mark Moeykens - Core Data Mastery in SwiftUI
This week Tim sits down with Mark Moeykens of Big Mountain Studios. We discuss his unique visual guides to mastering SwiftUI, using ChatGPT and AI to read Apple's documentation, and Mark's upcoming book Core Data Mastery in SwiftUI
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Greg Heo
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3/12/2023 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 357: Malin Sundberg & Kai Dombrowski
This week Tim sits down with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski, founders of Triple Glazed Studios, makers of Orbit: Time Based Inventory for macOS and iOS as well as makers of the Mercury Weather app. We discuss starting with Swift and publishing apps in SwiftUI, crashing into snow banks, under the edge of the Arctic Circle, all without having seen a single Star Wars movie (until recently.)
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Greg Heo
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2/17/2023 • 1 hour, 45 minutes
Episode 356: Leo Dion
This week Leo Dion joins Tim to discuss his career as Server-Side Swift developer, speaker and podcaster. They discuss some computer and development history, the future of Twitter, as well as, the upcoming Reality Pro AR/VR headset rumoured to be coming from Apple. Leo makes gets an early start on the best sandwich.
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Greg Heo
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2/1/2023 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 355: MTJC Max Pro Ultra
This week we discuss the new M2 Max, M2 Pro and Mac mini, MacBook Pros 14 & 16. We follow up on Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT and updated Apple Design Resources. We also cover augmenting accessibility with localized image names and the 2nd generation HomePod. In our Picks; Improving Console Output, SwiftUI Views Life Cycle, SwiftUI 4 adds tap location, DIY iOS Static Analysis, Gitignore.io, Getting Started with Xcode Cloud, and How to professionally say...
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1/21/2023 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 354: What Did You Think Was Going To Happen !? - George Stroumboulopoulos
This week George Stroumboulopoulos joins Tim to catch up on The Strombo Show, Mastodon, social media and the best submarine sandwich.
Apple announces biggest upgrade to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Apple Announces Upcoming Apple Music Sing Feature
Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections
Picks:
Data Tile
Coduo lets you share and collaborate in Xcode
Thanks to our Patrons:
Greg Heo
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12/10/2022 • 52 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 353: Moving to Mastodon
This week Tim discusses resources for moving to Mastodon
How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
The iPad Mystery. New Episode: Food Fight Strategy
Results Are In – State of Mobile Jobs Survey 2022!
ActionButton documentation
36 Seconds that changed Everything - How the iPhone Learned to Talk
Picks:
How to Use iCloud Keychain Two-Factor Authentication
31 Xcode 14 Tips & Tricks
Core Data: Fundamentals
NY Swifty
Deep Dish Swift
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Greg Heo
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12/1/2022 • 27 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 352: A Little Less Janeway
Enjoy this preview of our other podcast, SpockCast S05E09 A Little Less Janeway
This week we review Star Trek: Prodigy S01E14 Crossroads and Andor S01E11 Daughter of Ferrix. Special Guest: Jonathan Kuehlein.
11/21/2022 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 351: This Is Nothing...
This week we follow up on iPhone 14 series screen sizes. We debate the EU's future standardization of USB-C for all mobile devices and Apple Card's new high yield Savings accounts. We dig into to the newly introduced Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen), the new iPad (10th Gen) with Magic Keyboard Folio, and the new iPad Pro (6th Gen) series with M2 and Mini-LED (sort of). Picks: macOS defaults, Apple Aqua: Exploring the Legacy Of MacOS X User Interface, iOS Architecture Generator.
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10/22/2022 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 350: Far Out Man!
This week we discuss all the products introduced at Apple's Far Out event on Sept 7, 2022. We fact check Compose Custom Layouts in SwiftUI, the checkmark in the Developer app, Friday Night Baseball in Canada, and Universal Control. We follow up on Apple's Self Repair now includes M1, and Xcode Cloud availability for trial. We discuss the past and future of the 360iDev conference. We discuss the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Ultra, Air Pods Pro 2nd gen, the iPhone 14, and the iPhone 14 Pro. We also discus What's New in Swift 5.7. Picks: WWDC22 SwiftUI Lounge archived, Cmd Opt R, Cmd Shift J, Swift Version, SwiftUI Essential Training, and Design the Next iPhone.
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9/10/2022 • 2 hours, 8 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 349: WWDC22 - Regex for the Rest of Us
This week we cover the WWDC 2022 Keynote and Platform State of the Union. We're joined by Friend of the Show Joe Cieplinski. We fact check Sir Adam Beck and Steve Westgarth. We discuss Awesome lists and a calculator on the Lock Screen. We get into the new HIG, WWDC Keynote, iOS 16, Apple Watch and watchOS 9, Mac hardware and M2, macOS Ventura, iPadOS 16, Platforms State of the Union, Xcode Cloud, Swift, SwiftUI, System Experience, MapKit, WeatherKit, Live Text API and Data Scanner API. Picks: WWDC Community links updated for 2022, return of the UK iOS conferences, iOS Dev UK and Codemobile UK, Hello Swift Charts
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6/12/2022 • 2 hours, 35 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 348: Pre-WWDC 2022
You can watch this episode on Youtube.
A quick catch up before WWDC 2022. This week Tim covers adding drivers licenses to Wallet, tour options for visitors going to the in-person screenings at WWDC22, the rumoured Purple iPhone 14 Pro. Picks: ITSAppUsesNonExemptEncryption - Encryption compliance tip for App Store submissions, Jaime Lopez on Building Great Engineering Teams, SwiftUI Sessions, Exploring SwiftUI Sample Apps, The iOS App Icon Book, and Swift Playgrounds 4.1 adds app creation on macOS.
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5/28/2022 • 20 minutes
Episode 347: if let mtjc
This week we fact check Hockey Night in Canada, and compare the new iPad Air to the iPad Pro, review masked Face ID, and debate whether the Apple Studio Display is a good deal. Apple announces WWDC 2022 starting June 6. We share our opinions on the online version of WWDC. Apple is apparently testing nine M2 based Macs and may introduce a new MacBook Air at WWDC. Apple’s new A16 chip only included with higher-end iPhone 14 Pro models, base model iPhone 14 uses same chip as iPhone 13. Has the time come to rent iPhones? Apple finally lets ‘reader’ link to their own sites. 'if let' gets new syntax in Swift 5.6. Picks: RWDevCon 2017 Inspiration Talk: I’m an Idiot by Richard Turton, Remember when Apple built a Mac OS running on top of Solaris and HP-UX? Seriously. It happened, Cybersecurity and Skin Care, Improving Accessibility: VoiceOver, Swift Fiddle, Live, Laugh, Delete Derived Data, Awesome Swift, 40+ iOS 15.4 changes and features!
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4/24/2022 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 346: M1 Ultra
This week we discuss Apple's all-in-one keyboard computer patent. Apple launches inaugural Entrepreneur Camp for Latin founders. Apple to rolls out iOS 15.4. We also cover Apple's Peek Performance Event introducing M1 Ultra, Mac Studio, Studio Display, iPhone SE 5G, iPad Air with M1, and Friday Night Football on Apple TV+. Picks: Hello Mac OSX Tiger, Sophie Wilson creator of the ARM Instruction Set.
3/13/2022 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 345: Don't Hand Them Rocks
This week we discuss Apple's record breaking iPhone sales in India. A new MacBook Air could be coming with a notch, MagSafe, next generation Apple Silicon and more ports, along with a 5G iPhone SE. Apple’s App Store likely to survive two U.S. Bills aimed to change it. We discuss Tom Harrington's Clash of the Optionals and Jesse Squire's interpretation on how to handle non-optionals with Core Data. Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone. We revisit 2048, Threes, Wordle and the endless chain of "rip offs". Apple releases macOS Big Sur and Catalina security updates. Picks: The Smart Guitar Amp & App, Log: Job Application Tracker, open source iOS apps, Hidden Mac tricks, DevToys For macOS, Fire in the Valley, and Using Combine
2/27/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 344: Catching a Falling Knife
This week we fact check Project Titan and Buddy Build. The Avengers assemble to invest in 1Password. Apple grabs record China market share. Apple fixes new zero-day exploit. TIOBE Index - jan 2022. Universal Control. App Store Now Supports Unlisted App URLs. iCloud syncing issues are plaguing third-party apps. FaceID to unlock with Masks in iOS 15.4. Picks: i won, A Short History of Objective-C, Byte magazine features SmallTalk, Grid Studio, Melodic and Gibson app.
2/5/2022 • 1 hour, 33 minutes
Episode 343: iPhone... It's A Good Thing
We're back for 2022, to follow up on buying a MacBook Pro, and Apple suing NSO Group. Tim and Mark discuss migrating a Core Data app from Objective-C to SwiftUI. We discuss the 15th anniversary of the iPhone announcement, Uber parks its Watch app, and 9 to 5 writes about Watch app abandonment. Introducing Swift for Visual Studio Code. How do Verifiable Vaccination Records with SMART Health Cards Work? Wordle copycat creator apologizes for ripping off the popular free word game. Picks: Swift Playgrounds 4.0, Headfirst SwiftUI, Apple Design Resources (updated), Springboard: the secret history of the first real smartphone.
1/15/2022 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 342: What the iPhone Means to Me - Best of MTJC
In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the iPhone announcement at Mac World 2007, here is our 10th anniversary episode.
We were joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We followed up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. Reorded the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub
Recorded Jan 2017.
1/10/2022 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 340: Roustem Karimov
Roustem Karimov, co-founder of Agilebits maker of 1Password, joins Tim to discuss 1Password's development, history, past, present and future. We also discuss how the Soviets won the '72 Summit Series?
Recorded November 23, 2021 in Toronto Special Guest: Roustem Karimov.
12/12/2021 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 339: Marin Todorov
Marin Todorov joins Tim to discuss his work on Swift Concurrency and Apple's DocC. He has just finished contributing to the RayWenderlich book, Combine: Asynchronous Programming with Swift and has an upcoming book on Modern Concurrency in Swift. He is also one of the original contributors on Apple's open source DocC. Special Guest: Marin Todorov.
10/30/2021 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 338: It's Insanely Good
This week we discuss dolly focus, mail-in repairs, retrofitting older Macs. 1Password will now let you share passwords with just a link. We dive into the October event where Apple unveils the MacBook Pro 14-inch and 16-inch laptops with M1 Pro and M1 Max Apple Silicon. We discuss the chip architectures as well as Apple Music Voice Plan, new Home Pod Mini and Air Pods. Picks: Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued, TLDR Stock Options, The Pragmatic Engineer Test: 12 Questions on Engineering Culture, Hired Salary Calculator
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10/23/2021 • 2 hours, 12 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 337: Joe Cieplinski
Joe Cieplinski, from the Release Notes podcast, joins Tim to discuss his move to Colorado in his 5th appearance on MTJC. We chat about podcasting, the Apple iPhone Event, his favorite bass, form and function, SwiftUI and Michelangelo's Last Supper.
Recorded Sept 14, 2021 Special Guest: Joe Cieplinski.
9/26/2021 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 336: A Lot of Nits to Pick
We fact check on our start at 360iDev and follow up on Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and tech giants planning to make their own chips. Apple releases iOS 14.6 and macOS 11.6 to prevent the Pegasus spyware gateway. We discuss Alvy Ray Smith the genius who helped make Pixar possible. We review Apple's Califironia Streaming iPhone event and new items announced. Picks: Apple CloudKit samples, Xcodes: The best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode, Draw Yourself as a Peanuts Character in Pages with a Snoopy Artist, Nomad Sculpt.
9/19/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 335: Ryan McLeod
Ryan McLeod stops by to discuss his ADA winning app Blackbox — the official puzzle of the More Than Just Code podcast. Special Guest: Ryan McLeod.
9/5/2021 • 52 minutes, 29 seconds
Episode 334: James Thomson
James Thomson joins us to talk about developing apps for Apple platforms. James is the creator of PCalc - the official calculator app of MTJC, Drag Thing and his latest app Dice by PCalc. James has been successfully writing apps longer than the iMac has been a thing, worked for Apple, had Douglas Adams beta test his apps, and has been a successful indie developer since the early 90's. Special Guest: James Thomson.
8/22/2021 • 47 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 333: John Wilker
John Wilker joins Tim to talk about writing sci-fi books and running 360iDev an Apple development conference - this year online and in person in Denver, Colorado. More Than Just Code has John Wilker to blame for putting Jaime and Tim in the same room, eventually with Mark and sometimes Greg and Tammy.
Find out how to get a ticket either online or in person and discounts for WIT, Veterans and Apple dev Meetups (Cocoaheads) Special Guest: John Wilker.
8/16/2021 • 52 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 332: Melissa & Ryan Cash
This week Tim chats with Melissa and Ryan Cash about Pok Pok and Snowman and their Apple Design Award winning apps, Pok Pok Playroom, Alto's Adventure and Alto's Odyssey. We discuss the origins of apps built by Snowman and the genesis of Pok Pok. As a bonus Ryan shares how to prepare an app for Apple Arcade.
Re-edited. Special Guests: Melissa Cash and Ryan Cash.
8/4/2021 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 331: On To Bigger Problems
We fact check MKBHD, Air Tags, Visual Codes app, and Lavell Crawford. The iPhone shipped 14 years ago and WebKit was released 20 years ago. 100M iPhone 12 were purchased. Wrapping completion handlers into async API. GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer. What's new in SwiftUI. Using SwiftUI’s AsyncImage to render remote images from URLs. What's New in iOS 15 for App Store Optimization. Picks: WWDC21Lounges, WWDC 2021 Viewing Guide, Swift Package Index.
Yes, the episode was renamed.
7/3/2021 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 330: WWDC 2021 - It's like ARC for Threading
We are joined by Evan K Stone and Leo Dion as we talk about the WWDC Keynote and the Platform State of the Union sessions. We fact check on Astra Zenica shots, and follow up on Sosumi, Apple product reviews, struggles with Apple Card, noisy audio while running Xcode, and people annoyed that they sold their M1's ahead of WWDC. Picks: Leo Dion's Orchard Nest site, PlayDoh Touch Shapes Studio, JSON Selector Generator, Jordan Morgan’s Best In Class iOS App Book, Why There are Now So Many Shortages (It's Not COVID). Special Guests: Evan K Stone and Leo Dion.
6/12/2021 • 2 hours, 18 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 329: Best of MTJC: WWDC 2020 Goes to Eleven!
A re-run of our WWDC 2020 show. We follow up on iPad Pro shooting location, James Bond and centrifugal force, and macOS BS? A team of Shopify volunteers release Canada's COVID case-tracking app. ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world. We recap the WWDC 2020 Keynote, Platform State of the Union and a few WWDC sessions. Picks: Up Here in Canada, What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 14, Apple documentation for SwiftUI with SpriteKit, SceneKit, AVKit and MapKit.
6/4/2021 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 328: Best of MTJC: WWDC 2019 LIVE from the Podcast Studio
A re-roll of our WWDC 2019 episode - We are joined by Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga in the Podcast Studio at WWDC 2019 McEnery Convention Center. Recorded at 11 am Friday June 7, 2019. We fact check on Bobby Orr and the approximate number of active iOS developers. #askMTJC has Namrata Bandekar responding to joining start ups, as well the pronunciation of Dave Verwer IRL. We discuss our impressions of WWDC 2019 — SwiftUI, declarative programing, Combine framework, ARKit 3, Reality Composer, Swift Playgrounds 3, Swift Package Manager, stand alone Watch apps, iPadOS, TestFlight Feedback, Transporter, and Sign In With Apple. Picks: Performance, Pencil Support, Optimizing File Storage, DataFlow for SwiftUI, Combine in Practice, Sign In With Apple, Voice Dream Scanner, ClassKit, What's New In Swift, try! Swift, AltConf. Special Guests: Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga.
5/31/2021 • 48 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 327: Best of MTJC: WWDC 2018 Reflections
A re-roll of our 2nd most popular episode from June 9, 2018. We give our impressions of WWDC 2018 keynote. We discuss Apple's presenting the scholarship winner apps on the App Store. Microsoft's purchase of GitHub. Apple is getting into the ad game to compete with other online players. The rumored iPad with face recognition is coming. We talk about the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL. Finally by Rene Richie guides our discussion of the WWDC announcements. Bonus: JDB Live Near WWDC, Picks: UX Cake w/Jaime Lopez Jr, Machine Learning - Build a Model, App Store Review Guidelines Diff, Stevie the Snail, SpriteKit, PlayDead’s INSIDE
5/28/2021 • 2 hours, 13 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 326: The Medium Popcorn Problem
We fact check many moons and remember Dr Charles Geschke. We follow up on 5K iMacs, international keyboards and Apple's Oscar nominations. In the news gender neutral Siri voices, LG, Apple Amazon home automation alliance, and Swift Collections. We cover the Apple Spring Forward event; Apple Card Family, podcast subscriptions, AirTags, color iMac M1, and iPad Pro M1. Picks: Air Tag accessories, Kennsington StudioDock iPad Docking Station, Subs.
4/24/2021 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 325: Live With the Pain
We're on Clubhouse as MTJC iOS Development and we follow up on our two Clubhouse events. We follow up with 5 iPhone Hacks like unlocking your iPhone with a face mask. The Apple Card doesn’t actually discriminate against women, investigators say. Apple-funded Stanford study concludes Apple Watch can be used to measure frailty. Apple won’t give Siri a female-sounding voice by default anymore. Nobody designs for small iPhone devices anymore. WWDC21 date has been set and we discuss what we'd like to see. Picks: Free for developers, Xcode tips repo, Updated iOS App Dev Tutorials, Protocol Oriented Programming with Swift 5, CustomStringConvertible, SwiftUI by Tutorials 3rd Edition.
4/3/2021 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 324: Core Data with CloudKit in SwiftUI
We dig in with iOS 14.4 patching vulnerabilities. M1-Based Macs Have New Startup Modes. Mark gives us his M1Mini first impressions. Apple increases the DTK credit. MagSafe for iPhone is reviewed. Sorry, small-phone lovers: The iPhone 12 mini was Apple’s 2020 sales flop. Core Data with CloudKit in SwiftUI. Apple Card and Apple Cash Trademarks Approved in Canada. MTJC and Spockcast are now on Amazon Music. Unlocking iPhones While Wearing a Face Mask. What’s new in Swift 5.4? How 7 iOS Apps Could Save You 500MB of Storage. The Diminishing Utility of MFMailComposeViewController. Picks: SwiftUI keyboard avoidance, iOS Dev Happy Hour - Feb 20, GitHub - conwnet/github1s: One second to read GitHub code with VS Code.
Join our MTJC group on Clubhouse (https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/MTJC%20iOS%20mobile%20dev/inyYqPPs).
2/13/2021 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 323: Await Silicon MagSafe
We fact check iPad storage and WWDC security. Follow up tackles App Library, and CarPlay wireless receivers. We discuss publishing Mac apps inside and outside the Mac App Store. Experimenting with Swift async and await pattern using Xcode. Uber’s near disaster jumping onto Swift in the early days (spoilers, without doing due diligence.) MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Pro, and iPhone Rumors, Best of CES 2021. Picks: Linux on M1, Tips and Tricks to Set Up Your Apple M1 for Development, KFC Mascot Col. Sanders Talks Malbolge Programming on General Hospital, SwiftUI Jam, iOS Dev Happy Hour, MacEffects Custom CLEAR Case for Apple Macintosh Mac SE & SE/30.
Join our MTJC group on Clubhouse (https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/MTJC%20iOS%20mobile%20dev/inyYqPPs).
1/23/2021 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 322: 2020 Hindsight
We follow up on the iPhone X ship date and whether B&O has a less expensive headphone than the Air Pods Max. Developers are already seeing the benefits of the App Store Small Business program. Apple Car could be coming in 2025. The Xbox Series X controller seems to be incompatible with Mac and iOS devices. We take a look back on 2020 and the Apple news; Apple One, Air Pods Max, Epic lawsuit, Apple Silicon, SwiftUI apps, LiDAR, App Library, Widgets, Applets, Sidebar, Scribble, Tracking, Big Sur, WWDC Online, iPhone 12 series, and more. Picks: Apple Watch leak offers rare glimpse inside ‘Ultra security program’, Hazel, SwiftUI Layout Explained, Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies, Apple updated SwiftUI tutorials.
Join our MTJC group on Clubhouse (https://www.joinclubhouse.com/join/MTJC%20iOS%20mobile%20dev/inyYqPPs).
1/3/2021 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 321: Generate Memberwise Initializer
We fact check M1 RAM, and Photoshop on Rosetta2. AskMTJC brings us Story of third Apple founder, Maple spirits, and CloudKit on NSPersistentCloudKitContainer. Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps. Apple Fitness Plus will launch on December 14th. Family Setup on Apple Watch is coming to Canada. Xcode 12.3 RC available. iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever. Apple announces $549 AirPods Max noise-canceling headphones, coming December 15th. No U1 chip in AirPods Max. More Apple Silicon leaks. Picks: Fastlane for App Screenshots, James Dempsey made Swift Version for quick reference, 9 Xcode Tips by Paul Hudson, Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for sudo, Elago Classic Mac Apple Watch charging stands. After Show: App development as Lego.
12/13/2020 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 320: A Lead Pipe to the Kneecaps
We discuss the update design resources for Big Sur and iOS 14. We dissect the App Store Small Business Program. Now that M1 Macs are in the wild we debate the differences and performance. How to reinstall macOS on M1. Redesigned MacBooks With Apple Silicon to Launch in Second Half of 2021. Picks: BizHUB Pro USB-C Multiport Professional Adapter, UltraHUB - USB-C Multiport HDMI Macbook Pro Adapter, 6 in 1 USB-C Macbook Pro Adapter, Life-Line USB-C Cable Combo, Check M1 compatibility for all your Mac apps with this free open source tool, Is Apple Silicon ready? Ready for Big Sur: Introducing 1Password 7.7 for Mac, Is It Read-Only Friday?
photo source: Apple Inc
11/28/2020 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 319: M1 - Now How Much Would You Pay?
We discuss non-3D Touch errors. Are web sites downloading to your mac? Transition to Apple One with your choice of Apple ID. Apple Privacy questions coming soon. Roku rolling out Apple’s AirPlay 2 and HomeKit. Swift.org - Introducing Swift on Windows. iPhone 11 Pro max next to iPhone 12 pro max screen size difference. Apple Launches 'iPhone 12 Studio' for Mixing and Matching MagSafe Cases and Wallets. 5G, which kind? Identify your iPhone model. The Apple Event for Apple Silicon Macs. Apple’s M1 chip fastest laptop CPU in the world, says independent analysis. Apple Silicon M1 Chip in MacBook Air Outperforms High-End 16-Inch MacBook Pro. macOS Big Sur RC. Picks: The untold history of macOS System Preferences. Complete 66 Mac vs PC ads. CS193p Developing Apps for iOS. Gosh Darn SwiftUI. How to undo (almost) anything with Git.
11/14/2020 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 318: Best of MTJC: Valyrian Steel & Dragon Glass on the Back
We dive into #askMTJC about whether the iPhone X layout will mean changes for developers. We follow up on HDR video. We briefly cover the information leak ahead of the Apple Event. We discuss Apple's Steve Jobs Theater which held the event. We cover the items demonstrated and unveiled - Retail events, Apple Watch Series 3 w/LTE, Apple TV 4K, iPhone 8 & iPhone 8 Plus, the iPhone X, and AirPower. Picks: iOS Human Interface Guidelines (Updated for iPhone X), Building Apps for iPhone X - Fall 2017, Swift Programming Language book (updated for Swift 4).
Recorded: September 13th, 2017
10/28/2020 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 317: Best of MTJC: Test Backed Development
This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple's Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple's GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple's self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticate worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple's own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.
Photo: Tim Mitra
Originally broadcast: May 26th, 2018
9/27/2020 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 316: One Bundle To Rule Them All
We fact check 3.5inch floppy sizes. Nvidia buying ARM for $40B. App Store Review Guideline updates now available. Apple Insider Confirms New iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Releases. Apple Is About To Leave Your MacBook Air Behind. The State of SwiftUI. We cover the 9/15 Apple Event. Apple developers are scrambling over accelerated iOS 14 release. Picks: iOS 14 widgets you can try today.Core Data in SwiftUI.
9/20/2020 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 315: For the Good of the User
We follow up on iOS 14 privacy and Facebook leads the resistance. Also the floppy of the future. Apple shares a look inside its first ever ‘floating’ store. Yubico’s new USB-C security key with NFC could be the one key to unlock them all. Apple’s next event is on September 15 and it's special Easter egg. Rambo's Turning the ChibiStudio canvas into an App Clip for iOS 14. Picks: Xcode scheme tip. The Invisible Dock. NSSpain 2020: Remote Edition. Quick Look Gallery - Augmented Reality.
9/12/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 314: More Bang
We fact check Apple's stock if it had never split. FoS Joe Cabrera offers the inside view of FedEx driver tracking. Apple is preparing 75 million iPhone 12 for release. App Store appeals process is now live. Get ready for subscription offer codes. Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses. Game IQ is a taxonomy to help publishers understand mobile game categories. Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs. Picks: How to test deep links with UI Testing. How to manually add workout data to the Health app on your iPhone. World-first circuit board with Swift. Use !hws in DuckDuckGo.
9/6/2020 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 313: The Art of Compromise
We fact check on SwiftUI's Core Data template, Dr Thereasa Tam, and how Tim triggered Siri. In askMTJC Georg Tuparev opines on Operations and we discuss Attic App's developer account cancellation. The the follow up we cover Setapp for iOS, Lightroom iOS App Update Deleted User Photos, and Apple discounted the fee to connect to Amazon Prime on Apple TV. An AirPower prototype teardown and iPhone 12 rumor roundup is covered. SwiftUI betas - what changed before 1.0. SourMint: malicious code, ad fraud, and data leak in iOS. How We’re Preparing Businesses for the Impact of iOS 14. Picks: Bezier curves, WWDC Hyperwall 2010, HyperTable 2012, Apple is Better Without Jobs, marking workarounds as deprecated.
8/29/2020 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 312: Epic Blast Radius
We fact check phone exchanges, Hell Chromacom, and Russell Kirsch. In the follow up App Attestation API, Apple Removes Fortnite From App Store, Testing Scribble on iPad with Apple Pencil in iPadOS 14, Secret Service Bought Phone Location Data, Core Data is back, and top-secret iPod. Apple to Launch Bundled Subscription Services Called 'Apple One'. You've only added two lines - why did that take two days! Picks: 360iDev 2020, SwiftTO Conference 2020, The Best Password Managers to Secure Your Digital Life, Amazon making online machine learning courses available for free, Aerial Mac Screensaver, 24 Hour Wallpaper.
8/22/2020 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 311: A Big Long Wire
We missed the 6th anniversary of the show! This week we fact check early phone exchanges. In the follow up Apple rolls out Big Sur Public Beta. Third party Mac Pro wheels. Apple's watchOS Public Beta. Google reintroduces Maps on Apple Watch. Verify your app’s integrity with the new App Attest API. Decoding Apple’s Statement to Business Insider Regarding Xbox Game Pass. iOS Interview Questions and Answers for Senior Developers Part 4 - Concurrency. Picks: New beta book - Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Build 2D Games with SpriteKit & Swift, Scribble on iPadOS, Plurals Localized in iOS.
8/16/2020 • 1 hour, 33 seconds
Episode 310: So It Must Be True
We fact check on 548 and the height of the iPhone 5. In the follow up Apple confirms that new iPhones models won't arrive in September. Apple has a record breaking third quarter on Mac and iPad sales. Apple introduces "Everything Apple" gift card. iPhone 12 prices leaked and iOS 14 beta reveals a 5.4 inch iPhone 12. 1Password roles out on Linux. Tim reviews the MacCatalyst Tutorial. Canada's Covid Alert app is out on Android and iOS. In the main show we cover Grouping Array Elements With Dictionary. Apple introduces a new Intel iMac 27 inch. Setting up a Core Data store for unit tests. Apple replaces longtime marketing chief Phill Schiller. Picks: Apple Store badges are back with Memoji. Deleting Derived Data with Automator. Fleury, Stone join forces to shoot Apple ad on iPhone 11 Pro. Fun: Footage taken in an Apple Store back in 2003 looks…weird. Forecast: A must-have tool for Mac podcasters.
8/9/2020 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 309: Man Bites Dog
We fact check Spamassassin and the end of iPhone 6 support in iOS. The the follow up Apple will give employees paid leave to vote in the Federal Election. Exposure Notification - Apple Developer. iPhone 11 Now Being Manufactured at Foxconn Plant in India. Disabled Lives Matter. Apple targeted by multi-state probe led by Texas AG alleging deceptive trade practices. Epic CEO calls out Apple, Google app store practices ahead of antitrust hearing. Generating automatic placeholders for SwiftUI views. Hands on 2020 iPad Pro with Magic Keyboard first impressions. Can’t read HFS, HFS+ CDs & CDRs on Catalina. Picks: Mac Catalyst Tutorials, Launch screens in Xcode: All the options explained, macintosh.js.
8/1/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 308: Big Sur: The Answer Is Yes
We fact check on Babylon 5's Crusade, Apple's Hollyhill factory in Cork, and Sosumi. In follow up we discuss "break a leg", Apple's updates to coding terminology and Memoji head coverings. Apple over-ear headphones may use gesture controls with ‘rotation detection’. Big Sur is both 10.16 and 11.0 – it’s official. Apple Security Research Device Program. Introducing Swift Service Lifecycle. WWDC20: What’s New in Unit Testing. Picks: iPhone Specs Matrix 1.1 with iOS 14 compatibility, From master to main, git help tutorial, URLSessionWebSocketTask
7/25/2020 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 307: The Most MTJC Bug Ever
Friend of the show Dan sports an MTJC face mask and friend of the show Dee asks about CloudKit use. Canadians can now opt out of Clearview AI facial recognition, with a catch. We discuss Big Sur - Working / Not Working Apps. Apple updates coding programs and resources for educators and students. SoftBank mulls sale of Arm Holdings, could Apple be a potential buyer? Apple wins appeal against EU’s $14.9 billion tax bill. Apple releases iOS and iPadOS 13.6, macOS 10.15.6, and watchOS 6.2.8. Apple files ‘Path to Apple Card’ patent application in Canada. Apple reportedly plans to release 13-inch, 14-inch and 16-inch ARM-based MacBooks. Rene Ritchie: Wrong About the Apple Silicon Mac. Unreal’s new iPhone app does live motion capture with Face ID sensors. What’s new in SwiftUI from Swift with Majid. Creating Lists with Collection View. Picks: List of Apple codenames, Apple promotes working from home in relatable new video featuring ‘The Underdogs’, Circle of Fifths, How To Create A GitHub Profile README, NotificationCenter.Publisher.
7/19/2020 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 306: Transition Accomplished?
We fact check on "Getting Sherlocked", Apple's three transitions, 2020 Apple Design Awards and Shapr3D. In the askMTJC Shawn and Greg also contribute to the transitions and Apple's Transition Accomplish web page is still up. In the follow up Apple launches online web portal for Apple Card management. How the US steamrolled Chinese tech giant out of Five Eyes. US considering banning TikTok and other Chinese apps. The OLED screened iPhone 12 will include no charger, no ear buds. Ireland's COVID-19 app is out. 10 Code Snippets from WWDC20.Apple clashes with ad industry. Reddit to stop accessing user's clipboard after being outed by iOS 14. Simulated iOS devices are not available when running Xcode 12 for macOS Universal Apps beta on an Apple silicon Mac. (63749966). Apple is working on QR Code payments for Apple Pay, iOS 14 code reveals. Picks: Using an AppDelegate with the new SwiftUI-based app lifecycle, Advocating for DevRel as a DevRel Professional, Distractionless, a Pomodoro app for warchOS.
7/11/2020 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 305: WWDC 2020: The Missing Manual
We fact check on Sherlock, Apple's 3 major transitions which we got two thirds correct, Scribble, WWDC demo apps, and port keys. In the follow up: First benchmarks surface for Apple's ARM-based Developer Transition Kit. Apple races to push ahead with 5G iPhone mass production. Apple to re-close 30 more stores due to coronavirus outbreaks. Basecamp’s protest of Apple’s policies is already benefiting other developers. In the main: WWDC20: Wrap up and recommended talks. Getting started with WidgetKit. Integrating Core Data with SwiftUI. Building Grids in SwiftUI 2.0 for iOS 14. Picks: Fuita Building a Feature Rich app with SwiftUI, Spapr3D. I love this app BUT!, Instruments icon mesh challenge, Something I notice from Apple was using variables for smaller chunks of code.
7/4/2020 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 304: WWDC 2020 Goes to Eleven!
We follow up on iPad Pro shooting location, James Bond and centrifugal force, and macOS BS? A team of Shopify volunteers release Canada's COVID case-tracking app. ARM-based Japanese supercomputer is now the fastest in the world. We recap the WWDC 2020 Keynote, Platform State of the Union and a few WWDC sessions. Picks: Up Here in Canada, What’s new in SwiftUI for iOS 14, Apple documentation for SwiftUI with SpriteKit, SceneKit, AVKit and MapKit.
6/27/2020 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 303: Introducing macOS Corona
We fact check on Geofence tools and warrants and how to avoid tracking. We have a Friends of the Show channel on our Slack. Tim's poll results on the next name of macOS are revealed. Jaime recants his WWDC Sob Story. Apple offers interest-free financing on more of its products. What Will macOS 10.16 Be Called: Mammoth, Monterey, Skyline, or Something New? Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro Review: 2 Months Later. Apple, ARM, and Intel. Paul Hudson's WWDC Community: Learning and sharing together. iOS 14: What to expect. Apple updates Developer app to add Mac support ahead of online-only WWDC. Picks: Heroes and Juniors: Increasing Engineering Team Velocity
6/21/2020 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 302: Geofence Warrants
We fact check on Spotlight. We discuss some of the challenges of working with files on iPadOS vs the Mac. Apple Card will let clients buy Apple hardware with interest free payments. IBM will no longer offer, develop, or research facial recognition technology. Amazon bans police from using its facial recognition technology for the next year. Here’s What You Need to Know about Battery Health Management in Catalina. Geofence warrants: How police can use protesters' phones against them. New Resources Available for Password Manager Apps. Which UI design tool should I use in 2020? Apple plans to announce ARM transition for all Macs at WWDC 2020. New iMac With 'iPad Pro Design Language'. Picks: Excalidraw | Hand-drawn look & feel.
6/13/2020 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 301: Fortran 2020
We discuss sunk cost in askMTJC. The 2020 Stack Overflow Developer Survey is covered in the follow up along with more than half Apple Stores reopening. Introducing Swift AWS Lambda Runtime. Apple MacOS 10.15.5 Release: MacBook’s Powerful Surprise. The Real Cause of the Sign In with Apple Zero-Day. Picks: dyldsharedcacheextractdylibs fail fix, My productivity app is a single .txt file, Modern Fortan Basics.
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6/6/2020 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 300: I'm That Guy
We celebrate our 300th recorded episode. We fact check SwiftTO 2020 online conference and the Dino Project. Tim expresses his instant love of the Safari's Track Bar tab scrubber which speeds up navigation. Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) multi-platform. Our voice over guy posts to Facebook about his recent COVID-19 infection. We discuss Xcode build times and short cut to display the build time. Apple iOS app updates were being re-issued for unknown reasons. Why NetNewsWire is Fast. Faster Dark Mode on macOS courtesy of Gene Goykhman. Tim discusses his experience with the 2020 MacBook Pro 13, comparing it to previous Track Bar MacBook Pros and MacBook Air models. We also discuss Sidecar as an external monitor. Picks: The Derived Data Dance, run without building shortcut Ctrl - Cmd - R, Android Crash Course for iOS Devs.
5/30/2020 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 299: WWDC 2020 Wishlist
We fact check Leo Dion, 3D printing with PLA and ABS. AskMTJC takes us down the rabbit hole from Hype Cycles to ML modeling. Who knew? There are 27 US states are partially north of Canada's southern point. We recap Microsoft Build 2020: Project Reunion will unify desktop and mobile, Fluid Office document is Google Docs on steroids, and bringing Linux GUI apps to Windows 10. What’s new in Swift 5.3? — take two. Becky Hansmeyer's WWDC 2020 Wishlist. Big Tech says, Work From Home For Rest Of Year. Apple details its approach to safety in retail stores, and plans to reopen more than 25 US locations next week. Leaker claims to have seen “Apple Glass” AR glasses, details how they’ll work. Facebook Shops is coming. Picks: Writing Great iOS Accessibility Labels, How to prepare for losing your programming job, Tim vs Apple Music and using multiple Home Pods, Tracking your iPhone.
This week's final pass edit was done on my Kitchen Home Pod.
5/23/2020 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 298: Double Waffle Double Patty Bacon Jam Cognac Maple Syrup
We discuss the rumored storage on the iPhone 12 Pros. We follow up on the 142 year traditional Canadian National Exhibition is cancelling in 2020. Apple discusses some staff returning to work on site ahead of competition. We delve into how Apple has reinvented the cursor. You may want to charge your MacBook Pro 16 on the right side. We also follow up on Speed Doubler which improved the performance of the 68K emulator on Power PC. "AirPods Studio" may the name of Apple's new over ear headphones. We discuss building an adaptive button. A programming error at FaceBook knocks out Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps. Swift 5.3 attempts to add support for Windows development. We look at iOS and iPadOS 13 adoption. Unreal Engine 5 revealed for iOS and Mac, coming in 2021. Picks: Conventional Comments, FusionCast
5/16/2020 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 297: Butterflies In My Stomach - MacBook Pro 13
We fact check on Get a Mac: PC vs Mac, Apple's emulators: 68K, Yellow Box & Blue Box, Star Trek: the Animated Series and Steve Fisher. Follow up covers Apple Card payment deferments, Apple's flat quarter results, Microsoft Build is free to attend, Android 11 Public Beta, coverage of the Supporting Accessibility mini conference, WWDC date set at June 22 and Inkscapes 1.0 debuts. Apple releases a 2020 MacBook Pro 13 with Magic Keyboard and more. Rene Ritchie compares MacBook Pro 13 versions and compares the MacBook Pro with the MacBook Air. Copy and paste the world with your phone using augmented reality. Apple and Google publish sample screenshots for their coronavirus tracking system. Picks: WWDC20 - Apple Developer, Developer App updated, Testing SwiftUI Views.
5/9/2020 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 48 seconds
Episode 296: A Stab in the Dark
We fact check on Mac Iivx, Apple to stop accepting UIWebView apps, Nirvana’s Nevermind on vinyl, and Swift Paris meetup. AskMTJC takes us in the The Trough of Disillusionment, iPad drag and drop programming, and USB adapters for iPad. In the follow up: Apple Aims to Sell Macs With Its Own Chips Starting in 2021. Apple Support app for iPhone and iPad revamped with new interface, Dark Mode, more. Apple Confirms Serious Problem Affecting Mac, iPad, iPhone Users. NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan. In the main: How not to write shitty code: Intentional Condition. Apple’s latest iOS beta makes it easier to unlock an iPhone while wearing a face mask. Apple and Google have begun testing their COVID-19 exposure notification API. Picks: Updated Combine Documentation, SwiftUI and Combine All The Things, try! Swift World.
5/2/2020 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 295: Deep Purple Rain
We fact check on Bluetooth, the NHS, Denise Crosby and Jodi Whittaker. We dig into the Hype Cycle in the follow up. The iPhone 12 Pro has be leaked in a 3D rendering. Picking apart iPadOS 14 reveals that Xcode may be coming to the iPad this summer. We follow up on Apple's road apples, including the Home Pod. John Gruber doesn't initially like the Magic Keyboard for the iPad Pro but comes around. Rene Ritche does a deep tech dive into the new iPhone SE. Apple had invited select developers to an accessibility webinar. In the main we look at View Communication Patterns in SwiftUI. We also look at the Remote Work Report by GitLab. Picks: JetBrains Academy: Get Ready To Become A Professional, Health Storylines, Adobe's Photoshop and Fresco for iPad are now bundled for $10 a month, adding Dark Mode, code clean up and TestFlight public beta links added to Device Tracker.
4/25/2020 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 294: Contact Tracing & iPhone SE
We follow up on Deadpool and Lee Krasner. From the Twitter we follow up on Objective-C vs the hype cycle, Greg Heo used Fortran back in the day, Tim discusses the 360 panorama Cycloramic app from the flat sided iPhone 5 era. We also follow up on Jeff Warkin's posts on UIButton. Swift Paris Online took place. Apple launches Today at Apple (at Home). Why NASA Needs a Programmer Fluent In 60-Year-Old Languages. Rumor has it that Apple is working on a flat-sided iPhone and smaller Home Pod. The latest Home Pod13.4 update is based on tvOS. GitHub is now free for teams. At long last you can order wheels for your shiny new Mac Pro. Apple introduces the iPhone SE - second generation based on iPhone 8 form factor. Apple is developing Clips which will allow for partial app downloads. Apple and Google partner on COVID-19 contact tracing technology. NSHipster examines the upcoming Contact Tracing framework from Apple, coincidentally written in Objective-C. Picks: Developing Inclusive Mobile Apps - Building Accessible Apps for iOS and Android, War Stories: How Prince of Persia slew the Apple II’s memory limitations.
Photo: Flickr/Candida Performa Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
4/18/2020 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 293: Personal Protection Edition
We fact check on the Academy Awards and respond to Paul Wilkinson on reduced Home Pod pricing. Apple will produce 1M face shields per week for medical workers. Canada roles out a COVID-19 app. Apple Support Doc: Assemble and adjust your Face Shield. Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims. Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues. Zoom quickly fixes ‘malware-like’ macOS installer with new update. Apple’s new iPad Pro cuts off the microphone when its case is closed to prevent snooping . Find and copy Xcode device support files. All Microsoft events will be digital-only until July 2021. Advanced Scene Understanding in AR. We discuss LiDar iPhone 12 rumors and iPhone SE vs iPhone 9 after Rene Ritchie Vlogs about them. Nobody loves UIButton. Picks: FREE April: Gain Access to Online Developer, IT and Cyber Security Training, Art Transfer by Google lets you apply famous artists’ styles to your own photos, RIP John Prine, SwiftUI MVVM. After Show: Mark reviews Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery.
Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
4/11/2020 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 292: Lopez 2024
We follow up on the Apple Store, the deadline for App updates, Apple's COVID-19 app, Warren's open sourced tools, Zoom updates their app, the MacBook Pro 16, Amazon Prime Video adds InApp purchasing and the Apple Card extends the payment deferral. We chat about Supporting Pointer Interactions on iPadOS. Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky. Apple’s iOS 14 may turn iCloud Keychain into a true 1Password and LastPass competitor. Picks: 8D Audio, LIVE who’s hiring or freezing, WeWorkRemotely, Spot the Swifty, more Keyboard Tricks, iOS Conf SG 2020 videos and Apple docs Diffs. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
4/4/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 291: Social Distance Edition
We follow up on the Alouettes and our own social distancing. Tim Cook takes to Twitter and announces 10 million masks from Apple. Google IO is completely cancelled. Daring Fireball shares the iPad 2020 AR experience from Apple. Bill Gates called the next pandemic five years ago. Craig Federighi explains how and we deep dive on the new iPad Trackpad support. Apple updates the Safari anti-tracking technology. The App Store expands to 20 new countries. iOS and iPadOS 13.4 are out with mouse and trackpad support. We also look at the extra features included. We look at ARKit 3.5. Swift 5.2 Released! Picks: LeadDev Live by LeadDev, Gatsby Web Creators, Yesterday (2019), Introducing Combine.
Cover art original idea by @WhyTheLongPlayFace Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
3/28/2020 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 290: Hurry Up Apple!
We look at the amazing animations about social distancing on the Washington Post site. We follow up on noisy butterfly switch keyboards. Apple allowing Apple Card customers to skip March payment without interest due to coronavirus. Apple’s WWDC 2020 kicks off in June with an all-new online format. iOS 14 code says Apple will add time-of-flight sensing to iPhone 12 Pro to create 3D models. GitHub for mobile. AltConf 2020… We review the new MacBook Air with scissor-switch keyboard, the new iPad with LiDAR, new Magic Keyboard for iPad, and the updated Mac Mini. We also look at the new iPad as computer TV commercials. Picks: How to Start Working with swift-format, Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
3/21/2020 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 289: Flattening the Curve
We follow up on home delivery of Apple products, music scoring apps, and Byte Conf online conference. In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic Apple tells employees to work from home, tells consumers that they can disinfect their iPhones, Microsoft launches and online conference, and we discuss how cancelling events and self-quarantines save lives, by flattening the curve.Apple will fix third-generation iPad Air screens that permanently go black. Apple Watches may soon detect blood oxygen levels. Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include 'Infograph Pro' with tachymeter, Schooltime and kids mode, sleep tracking and more. Apple has updated App Store Review Guidelines on spam, Push Notifications, App Store Reviews and MDM Apps. Composable Decorators vs. Imperative Utility Methods. Whaddaya Mean, You Can’t Find Programmers? Picks: Doodles-as-A-Service Repo, The Best Advice For Remote Work Success From 10 Global Teams.
illustration by Toby Morris Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
3/14/2020 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 288: The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised
We fact check wooden hockey Sticks and 20M+ registered iOS developers. Google and Amazon limit employees’ travel because of coronavirus fears. Apple highlight's the history of MacBooks in anime. Jaime's search for Maple Syrup leads us to Sugarbush Farms VT. We discuss the obscure init(whatever:) - GrafPort. Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules. Canada’s RCMP admits to using Facial AI after denying it in Jan. The MacBook Pro 14 is predicated by Ming-Chi Kuo. What happens if (and when) Apple cancels WWDC 2020? Project LightSpeed: Rewriting Messenger to be faster, smaller, and simpler. New site Xcode Build Settings by Mattt. James Dempsey's New Xcode Build System and BuildSettingExtractor. Hired.com’s 2020 State of Software Engineers. Picks: Swift.org - Announcing ArgumentParser, Is it cancelled yet? Paul Hudson "Wash your hands like you've been eating Doritos..." Updated Resources and Guidelines for Sign in with Apple. Cover art by Fyodor Bronnikov. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
3/8/2020 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 287: What's New in Neumorphism
Friend of the show Shawn Marston visits Tim Hortons in the UK. Google launches the Android 11 Developer Preview. Canadian Privacy Commissioners to Investigate Creepy Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI. Apple drops a bomb on long-life HTTPS certificates: Safari to snub new security certs valid for more than 13 months. RIP Larry Tesler creator of Cut, Copy & Paste. Apple is considering letting users change default email, browser, music apps in iOS. Google is cracking down on Android apps that track your location in the background. The iOS Developer Community Survey. New MacBook Pro Leak Reveals Powerful Update. Check It Out, Sans Checkout: Amazon Opens First Cashier-Less Grocery Store in Seattle. Is neumorphism the big new look for iOS 14? Picks: AppStat, Jon Reid on Twitter: "Look at that… useful testing advice from Apple! "Adding Unit Tests to your Existing Project". Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
2/29/2020 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 286: iOS Performance Tips
We follow up on Leah Culver, Blacbkerry Server BBS, drag and drop PNS, unlocking with the watch, Apple joins FIDO, Apple Card OFX, and StaffPad music notation app. Wait!? Folding phones show wear and tear after one week. How to choose an open source license. "Is it time for a Digital Bill of Rights?" asks Beyond the Valley author Ramesh Srinivasan. Apple Warns That It Will Miss Q2 Earnings. iPhone 12 may use custom 5G antenna with Qualcomm modems. Apple Design Resources Updated. Standard Library Preview Package. Picks: iOS Performance Tips. GitHub CLI is now in beta. RAVPower 90W GaN dual USB-C charger. Editing Demo - Ferrite + iPad + Apple Pencil. What’s New In Swift 5.2 Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
2/23/2020 • 58 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 285: Convenience vs Security
We follow up on Breaker and the difference between CryptoKit and Swift Crypto. ‘They know us better than we know ourselves’: how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading. Jaime's adventures in cloning to a new Mac. Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions. Watch apps are getting iAP in watchOS 6.2. Open Banking. Why the iPhone Killed BlackBerry. Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions. The Shapes of Code. Picks: The Apple Color Commentary by Steve Wozniak, Thinking in SwiftUI, Swift Playgrounds on the Mac App Store, Control Room Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
2/15/2020 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 284: The Accidental Security Podcast
We follow up on the Xserve height, W-8BEN, and the Apple Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter. YouTube Music/Premium has 20 million paying subscribers. Microsoft Teams goes down after Microsoft forgot to renew a certificate. Beyond the Valley book. Apple updates iCloud.com with a proper mobile website for iOS and Android. (Hypothetical) Multitasking fix for iPadOS 14. Apple wants to standardize the format of SMS OTPs (one-time passcodes). Swift.org - Introducing Swift Crypto. Dashlane's Super Bowl Ad Proves Password Managers Have Arrived. Apple adds ability for developers to sell Mac and iOS apps as a single purchase. Picks: Never roll your own crypto, and there's even less reason to do that now while using Swift!. I made a teaser video for my side project Timelane. swift-doc: Generates documentation for Swift projects. APNS now available (as sim) in simulators. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
2/9/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 283: Limited Edition
We follow up on rack mounting the Mac Pro, the Macintosh Office and HyperCard. We follow up on providing tech support for apps and services. After a decade of drama, Apple is ready to kill Flash in Safari once and for all. There’s an Apple Car for sale — but it's not the one you think. Apple’s first iPad was revealed 10 years ago today. Everything we know about the iPhone SE 2. Apple hits 1.5 billion active devices with ~80% of recent iPhones and iPads running iOS 13. Sheets don’t inherit the environment. On the road to Swift 6. Software Maker for Apple Devices Jamf Files Confidentially for IPO. Apple delivers best-ever quarterly numbers, powered by iPhones, services. Picks: Speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS with Swift. Rogers ends subsidized phone plans, now exclusively offers device financing. Xcode Previews. Xcode tip: Using breakpoints as bookmarks. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
2/2/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 282: Rack 'Em Up
We follow up on AD and BC, HomePod in use, Dominic Monaghan, MacWorld Boston and Swift Developments by FoS Andy Bargh. Apple’s rack-mounted Mac Pro variant is now available to order. Download New Microsoft Edge Browser. Fun With Charts: A decade of Apple growth. Kids Hack AirPods. App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry. Where programming languages are headed in 2020. FORTRAN.io. State of Mobile 2020. Wealthsimple looks to be Canada’s Apple Card, launches metal Visa. Picks: Shopify Dev Degree, The (Unofficial) Apple Archive, How to fix and restart the Touch Bar when it stops working, Apple Card users can now download monthly transactions in a spreadsheet. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
1/26/2020 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 281: The Best of SwiftUI so far...
Starting with our initial reactions at WWDC to our latest trials, we re-visit SwiftUI. Apple Swift UI Tutorials. Incorporating SwiftUI's Principles in All Your Code. 3 Steps to Prepare Your Apps for SwiftUI, Combine, iPadOS, Project Catalyst, and Any Other Leaps in the iOS Industry. Understanding @State in SwiftUI. [Fracking] SwiftUI - Everything you need to know to adopt SwiftUI. SwiftUI Essentials: Creating and Combining Views. The Swift Behind SwiftUI. SwiftUI Changes. Advanced SwiftUI Transitions. Swift Playgrounds for iPad now supports swift 5.1, iOS 23 SDK, SwiftUI & Combine. PenBook built with SwiftUI, PencilKit and iPadOS. A SwiftUI Kickstart . SwiftUI Cheat Sheet. SwiftUI Layout System. Interface builder with SwiftUI properties. SwiftUI Views book. 7 Awesome Open Source SwiftUI Projects To Inspire You. Why I quit using the ObservableObject in SwiftUI. Gosh Darn SwiftUI (updated). Mark on UIRepresentable. Special Guests: Alexis Gallagher, Mike Vinakmens, and Ricky de Laveaga.
1/21/2020 • 1 hour, 23 minutes
Episode 280: This Is Not Your Mother's Star Wars
We're back with fact check on Mac OS X Lion and Adobe InDesign. We chat about the Oura ring and the No Year Zero debate. In the Follow Up; 50+ iPadOS 13 features, Update to Notarization Prerequisites, Updating Apps that Use Web Views and Wallet by Waterfield Designs. Why I quit using the ObservableObject in SwiftUI. Write a build phase script. How Are You Prioritizing Gen Z? 'Completely unsustainable': How streaming and other data demands take a toll on the environment. iPhone 11 Pro’s Night Mode Isn’t What You Might Think. Apple targets jailbreaking in lawsuit against iOS virtualization company. Starbucks Devs Leave API Key in GitHub Public Repo. Understanding method dispatch in Swift. How the Tech Giants Make Their Billions. Picks: Sourcerer.io, Swift 5.1 Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference, Gosh Darn SwiftUI, Every Time Zone. After Show: HomePod, Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker (Spoilers). Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
1/12/2020 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 279: The Trough of Disillusionment
As the 2010's end, we debate when the decade ends. We fact check iOS 13.3's fix on UWB bug and ATP increments. We follow up on TCC, and the $100K Mac Pro. iDevices get key-based protection, webAuthn, IBM Workgroup Updates on Swift.org, Hype Cycles, and a cheaper Apple Arcade cost are also covered. We look back at the last 10 years of Apple innovation, news and changes. Amazon, Google, Apple and the Zigbee Alliance to develop connectivity standard. Picks: Swift For Good, Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
12/22/2019 • 1 hour, 54 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 278: Introducing the Mac Pro Max
We find out what Jaime was up to last week. Our fact check covers using the Switch Pro Controller, the other Margret Hamilton and line feed printers. We also talk about Mr Dressup and remember Caroll Spinney. We follow up on the iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler, App Store Connect Holiday Schedule, BMW's CarPlay about-face, 59 Shortcuts for Emacs 23.2.1, and Fourier transform for dummies. The Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR are now available for order. We continue on the ethical implications of conversational AI and the patina of our Apple Cards. iOS 13 brings easier crypto APIs with the CryptoKit framework. Self Sizing Table View Cells In Interface Builder. Apple releases macOS Catalina 10.15.2, iOS, and iPadOS 13.3. Picks: Python for Beginners Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
12/14/2019 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 277: Math Porn
This week Alexis Gallagher returns to geek out on iOS and math. Prompted by askMTJC from Mike Hendley we discuss using keyboards on the iPad and Macs. 7 Awesome Open Source SwiftUI Projects To Inspire You. Mini LED technology will be coming to MacBooks and iPads in the near future. Apple will release at least four new iPhones with 5G and OLED displays. Apple launches Apple Music and well as App and Games Awards. Do we care about new HomeKit integrations? It is now too late to order engraved AirPods Pro for Christmas. Does iOS 13 on iOS and tvOS support Nintendo Switch Pro controllers or not? Paul Hudson reviews the new MBP in terms of Swift compile times. Picks: How to free up space on your developer Mac, The Apollo Guidance Computer, 13 Minutes to the Moon, Ted Gioia’s best Music of 2018 - Apple Music playlist, GymBook, Oura, sleep-tracking Ring. After Show: Apple TV+ shows, Affinity Publisher, Spectre, Moleskin notes and Home Pod.
Special Guests: Alexis Gallagher and Mike Vinakmens.
12/8/2019 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 276: Ok Boomer
This week we chat about views that seem to be broken in iOS 13. We fact check on Digital Darkroom. WeWork hits a snag and we add some of our favorite Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals. Dad Jokes and other trending memes populate the show. iOS 14 may be rebased with incremental updates with feature flags. X-rays reveal a shutter button on the iPhone Smart Battery Case. We discuss Andy Ibanez' post on new search APIs in iOS 13. Rumor has it that Toronto's Eaton Centre will get a larger Apple Store. Picks: Useful obscure Foundation types in Swift, SwiftUI Views book, The Book of Why. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
11/30/2019 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 275: Another Bit of Entropy
This week we fact check on PBS WNED, David Heinemeier Hansson, Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. We follow up on Parallels, Hey! Siri, Jamie Heinemeier Hansson posts her story about the Apple Card credit rating, and Amazon's abandoned AI recruiting tool. We discuss how the Apple Watch has transformed users with autism and CP. Use this handy calculator to find out how much subscriber TV will cost you. Joe Cieplinski's post "About That Keyboard" drives another discussion about the MacBook Pro 16 keyboard. Apple is planning a Dec event celebrating gaming. Apple's Developer app will provide information for developers year round. Apple breaks ground in Austin to build Mac Pros. Ricky brings us A Companion for SwiftUI, the SwiftUI Lab, and About-SwiftUI. 1Password partners with Accel for continued growth, Çingleton 2013 - Dave Teare, and A love letter to DHH and others concerned about our recent funding announcement. Xcode 11.2 Banned From Apple Itself. Apple may be working on a successor to iTunes on Windows 10. Porting by a 1000 Patches: Bringing Swift to Windows. Why I've started asking companies about their technical interviews before proceeding with them. Voice Control link roundup via Back to Work 452. Picks: WT:Social, Take Charge of those Xips, QuickLook certs In the Finder, Apple launches a dedicated mobile app for its developer community, 100 Days of SwiftUI, SwiftUI by Example, Survey results: iOS Dev Weekly 430 link roundup, I Accidentally Uncovered a Nationwide Scam on Airbnb, Renovate is now part of WhiteSource Special Guests: Mike Vinakmens, Peter Cook, and Ricky de Laveaga.
11/23/2019 • 1 hour, 48 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 274: SwiftUI Canvas Attributes Inspector
Sesame Street turns 50. We fact check on Adobe Photoshop, Fresco, Charles Geschke and VMWare Fusion. askMTJC brings us an unusual iOS error message. Roku’s new free WatchOS app lets you control your viewing. Adobe deals with ‘painful’ early reviews of Photoshop for iPad. A tweet about Apple Card leads to a probe of Goldman Sachs. Disney Plus streaming service arrives in Canada with technical hurdles. MacBook Pro 16 inch. SwiftUI Layout System. Swift Server Work Group (SSWG) Annual Update. GitHub launches a mobile app. Picks: Swiftly, Fresco - pencil brush, Edit SwiftUI properties with Canvas Attributes Inspector. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
11/17/2019 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 273: The Future Is Scary
This time we have Toolchain, Halloween AirPods, and RIP QuickTime Player 7. Tim Cooks says we may have bundles, Google buys FitBit, FCC passes new Mac Pro, online etymology, we follow up on Apple TV+ trial, GameClub, and PhotoShop on iPad, Apple privacy updates, and Uber car kills jaywalker. You cannot submit Electron 6 or 7 apps to the App Store. Microsoft’s Edge Chromium browser will launch on January 15th. Apple Push Notification Service Update. Apple TV+ first impressions and a new look for Apple privacy. Picks: Researchers hack Siri, Alexa, and Google Home by shining lasers at them, SwiftUI Cheat Sheet, Photoshop on iPad 🎉. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
11/10/2019 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 272: Apple's Back
This time we discuss the look of the new AirPods Pro and installing Catalina on an APFS partition. We also follow up on website accessibility, and illustrated guide to OAuth and OpenID as well as in plain English. The confusion around iOS 13 share sheets continues, and we are front and centre in a group photo from iOS Dev UK. Mark reports on Apple's record breaking earnings. GameHub revives old iOS games. Apple warns iPhone 5 owners to update. Apple reveals new AirPods Pro. Apple also releases iOS and iPadOS 13.2. They also pull and update to 13.2.1 after some Home Pods get bricked. Picks: "Apple, Your Developer Documentation is… Missing", gnostic, TensorBoard.dev, Up & Running on macOS with Catalyst. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
11/2/2019 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 271: Cheetos Finger Hot Dog Stylus
This week we follow up on Move the Dial, how AstroPad HQ is dealing with being "Sherlocked", Apple surpasses Microsoft, and apps merged from iPad to Mac have troubles with user charges. We dig into security foibles with Google's Pixel 4 and Samsungs Galaxy 10. Apple Pay has overtaken Starbucks as a payment platform. Apple has implemented OpenID Connect with Sign in with Apple. SoftBank to Take Majority Stake in WeWork. There is a looming EMV "Y2K Moment". Picks: Dracula — A dark theme for Visual Studio Code and 50+ apps, Pixelmator Pro - on sale, Creative Things: A Collection Of Creative THINGS From Around The World.
Outro by voiceover artist — Mike Vinakmens. Special Guest: Mike Vinakmens.
10/27/2019 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 270: Who Moved My Dang Cheese?
We follow up on up on Hacktoberfest, finger counting, the Domino's accessibility lawsuit, bundling Apple services, what the T2 chip does, and iOS 13 adoption rates. We discuss how a 14 year old developer got his game on Apple's Arcade. You can now ask Siri to play Spotify music on iOS 13. James Thompson shares his experience getting apps converted to Catalyst. The Apple TV app is coming to Roku. Picks: A SwiftUI Kickstart, Move The Dial, Transporter, Rob Whitaker on Accessibility, and Essential Xcode Shortcuts for More Efficient Coding.
10/19/2019 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 269: Best of MTJC: Devs On the Street — LIVE from WWDC 2019
Recorded LIVE during WWDC 2019: In this special episode Tim interviewed several iOS developers on-site at WWDC thought the conference. Joining us this week are Tom Harington, Jeff Rames, Ish Shabazz, Kilo Loco, Mark Struzinzki, Adam Armstrong, Dru Freeman, Ray Fix, Megan Winter, Anthony Laurence, Ricky de Laveaga, Kendal Gelner, and literally on the street Joe Cieplinski. We discuss the WWDC Keynote, PSotU, SwiftUI, Project Catalyst, Dark Mode, stand alone Watch Apps, Xcode 11, Voice Control, iPadOS, Swift Package Manager, the 2019 Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, The Talk Show, Micro.blog, Embrace.io, AltConf, Swift Playgrounds 3, Xcode 11, and the Release Notes Conference. Special Guests: Aᴅᴀᴍ Aʀᴍsᴛʀᴏɴɢ, Anthony Laurence, Dru Freeman, Ish, Jeff Rames, Joe Cieplinski, Kendall Gelner, Kilo Loco, Mark Struzinski, Meg Winter, Ray Fix, Ricky de Laveaga, and Tom Harrington.
10/12/2019 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 268: Xcode Memory View
We fact check on Apple costs, SR&ED, and Matchbox. In the follow up we name check Worcestershire, the OMG Cable, and the Checkm8 exploit. We review Swift Memory Management and Performance. Swift Playgrounds on iPad adds SwiftUI, iOS 13 SDK and Combine support. Picks: Reverse Interview, Catalina tip - download apps from anywhere, PenBook built with SwiftUI, PencilKit and iPadOS, Xcode Spell Chec, and Combine Function Builders.
10/5/2019 • 50 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 267: Great Developers Paste
We start with iOS 13.1 release date, Bluetooth access notifications, the price of Apple gear in Australia, listening to podcasts on CarPlay, and getting into open source through a hackathon. We follow up on top 10 Apple Arcade games, Google Play Pass rolls out games for Android, iPadOS comes out, and the Alt Store has also come out for iOS devices. The smartphone is in the running for Toy Hall of Fame. The Best iOS 13 Tips and Tricks. Apple says it will make the new Mac Pro in Texas. Picks: Bug Reporting in a Snap, Hacktoberfest presented by DigitalOcean and DEV, Apple Shares New Tutorial Videos Showcasing iPadOS Features, Advanced SwiftUI Transitions. One More Thing... Transforming Operators in Swift Combine Framework: Map vs FlatMap vs SwitchToLatest.
9/28/2019 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 266: What Color Is Your Apple Card?
Apple Arcade is now available to iOS 13 users, we discuss this as well as Apple TV+. It seems the US based Apple Card users have an advantage buying Apple gear. The September event is available on-demand via YouTube. We discuss the early iPhone 11 Pro reviews. Does Apple tip the scales in favour of its own apps? Billing Grace Period Now Available in App Store Connect. Podcast app Pocket Casts is now available for free, with an optional $0.99 subscription. Picks: On-device training with Core ML, Press Kit Pro Tip, Dark Mode — Working with Color Systems.
9/21/2019 • 57 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 265: AppleTV+ and Chill
We follow up on Ethan Hunt, POSIX, in-screen Touch ID, Apple Card case, and Jaime at iOSDevUK 2019. We dig into the Apple iPhone event: Apple Arcade, TV+, iPad 10.2 inch, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and Apple Retail. We also discuss extending AppleCare+, new AirDrop in iPhone 11, Apple VR headset, new Home Pod features, and total TV subscriptions. Picks: Mohamed Ghebaji on Medium, try Combine, Apple Event in 2 Minutes, Microsoft the Musical, The difference between UK and US Mac keyboards.
9/15/2019 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 264: Morgan Just Go!
We are joined by Alexis Gallagher as we follow up on an Apple Sock for the Apple Card. We also follow up on rumored iPhone 11 Pro rumors, the coating on the titanium Apple Card, and why you’re only getting 1% cash back. Facebook exposes 419 million phone numbers. Apple has released iOS 13.1 beta 2, so what does that mean for iOS 13? We discuss the rumored “Apple Glasses” and new tagging products. The new 2020 iPad Pro maybe adding 3D sensing rear cameras. Apple is temporarily relaxing notarization requirements. 2020 may also reveal a low-cost iPhone option. Alexis wonders about USB 4 and IPv6. Picks: Red Eye, SwiftTO on YouTube, Fat Secret. Special Guest: Alexis Gallagher.
9/7/2019 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 263: What Is A Pro iPhone User?
This week we follow up on Hydro lines and the Apple Card APR. Google drops Android deserts. A short live jailbreak window, Apple TV+ shows early debuts. Apple Watch EKG feature saves a life. Apple apologies for Siri eavesdropping. We discuss Global Foundries patent challenge against TSMC. Rene Ritchie says everyone is wrong about the iPhone 11 Pro. Picks: Adopting Voice Control, Identifiable, Difficult to find bug. After show: Xcode vs macOS weirdness.
9/1/2019 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 262: The Evil Geniuses Podcast
We follow up on Woodstock's 50th anniversary, power line networking, semantic developers, and Domnio's appeal to the Supreme Court. Apple TV+ will launch in November with a free trial. Apple's Arcade gaming system will also debut with a free trial. The Apple Card has launched for all users in the US. New ceramic and titanium watches revealed in watchOS 6 beta. We discuss the cost of DropBox's use of common code for iOS and Android. We dig into Git version 2.23 highlights and Bitbucket sunsets Mercurial support. Picks: Duckie, 22 short tests of Combine – Part 1: Protocols, SwiftTO videos & photos.
8/25/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 261: Even Cowdogs Get the Blues
We follow up on stopgap accessibility ramps, the 2nd top selling band in the US, CPAs, Clarus the Dogcow, meetings friends. colleagues and Fans of the Show at Swift Conference Toronto. We ask if Jaime has even tried a Canadian Caesar. We discuss Apple locking iPhone batteries, GitHub Actions now supports CI/CD, Apple extends its bug bounty program to macOS and $1M. We talk in depth about the History of Clarus the Dogcow. Apple Wallet adds tap-to-use student ID, for food and dorm entry. The FAA bans recalled MacBook Pro 15s from flying. Apple provides special iPhone to security researchers. Also at Black Hat USA 2019, Face ID workarounds and Lightning cables give hackers access to Macs. Should you trademark your app name? Picks: Spicing Up Swift, CS principles in Swift, Combine 101, Combine Data Sources, Hacking Combine
8/17/2019 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 260: Can't Fit a Pizza Through a Tube!
We celebrate our 5th anniversary as we record on August 7, 2019. Reminiscence and secrets revealed. The Apple Card starts to roll out to some users, along with new interest rates and some restrictions. Paul Beattie follows up with how to set up notifications on an iPad running iOS 13 beta. Apple's Filemaker is going back to the original Claris moniker. iOS 13 privacy policy will change logging in with Facebook. Dominos is appealing to the Supreme Court about accessibility rulings. Picks: 10 tips for reviewing code you don’t like, SwiftTO Conference. AfterShow: Who is the top Canadian recording artist
8/10/2019 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 259: Crossing the Rubicon
We follow up on TIFF, siriOS, black turtlenecks, the Apple Card, and Apple's financial engineering. Apple investors shrug off sputtering iPhone sales. Apple will let you choose ‘bigger’ or ‘more’ app icons on your iPad’s home screen. Apple’s future iPhone might add a time-of-flight camera. GitHub restricts developer accounts under US sanctions. Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video. Picks: ADDC 2019, Swift changes under Xcode 11/iOS13 beta 5.
8/3/2019 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 258: No One's Going To Buy the Cow
We follow up on UIHomeController, better StoryBoards with Xcode 11, a built-in error check in Go, Snoopy in Space, WatchOS ECG in Canada, and Facebook For Kids flaw. Generic Provisioning Profile certificates. Apple bankrolling podcasts. Apple to buy Intel's modem business. Apple releases iOS 12.4, watchOS 5.3, macOS 10.14.6. Apple releases update for old iPhones and iPads to fix GPS bug. Picks: WWDC19 Video Transcripts Now Available, The Swift Behind SwiftUI, and An Illustrated History of Easter Eggs
7/27/2019 • 1 hour, 32 seconds
Episode 257: Best of MTJC: LIVE from the WWDC 2019 Podcast Studio
We are joined by Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga in the Podcast Studio at WWDC 2019 McEnery Convention Center. Recorded at 11 am Friday June 7, 2019. We fact check on Bobby Orr and the approximate number of active iOS developers. #askMTJC has Namrata Bandekar responding to joining start ups, as well the pronunciation of Dave Verwer IRL. We discuss our impressions of WWDC 2019 — SwiftUI, declarative programing, Combine framework, ARKit 3, Reality Composer, Swift Playgrounds 3, Swift Package Manager, stand alone Watch apps, iPadOS, TestFlight Feedback, Transporter, and Sign In With Apple. Picks: Performance, Pencil Support, Optimizing File Storage, DataFlow for SwiftUI, Combine in Practice, Sign In With Apple, Voice Dream Scanner, ClassKit, What's New In Swift, try! Swift, AltConf. Special Guests: Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga.
We follow up on Sir Jony Ive's early innovations; Power Mac G4 Cube, Twentieth Anniversary Mac and USB (Hockey Puck) Mouse. Tim rememberers CADisplayLink. We also follow up on Apple's Design and Development Accelerator in Shanghai, a new scissor switch keyboard is coming for the MacBook Pro, and 4 major reasons why the MacBook Pro's suck. Apple discontinues the 12-inch MacBook and bumps up the MacBook Air with TueTone and adds TouchBar to the entry level MacBook Pro 13. Apple also cut SSD prices in half. The birthplace of the Mac & iPhone Flint Centre is to be demolished. Apple pushes a silent update to the Zoom apps. We discuss the 2015 MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program. 7-Eleven Japan shut down its mobile payment app. Face ID and Touch ID might be used to sign onto iCloud in iOS 13 Beta. Apple to ditch FaceID with through-screen Touch ID? Swift Property Wrappers by NSHipster. We also reminisce about Objective-C collections. Picks: Stranger Things-inspired retro trip to Windows 1.11, Apple’s Texas Hold’em game returns to the iPhone, SF Symbols Reference, TikTok, nil.
SF Pro Rounded font from Apple.
7/13/2019 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 255: We The Podcast
We follow up on the Talking Moose and Yes. Memoji are in the news as Xiaomi once again follows Apple's lead. This raises Tim's argument that Memoji fights against individuality. iOS 13 will fix the FaceTime eye contact problem. Sir Jony Ive is leaving Apple to form his own design agency — many people weigh in on the impact and Joe Cieplinski calls an audible. We discuss ways to implement SwiftUI in existing applications. SwiftUI on the web may be possible as shown in SwiftWebUI. Picks: Using Combine, Ikea releases free ‘Soffa Sans’ font made of couches, Understanding @State in SwiftUI.
7/6/2019 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 254: Fraking SwiftUI
We follow up with Tom Harrington's listing of WWDC 2019 Online-only Sessions, 2019 Average Tech Worker Salaries, and Apple explores moving some production out of China. Apple buys self-driving startup Drive.ai. Apple hires one of ARM’s top chip designers. How to use dependency injection with storyboards. Apple confirms plans to expand Seattle hub. Picks - [Fracking] SwiftUI - Everything you need to know to adopt SwiftUI, HHOF to induct Hailey Wickenheiser. Talking Moose lives! The new @IBSegueAction attribute can be used to create a segue’s destination view controller in code.
6/29/2019 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 253: A Link In the Show Notes
We fact check on a WWDC wish list by Becky Hansmeyer. The #askMTJC covers getting Live Preview on Catalina, iPadOS as a unique operating system, and real-time follow up on an AR Mac Pro on your desk. Twitter is bringing back its Mac desktop app. What's New In Swift 5.1. Niantic sues Global++ developers over hacked versions of its games. What's New in Apple File Systems from #WWDC19. Apple looks willing to help struggling iPhone-display maker. Apple now tells you if an app you're deleting has a subscription still active. View Controller Presentation Changes in iOS 13. Incorporating SwiftUI's Principles in All Your Code. Women In Swift. Picks — ReqRes.in and SwiftUI Tutorial: Build an ordering app with Forms, Pickers, and URLSession. What Does a Cyber Attack in Real Life? watchOS6 Noise app comparison with a decibel meter.
6/22/2019 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 252: The Most Expensive Dongle
Back from WWDC 2019, we discuss whether large companies should drop support for older iOS versions. We follow up on Federico's iPad setup, Apple is listening to Pro users, Apple making corporate BYOD less invasive, and Apple is tightening up its rules for enterprise app certificates. We chat about the Mac Pro and Pro Display XDR. We discuss WWDC 2019 sessions on Combine, SwiftUI, Project Catalyst, Reality Composer. We discuss some new App Store Guidelines you may not have looked at. We also cover Shai Mishali's RxSwift to Apple’s Combine “Cheat Sheet”. Picks: SwiftUI Essentials: Creating and Combining Views, Combine | Apple Developer Documentation, Mac Pro in AR - Apple, Visual Codes by Benjamin Mayo, and SwiftTO.
6/15/2019 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 251: Devs On the Street — LIVE from WWDC 2019
Recorded LIVE during WWDC 2019: In this special episode Tim interviewed several iOS developers on-site at WWDC thought the conference. Joining us this week are Tom Harington, Jeff Rames, Ish Shabazz, Kylo Loco, Mark Struzinzki, Adam Armstrong, Dru Freeman, Ray Fix, Megan Winter, Anthony Laurence, Ricky de Laveaga, Kendal Gelner, and literally on the street Joe Cieplinski. We discuss the WWDC Keynote, PSotU, SwiftUI, Project Catalyst, Dark Mode, stand alone Watch Apps, Xcode 11, Voice Control, iPadOS, Swift Package Manager, the 2019 Mac Pro, Pro Display XDR, The Talk Show, Micro.blog, Embrace.io, AltConf, Swift Playgrounds 3, Xcode 11, and the Release Notes Conference. Special Guests: Anthony Laurence, Dru Freeman, Joe Cieplinski, Kendall Gelner, Kilo Loco, Meg Winter, Ray Fix, and Ricky de Laveaga.
6/9/2019 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 250: LIVE from the WWDC 2019 Podcast Studio
We are joined by Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga in the Podcast Studio at WWDC 2019 McEnery Convention Center. Recorded at 11 am Friday June 7, 2019. We fact check on Bobby Orr and the approximate number of active iOS developers. #askMTJC has Namrata Bandekar responding to joining start ups, as well the pronunciation of Dave Verwer IRL. We discuss our impressions of WWDC 2019 — SwiftUI, declarative programing, Combine framework, ARKit 3, Reality Composer, Swift Playgrounds 3, Swift Package Manager, stand alone Watch apps, iPadOS, TestFlight Feedback, Transporter, and Sign In With Apple. Picks: Performance, Pencil Support, Optimizing File Storage, DataFlow for SwiftUI, Combine in Practice, Sign In With Apple, Voice Dream Scanner, ClassKit, What's New In Swift, try! Swift, AltConf. Special Guests: Alexis Gallagher and Ricky de Laveaga.
6/8/2019 • 48 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 249: The WWDC Over Under
It's no surprise that WWDC is the main subject of the episode. We follow up on Mark Pavlidis' talk on subscriptions. We follow on another post about troubles dealing with App Store Connect. The App Store has also published their Principles and Practices. We discuss Swift 5.1's Ordered Collection Diffing. We retell our WWDC ticketing experiences around Jaime's 'My WWDC Sob Story'. Apple Pay debuts on NYC's MTA. Flipboard adds yet another password breach. Worldwide Costco Tour 2019. Announcing GitHub Sponsors. Candid Advice For Those Joining The Startup World. Gender bias supported by female voiced assistants. Canada's PM Trudeau warns of 'meaningful financial consequences' for social media giants. iOS 13 Dark Mode, Music and TV apps screenshot leaks. We discuss what we wish to be announced at WWDC and what we think is likely to be announced at WWDC? Picks: Join Sean Allen as he posts his live WWDC reactions on TwitchTV. WWDC by Sundell. iOS Dev Jobs. Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World. Creative Cloud trial. After show: WWDC events.
6/1/2019 • 1 hour, 44 minutes
Episode 248: Opaque Boycott Nutshell
We fact check on Apple Park and WWDC hardware. AT&T's 5Ge makes an appearance. ‘Boycott Apple’ movement gains new traction. Google suspends some business with Huawei. ARM memo tells staff to stop working with Huawei. Apple Watch ECG gets cleared in Canada. Seven Years of iPad as Computer. Instagram Influencers scraped & exposed. Facebook iOS job acceptance down to 50%. "Software developer interviews, in a nutshell..." blows up. Apple updates 13- and 15-inch MacBook Pros with enhanced butterfly keyboard. A WWDC Dev Wishlist. What’s New in Swift 5.1. Picks: Design a Dark Them for OLED iPhones, Take the Hacking with Swift WWDC19 Quiz. Unwrap Learn coding today. After Show: Our Quiz results (spoiler free)
5/25/2019 • 45 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 247: The Rental Economy
In 2011, Steve Jobs presented Apple Park plans. App Store Pricing. Apple Launches TV App with iOS 12.2. Adobe opens Photoshop for iPad beta signups. WhatsApp discovers 'targeted' surveillance attack. The US Supreme Court allows iPhone users to sue over AppStore monopoly. New Pride faces added to Apple Watch. US/China Trade War may affect Apple Chargers and Cases. Mac Pro iffy renderings leaked. Picks: Today At Apple adds podcasting class, Adobe warns using older versions of their apps may open users to lawsuits, and Nomad base station wireless hub, Mark Pavlidis - App Store Subscriptions – Condensed Edition. Special Guest: Dru Freeman.
5/18/2019 • 54 minutes, 42 seconds
WWDC San Jose Travel Advice, Best of MTJC
We chatted about WWDC San Jose back in 2018. Here's a replay of Greg's experience at WWDC 2017. Mark gives some advice about traveling to San Jose. This year Tim is a attending WWDC. Come say "Hi" and get an MTJC pin.
5/17/2019 • 11 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 246: Google I/O Highlights and WWDC Preview
We follow up on filling up the net. The UK government will now accept Apple and Google Pay. Lawyer's phone and laptop seizes for not sharing passwords. Apple Park video shows mystery rainbow stage. We discuss highlights from Google I/O 2019. We discuss the rumored items to be announced at WWDC 2019. Picks: App Builders Switzerland 2019. Getting an iPhone activated at the Apple Store.
5/11/2019 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 245: Back Bacon and Pineapple
We follow up on biennial, biannual and semi-annual, NSUserActivity and flying non-stop from Boston and Hawaii. Apple recalls European three prong charger adapters. Apple cracking down on apps monitoring users. Kids are getting around time based restrictions. Apple's Aperture won't run on the post Mojave OS. Hackers Breached a Programming Tool Used By Big Tech and Stole Private Keys and Tokens. Apple's Q2 Earnings. Downloaded music has unexpected economic and environmental costs. Did Apple reveal a new iPhone feature? Picks: Clip sharing with Overcast. Mixing Swift and Kotlin in the same project should be called? NSNorth 2019.
5/4/2019 • 50 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 244: Game of Drones
We follow up again on developer salaries, your privacy at airports and borders, MongoDB is acquiring Realm, and McDonald’s mobile app exploits. Siri Shortcuts and Screen Time are coming to the Mac. For developers at WWDC; Siri, Marzipan, AR, and more. What would you pay for WhatsApp, FaceBook or Twitter as a service. Is Apple working on a Apple Paintbrush. Extinct flower rediscovered in Hawaii, via drones. Picks: Just say “Hey Siri, remind me about this” from inside an app.
4/26/2019 • 45 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 243: The Dark Side of the Luna
We respond to #askMTJC on podcasts cover art and phones with three back cameras. Apple improves subscriptions to prevent accidental enrollment. Apple and Qualcomm settle multiple claims against each other. A low-end iPhone may be coming in 2020. A hacker has dumped nearly a billion accounts. A new service will let you sell your own data to companies. Facebook Messenger to return to the main app and more. We discuss new features that may come to iOS 13. Apple is planning its own iPad as secondary display like Luna Display. Listening to podcasts on Apple Watch is a sleeper hit. Picks: Photographer takes apart everyday gadgets to reveal their inner workings, How to learn Prolog by watching Game of Thrones. After show: Kansas, the T-shirt saga, Notre Dame and Hawaii.
4/20/2019 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 30 seconds
Episode 242: The Rise of Marzipan
Greg Heo mocks us with the correct Uke tuning. Can we cuss on this podcast? We bid adieu to App Review Times blog. BBEdit is returning to the Mac App Store. Apple drops the $99 data migration fee. We discuss the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey. macOS 10.5 with include more Mazipanified apps: Music, Books, Podcasts and TV. tvOS includes more bug fixes. Netflix has killed Air Play support. Starting with macOS 10.14.5, Apple will require notarized apps. Apple updates podcasts web previews — real time follow up: It is fully working as we publish the episode. Fake iPhone returns scam nets $900,000. Picks: What’s New in Swift 5, pCalc, WWDC tips. Special Guest: Dru Freeman.
4/14/2019 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 241: Artisanal Enums
MTJC listeners are spotted at Codemobile UK. Apple throws in the towel on the Air Power. Facebook developer partners abandon user's data on AWS. News+ gains 200,000 early users in a week. ColorWare is Now Selling Apple's AirPods in 58 Colors. Leaked iPhone 11 schematics seem to support square triple-camera design. Swift 5 includes UTF-8 String. Samsung offering trade ins on Apple phone for discounts. Powerbeats Pro announced. Picks: Swift Style, 2nd Ed. Erica Sadun Special Guest: Dru Freeman.
4/7/2019 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 second
Episode 240: Titanium Services
We fact check in the OG Mac resolution. We follow up on the WWDC lottery results and public WIFI. Google Chrome adds DuckDuckGo as a default search option. Original Air Pod batteries are wearing out. Apple apologizes for the butterfly keyboard. MTJC WWDC Lottery T-Shirts removed from some sites but still available. Facebook says it stored millions of passwords as plain test. Greg tweets about the goodness coming with Swift 5. iOS 12.2 has been released to support new services. Apple announces Apple News+, Apple Pay, Apple Card, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Channels, and Apple TV+. We discuss the new services, interest rates, availability outside the US. Picks: iOSCon 2019 - The conference for iOS and Swift Developers, The Swift Programing Guide - 5th Edition, Advanced Swift: Protocol Oriented Programming, Network.framework, 12.3 Beta releases.
Special Guest: Dru Freeman.
3/30/2019 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 239: Usurious Charges
We open with a discussion of the WWDC Lottery as well as about DuckDuckGo's built-in search shortcut. We discuss Spotify's claim that Apple has created an unfair market place. We look at one of the original iPhone prototypes. This week Apple revealed a couple of Apple Pencil compatible iPads: iPad Air and iPad Mini. They have also updated the iMac and Air Pods. Microsoft unveiled Xbox Live at GDC and Google also introduced a new gam space Stadia. Phil Schiller discussed WWDC on the Accidental Tech Podcast. Picks: TIL How to Paste a Number in Apple Phone App, Xcode 10.1 arm64e bug, Where on Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego, BananaPaint for iPad
3/23/2019 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 238: You Can Check Out Anytime You Like...
We follow up on the Saturn V and pronouncing Roman Numerals. Why 'ji32k7au4a83' Is a Remarkably Common Password. Surprises in the TIOBE Index 2019. We chat about Apple's "It's Show Time" announcement. Is is Apple working on smart glasses? US Sales Tax Changes for software companies. Apple buys AI company, Laserlike. Picks: Safely supporting new versions of Swift, Senator Hawling vs Google Free Services. Apple UK's Why iPhone. Aftershow: Boeing 737 Max 8 _and _MCAS, Captain Marvel? and college admissions.
3/16/2019 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 237: Arbitrary Lines in the Sand
Our askMTJC touches on VR for healthcare, Roth IRA for tax free saving, and unlock your Mac with your Apple Watch. We follow up on Apple's apology to podcasters, a security researcher hands Apple details of Keychain bug, Facebook lets anyone look you up with your security phone number, and using Safe Area layout margins in Objective-C. Bringing iOS Apps to macOS Using Marzipanify. Facebook demanded hands-off data policy. Picks: Connections, season 1, episode 8, “Eat, Drink, and Be Merry”, Swift Code Formatters, Shortcuts Archive, ServerSide.swift 2018 conference video. After Show: Jaime's review of Japan
3/9/2019 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 236: In a Plexiglass Box
We fact check on book of record, iPhone X problems, compromised accounts, Dread Pirate Roberts, Law of Diffusion of Innovation, C55 H104 O6, Curiosity on Twitter, Futurama SE1E02. We discuss 2FA on developer accounts, strategies for bent iPad Pros, Unlocking the Mac with Apple Watch, Apple & Alipay offer iPhone for $30/mo, Apple Stock price problems are over, Apple & Facebook are battling international encryption. Apple is planing sleep tracking on the Apple Watch. Apple allows developers to offer discounted subscriptions. Microsoft rolls out the HoloLens 2. Picks: Futurama S01E02: The Series Has Landed, A Recipe for Building Grocery 2.0, Notes From the Margins.
3/2/2019 • 58 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 235: Twice as Big as It Needs To Be
In our #askMTJC we discuss 1Password and other tools for Two Factor Authentication. We follow up with more Engineering jokes, digital team jerseys, a foldable slap bracket smart phone, apps for craft breweries, enterprise certificate uses, activating 2FA, iPhone 6/6S battery, and Amazon cancels NYC headquarters. Apple buys AI voice startup know for Alexis and Google Assistant. Apple is set to introduce a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a 31-inch 6K display, iPhones with upgraded Face ID and bilateral wireless charging. Apple files a patent on foldable screens. Apple is continuing to work on Marzipan — to combine iOS and macOS apps. Picks: Greg Heo's new favorite Xcode keyboard shortcut, Online Swift Playground, The mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT.
2/23/2019 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 234: It's Mostly Obfuscated
Apple will reward teen who reported the Group FaceTime bug in the follow up. As well, porn and gambling are sneaking apps onto the App Store and software pirates are putting up hacked apps. Apple will host an announcement on March 25, 2019. WWDC 2019 Dates have been uncovered. Apple's sale in China were horrendous. Apple will require Two Factor Authentication on developer accounts. Many popular apps are recording your screen activity. As a result Apple demands that apps disclose or remove screen recording code. Apple announces Health Records feature coming to veterans. Picks: DevFest Baltics 2018 talks, Pliny the Younger.
2/17/2019 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 233: A Trusted Advisor
We follow up on Apple's statement about the Group FaceTime bug. Microsoft is releasing an Xbox Live SDK for iOS, Android and Switch. Angela Ahrendts, SVP of Apple Retail is leaving. Apple will waive developer fees for non-profits. iOS 12.2 will limit Accelerometer and Gyroscope access in Safari. Apple expands Animoji. We chat about a Dave Okun's Month of Swift without Xcode. Picks: Go Boom!, Netflix JavaScript Talks: Making Bandersnatch, Codewerks, DYLDPRINTSTATISTICS, Can a phone save you from a phone?, RedPark - Ethernet for iphone / ipad.
2/9/2019 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 232: Losing Face
We discuss NSNorth 2019 coming to Montreal in April and HBC doesn't accept Apple Pay yet. In our follow up we discuss Microsoft Office coming to the App Store. iOS 12.2 includes a number of new features, starting with "Hey Siri" for the Air Pod 2. The Apple News app will include support for magazine subscriptions in iOS 12.2. Apple is planning a gaming subscription services similar to Netflix. iOS 12.2 also will allow for the customization of ScreenTime's Downtime. Apple may also be working on a 7th generation iPod Touch and new iPads. Walt Mossberg opines on Apple's Q2 results as well as Mac sales. The first big story is around Facebook's Apple Enterprise Development certificate being revoked because of abuse of the terms of use. We discuss the reasons why APPL stock is up despite the weak guidance. We look at the 10-year Challenge of how popular apps have changed. iOS 12.2 also has another surprise as a mechanism for web share is also uncovered. The FaceTime Group Chat bug is discussed around how it seemingly took so long to report and also how bugs can be exploited. We discuss the three variants of "try" in Swift. Picks: Videos from iOS Conf Singapore 2019, A new way to create with iPad Pro videos and iPad Pro playlist.
2/2/2019 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 231: Even Villains Gotta Listen
This week we follow up on fuel economy, Apple Pay coming to Target and other US retailers, Windows Phone is end of life, and Apple is selling the iPhone SE at clearance pricing. Apple is unifying developer roles. Tim Cook on privacy is discussed. Picks: Use a custom "inspect" extension to debug pipelines, Fastlane, New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl.
1/26/2019 • 57 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 230: We All Lose
We fact check on the Apple TV, follow up on avoiding paywalls and iPad Pro bendgate. Is the iPhone going the way of the Polaroid, Walkman and Palm Pilot? Apple is looking to pair the Apple Watch and Medicare. Qualcomm refused to sell chips to Apple. The HomePod is launching in China and Apple introduces a new battery case for the new phones. Foundation DB introduces a record layer. Verizon is giving away Apple Music. DuckDuckGo rolls out private location services with Apple Maps JS. Apple will introduce 3 new phones in 2019 and should the employ the new iPad Pro design on the phones? Picks: UI Sound Inspiration, Programing Dad Jokes, ICanHazDadJokes API.
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1/19/2019 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 229: Feeling The Pinch
We take a look at Vector's review on fixing the HomePod. Samsung's Smart TV will support iTunes Movies & TV Shows as well as AirPlay 2. We discuss the original Apple TV. AT&T tries to slip in a 5G icon on client phones. Microsoft's GitHub adds unlimited private repos. We look at a leaked photo of an iPad Mini 5. A new "behind OLED" Face ID sensor is revealed. Apple uses trade-ins as well as lower prices in some markets to encourage iPhone sales. Samsung also warns of a 30% reduction in profits in it's 4th quarter. Yubico reveals Lightning port security keys. Apple's TV service should come out in 2019. Picks: Xcode in 10 Seconds, Shortcuts links, Test Your Swift.
1/12/2019 • 1 hour, 36 seconds
Episode 228: Beavers & Bellwethers
This week we follow up on the case of an Oregon man who uses the title "engineer". Apple lowered its Q1 guidance based on lower expectations. Apple also starts assembling premium iPhones in India. Apple's new plans may reveal what projects will be worked on around the United States. Netflix has pulled iTunes billing for users. Picks: Gesture based app selection and organization, Learn Talks.
We fact check on CSIS, overtime hockey, defeating Face ID, and git commit --amend. #askMTJC brings up promo codes for IAP and the bands on the Stanley Cup. Apple stock sees its best performance in five years. The main topic is top paying tech companies in 2018 and comparative compensation vs cost of living. We review the highlights of the More Than Just Code podcast in 2018. We also choose our top picks for 2018. Picks: Google Home Alone. After Show: The physics MP3 compression and Boxing Day.
12/29/2018 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 226: Bendgate Pro
This week Greg Heo leads the crew as they discuss the Windows 95 ugly holiday sweater, NHL hockey overtime 3 on 3, and protocol conformance. We follow up on Apple shutting down Music’s Connect feature, Sega Genesis Classics are playable on Amazon Fire, the C64 Mini, Windows Sandbox, Apple is producing new Peanuts content, breaking into Amazon face recognition with 3D printed heads, T-Mobile eSIM support, Apple will allow IAP gifted to Friends & Family. Apple will build new campus in Austin and add jobs across the US. Cydia Store shuts down. Apple confirms some iPad Pros ship slightly bent, but says it’s normal. Picks: Xcode Comment-Spell-Checker, 6 Audio books on Apple Books, The 8-Bit Guy, Functional Swift 2018 videos, MagazineLayout
12/22/2018 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 225: A BIt Of A Fumble
We get an iOS shortcut for bypassing paywalls in #askMTJC. We follow up with a deep dive into poor iPhone XR adoption figures, Google+ has potentially exposed data from 52M users, Infinity Blade games removed from the App Store, Apple appeals to China's iPhone ban, and Samsung removes the headphone jack. We take a look at some Swift tricks that you may not know about. Swift 5.0 wants us to try some nice breaking changes. You can record ARKit sessions in order to debug. It's apparently really easy to add a second display to an iOS app. Picks: A look at the Original 1984 Macintosh User Manual, Swift Docker image hosted by Apple.
12/15/2018 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 33 seconds
Episode 224: Siri, Open The Pod Bay Doors
We discuss using Siri to access application settings in our #askMTJC. We fact check on Indian Partitioning dates. We follow up on Apple Music arriving on Amazon’s Echo, Apple vs Qualcomm trial date set, 5G iPhone maybe as late as 2020, wireless charging for AirPods and AT&T first to support eSim. We discuss changing laws with GitHub pull requests. Apple's program for women entrepreneur developers. Siri Shortcuts Not Working for many people. Real-time text support for Wi-Fi calling. Touch ID used in app scams to bilk users. Picks: Xcode Short Cuts, Run macOS on iPad, Play Retro Dark Castle on iPad with System 6.0.8, Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
12/8/2018 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 223: With Scary Air Quotes
We follow up on #askMTJC about NFL blackouts, Canadian sports channel, and Canada's Bill 101. We follow up on Jony Ive designed diamond ring, App Store Connect holiday closure, iPhone XR price drop in Japan, and surprisingly the iPhone XR is Apple's best seller. We also follow up on Black Friday 2018 deals. Amazon introduces it's own Arm processor, and Amazon Pay will take on Apple Pay. The US Supreme Court is to decide if Apple can be sued for high prices and its monopoly. Picks: Amazon’s own ‘Machine Learning University’ now available to all developers, simctl - NSHipster, Linking to Subscription Management Settings, SubEthaEdit open source, Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs.
12/1/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 222: Everyone's A Publisher
We follow up on folding phones as Google adds support to Android. Apple cuts production on all new iPhone X series phones. Verizon will bring eSIM support for iPhones. Amazon US will now sell Macs for Apple. Prince William weighs in on social network giants lack of discretion. Tim Cook says regulations as inevitable. Apple has bought a privacy-conscious AI start up. Picks: Swift Heroes 2018 conference videos, Mini vMac for iOS, Deep Learning Specialization
11/24/2018 • 1 hour, 10 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 221: Not Expected Behavior
We look at #askMTJC from Paul Wilkinson on emptying the bin. Greg Heo joins us again as we discuss Apple's plan to replace unresponsive screens on iPhone X models. An iPhone X has exploded after being recharged. Spotify has launched an Apple Watch app. Apple's T2 chip will require a post upgrade/repair diagnostic tool to be run. Apple's stock price continues to drop as more suppliers lower their estimates on future iPhone XR orders. We also discuss Samsung's foldable phone and Google's Pixel 3 Night Sight feature. We discuss Swift LSP and MIT's 6.001 course on Lisp and Scheme. Picks: Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out, Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, AloeStackView, Re-creating the Siri Shortcuts Drawer Interaction.
11/17/2018 • 1 hour, 8 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 220: It’s Better Than AR
Greg Heo joins Tim for discussions on the new MacBook Air, iPad Pro and iPhone XR. Apple's Recycling on the new MacBook Air is not all that! In App Pricing disappeared from the App Store. Greg visited the Samsung Developer Conference 2018 in search of the folding phone. We discussed the iOS Developer Roadmap. Helium can brick your iPhone. Apple reduces the production line for the iPhone XR. Stockholm nixes Apple Store plans in the Kungsträdgården. Bad algorithms are making inappropriate decisions. Picks: iPad Pro (2018) Review, Teach Yourself Computer Science
11/10/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 219: Acquisitions and Murders
Microsoft has bought GItHub. IBM is buying Red Hat. Apple bars Bloomberg from iPad event. All of the Apple Logos Included in the October 30 Event. Tim Mitra Blends Art and (Computer) Science at TD Bank. JAMF - There is no step three. New 2018 MacBook Air, 2018 Mac Mini, 2018 iPad Pro - 11” & 12.9”, and 2nd Gen. Apple Pencil. Picks: Designing for iPad Pro and Apple Pencil, Bringing Your Apps to iPad Pro, Shared Version Number trick
11/3/2018 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 218: Golfing With the Blue Jays
We follow up on not using Facebook for logins and Apple and AWS request the Bloomberg retract the Chinese Spy Chip story. Apple is working on a patch for the #Beautygate — where the iPhone XS is over beautifying portrait photos. We revisit Swift & Objective-C usage. The October 30th event will apparently introduce 2 new iPad Pros, iPad Mini, two iMacs and possibly a new MacBook. IBM open sources their Mac@IBM configuration. Tim Cook calls for strong US Privacy legislation. We touch on the upcoming 5G mobile service. Picks: Xcode 10 patches to Advanced Apple Debugging & Reverse Engineering, Hawkeye Access.
10/27/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 217: On the Up and Up
We follow up on watching Dr Who in the US without cable, iOS 12 adoption is greater than iOS 11 a year ago, FaceBook will in fact track you via Portal in-home. Apple plans to give video content away to Apple device owners for free. We dig in on the cost to repair Apple gear; the right to repair and past examples of Apple's efforts to improve experience at the cost of speed. Adobe has announced Photoshop CC for iPad. Apple will allow users in the US to download all the info Apple has on them. Picks: Watch Apple, Amazon, Google & Tesla solve delivery problems, Cmd-Shift-5, Luna Display, The Illustrated TLS Connection, Swift & Fika 2018, Skydio’s self-flying drone can now be controlled using just an Apple Watch.
10/20/2018 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 216: Bananas & Lies
We answer our askMTJC from Paul Wilkinson about eSim support and Aussie Apple retail pricing. Tim discusses his Apollo XI T-shirt and Wikipedia's support drive. We follow up on Testflight public betas which inspire a new site, Google Plus is shutting down, Secrets & Lies, and Facebook Portal introduces new smart screens for the home. 3D Bananas are the new scale of processor performance. Another follow up on Saqib Shaikh as he appears on CBC's Spark. Luna Display is available for sale. We discuss iOS 12 and Core Data External Binary Data Storage, State of Developer Ecosystem, Apple vs the Big Hack, Aussie Day Light Savings Apple Watch bug, iOS 12.0.1 bug fixes, and Apple's overpriced repairs. Picks: The Apple II Source Code for the LOGO Language Found, CodeMobile Weekly Episode 2: A fireside chat with Jaime Lopez, Designing Websites for iPhone X, REPL Support for Swift Packages.
10/13/2018 • 59 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 215: The Left Handed Bird Flip
We fact check the size of the original iPhones, and AI For Accessibility. Our #askMTJC covers a video on economic principals, and swinging cats in man caves. We follow up on inviting users to TestFlight, countries that support iPhone XS eSIMs, Super Bowl commercials in Canada, and sluggish iOS 12 adoption. Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested By a Hollywood Stunt Double. Microsoft Surface event 2018: the 5 biggest announcements. Picks: Adding Device Frames to iPhone XS and XS Max Screenshots with Shortcuts, sudo from Touch Bar.
10/6/2018 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 214: Don't Panic Jaime!
Our #askMTJC yielded a lot of feed back. SplitView mode on the Plus size iPhones. Paul Wilkinson illuminates Wifi Assist, Enterprise wifi routers can force devices to re-associate, and AP roaming & traffic priorities. Best Buy matches Freedom Mobiles $0 iPhone XS deals. iOS 12 improves iPhone app emulation with iPhone 6 resolutions and also fixes glitches with 2FA with multiple Apple ID users. AppleCare for iPhone X's. Amazon reveals 14 new devices. Headphone dongle missing. NSNorth 2019. What’s new in Swift 5.0. Supports opening documents in place. iPhones to be banned in South Korea? Picks: Supporting iPhone XS Max and XR, Using Command-Line Arguments to Configure In-App Dependencies, TD DaVinci API, Elevate Tech Fest Hackathon, Microsoft Build: AI for Accessibility, Why the metric system matters - Matt Anticole
9/29/2018 • 1 hour, 43 minutes
Episode 213: The Three Tenners
We follow up on Mark's visit to petrified forests. We discuss the new screen size & shape of the Apple Watch Series 4, and type case format of the new iPhone XS and iPhone XR, as well as the unfortunate/confusing name iPhone XS Max. We follow up on the new iPhones; screen sizes, resolutions, pricing plans, and the discontinuation of the iPhone X, iPhone 6 and iPhone SE. We follow up as Microsoft acquires Lobe.ai and the leaked images on Google Home Hub. A new iPad Pro is coming this fall. NSHipster covers some lesser known iOS 12 features. Remote working tops job search perks. Apple sets the date for required building against iOS 12 SDK and watchOS 5 SDK. Picks 1Password with Autofill, and smooth Apple Store performance.
9/22/2018 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 212: The Boiling Point
We discuss the naming and iconography of the new iPhone models. We also discuss our "guess the name" twitter pole. How did Apple make the secret twitter list and send out the Keynote in 108 seconds. Apple shipped 4 million Watches in the past quarter. Oleg Begemann's What's New in Swift playground has been updated. The European regulators have cleared Apple's purchase of Shazam. We also cover the "Gather Round" iPhone & Watch event: Apple Watch Series 4, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR. Picks: Beyond Meat Burger supply, Fish shell, exa, bat, Trailer.io
9/15/2018 • 1 hour, 56 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 211: Remortgage Your House
We're back and answering Greg's askMTJC on DuoTang portfolios. We follow up on alternatives to Back To My Mac, we have a date for the new iPhone & Watch announcements, new iPad renders, Tim Horton's and Stanford's Heart Study. Apple and developers suffered an CloudKit outage. Apple buys an AR glasses startup. New apps and updates will require a published privacy policy going forward. An iOS 12 alert is driving beta testers nuts. Picks: Carbon, 360|iDev, Apple IBM & SAP, Fan Expo Canada
9/8/2018 • 54 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 210: Best of Choice Cuts
In this best of episode we've picked some interesting clips. Starting with a discussion on refactoring recorded live at Indie Devstock 2017. Next we replay a discussion of the Apple command key symbol, which was debated at 360iDev's Stump last week. The much maligned Notch makes it's appearance on Android phones. We also discussed the 10 anniversary of the iPhone SDK, so we revisited our early iOS development. The Touch Bar is banned when taking the Bar exam and we chat about 32-bit app developer shaming. The Canadian's, Aaron, Greg & Tim, take over the show and argue about the weather, latin and poutine. Greg tells us about his first visit with Mark Rubin. Mark introduces Buckethead to Greg, We surprise Tammy with the Roundabout Creative Studio questions. Special Guest: Joe Cieplinski.
9/2/2018 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 209: When It Worked, It Just Worked
This week we follow up on Greg's Hashing talk at SLUG, Slack raised 4M in venture capital, Apple plans to release a low-cost MacBook and Pro Mac Mini and 2 spaces after a period. A teenage hacker grabs 90 GB of Apple's files. Back To My Mac is not coming to macOS Mohave. Picks: Hug your old Mac with these retro pillows, Customizing the file header comment and other text macros in Xcode 9. After Show: Mastodon, Top iOS Dev Podcasts
8/25/2018 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 208: The Bio Sensor
This week we discuss RSUs vs stock options as well as why developers become frustrated. Google tracking continues even after users turn off location tracking. We discuss deploying new MacBook Pros in the enterprise and a hack uncovered that exploits a DEP mac before a user first logs in. Pick: Ongoing History Of New Music Podcast
8/18/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 207: Back To School Special
It's our 4th anniversary and we follow up on the Touch Bar tricks and old developer CDs. A larger iPhone X size is rumored. CBC's audio piece on Shipocalypse covers how shipping has changed. Android 9 gets named Pie. iOS 12 also may indicate an iPad with a rounded cornered display. We discuss the Apps of the World infographic. Steve Jobs final 5 words for Lisa. WannaCry worm attacks Apple Supplier. Picks: Xcode-install, Away Mode skill for Amazon Alexa, DarkCode, Extending UIActivityViewController, Elastic Tabstops
8/11/2018 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 206: Bend The Knee
We follow up on the new iPad Pro. We discuss Apple's stellar Q3 results. Apple is shutting down the affiliate program for the Mac App Store and App Store for iOS. We debate the merits of implicitly unwrapping optionals. Picks: RenoRun, Hacking my shell prompt so I make fewer mistakes working with Xcode projects, RESTed. After Show: We discuss the merger/shutdown of Slack and Hipchat.
Between 47:00 - 15:00 Tim discusses meeting Justin Trudeau
8/4/2018 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 205: The Norwegian Moose
We answer #askMTJC about Touch Bar tricks and Canadian geography. We fact check on Roger's Centre, Flixel subscriptions and the dots on Canadian Currency. We follow up on the new MacBook Pro keyboard, a fix for the heat based slow downs, as well as, Apple's new T2 chip causing crashing and Twitter's new requirements for developers. You can use the Apple Business Chat to order beer and water to your seat at Citizens Bank Park. NSHipster has a new article on Password Rules. iPhones, Apple Watches and Fibit devices can be hit by incoming US $500B tariffs on China. Picks: ShowSingleTouches on Simulator, LifetimeTracker, MacKiDo/CodeNames/DeveloperCDs. In the After Show we discuss Toronto leads Tech Jobs and Jaime's experience with Beyond Meat.
7/28/2018 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 204: More Than Just Meat
We follow up on Greg's #askMTJC about how much of the US is north of Toronto, as well as fact check on Canada's north. Adobe announces that it plans to bring Photoshop to iPad. The Verge has a quick video on GDPR. An Ex-Apple engineer arrested on his way to China. Apple iOS 11.4.1 Has A Nasty New Surprise. Apple Memoji treatment of Apple Executives. New MacBook Pro with faster performance and pro features. An external GPU for the MacBook Pro. iPhone 2018 sizes leaked. EU fines Google $5B. Picks: xed, What's My Age Again?, Beyond Meat Vegetarian Burgers Arrive At A&W, Affinity Designer for iOS.
7/21/2018 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 1 second
Episode 203: One and Done!
This week we follow up on Air Pods as hearing aids and new hardware predictions for fall release. NB: This episode was recorded one day before Apple refreshed the MacBook lineup. The App Store Turns 10 and we reflect on our experiences and this very podcast's existence. We look at the 25 top games for commuters. Apple's iOS 11.4.1 now blocks passcode cracking tools. Picks: Stupid Enum Tricks in Swift and Kotlin, filtering Xcode warnings and errors, WWDC18 Video Transcripts Now Available and embedXcode.
Photo: @Blinky.Lights.T.O.
7/14/2018 • 52 minutes
Episode 202: Zombies Know No Borders
We celebrate Canada Day and US Independence Day coast to coast almost. This weeks episode is hosted by Greg Heo as Tim was to be away with unpredictable internet access. We follow up on React Native and Excel. We discuss the Godfather of AI and Deep Learning. We revisit Mario Run's revenues and downloads. Jaime recaps his experiences at the We RISE tech conference. Picks: Xcode tip: Using behaviors to improve debugging, DevTube, Blynk, Pointfree.co
7/7/2018 • 1 hour, 4 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 201: Who Are you People!?
This week we look at hardware upgrade plans. We look at updating apps and choosing programming languages and frameworks. We follow up on Apple's repair program for faulty keyboards on MacBooks and MacBook Pros, as well as Airbnb's posts about withdrawing from React Native. Apple is hit with fines over "Error 53". Ustwo publishes a report on the first year of Monument Valley 2. Pick: Step into Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night and stay a while. Check it out on the Oculus Go! We discuss how to manage tasks and stay true to your goals. We also discuss the runners up for Top WWDC Videos. Special Guest: Bill Coron.
6/30/2018 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 200: Auto Bicentennial Selfies
It's our 200th episode and all regular hosts and guest hosts are here. We follow up on the lack of IT sessions at WWDC, the future of self driving cars, a test install of Mojave with your existing home folder. "Does Apple Even Care About the Mac?" is the question asked on Vector. We discuss a proof of concept Xcode for iPad! We touch on the "upgrade pricing" new on the App Store. Tim's annual Top 10 WWDC 2018 Videos is out. Airbnb sunsetting their use of React Native and Marzipanify and iOSMac are brought in by Greg. We talk about our 200 or so episodes. Picks: iOS developer skills matrix, Random numbers in Swift, Swift Diagnostics: #warning and #error.
6/23/2018 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 199: Your WWDC 2018 E-Ticket
We follow up with Mark about his experiences at WWDC 2018 and we discuss some of our favorite sessions. Mark gives shout outs to Victoria Heric, Ed Arenberg, David Sinclair and Dann Beauregard. We follow up on Apple banning apps that sell user's contact info. Audrey Tam has published a tutorial on Create ML. Apple is also banning apps that do cryptocurrency mining. We discuss a Swift for Android solution. Tim installs macOS Mojave to tryout Dark Mode. We discuss a video on 50 + macOS Mohave changes. We look at Marzipan in Mojave. Mark regales us with week at WWDC 2018. We both discuss our favorite WWDC sessions. Picks: What’s new in Swift 4.2, Pixelmator for iOS, Server Side Swift with Kitura tutorial.
6/16/2018 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 198: WWDC 2018 Reflections
This week we give our impressions of WWDC 2018 keynote. We discuss Apple's presenting the scholarship winner apps on the App Store. Microsoft's purchase of GitHub. Apple is getting into the ad game to compete with other online players. The rumored iPad with face recognition is coming. We talk about the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL. Finally by Rene Richie guides our discussion of the WWDC announcements. Picks: UX Cake w/Jaime Lopez Jr, Machine Learning - Build a Model, App Store Review Guidelines Diff, Stevie the Snail, SpriteKit, PlayDead’s INSIDE
6/9/2018 • 2 hours, 13 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 197: Dub Dub San Jose: WWDC Crystal Ball
We are joined by Greg Heo as we look ahead and suggest what Apple may introduce at WWDC 2018. We follow up on the Command key icon, castle connection, as well as Clifford Stoll and the Cockoo's Egg. Jaime uncovers ⌘+Ctrl+Shift+H to find a methods callers. Tim relays early experience drawing and designing typefaces in the early days of Mac. AirPlay 2 gives the HomePod the ability to have multi-room and stereo audio. HomePod launching in Canada, France, and Germany. Felix Krause thinks apps should be in a network sandbox. App Insight attempts to expose 3rd party framework use. Genius Bar Broke an iMac Pro. We lay down our best guesses about where Apple will go with WWDC 2018. Picks: How to debug your mobile hybrid app on iOS, Beacon - Signal Availability by Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, Prioritize Work with Quality of Service Classes.
6/2/2018 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 29 seconds
Preview: WWDC Travel advice
A quick preview of the MTJC after show, where Greg and Mark discuss San Jose, travel, weather, events around WWDC. Cell service, what to pack.
6/1/2018 • 11 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 196: Test Backed Development
This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple's Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple's GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple's self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticate worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple's own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.
Photo: Tim Mitra
5/26/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 195: There's Still Good In You
We start with a T-Shirt sighting in Berlin's UIKonf. We follow up on more GDPR data retention updates, this time from Google and MailChimp. Also Apple may launch a credit card, Carnegie Melon is offering an undergraduate degree in AI, Swift.org forums is supporting related products, ClassicKit surfaces to offer Win 98 UI for iOS apps, Logitech Crayon for iPad is now available, and a customized iPhone X with solar charger. It's the anniversary of the launch of the Apple Store. Apple has registered 50 self-driving cars in California. Picks: UIKonf 2018 Livestream, Visual Studio Code. Aftershow: Nova Machine Learning, Amazon HQ 2 search continues and a missed #askMTJC on timezones.
Photo @JPKNews with @xman_1664
5/19/2018 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 194: There Is No Step Three
This week we follow up on iTunes on Windows, UIViewPropertyAnimator, iPhone 7 microphone issues, Countdown To WWDC, and the first pedestrian death by Uber's self-driving car. We discuss the 20th Anniversary of the iMac, the call for Apple Heart Study, Lobe's use of Core ML, and Apple cracking down on location sharing. We also cover the Microsoft Build 2018 and Google I/O 2018 keynotes. Picks: Vapor 3, Dealing With Dates, Frinkiac.com
Photo: Apple
5/13/2018 • 1 hour, 35 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 193: Mind Altering Software Development
We start off with some #askMTJC about Property Animators, the possibly faked iPad 2018 armor, and dealing with corrupt and challenging iOS backup and restore. On this mostly follow up show, we talk about our space grey 2018 T-Shirt, Swift for TensorFlow is now available, cross-platform Apple development probably not coming at WWDC, JAMF stats on platform choices in the enterprise and benchmarking Codable. We also discuss Apple's earnings and some history via Bill Atkinson's new post to folklore.org. Congratulations to our book winner: Adam Armstrong. iTunes is now on the Microsoft Store. Apple's new MacBook Air is delayed until late 2018. Picks: What's New In Swift, Licenses + Plain English, Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift: Essential Techniques for Practicing Programmers
5/5/2018 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 192: The Quadruple One
This week we are joined by Marin Todorov to discuss his new book and apps. We follow up on Flight School's meaning, an iPad screen protector vendor leaks the 2018 model, downloading your Google profile and Marin relays European ISP experiences. The last Apple Watch boutique is closing. We also follow up on Susan Kare: the woman who gave the Mac its smile. We discuss the new trade-in program with Apple GiveBack, Daisy: Apple’s new iPhone-recycling robot, FoundationDB is Open Source and Marin's book - Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database. Picks: 5 Useful 3D Touch Features for iPhone, Snipetty, Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga, How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints, Xcode Treasures: Master the Tools to Design, Build, and Distribute Great Apps, Mixpanel v. 3.3.0 - opt in/out at run time Special Guest: Marin Todorov.
4/28/2018 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 191: Functional Brain Hacking
We follow up on Xcode Swift build times, Apple cracks down on drone flyovers at Apple Park and alternative music services that provide Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil and Bollywood tunes. Apple will replace Watch 2 devices with swollen batteries. What’s new in Swift 4.2? How to name UIButton actions. We discuss whether Apple has a problem fitting in features on the iPhone. Picks: Personalized Hey Siri, Introducing Flight School: a new book series for Swift developers by @mattt, How To Keep Learning After 50 and Other Ways to Hack Your Brain at any Age, Privacy Essentials Safari Extension
Tim & Tammy Brain Hacking Photo: Greg Heo
4/21/2018 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 190: Test Is Green. Code Is Clean.
This week we follow up on Youtube changes, IBM Watson and CoreML, 3rd party Twitter apps. We discuss Xcode compilation on mutli-core Mac Pros. The Home Pod has a sluggish start in sales. Apple reveals the (Product)RED® iPhone 8. Apple Music has 40 million users and a new boss. We follow up on HTTP 400 error codes. We discuss Apple upcoming purge of 32-bit macOS apps, reliving Windows File manager and the RWDevCon 2018's post mortem. Picks: Understanding Git Version Control and Learn how to Use it in Xcode 9, Xcode TDD keyboard short cuts, App Store insights. Aftershow: Facebook testimony.
4/14/2018 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 189: Peanut Butter & Jelly Driven Development (PBJDD)
We follow up on LHOTP, the darker side of Charles Proxy for iOS and Apple Business Manager. Chris Lattner has announced Swift for TensorFlow. iOS 11.3 has been released along with Xcode 9.3. Apple is allowing users to manage their data in iCloud. Beta versions of iOS 11.4 & tvOS 11.4 are out. Apple may use they're own processors in Macs as soon as 2020. Picks: XcodeReleases, Microsoft's AI courses, CompactMap and Atom
4/7/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 188: Throwing Data Collection Under the Bus
We start with our T-shirt poll results. We discuss Apple Business Manager (beta), the loss of the macOS startup chime, Foxcon to acquire Belkin, Apple's new Space Grey accessories for Mac and Google's loss to Oracle for Java rights. We focus on the Apple Education Event: new iPad, Logitech Crayon, iBook Author rolled into Pages, Apple's Classroom and Schoolwork apps. Picks: Minimoog Model D for iOS, Charles Proxy for iOS, Git Tower (beta)
3/31/2018 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 187: WWDC Sorting Hat
We discuss our annual T-shirt ideas and upcoming anniversary. We're now in the iOS Dev Directory. Apple may be developing MicroLED displays. Uber and Facebook behaving badly again. Apple's True Depth technology is two years ahead of the competition. Apple and IBM give developers access to Watson. Picks: Yoink, I’m Lazy So I Write Tests, Wanle Gamers Console for iPhone, Sqlite Browser
3/24/2018 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 186: iPhone X: /aɪ/ /fəʊn/ /ten/
We start with some follow up on the mysterious red menubar bug and Vero social network's questionable origins. Swift is now among the top 10 programing languages in use. Apple has announced WWDC 2018 dates and launched the annual ticket lottery. We speculate on what WWDC will bring us and how the lottery really works. Deep Fake technology allows the live modification of video with fake content. Intel fights for its future. The annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey is out and Greg Heo joins us to go through the findings. A cryptocurrency mining app is pulled from the App Store. Picks: Google opens up maps to game developers, WWDC Scholarships, Tau Day
3/17/2018 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 185: iPhone OS SDK - Down Memory Lane
This week we open with a discussion about Android phone makers mimicking the notch. We also follow up on the Bitcoin Pizza Guy. We look into the negative effect of algorithm driven social network feeds. Swift 4.1 is bringing back #if along with canImport() availability checks. It's the 10th anniversary of the iPhone OS SDK, so we discuss our own memories of early iPhone app development. Apple is opening medical clinics for employees. WatchKit is for Baby Apps according to Marco Arment. Picks: Charles Proxy for iOS, Alto's Odyssey, Silicon Valley 5 trailer w/hidden message, Learn with Google AI, Simple is hiring an iOS developer, Skydio hiring, Topology Eyewear hiring.
3/10/2018 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 184: Piercing the Veil
We start out with news that Apple will require new apps to be written with iOS 11 and iPhone X support. Apple also has gained half of all smart phone sales for the first time, in spite of recent rumors of an iPhone X sales short fall. We look at 1Password, it's support of cryptocurrency and tips and tricks for 1Password organization. We discuss whether learning to program is getting harder. We also open discussion about whether software developer and consultants need errors and omissions insurance. In the after show we look at the HomePods adoption. Picks: Astropad Studio, What is the duck of productivity? and iOS Quick Reference for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
Photo: Running Fence by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, 1976
2/24/2018 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 27 seconds
Episode 183: I Can't Hear It From Here
We start of looking at Boston Dynamic's robots that can team up, open doors and leave a room. We dig into the Home Pod, with perspectives from @Ish and Joe Cieplinski posts. Jaime has received his Home Pod and compares to his other digital children, Amazon Dot, Amazon Show and Google Home. He discusses placement, the sound, set up and low level performance. Home Pod is also making impressions on oiled wood furniture. Picks: Apple put together three short videos to explain how to use your new HomePod, HomePod User Guide, Google Translate by Google, Inc., Skydio R1
2/17/2018 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 182: Bob Hamilton's Ride
This week we look back at Saul Mora's Core Data trick at RWDevcon 2015. We follow up on Apple's 2018 Q1 earnings, the last of a super cycle and parking self-driving slippers. We discuss how Strava's heat map exposes popular exercise locations. We also talk about Mycroft AI's privacy-first smart speaker. We discuss app rejections stemming from the use of Apple's emojis in screenshots. Picks: Activating an Audio Session, Tim Horton's Scroll Up To Win
2/10/2018 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 181: Where Power Resides
We start the episode with a brief look at Reporter and looking at unwind segues with modal view controllers. We also follow up on unconventional parking with self driving cars. We follow up on using Face ID to authorize purchases with iTunes family purchases in iOS 11. You can now use the Square Cash app to purchase bitcoin. We discuss Apple's plan to postpone some new features to focus on performance and quality. It's time for the annual "Apple is doomed" discussion as pundits warn of iPhone X sales slowing down. Tim's iPhone X suffers from a "green line" OLED defect, which turns out to be a common problem on iPhone X and Samsung Galaxy S7. Picks: iOS Ref
Photo of Susan Kare by Norman Seeff
2/3/2018 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 39 seconds
Episode 180: Home, James, and don't spare the horses.
Recorded on the 34th anniversary of the Macintosh unveiling, we follow up on self driving cars with no steering wheels. We discuss improvements to Siri in iOS 11.2.5 and Thor Ragnarok slips out on the web early. The Malala Fund and Apple join to aid 100K underprivileged women to attend school. The Home Pod is now available for order in the US, UK and Australia. Facebook has introduced a new unit of time. Apple previews iOS 11.3. Paul Hudson posts in What's new in Swift 4.1. Picks: Canada's DEVELOPER 30|30, Swift Forums, Cousera's Machine Learning.
1/27/2018 • 1 hour, 30 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 179: Ceci n'est pas un podcast
We begin with an #askMTJC on vintage Windows configuration. We also have a follow up on the red menu bar from a listener, Nick Kohrn. GM is bringing a self driving car to market. Dropbox has filed for a public stock offering. We chat about the confusing UI on Hawaii's missile alert system. We also cover Google's new online AI training tool. Picks: “Ceci n’est pas un littéral”, WWDC 2017 Lightbox concept, IBLinter, Google Arts & Culture app, Swift tips & tricks
1/20/2018 • 59 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 178: Plug and Pray
This week we follow up on the High Sierra Security update and Panic's Transmit for iOS. We also discuss a false alarm on the High Sierra update causing slow downs. We also discuss fixing Xcode Indexing with a unique solution. Apple will hand off iCloud in China to a 3rd party to manage. There is yet another macOS password bug, although not as bad as the last. Picks: How to Fix a Mac that Won't Turn On or Start Up, Silicon Valley Season 5
1/13/2018 • 51 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 177: It Was Black Magic
This week we follow up on the iPhone battery debacle and Apple's battery replacement program. We also follow up on sales of Amazon Echo and Google Home while waiting for Apple's HomePod. We discuss the 25th anniversary of pCalc. Meltdown and Spectre are the main topic as we chat about Intel's kernel memory leaks. Blackberry signs a deal with Baidu to build self-driving cars. The big story for us is Apple's acquisition of Buddy Build. Picks: 5 Advanced Mac Tricks You've Never Used, Oh Sh!t Git, 7th Guest for iOS, 360iDev 2017 Session Playlist
1/6/2018 • 58 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 176: Best of MTJC: WWDC Detox - 2017 Edition
In this best of episode we chat about WWDC 2017 with Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We answer #askMTJC's from Shawn Marston, Vic Hudson and Mike Pollard. We follow up on no longer being able to prompt for reviews, making $80,000 per month on the AppStore, Apple Park in open and we look at or rather laugh at WWDC 1997. Greg and Mark regale of tales from the McEnery Convention Center, home of WWDC 2017 and neighbor to AltConf 2017. We all chat about WWDC sessions; Core ML, Xcode 9, Swift 4, frameworks and lunch sessions. Picks: MLCamera – Vision & Core ML with AVCaptureSession Inceptionv3 model, New rules following WWDC 2017 - App Store Review Guidelines History, Apple Platform SDK API Differences and Visual Studio Code. In the after show we rant about two factor authentication.
12/30/2017 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 28 seconds
Episode 175: Get Off My Lawn!
We're joined by Tammy Coron who regales us with her own iPhone X experience. We look at a tip on using XCTest and console to debug UI. You can use Apple Configurator 2.6 to restore a bricked iMac Pro. We debate Apple's undocumented battery tuning on older iPhones. We also look into revised guidelines on templated apps for business and the use of loot boxes. We also discuss the future of combined iOS and macOS where users may be able to run the same app on either platform. Picks: Awesome-CoreML-Models: Largest list of models for Core ML (for iOS 11+), Awesome-ARKit, Clip Studio Paint EX iOS.
12/22/2017 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 174: I Didn't Even Know He Was Gone
We follow up on the Amazon Prime Video app for Apple TV, Jony Ive's return, Comcast & Disney vie for Fox's assets, Apple's self driving technology and Apple's recent security stumbles. We discuss the release of the iMac Pro. Apple acquires Shazam. Apple is also allowing developers to offer apps for pre-orders. Picks: Turi Create, FM Player, AudioKit and CoinBase.
12/16/2017 • 55 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 173: Show Me The Money
We take a look at the iPad Mini 4 and Swift Playgrounds as well as Apple Search Ads. We follow up on @objc and dynamic in Swift 4 as well as more tips on reducing Swift compile times. We dive into Apple Pay Cash which rolled out this week. The Amazon Prime Video app showed up on the Apple TV this week. Picks: Proton Mail, Apple's open-source Utility Library, Apple's Visitor Center field trip
12/9/2017 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 172: Peggy Bundy Style
This week we are joined by Greg Heo as we discuss Apple's latest security bug. We discuss migrating to Swift 4. Our #askMTJC topics are dissecting AirPlane Mode's Animoji based music video, and whether Face ID will be used by advertisers. We follow up on Uber's coverup of user data hacks and how it happened. Apple has published the iTunes holiday shutdown schedule. Apple has released fixes for the critical macOS High Sierra security issue. *The Apple Forum post we discuss on the show has been unpublished. Amazon's Reinvent conference has released a number of things; Amazon Sumarian has online 3D tools. Picks: NEHotspotConfiguration, Egg Freckles - a Newton styled blog, Apple Support channel on YouTube, iOS Conf Singapore videos.
12/2/2017 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 171: A Fiduciary Duty
We begin our US Thanksgiving Episode looking into the iPhone's density from our #askMTJC as well as Reachability. iOS 11 has some layout bugs. The HomePod will be delayed until the new year. Fact Check: Face ID does learn from its mistakes, also you need to focus on it sometimes. Tim shares some experiences updating apps for the iPhone X. The iPhone SE may get updated in the new year. We ponder that Swift code will run on Google's Fuchsia OS. iOS 11.2 will allow introductory subscription pricing. We discuss the issues around Net Neutrality as the FCC votes on it. We discuss Uber's attempt to cover up a major hack where 57 million user accounts are stolen. Coding can be done at the same time with Atom's Teletype and Visual Studio's Live Share. Picks: iOS Thanksgiving 2017: Tools & Libraries We’re Thankful For, Optimize Swift Build Times, Avoiding force unwrapping in Swift unit tests, Skydio is hiring: iOS Engineer, Android Engineer, Mobile QA Engineer
11/25/2017 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 170: Not Fully Formed
We follow up on macOS Server Mac app, blockchain on tracking pot Marajuana distribution, unlocking Face ID, Lyft coming to Canada, and iOS hardware encryption. Also hackers say they broke Face ID, a 10-year old can unlock his mom's iPhone X, and we take a deep look at the iPhone X portrait mode. Picks: Much ado about iOS app architecture, SBSAnimoji, Power Photos and, Computer Science Distilled
11/18/2017 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 169: The Inverted J
We answer a few #askMTJC questions about Accessibility Shortcuts, using PGP encryption and buying higher quality Apple Watch models. Tim rants about shortcomings with the availability of Apple's Server app on the Mac App Store. We follow up on stolen iPhone Xs, the iPhone X usage outpaces iPhone 8 in the first weekend. We look at the music video "Dance Like You Mean It" by Airplane Mode which may the first to employ Animoji at least with iOS. Samsung mocks the iPhone X and avid iPhone buyers. UPS employs blockchain to create standards in delivery businesses. We discuss Apple's "iPhone X — A Guided Tour" video, and "1Password 7 for iOS: Efficiency Abounds" blog post. Picks: Supporting Face ID on the iPhone X, Zagg Glass + HD and iPhone X
11/11/2017 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 11 seconds
Episode 168: Preaching To The Choir
We discuss #askMTJC on iPhone Plus models landscape SplitView mode, PGP encryption apps, the iOS 11 Calculator bug, and Blockchain diplomas. We follow up on GPG encryption tools, iPhone X Demand, and Reachability on the iPhone X. We discuss experiences of trying to pre-order iPhone X models by ourselves and others. We also discuss Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft, SiriKit in 11.2 beta brings commands for the upcoming HomePod. Picks: Tips and Tricks: Ten Safari long-press shortcuts for iPhone and iPad and Xcode's Show Live Issues.
11/4/2017 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 47 seconds
Episode 167: Death By Design
We start this week's show with a discussion about preordering the iPhone X. We follow up with the Quick Start method for migrating your identity to a new iOS device. We also follow up on predictions of iPhone X supply rumors. Death By Design is a documentary about the creation and disposal of all the electronic devices we crave and their toll on some societies and the environment. Jaime lightens the discussion with a look a the percentage of games using ARKit. Picks: Theodolite, iOS 11 Bug: Typing 1+2+3 Quickly in the Calculator App Won't Get You 6, Face Tracking with ARKit.
10/28/2017 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 166: Geez. I Don't Know
This week Mark and Tim give #askMTJC advice on updating Xcode 9 and it's benefits. They also discuss the FreeDOS project. Tim discusses Mike Ash's suggestion of wiping the iPhone 6 Plus and reinstalling iOS 11. iPhone X devices start to ship out in advance of new orders. KRAK is a new WPA2 exploit that affects all users and is being patched. Senator Al Franken queries Apple about Face ID and privacy. Picks: Xcode Main Thread Checker, Three Finger Drag, iTune 12.6.3
10/22/2017 • 1 hour, 5 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 165: Elevated Privileges
We follow up on updates to Apple's UI Design Guidelines, the History of MS-DOS, and the cities vying to be Amazon's second head quarters. We also discuss the IRS's contract with Equifax and Netflix' PR issues with respect to Canadian taxes. We cover the improved display of fatal errors in Xcode 9. The reverse engineering of High Sierra's supplemental update exposes a flaw. iOS privacy has also come under fire as proof of concept by Felix Krause demonstrates the ease of stealing an Apple ID password. Picks: Useful Xcode breakpoint and the Memory Graph Debugger
10/14/2017 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 25 seconds
Episode 164: Running Down a Dream
We answer #askMTJC posts on Bondi pronunciation and popsicle stick App Store logo. We follow up on changes to the Safari Web ViewController, and privacy changes in iOS 11. We also follow up on a review of the Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE. More information on designing and supporting for the new iPhone X sizes and a large roundup on iPhone X features is presented. Finally we follow up on UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities which sets the required support for ARKit on the App Store. We discuss the call for Apple to activate FM chips by the FCC. We quickly cover Google's product announcement. We discuss Felix Krause's addition for detecting location by using information in a user's Photos. Picks: iOS Architecture Generator, Code Folding in Xcode 9, and NSLocationAlwaysAndWhenInUseUsageDescription. In the after show we Jaime's talk at Swift Cloud Workshop as well as Amazon's search for a second head quarters.
10/7/2017 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 163: The Coefficient of Friction Is µ
We follow up on the Chevy Nova story. We debate Tim's iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus, phone back's friction coefficient throw down. We follow up on Apple's former GPU maker Imagination sale, the cost of building an iPhone 8 and Dyson is building electric cars. We discuss the FaceID Security Guide and Amazon's hardware event. Picks: Monster Truck AR, JSON to Swift, TypeScript, Go, C#, Java, and more :: quicktype.
9/30/2017 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 162: The Results Are In
We follow up on the new UIActivityViewIndicator and other things you may have missed in the Apple Event. Tim follows up on getting older apps ready for the new iPhone X aspect ratio. We also discuss Face ID, fast charging, the weight of the iPhone 8 Plus, AppleCare+, and product price increases and demise. Kudos to TD Bank and it's mobile banking apps. Swift 4 is released. We discuss the Apple Watch LTE bug messing up LTE connections, and more rumored delays on iPhone X. Kaleidoscope is coming to iPad and some cool 3D face construction is discussed. Picks: The Ultimate Guide To iPhone Resolutions, iPhone X Screen Demystified
9/23/2017 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 161: Valyrian Steel & Dragon Glass on the Back
We dive into #askMTJC about whether the iPhone X layout will mean changes for developers. We follow up on HDR video. We briefly cover the information leak ahead of the Apple Event. We discuss Apple's Steve Jobs Theater which held the event. We cover the items demonstrated and unveiled - Retail events, Apple Watch Series 3 w/LTE, Apple TV 4K, iPhone 8 & iPhone 8 Plus, the iPhone X, and AirPower. Picks: iOS Human Interface Guidelines (Updated for iPhone X), Building Apps for iPhone X - Fall 2017, Swift Programming Language book (updated for Swift 4).
9/16/2017 • 1 hour, 59 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 160: Not Dongle
We follow up on the Red Socks allegedly stealing signs utilizing Apple Watch. We also look at the MacBook Pro 13 via Joe Cieplinski as well as governments stockpiling security exploits. Recorded on September 6, 2017, we discuss the Apple Developer site suddenly going into maintenance mode. We discuss a searching for object types in Swift and a lazy solution to dealing with delegates. Picks: Sound Kit for Prototypes, iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (6th Edition)
9/9/2017 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 159: Walking Into Traffic
Our askMTJC wonders how many fingers we store on Touch ID. We follow up on how Apple will have us change how we use the next iPhone. We discuss how deep learning is used to shape Siri's voice, the cost of building apps, and HDR video. Jaime tells us about Microsoft and Amazon's will combine digital assistants. You can check which of your iOS apps won't work with iOS 11. Apple and Accenture will partner to build apps. We look at Google's release of ARCore as an answer to ARKit. Picks: WTF Auto Layout, HIG: Augmented Reality, 360|iDev 2017 Highlights.
9/2/2017 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 158: Visual Inertial Odometry
Back from 360|iDev we follow up on Tim's purchase of a vintage Macintosh model. We also follow up on Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods, Apple's growth engine as well as a possible announcement date for a new iPhone. We discuss Chris Lattner's Swift concurrency manifesto and we discuss Android's Oreo announcement. Picks: 360iDev presentation slides and code links, Why is ARKit better than the alternatives? and Luna Display
8/26/2017 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 157: A New Way To Procrastinate - Bootleg - LIVE @360iDev 2017
NB: we had no control over the recording process. The audio is not great. So we've decided to unpublished the episode. The episode will remain here on the web site for those who are interested.
We recorded LIVE at 360|iDev 2017 with Tammy Coron, Joe Cieplinski and Jean MacDonald. We discussed MacID in #askMTJC. We also followed up on Rubber Duck debugging and Chris Lattner's move to Google. New in 10.3 is a new certificate trust setting in iOS. We chat with the panel about highlights of the 360|iDev conference and the things coming from Apple: a new iPhone, Apple Watch LTE and Home Pod. Jean also illuminated App Camp for Girls and her new podcast SestraCast. Picks: Lavar Burton Reads,Toothfairy, Bartender, Red Hot Timer and Forest. Special Guests: Jean MacDonald and Joe Cieplinski.
8/19/2017 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 156: Greedo Didn't Shoot First
We start in on Apple's lightening of HomeKit requirements for manufacturers. We discuss iOS features that haven't been widely reported on. We look at the watchOS 4's frontmost app state and Joe Cieplinski's post on designing of the Touch Bar. Picks: CoreML Helpers, Objective-C Playgrounds, Realm Academy.
8/12/2017 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 155: A Near Miss
We celebrate our third anniversary with quick follow up on Apple related manufacturing moving back to America and Apple's Q3 sales call results. We offer up a PSA on the need to apply security updates by upgrading to iOS 10.3.3 and macOS 10.12.6. We look at how Apple evades patent trolls. We delve into Steve Troughton-Smith's discovery of new iPhone 8 technologies buried in the HomePod code. We look at how the uncovered designs of the iPhone 8 in the same code. Picks: iOS app developers can now recruit up to 10,000 beta testers, SwiftCoders: Weekly Interviews with Swift Developers # 62 - Tim Mitra, Augmented Reality's A-ha Moment, Sourcery, ScreenFlow 7.
8/5/2017 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 154: Baked In Store
This week follow up on whether Apple will build three manufacturing plants in the US. We continue with Adobe announcing Flash's end of life announcement, Xcode 9 beta 4 now supporting static libraries, a malware that has been affecting Macs for a while and Office 365 surpasses traditional licenses. Picks: Pros and cons of iOS machine learning APIs, Powerpig's Builds, Five Unbelievable Secrets Of Reactive Programming The Experts Don't Want You To Know, Freetime - GitHub open source project manager, and SlackTextViewController.
7/29/2017 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 153: Who's Next
This week we follow up on 1Password Memberships and updates, as well as even more iPhone 8 rumors. We discuss Apple's addition of a customer support delegate in iTunesConnect. We look at cracking the code in Apple's Gift Cards and Apple's new Machine Learning Journal blog. Picks: Another Xcode 9 gem: The Simulator now comes with a Share extension to transfer URLs, Files, Locations, etc. and more User Breakpoints in Xcode
7/22/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 152: Word Jail
We start the show answering a question about the LG Ultrafine 4K display. The end of the Windows Phone, finding older macOS installers, and updating your App Store pages are covered in the follow up. PayPal is now a payment option when purchasing apps on the App Store. Google is using AI to vet apps on the Play Store. 1Password is encouraging users to use their cloud based subscription service, which has created reactions about security and convenience. Microsoft Seeing AI app assists users with visually navigating the environments. We discuss the panicky headlines around iPhone 8 feature rumors. Picks: Safe Area Layout Guide, KFC's iPhone killer has arrived, Fixing Autocompletion on Mixed Objective-C and Swift Projects, ARKit Tutorial in Swift 4 for Xcode 9 using SceneKit
7/15/2017 • 1 hour, 15 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 151: A Sticky Wicket
We marvel at the fortitude of new fans who listen to our whole back catalog of shows. We discuss the inability to share IAP with Family Sharing, the most recent iPhone 8 wireless charging and Touch ID rumors as well as PhotoBucket's "ransoming" long time users of there "free" service. We dig into Password Autofill and mechanically converting Objective-C projects to Swift. Picks: Over 150 of the Best Machine Learning, NLP, and Python Tutorials I’ve Found, Laura Savino's tip on Simulator devices, Debugging UIStackViews and iOS 11 lets you scan a router’s QR code to quickly join a network.
Podcast Tip of the Week: Debugging UIStackViews
view.isAccessibilityElement = true
yourStackView.accessibilityLabel = "blah"
Then use View Debugger,
see Accessibility -> description
7/9/2017 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 4 seconds
Episode 150: MTJC Sesquicentennial
We begin the episode answering about extending other apps. We follow up with Swift for Visual Studio, transferring apps with subscriptions, CRTC mandated phone unlocking and how they built the Not Hotdog app. We dig into the App Store cleaning rate in Chinese markets. Jaime tells of Erica Sadun's post about scalable vector are in iOS 11. Pucks: Ultimate Guide to JSON Parsing With Swift 4, JSON with Encoder and Encodable, iOS Simulator Power Ups, Apple celebrates Canadian optimism and diversity with A Portrait of Canada, WWDC videos with transcripts, Public betas are out, Optimizing Collections.
Correction: CRTC Wireless unlock date is December 1, 2017
7/1/2017 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 149: The First Rule of Purple
This we follow up in using our pet’s paws on our iOS devices, with help of Jeffery Fulton’s canine pal, [insert name]. Fuad Kamal shares that Canada’s CRTC has ruled that all cell phone’s must be unlocked. Tim follows up on getting a verification code for Apple’s two factor authentication. We discuss Google’s MobileNets which enables adding AI to any app. We discuss highlights of the Computer History Museum’s live chat with original iPhone engineers and former Apple exec, Scott Forestall who led the teams that shaped iOS up until iOS 7. Picks: CocoaConf ends as Swift by NorthWest debuts, Made with ARKit, YOLO: Core ML versus MPSNNGraph.
6/24/2017 • 1 hour, 6 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 148: WWDC Detox - 2017 Edition
This week we chat about WWDC 2017 with Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We answer #askMTJC's from Shawn Marston, Vic Hudson and Mike Pollard. We follow up on no longer being able to prompt for reviews, making $80,000 per month on the AppStore, Apple Park in open and we look at or rather laugh at WWDC 1997. Greg and Mark regale of tales from the McEnery Convention Center, home of WWDC 2017 and neighbor to AltConf 2017. We all chat about WWDC sessions; Core ML, Vision, Xcode 9, Swift 4, frameworks and lunch sessions. Picks: MLCamera – Vision & Core ML with AVCaptureSession Inceptionv3 model, New rules following WWDC 2017 - App Store Review Guidelines History, Apple Platform SDK API Differences and Visual Studio Code.
6/17/2017 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 147: WWDC 17 Impressions - Pirate Edition
This week we answer an #askMTJC on AirPlay-ing Amazon Prime videos. We follow up on holographic billboard and LaunchKit shutting down. We were midway through WWDC 2017 week, so we share our impressions on the WWDC17 Keynote, Platform State of the Union and some of the live sessions we had watched. Picks: Refactoring!, Blackbox Puzzles wins ADA, What’s New in iOS, Simulating a second finger during drag, Xcode 9 Beta.
NB - we misquoted the hardware pricing of iMac Pro and Mac Pro. They are $4,999 and $2,999 USD respectively. This error we regret.
Safe Area aka Type Safety in print and publishing. Also the correct term in TV production is Overscan.
6/10/2017 • 1 hour, 53 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 146: Moobr - pick of the week
This week we follow up on Microsoft's Windows 98 Security Patch and Dash for iOS is back. We also discuss "To Optional or Not to Optional: IBOutlet". We round up the follow up with Erica Sadun's look at Kotlin in Xcode. We discuss the hidden debugging tool UIDebuggingInformationOverlay, Readdle’s new drag-and-drop feature and Amazon's shoppable stickers. We then peer into the crystal ball and take a guess at what will be revealed at WWDC 2017. Picks: Why Kiotlin is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You Are Using, A working concept of a holographic Cortana assistant, UIKonf videos and Not-Hotdog.
Traveling today. Will publish links later.
6/3/2017 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 50 seconds
Episode 145: Today At MTJC
We follow up on Xamarin's native code, templates for iOS apps and feedback on our rants. Our pals at AgileBits have introduced Travel Mode for 1Password to ease crossing borders. Jaime talks about detecting fraud with TensorFlow. We discuss Swift curriculum on iBooks and classes at US schools. Apple Stores are hosting labs and events near you. Intel plans to embed Thunderbolt 3 is processors. Jaime gives us his thoughts on Google I/O Picks: Google Assistant for iOS.
5/28/2017 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 144: Greg Regrets the Error
Once again we are joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo as we answer #askMTJC questions about Objective-C framework tutorials and which Drobo to buy. We follow up rumors of Amazon Prime video coming to Apple TV, the Handbrake hack resulting in Panic software being stolen and potential issues crossing the borders with smart phones. We also follow up on rumors of MacBook Pro updates coming to WWDC. We discuss highlights of announcements from Google I/O's keynote. We take a look at what's coming in Swift 4. Picks: Kotlin For Android: An Introduction, Toggl - the Ultimate Timer, An Xcode playground showing off the new features in Swift 4.0.
5/20/2017 • 1 hour, 22 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 143: A Factorial Set of Permutations
This week we follow up on Apple's drop of affiliate commissions with Kim Ahlberg. We also follow up on Mac App Store vs direct purchasing after Handbrake was hacked with malware. We also followup on Apple in the Classroom. We discuss Uber launching a Toronto branch of their self-driving car research group. Tim's talks about his recent training session on clean architecture with Jorge Ortiz. Jaime introduces the Amazon Echo Show and the updated Visual Studio for Mac. Picks: Fira Code font, Yelp Local Graph, "Clarity, Cohesion, Coupling, Complexity".
5/13/2017 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 1 second
Episode 142: Leading From Behind
This week we follow up on finger print dongles, misuses of Engineering titles and Google's new Canadian adventures in Waterloo. We discuss Apple vs Uber, Apple's quarterly number as see by Kevin O'Leary and major app publisher's abandoning the Watch, for now. Apple is looking into space and satellites. Picks: Increment, XChange - Share Business Cards Instantly and RWDevcon 2017 Vault
5/6/2017 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 141: No Longer Spinning Rust, Best of the MTJC podcast
Rescued from the archives - Greg Heo leads the all West Coast show. We begin with a discussion about NSPredicate. #askMtJC covers tips for finding your first job. We follow up on Swift Playgrounds and APFS. We discuss GraphQL and the rumored in-screen Home button on the iPhone 7. Picks: Ultimate Apple IO death chart, Git standup, Detecting Low Power mode, WWDC app. Stealth Pick: Buckethead
4/29/2017 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 140: Carrying the Shield
We follow up on Apple and semiconductors with rumored purchase of chip manufacturers, OLED screen delays and Touch ID issues. We also follow up on MyScript Calculator for handwriting calculations now on iPad. We discuss the Developer Survey Results 2017 from Stack Overflow. Apple has also made iWork, Garage Band and iMovie free for all users. Apple has also acquired a California permit for self-driving cars. Coachella attendees use Find My iPhone to recover 100+ stolen devices. The Mac Pro makes an appearance again. Picks: Analyzing 3rd party libraries, Silicon Valley iOS Developer Meetup, 17 Xcode Tips and Tricks That Every iOS Developer Should Know, Software Library: Macintosh, ABI stability and WWDC Family
4/22/2017 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 5 seconds
Episode 139: It's All Magic To Me, Man.
This week Jaime regales us on his experience with Car Play. Tim tells about his disappointing experience with HyperDrive USB-C port expander. We follow up on Marin's Todorov's free chapters from RXSwift - Reactive Programming With Swift. Apple is taking more hardware development in house and effecting their suppliers. We also discuss a patched defect that allowed motion sensors to discover pin codes. Jaime & Tim also discuss their experiences with Apple's Clips app. We discuss Microsoft's ReactXP, Facebook app binary size and fingerprints may not be as secure as you think. Picks: New features in Xcode 8.2 Simulator, What’s New in TestFlight and the Nothing - Smartphone app from the Minimalists.
4/15/2017 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 138: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
This week Tammy Coron joins Mark & Tim, as we discuss iOS 10.3 issues from #askMTJC. We follow up on Swift access control, RWDevcon 2017 and the pending Mac Pro refresh. We also talk about the effects of Apple's upcoming GPU and its impact on suppliers and Metal's future. Picks: TED Talk - "Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome'", MultiTimer and "RXSwift - Reactive Programming in Swift" book.
Mark Twain actually said, "I can understand perfectly how the report of my illness got about, I have even heard on good authority that I was dead. [A cousin] was ill in London two or three weeks ago, but is well now. The report of my illness great out of his illness,. The report of my death was an exaggeration."
Sponsored by Buddy Build
4/8/2017 • 1 hour, 2 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 137: A Dongle Itself
We follow up with the iPhone and Mac merging as Apple patents a dock-able iPhone. We also follow up on guard vs if. We discuss writing high-performance Swift code and the ability of developers to respond to app reviews is now live. Apple's WWDC website also include a code of conduct and info on child care services during the conference. The WWDC site also lists concurrent conferences happening nearby including Alt-Conf and CocoaConf Around the Corner. Picks: Xcode keyboard shortcuts for testing and TunnelBear.
4/2/2017 • 46 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 136: A Drive By
We start the follow up with a brief history of CAD, which brought Tim to computing. We follow with gaming apps continuing to hold top the revenue spot, choosing between Google, Amazon and iCloud online photo storage, as well as improving Swift compile times. We discuss the products announced by Apple on Tuesday; 9.7 inch iPad, Product(RED) iPhone 7 models, updated iPhone SE, new Spring watch bands and new app Clips. We chat about Github's new balanced employee IP agreement. Also as a late addition we discuss Apple's acquisition of the award winning Workflow app. Picks: the 8-bit Guy - Basic episode, Audible Xcode Breakpoints. The 8-Bit Guy's name is David Murray.
3/25/2017 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 135: Etymology and You, by Gregory Archibald Heo Esq.
This week were joined by Greg Heo as we follow up on the rise of Mac and iOS adoption in the Enterprise. We also follow up on Grace Hopper's talk on Wasting Nanoseconds and Rollout.io's open letter to Apple. We revisit TIOBE's stats as Swift hits #10 in usage. We discuss the use of git force and git force-with-lease. We chat about the rumored loss of all 32-bit apps with iOS 11. We are all surprised by a study on the best hardware for compiling Swift projects. Picks: SwiftDoc.org, TwoFactorAuth.org & MacPowerUsers Podcast, Promotion app.
3/18/2017 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 134: Industrial Grade Tin Foil Hats
This week we are joined by Tammy Coron, host of Roundabout Creative Chaos, and jump right into the lack of HiSpeed Internet in rural areas. We also discuss physical media vs digital online media. On #askMTJC we cover remote working and displays for oversize iOS Simulators. We cover the latest wikileaks about privacy exploits. We follow up on the Amazon S3 outage as well as the upcoming Apple's Spring 2017 announcement. We discuss starting into development as a senior citizen. We discuss Apple's rejection of apps built with frameworks that allow code modification after App Review. We examine Uber's MonoRepo post. Picks: Trip to New Zealand for Job Interviews, Moho, Creolabs' Creo IDE and Kite prototyping app.
3/11/2017 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 133: All Green Across the Board
This week we discuss Blackbox's update and T-shirts. We follow up on top 10 articles on Swift and Apple's commitment to Pro computing. We discuss the outrage on Amazon's web service S3. We discuss the Department of Defense's entry into open source software. Google vs Otto and Uber is covered as well as more rumored features in the iPhone 8. Picks: Convolutional Neural Networks, Google Cloud Next and Twitter Image Pipeline iOS.
3/4/2017 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 132: Technically a Renovation
This week we follow up on rumored OLED screens on the iPhone 8 as well as new iPhone storage options and iPad Pro sizes. We discuss the new campus, Apple Park opening in April, 2017. iOS 10 adoption is covered and well as the end of Swift as Apple's premier language. We chat about the future of Swift and whether Apple would kill off Swift. WWDC 2017 will be moved to San Jose's McEnery Convention Center and the ticket lottery moves up one month. Jaime recaps the Swift Cloud Workshop & Hack Day he attended in Seattle. Problems may arise with iOS Keychain clean up. Picks: iPad Pro TV Ads, Two Useful Log Messages - Thomas Hanning.
2/25/2017 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 131: Driving In Cars At Home - Recorded LIVE Feb 15, 2017
This week we recorded LIVE from Mark's car and we travelled from San Francisco to Cupertino. Responding to listener feedback we follow up on Linea app and listening to podcasts while mowing lawns or walking dogs. We discuss Apple's stock price reaching and all-time high as well as Apple's position on Augmented Reality. We discuss our recent trip to the Realm World Tour in San Francisco. Picks: Locating the source of a memory leak and Bowmor Bowling in Cupertino.
2/19/2017 • 24 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 130: Like a Russian Nesting Doll
This week are joined by Greg Heo as we wade into RxSwift. We follow up on upgrading to 64-bit apps. We discuss the possibility of an OLED screen coming to the 8th iPhone model. Greg brings up the preferred software languages of weekend developers. We discuss where to define a notification? We watch Greg dance around as we quiz him on RxSwift*. Picks: Editing your macOS Dictionary, Apple’s deep learning frameworks: BNNS vs. Metal CNN, Swift Summit 2016 videos are being released! and what goes into an advance iOS/Swift course.
2/11/2017 • 1 hour, 31 minutes
Episode 129: Dangling Participles
This week we follow up on Apple's record quarterly results. We also follow up on MacBook Pro Touch Bar models being banned in exams, 32-bit iOS apps and replacing Air Play. We discuss Apple possibly adding Arm chips to Intel based Macs. Gitlab's data loss is explored. Picks: Linea, Google Chrome iOS browser opensourced and Google Translate.
2/4/2017 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 128: I'm So Wasted
This week we follow up on replacements to Fabric and iAd, as well as ColorSync Manager and CarPlay & Android Auto delays in auto manufacturing. We also touch on Find My Air Pods and Apple Pay. We delve into the upcoming ability to respond to reviews and the SKStoreReviewController. We examine the case for deprecating UITableView replacing it with UICollectionView. Picks: Realm Word Tour, Limited Edition Super Bowl Tostitos, Apple UI Design Resources, using vector graphics in apps, 33 iOS open source libraries that will dominate 2017.
1/28/2017 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 127: Empty Jay Sea and the Holy Grail
This week Tammy Coron, Jaime Lopez Jr and Tim Mitra follow up on What the iPhone Means to Me as well as Consumer Reports turnaround on recommending the new MacBook Pro. We also follow up on rumors of Apple taking of Netflix and Spotify by creating it's own content. We discuss Google's acquisition of the Fabric set of tools. We delve into the world of digital color discussing Instagram's adoption of Wide Color. We also examine Ash Furrow's post on Naming Things in Swift. Our Picks this week are; Affinity Designer, Universal Principles of Design, The History of Paper Money and Zepelin.
1/21/2017 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 126: What the iPhone Means to Me
This week we are joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We follow up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. This week marked the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub
1/12/2017 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 125: Instant Gratification
We start off the show following up on the 2016 MacBook Pros and Consumer Reports poor rating due to battery issues. Tim gives his initial hands on impressions. We discuss theft-proofing the AirPod cases. We cover Core Data code generation in Xcode 8.2. Where iPhones are manufactured and assembled is discussed in the light of pressure by India on Apple. Picks: OSStatus.com, Swift Style - An Opinionated Guide to an Opinionated Language, How To Prevent Memory Leaks In Swift Closures and Neural Networks for Machine Learning.
1/7/2017 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 124: AllowsArbitraryLoads
This week we follow up on building Apple Watch apps to aid seniors in trouble, Google Home coming to Canada and configuring Amazon Echo to work in Canada. Jaime tells us about the latest digital assistant from Japan. Tim talks about working with HomeKit, Siri and using Homebridge. We close off the follow up with parking your Tesla with Alexa and Uber's self driving car program ends.
We discuss the Octoverse report on popular language repositories on Github. App Transport Security comes into full effect on January 1, 2017 and we discuss how Apple will be inspecting apps for compliance. Finally we discuss Makers vs Menders.
Picks: Super Mario Run, Silicon Valley iOS Developers’ Meetup and Auto-include Open-Source Acknowledgements with CocoaPods.
12/24/2016 • 1 hour, 50 minutes, 3 seconds
Episode 123: Tea. Earl Grey, Hot!
We start off this week following up on Protocol Oriented Programming, CarPlay receivers and the iCloud Calendar bug. We discuss Kickstarter's move to open source their IOS and Android apps. Air Pods are available for order and instantly backordered. We also cover Issues with MacBook Pro battery issues and Apple's reaction. Jaime discusses his newly acquired Google Home. Picks: Apple Support app, The Twist, Dongle Dangler and TouchBar Piano.
Episode 123 Show Notes
YAGNI
Architecture Astronauts
second-system effect
How to Avoid Protocol Orientation Obsessed Programming
PromiseKit
Sony XAV-AX100 Car AV Receiver with Apple CarPlay & Android Auto™
CarPlay After Market Systems
tunein.com Radio
Apple rolling out ‘Report Junk’ feature for iCloud Calendar invites from unknown senders to address spam
Apple offering AirPods battery replacements for free under warranty, $49 without
Open sourcing our Android and iOS apps!
Artsy
Actions on Google
Eliza example on GitHub
Cortana to open up to new devices and developers with Cortana Skills Kit and Cortana Devices SDK
Why Apple is removing ‘time remaining’ battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints
New MacBook Pro Users Report Improved Battery Life on macOS 10.12.2
Uberless - A video purportedly shows a driverless Uber running a red light in San Francisco.
Episode 123 Picks
Apple Support by Apple
The “Twist”
‘Dongle Dangler’ Kickstarter project aims to help you keep track of your 3.5mm headphone adapter
Touch Bar Piano
12/17/2016 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 122: What is Internet?
This week we answer #askMTJC about how we use the pragma mark in our apps. We also follow up as we test drive Setapp's beta program. We discuss the @available attribute in Swift that allows you to use new iOS features while maintaining backward compatibility. We the new Bluetooth 5 announcement and discuss some contradictory articles on the wearables market. Aaron gives a status report on CarPlay in his new car. Picks: Pre-Apple return Steve Jobs TV interview, Wang 1980's TV commercial and Inside the secret meeting where Apple revealed the state of its AI research.
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Episode 122 Show Notes:
#askMTJC about Swift marks
S T E I N B E R G E R . C O M
Setapp | Your shortcut to get the best apps for Mac
Screens
RapidWeaver
Ulysses
Sketch
Bob Kressin
Use New Awesome iOS Features While Maintaining Backward Compatibility
Bluetooth 5 is here
Pebble Shutting Down
Apple Watch vs Wearables
Tim Cook Says Apple Watch Set New Sales Record in First Holiday Shopping Week
Six Months With CarPlay
Navdy
Boeing Health Management
Millions of vehicles with potentially dangerous recalls still on road
1994: "Today Show": "What is the Internet, Anyway?"
Computer Show “Communities”
Beautiful Pic of Pearl Harbor taken from space
Episode 122 Picks:
Steve Jobs TV interview just before returning to Apple (1996) - YouTube
Wang Laboratories Inc. 1980 - YouTube
Inside the secret meeting where Apple revealed the state of its AI research
12/10/2016 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 121: For Entertainment Purposes Only
This week start the FU with Jean Louis Gassée's Monday Note on the Mac Endgame. Following that we discuss the scam apps present on the Mac App Store. We discuss Matthew Yglesias' post on Apple having outgrown it's own corporate structure. We also discuss Chris Eidoff's post on the over-reliance on Protocol-Oriented Programming. We discuss Amazon's image recognition services. We touch on the Mac Calendar spam bug. Picks: AIToolbox, mucicForProgramming and Spark For Mac.
Episode 121 Show Notes:
The Macintosh Endgame by Jean-Louis Gassée
BeOS
Don’t Be Fooled: The Mac App Store Is Full of Scams
Apptentive
Setapp
Apple may have finally gotten too big for its unusual corporate structure
MATT YGLESIAS ON APPLE’S FUNCTIONAL, RATHER THAN DIVISIONAL, CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Intention
Protocol Oriented Programming is Not a Silver Bullet
Amazon Rekognition – Image Detection and Recognition Powered by Deep Learning
How to Stop Apple Calendar Spam
Accelerate Framework
BNNS
Google Goggles
Human Cent-iPad
Mr Robot Soundtrack
Episode 121 Picks:
AIToolbox
musicForProgramming
Spark for Mac
Rouge One: A Star Wars Story
12/4/2016 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 45 seconds
Episode 120: Where Do You Draw the Line?
We start this week by following up on with a non-technical guide to machine learning. We also discuss Quickdraw an AI engine back with Google technology. We continue the follow up with more Thunderbolt 3 and USB-C docks, as well as, Apple's purge of zombie apps on the App Store. The creator of PDF Expert has reported on potential success on the Mac App Store. We discuss more shutting down of product lines via Apple's recent departure from the line of Apple Basestations. Jaime brings up how to organize a Swift file and we discuss style guides and tools. We close in on the latest offering in Instagram's Live release. Picks: Brain Warmers, View Hierarchy & Memory Graph and A Practical Guide to Securing macOS.
Sponsored by Hired
Episode 120 Show Notes:
The Non-Technical Guide to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
Quick! Draw
The New OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock
USB-C Dock
Belkin—not Apple—comes to the rescue with an iPhone 7 headphone-and-charge dongle
Most popular Apple App Store categories in September 2016, by share of available apps
iOS Dev Weekly Issue 277
You can still make $ millions by creating apps on the Mac App Store
Apple Abandons Development of Wireless Routers
Apple reportedly stops developing AirPort WiFi router products, moving employees to other projects
Crash Plan
Eero
AmpliFI
Apple USB SuperDrive
Keyspan USB ADB Adapter
Apple USB Modem - MA034Z/A
How I Organize a Swift File
SwiftFormat
ClangFormat
New Ways to Share in the Moment
Instagram’s take on live video arrives with an ephemeral twist
Ruby Koans
Reveal 2
Mr Robot
Stranger Things
Black Mirror
Episode 120 Picks:
Brain Warmers
View Hierarchy & Memory Graph
A Practical Guide to Securing macOS
11/26/2016 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 119: Touché Monsieur Pussycat
We start off with a discussion of a couple of USB-C hubs to add ports back onto the MacBook Pros. Aaron gives us a review of his new 2106 MacBook Pro 13 inch with TouchBar. We look at 1Password with Touch ID devices. We also discuss a few reviews on using the new MBPs. We discuss Touché a TouchBar emulator for macOS, the new Apple coffee table book, Designed By Apple in California, and cuts to Apple video subscription fees. We wrap the main topics on the rumored Apple glasses project and augmented reality (AR). Picks: API Reference, Learning From Data, (Dash iOS, Arrival.)
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Episode 119 Show Notes:
Review: CalDigit USB-C Dock – an okay solution for MacBook Pro owners, if you’re willing to make compromises
Arc Hub
1Password
New Touchbar Equipped MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac
Wide gamut on iphone 7
One Professional’s Look At The New MacBook Pro
Move Your Content to a New Mac
Touché
Apple to Halve App Store Fees for Subscription Video Apps
“Designed by Apple in California” chronicles 20 years of Apple design
Apple's £249 book contains 450 photos of Apple products
Keep It Simple: The Early Design Years of Apple
Iconic: A Photographic Tribute to Apple Innovation (Amazon - $50)
http://iconicbook.com
REVIEWED: Here are the most interesting parts of Apple's new $300 book
Apple Considers Wearables Expansion With Digital Glasses
Playstation VR
HTC Vive
Google Cardboard
Nintendo Wii
Lawnmower Man (Movie)
Lawnmower Man (Book)
Ready Player One
Starship Troopers
Vuforia
String
Rogue One
Netflix Prize
And the Pulitzer goes to… a computer
Dash iOS
OpenSource Initiative: Licenses and Standards
use NSSet for common platform use case
Twitter adds QR codes for some reason
Tim's Instagram "vine"
Red Laser
ReLive
Use Accessibility features in iOS
Episode 119 Picks:
API Reference
Learning From Data
Arrival (after show)
11/20/2016 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 41 seconds
Episode 118: The Fun-Key Edition
Or is it Funcy Edition? Maybe Funcie Edition? Discuss. We end this maddening week with a discussion of the rumoured ceramic Jet White iPhone. We also follow up on Apple's price drop on USB-C dongles and LG Ultrafine 5K display. Mark follows up on MacBook Pro sales and Apple Pay on the web. More on JSON parsing in Swift. We follow up on the title "Engineer". Apple release of iOS 10.1.1 iTunes vs OTA updates as well as Sierra 10.12.1 build versions. We discuss counterfeit apps appearing on the App Store. The Mac App Store, a new MAS model is discussed, as well as purchasing tvOS apps via iOS & Mac links. Picks: Promo Codes for IAP, Simulate TouchBar on iPad, Silver Searcher, Programming in Swift Style
NB - there is no such thing as Rubin2Swift (yet!)
Sponsored by Hired
Episode 118 Show Notes:
Apple cuts USB-C adapter prices in response to MacBook Pro complaints
Apple Drops Prices of 4K and 5K LG Displays by 25 Percent
New MacBook Pro outsold every competing laptop in just five days – Slice Intelligence
Report: Apple Pay on the web quickly becomes 5th most popular online payment platform
Jasonette
JSONShootout
Former Engineering Firm Fined $10,000
Mark Pavlidis
The Crown (TV Series)
Apple Releases Updated Version of iOS 10.1.1
Semantic Versioning 2.0.0
Counterfeit iPhone retail apps emerge before holiday season
Daniel Jalkut
A Wish List for the Mac App Store
Setapp wants to be the Netflix of MacOS applications
tvOS Apps Can Now Be Purchased on iOS Devices and Macs
MyScript MathPad - Handwriting LaTeX generator
The Silver Searcher: Adding Pthreads
MacBook Pro with Traditional Function Keys
Instagram
Boomerang from Instagram
NFL Thursday Night Football - Twitter
Úll
5 Things I learned From My Trip To Ireland
Aer Lingus
Episode 118 Picks:
Apple rolls out promo codes for in-app purchases
This hack lets you simulate the MacBook Pro's Touch Bar on an iPad
The Silver Searcher
RWDevCon 2016 Session 202: Programming in a Swift Style
Switching Your Brain to Swift
11/12/2016 • 1 hour, 37 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 117: All That and a Bag of Dongles
This week we follow up on the MacBook Pro with TouchBar. The discussion revolves around our impressions of the TouchBar, changes in the hardware configuration and the future of the MacBook product line. We also discuss whether this is in fact a mac for professionals. We touch on the approaching end of Swift 2.3 as well as json2swift. Picks: Paintcode 3, PipTube, UnsafePointers, How to Use NSTouchBar on macOS and Amaziograph.
Episode 117 Show Notes:
Apple AirPods Release Date Possibly Delayed Until Jan. 2017: Report [u]
New MacBook Pros and the State of the Mac
The Apple of Your Eye
Alex Payne on what Pro Computing Might Be
Phil Schiller talks about computers, touchscreens and voice on the new MBP
Does the Mac Still Matter?
Xcode 8.2 is the final version to support Swift 2.3
#283: Generating Models from JSON with json2swift
MathPad
MS Word 2010 Equation editor quick demo
Episode 117 Picks:
Paintcode 3
PipTube
UnsafePointers
How to Use NSTouchBar on macOS
Amaziograph
11/6/2016 • 1 hour, 38 minutes, 42 seconds
Episode 116: Back to the Future of Desktop
This week we answer questions from #askMTJC about the Axiotron ModBook and Core Data. We follow up on the delayed AirPods and removal of the Edition Watches from high end stores. We also follow up on the appearance of the ARM chip support in the macOSX kernel and the upcoming Touch ID feature in the new MacBook Pros. We discuss the new Microsoft Surface Studio and its potential impact on Apple. We touch on AppWage, Designing for Empathy and the new Swift Server APIs workgroup. Picks: Fatal Error Podcast, Functional Swift Conference videos and Nebo by MyScript
Sponsored by: Hired
Episode 116 Show Notes:
ModBook Pro
Concurrent Core Data, Now Easier Than Ever
Apple Delays AirPods Wireless Headphones Announced With iPhone 7
Apple Watch area in Paris department store to close due to poor sales
Apple Has Added ARM Processor Support to macOS Sierra 10.12 Kernel
More leaked macOS assets show Touch ID on new MacBook Pros w/ unlocking functionality
AppWage
Introducing the Surface Studio
The Surface Studio!
Microsoft multitouch surface coffee table
How's Jony Ive Feeling Today
Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple
Apple’s Q4 Financials Told in 5 Charts
Spark from CBC Radio: 332: Design for the good, the bad and everything in between
Swift server APIs workgroup
Simpsons joke about the Newton
Anthony Lawrence
Caroline Begbie
MyScript MathPad
MyScript Developer
Episode 116 Picks:
Functional Swift Conference videos
Fatal Error Podcast
Nebo by Myscript
10/29/2016 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 115: Podcast Time Machine
We start out with this week's askMTJC questions on Sticker Packs, Swift OOP or protocol oriented and can apps do handwriting conversion. We follow up on Dash and migrating Mac App Store licensing. We also follow up on the fate of the Apple Car project and IBM adoption of Macs as their primary computing platform. We also discuss the upcoming Apple "Hello Again" event where a refresh of the Macintosh product lines. Picks: TableFlip and Animation Pro.
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Episode 115 Show Notes:
Just Write Monsters
Stamp Pack by @Ishabazz
Newton MessagePad
PalmPilot
LiveScribe (Moleskin Edition)
One Note
Genius Scan - PDF Scanner
MyScript Nebo – Note Taking for Apple Pencil
Dear Dash Users - a blog post by @kapeli
Apple is scaling back its autonomous car ambitions and focusing on creating self-driving software
It’s not McLaren Racing, but McLaren Applied Technologies, that Apple is likely lusting after
Apple plans to launch new Macs at an October 27 event
IBM cutting costs w/ largest enterprise Mac deployment, 100,000 by end of year
Blockbuster end retail and DVD by mail
The Innovator’s Dilemma
Lightspeed
How our app went from $20,000/day to $2/day in revenue
Tiny Hearts
Wake Alarm
Textmate
John Gruber
markdown
Byword
Manga Studio EX
Elaine Manganello
Úll 2016
Episode 115 Picks:
TableFlip
Animation Pro
10/22/2016 • 1 hour, 9 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 114: I Can Eat More Salt Than You
This we are joined by Tammy Coron. We follow up on follow up on Omni Group's innovative pricing model, as well as, on Storyboard bugs fixed in Xcode 8.1 beta 3 and IGListKit is now live on github. We discuss the removal of Dash from the App Store(s) and some disappointing history revealed on the MacRumors forums. We also talk about the removal of Phoneys sticker pack. Picks: Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Swift Playgrounds Demo with a Twist, 3D iOS Games book and PDF
Sponsored By BuddyBuild
10/15/2016 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 113: Less Likely to Catch Fire
We answer an askMTJC about our use of Swift 3. Aaron discusses some feedback on his Mac: End of Life prognostication on episode 111, as well as, feedback on Air Pods. Jaime tells us about his new position at Simple which leads into more fintech and banking. We follow up on ProtoBufs in Kitura and the Omni Group's new pricing strategy. We discuss the new App Store Search Ads, opposition to React Native and the Pixel phone by Google. Picks: Sky Force 2014 for Apple TV, an iOS Simulator logging protip and CatPaint (stealth pick)
Sponsored by: Hired
CatPaint & Sticker by @CoryDMC
Episode 113 Show Notes:
THE MAC DOES HAVE A FUTURE, EVEN IF IT’S OS DOESN’T
Dave Rogers on Episode 111 – Storm & Stress
Christophe Fondacci on Episode 111 – Storm & Stress
Christopher Stott
Simple
Fintech
Tangerine
Protocol Buffers in your Kitura Apps - Swift@IBM
GraphQL
REST
Experimenting with App Store Search Ads
Branch.io
Toronto Blue Jays 2016 MLB Sticker Pack
The Omni Group is moving to free downloads with In App Purchases
Curtis Herbert - Challenging our Assumptions to Succeed in the App Store
Why I’m not a React Native programmer
New leak tells us absolutely everything about Google's Pixel phones
Nimbus Steel Series Controller
Episode 113 Picks:
Sky Force 2014 for Apple TV
Protip: Make iOS Simulator logging great again
CatPaint with Sticker Pack (stealth pick)
10/9/2016 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 112: Maple Syrup Reserves
This week we discuss new MacBook Pro's to be announced in October. We examine an article on Swift vs Objective-C language stats, as well as, Apple's interest in McLaren Applied Technologies. We discuss Ryan Nystrom's talk on Refactoring At Scale from Just Try Swift. We discuss a post by Curtis Herbert on compile time warnings. Jaime discusses Apple's post on JSON. Picks: Swift Protobuf, protips on changes in Storyboards and tableViews, Blocky Hockey, Blocky Football, Blocky Soccer, Blocky Rugby, TD MySpend, Realm Mobile Platform.
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Episode 112 Show Notes:
Apple Likely Aiming for Late October Launch of Redesigned MacBook Pro
AMD
ATI Technologies
Apple CEO Tim Cook's Feud With BlackBerry Has a Quiet End
Apple and Deloitte team up to accelerate business transformation on iPhone and iPad
Apple deepens enterprise push with Deloitte partnership
Aetna will help cover the cost of customers’ Apple Watches
Atlassian
Confluence
JIRA
Swift Job Market Is Bad News For Objective-C
Nate Swanner
TIOBE the software quality program
It’s not McLaren Racing, but McLaren Applied Technologies, that Apple is likely lusting after
Refactoring At Scale
Ryan Nystrom
IGListKit
Working with JSON in Swift
Marin Todorov
Spark from CBC Radio: 328: Disruption in banking, a long view on AI, and more…
Fiat Money
Episode 112 Picks:
About Swift Protobuf
Protip: Changes in Storyboards and TableViews
Blocky Hockey - Arcade Ice Runner
Blocky Football - Endless Arcade Runner
Blocky Soccer - Endless Arcade Runner
Blocky Rugby - Endless Arcde Runner
TD MySpend
Realm Mobile Platform
10/1/2016 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 111: Storm & Stress
This week we chat about our iPhone 7 impressions and delivery experiences. We follow up on Apple Maps, Dennis Pilarinos speaking about Buddy Build and Dropbox. Jaime and Tim discuss their impressions of the Indie Devstock conference in Nashville TN. Aaron presents an argument about the future direction of the Macintosh. Picks: ProTip: viewWillLayoutSubviews bug, Twitter Dashboard, Google Allo, Google Trips
Episode 111 Show Notes:
Deliveries for iOS
26 Techniques To Improve, Learn, Create, Share and Ship - Simon Allardice
No One is An Island - Joe Cieplinsky
Staying Indie - Curtis Herbert
Indie Devstock - Remote Access Pass
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center
Live from Indie Devstock: More Than Just Roundabout Release Notes
Dermot Daly on Roundabout
John Wilker on Roundabout
360iDev
NSNorth
RWDevCon
Intel’s 14nm Coffee Lake CPUs Feature Same Architecture as 10nm Cannonlake – Built For High-Performance Desktop and Notebook Platforms
iPhone 7 Benchmarks: How much faster is Apple’s A10 Fusion chip?
iOS 10 ∩ macOS Sierra.
sturm und drang
Episode 111 Picks:
ProTip: viewWillLayoutSubviews bug
Twitter Dashboard
Google Allo — smart messaging by Google, Inc.
Google Trips by Google, Inc.
9/25/2016 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 109: Airpods and the Future
We start in on Dropbox's odd use of Mac permissions. We discuss Apple's slow updates of Maps data. We discuss the future potential of the Air Buds and Apple's courageous choice. We discuss the ceramic Apple Watch Edition. Dennis Pilarino gave a talk on Buddy Build at our local cocoaheads meetup. We discuss our iPhone 7 purchase choices and the UIFeedbackGenerator. Picks: Reveal, Tree, Google Duo and Waze.
Episode 109 Show Notes:
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Dropbox tackles security fears surrounding its Mac app
Microsoft One Drive
Google Drive
407ETR
Apple Maps 'is life-threatening' to motorists lost in Australia heat (Dec 2012)
Dennis Pilarinos
Beyond the iPhone
AirPods
Dermot Daly
What will the iPhone 8 be made of?
Sidekick
How to generate haptic feedback with UIFeedbackGenerator
oovoo
Paw Rest Client
Charles Proxy v4
Dash
Episode 109 Picks:
Reveal 2
Git Tower
The Tree Command for Linux Homepage
Google Duo
Waze
9/20/2016 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 17 seconds
Episode 110: Live from Indie Devstock with Tammy Coron, Greg Heo & Joe Cieplinski
In this special live episode Tammy Coron, Greg Heo and Joe Cieplinski join Jaime Lopez and Tim Mitra. We discuss whether to refactor your old code. We also sticker packs for the Messages API. Joe has produced Leo Collection stickers. We discuss diversity challenges at conferences with Tammy and Joe. We also send Tammy Inside the Chaotic Studios.
Subtitle: Three Podcasts Go In, One Comes Out.
photo by Jessy Catterwall
Episode 110 Show Notes:
Leo Collection
Airplane Mode (band)
Indie Devstock
Release Notes Conference
Janie Clayton
Mohammad Azam
Simon Allardice
Will Terry - Chlldrens book illustrator
Special Guest: Joe Cieplinski.
9/18/2016 • 33 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 108: The Magnificent Seven?
This is our follow up to the Apple Event, on Sept 7, 2016, where the iPhone 7 and Watch Series 2 was announced. We discuss the new hardware and features of the two products. Also covered is Nintendo's Mario coming to iOS and Pokemon coming to the Apple Watch. We also cover Apple's prior announcement about App Store housekeeping. Picks: Fangirls, the Apple Sept 7 Event and MTJC T-Shirt sightings.
Episode 108 Show Notes:
Apple Sept 2016 Event
Apple Watch Compare
Apple Watch Hermes
iPhone 7 hands-on: Perfectly adequate, still underwhelming - Susie Ochs
iPhone 7: Jet Black vs. Black
Air Pods
Release Notes Podcast
Spegen iPhone 6 Case AirSkin
FeliCa
Nintendo Brings Mario to Apple’s iOS
Pokémon Go is coming to the Apple Watch
iPhone 7 Specs
Compare iPhone models
Apple to begin removing old, unmaintained apps from the App Store
HOW TO TURN YOUR COCOS2D IOS GAME INTO 64-BIT
Episode 108 Picks:
Fangirls
Apple Sept 2016 Event
MTJC T-Shirt sightings
9/10/2016 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 107: The Worst of Both Worlds
We start out discussing the iOS update 9.3.5 which prevents a remote jailbreak of iOS devices, giving bad guys access to users personal data and messages. We also follow up on Touch IC chips popping off iPhones, Star Wars serialization, neural networks, shut down of sync and open sourcing of Vesper, merger of Instapaper with Pinterest and Nest being moved internally into Google. Pro Tip: you may need to clean out your lightning port. We discuss the EU's claim that Apple underpaid on corporate taxes in Ireland. We discuss whether Griffin's Bluetooth adapter for cabled headphones indicates iPhone 7's rumored lack of mini-phone jack. Aaron expounds on his new Car Play enabled car. Picks: Charles Proxy v4, FLEX, Classic CHM youtube channel, How Snapchat’s filters work, Papa John’s Apple TV app, Swift Algorithm Club tutorials.
Episode 107 Show Notes:
Convolutional neural networks on the iPhone with VGGNet
Apple Security Update for iOS
Who are the hackers who cracked the iPhone?
These are the 25 internet passwords you must not use
C4 (conference)
Jonathan (Wolf) Rensch
The Serial: From Dickens To Star Wars
Tony Fadell
Brian Hayes MEP on As It Happens (starts at 10:45, end 18:06)
iPhone owners sue Apple over 'Touch Disease'
Vesper Sync Shutdown Tonight, Open Source Plans
Instapaper engineer Brian Donohue is tweeting up a storm reassuring people
Google Will Absorb Nest Developers
Apple CEO Tim Cook: $14.5 billion EU tax bill has ‘no basis in fact or in law’
A Message to the Apple Community in Europe - Tim Cook
Griffin's Bluetooth adapter is early bet on iPhone 7 removing headphone jack
Jaybird Sport
Meet the Pilot: Smart Earpiece Language Translator
CarPlay for Developers
The Best Lightning Cable
Episode 107 Picks:
Charles Proxy v4
FLEX
Classic CHM youtube channel
How Snapchat’s filters work
Papa John’s Apple TV app
Swift Algorithm Club: Swift Binary Search Tree Data Structure
9/3/2016 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 106: Failing Gracefully
We start off with followup on Chick-fil-a, LaunchKit & Google, iPad Pro used to make Stranger Things Poster and iPhone 6S speeds by the Galaxy Note 7. We open the discussion on failure with the removal of Vesper from the App Store. We discuss Dave DeLong's Dream App, Google writing a new OS and Instapaper joining Pinterest. We discuss a chip popping defect on iPhone 6 models. Picks: How I Got Better at Debugging, KZFileWatchers, Youtube-dl, Alexa Skills Kit Audio Streaming, TDD (by Controlling Dependencies)
Episode 106 Show Notes:
Nolan O’Brien
Chick-fil-a
Galaxy Note7 vs. iPhone 6S speed test is a race that nobody cares about anymore
The iconic 'Stranger Things' poster got its start on the iPad Pro
Wacom Cintiq
Last Vesper Update, Sync Shutting Down
Vesper, Adieu
Failing Often
My Dream App
Yojimbo
Confluence
The iBrain is Here: and it's already inside your iPhone
Why On Earth Is Google Building A New Operating System From Scratch?
Instapaper is joining Pinterest
Instapaper makes Instaparser
Here’s How Much Money You Need To Make To Buy A Home In 27 Major Cities
A Design Defect Is Breaking a Ton of iPhone 6 Pluses
Jessica Jones (TV Series)
WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU TEST
Leanplum
Playing with BNNS on macOS 10.12.
Model–view–presenter (MVP)
Qdoba
The Story of Maths
Connections (TV series)
Marcus du Sautoy
Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope (Limited Original Comic Book Edition)
Delicious Library 3
List of changes in Star Wars re-releases
Episode 106 Picks:
How I Got Better at Debugging
KZFileWatchers
Youtube-dl
Alexa Skills Kit Audio Streaming
Test Driven Development (by Controlling Dependencies) • Jorge D. Ortiz Fuentes
8/27/2016 • 1 hour, 44 minutes, 48 seconds
Episode 105: Shutting the Door
We begin this week discussing bandwidth and the costs of future data use. We discuss integrated chips in the light of Intel becoming an ARM foundry. Apple Pay is coming to more smaller banks and PC Financial, as well as Chick-fil-a. We follow up on iCloud Keychain and Apple use of HSMs. We discuss Microsoft's response to the latest iPad Pro as computer commercial. Picks: Relayout
Episode 105 Show Notes:
beta.speedtest.net
Avatron
Google schooling Apple on stingy iPhone sizes
Aaron's Blog - Failing Often
CrashPlan
Self-driving? You’re gonna need a bigger data plan
Intel Foundries Able to Produce ARM-Based Chips Under New Licensing Deal
International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
Apple Pay rolling out to all Chick-Fil-A locations this Friday
Apple Pay comes to dozens of additional U.S. banks and credit unions
Simplified Screenshot Submission Process
Xcode 8 beta 6 Release Notes
A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering (iCloud Keychain)
Tekserve Macintosh Collection will be sold at auction next week as NY repair shop closes
MS Surface Bashing iPad - TV Commercial
Creating a “smart” Xcode file template
USING VECTOR IMAGES IN XCODE 6
Episode 105 Picks:
Relayout
8/21/2016 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 104: Mix Another Metaphor
We start off the askMTJC with discussion of resources for budding developers. We discuss iMore's transition away from Apple News to focus on tech and how to's. We follow up on Protocols with Associated Types and Protocol Oriented programming in Swift. A few exploits are discussed around of the leak of Microsoft's "Golden Key". We discuss the importance of a work life balance. Picks: Fira Code, Pocket Casts 6, Apple's Olympic Watch Bands
Episode 104 Show Notes:
Neil North’s courses
Udacity Nanodegree
Udacity iOS Developer
Beginning iPhone Development with Swift
Big Nerd Rnanch
Alt-U iOS Bootcamp
Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift
(FREE) RWDevCon 2016 Session 303: Introduction to Protocol-Oriented Programming
Apple Show podcast
Putting the 'More' in iMore — part deux
How streaming services and casino apps highlight the understated importance of services in the App Store and its impact on indie developers
Bloomburg on MacBook Pro
Oops. MS Leaks “Golden Key” to Windows Secure Boot
A new $500,000 iOS bug bounty beats Apple's offer
How to Have Healthy Relationships as a Developer
All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series)
These New Apple Watch Bands Are Worth a Trip to Brazil
Greg’s edX 6.002 certificate
Newer Technologies
Uber Eats
The Tragically Hip
Episode 104 Picks:
Fira Code
Pocket Casts
Apple Is Selling Unofficial Olympic Watch Bands Near Rio Venues
8/13/2016 • 1 hour, 7 minutes, 15 seconds
Episode 103: This Particular Form of Magic
AskMTJC opens the show discussing Amaziograph and Easel for iPad Pro. We follow up on the the cost of building apps and marketing the iPad Pro as Apple rolls out it's latest iPad Pro TV commercial. This leads to a discussion of low end computing. We discuss the churn of app development tooling and whether it has an asymptote. Aaron tells us about The Three Body problem, the Megaprocessor and a diabolical scam using iOS profiles. Picks: building games on Alexa, iPassword Subscriptions for Individuals, Apple TV Remote app, Protocols with Associated Types and Secrets of the Apple Store.
Stop yelling at your iPhone! Correction: we already have associatedtype in Swift 2.2
Sponsored by: Buddy Build
Episode 103 Show Notes:
Introducing: Easel
http://www.aviladesignco.com/
Amaziograph
Wacom Cintiq
http://www.it-guy.com/2015/01/episode-22-indie-development-numbers/
Apple’s record app store sales month
Apple’s new iPad Pro ad
Smart Keyboard for iPad Pro
Logitec Create for iPad Pro
Google Chromebooks
NetBooks
Episode 64: Ric Sarabia on Roundabout Creative Chaos
The Churn
Eclipse
three20
Episode 242: Manton’s Out
Megaprocessor
The Three-Body Problem
Diabolical Scam using iOS Profiles
Objective C history
Amazon Echo Now Lets You Investigate the Murder of Bruce Wayne’s Parents (Exclusive)
Zork
Rogue game
Hunt the Wumpus
Gwendolyn Weston: Keep Calm and Erase On
RWDevCon 2016 Session 303: Introduction to Protocol-Oriented Programming - Alexis Gallagher
Episode 103 Picks
Announcing a New Tool for Building Interactive Adventure Games on Alexa
1Password Adds Subscription Plan for Individuals
Apple TV Remote app
Natasha Murashev - Practical Protocols with Associated Types in Swift
SECRETS OF THE APPLE STORE, REVEALED BY EX-EMPLOYEES
8/7/2016 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 24 seconds
Episode 102: A Tree Branch With a Chip Attached
This week we find out what Jaime thinks about burritos and his first computer. We discussed the rumored MacBook Air with USB-C port. We discuss the iPad Paradox in light of Apple's better than expected Q3 results and compare the iPad with the Surface. We dig deeper into Apple's third-quarter results and Apple's sale of the one billionth iPhone sold. We follow up on NIST declaration of SMS two-factor authentication insecurity. Picks: ItsyCal, Flask-ASK, Prisma, MiFlight
Circuit Tree 3D by Steve Duggan
Episode 102 Show Notes:
Chipotles
Canadian Tire money
MacBook Air might not be scrapped after all
Fantastical 2
Buddybuild
The iPad Paradox
iPad year over year growth. Sixcolors
https://twitter.com/bleedsixcolors/status/758047510422179840
Surface Pro 4
Lenovo PC on stick
Apple beats third-quarter expectations with $7.8-billion profit
Larry Ellison
Continuum
Apple Has Sold 1 Billion Phones
The race to a billion—2012 Update
New Blackberry
NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over
Two-Factor Authentication • Authy
2life - Get the Most Out Of Your Relationship
pCalc
Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from images at 15MB/s
indiedevstock
NSScanner
Rocksmith
iRig HD
AmpliTube
AudioBus
The New York Code + Design Academy
Episode 102 Picks:
ItsyCal
Flask-Ask
Flask-Ask: A New Python Framework for Rapid Alexa Skills Kit Development
Flask-Ask - Using Alexa Skills with John Wheeler
Secure tunnels to localhost
Prisma
MiFlight
7/31/2016 • 1 hour, 45 minutes, 37 seconds
Episode 101: Has a Shiny Apple Logo On It
We start the show with a discussion of 2 Factor Authentication on Apple IDs. We discuss the Best Burritos in the US. We answer Allan Edmonds #askMTJC question about our first computers and our predictions for the next 5 years. We follow up on Mark's iPhone swollen battery. We discuss whether to buy AppleCare, the discuss the delay in Apple Mac hardware, SoftBank's purchase of Arm, the rumored iPhone 7 Pro and iOS Beta Periods. We also discuss iOS 9.3.3 security update. Picks: Scrivener for iOS Effective Objective-C 2.0
Episode 101 Show Notes:
Apple Two Factor Authentication
1Password
America's Best Burrito
Ferry Farmer’s Market at the Embarcadero
Allan Edmonds
Mac Classic
Commodore PET
Atari 800
Power Macintosh
Macintosh IIcx
SE/30
Macintosh II
PDP 11
QWERKYWRITER
Computer History Museum
Tech Museum of Innovation
AppleCare Plus
So where are all the new Macs for 2016
MacRumors Buyer's Guide - Mac
Hackintosh
ARM: the weightless corporation that outweighs Intel
P.A. Semi
Apple might announce 3 different iPhone 7 models this year
iOS version release date history
About the security content of iOS 9.3.3
Beware! Your iPhone Can Be Hacked Remotely With Just A Message
Reversing the wall
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Erin Thomas (Mrs. Aaron)
Episode 101 Picks:
Scrivener for iOS
Effective Objective-C 2.0
Flixel wins Best Startup
7/24/2016 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 100: Rocket to the Moon
This week we answer an askMTJC question about how the show is made and what the podcast means to each of us. Aaron follows up with another 3D Printer. We discuss how Google makes better iOS apps than Google Play apps. We chat about Facebook's mobile test devices, an audio filtering app for Android written in Swift, No Man's Sky and Nintendo's invite to it's developer program. Picks: Rocket, The Secret Life of Types in Swift, Pokémon GO by Niantic, Inc., Silly Lightning Talk About Naming Things (Olof Hellman, June 9, 2016), Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code and iOS 10 Screencast: iMessage Sticker Packs
Episode 100 Show Notes:
Kawartha Dairy
Hypercritical Podcast
Blue Yeti
Google is making better apps for the iPhone than for Android
Suggestion for 3D Printer
Facebook lifts the veil on its mobile device testing lab
No Man’s Sky
Nintendo developer accounts (using Unity)
Ingress
iNacho
How to talk to your kids about SIL type use
Episode 100 Picks:
🚀
The Secret Life of Types in Swift
Pokémon GO by Niantic, Inc.
Silly Lightning Talk About Naming Things (Olof Hellman, June 9, 2016)
Original Apollo 11 guidance computer (AGC) source code
iOS 10 Screencast: iMessage Sticker Packs
7/17/2016 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 99: Tenth Anniversary iPhone
This week we follow up on Raise To Wake, iPhone 7 rumors, iCloud Core Data and the MacBook Air. We examine RESTful, Software's Diseconomies of Scale and also discuss Agile methodologies. Picks: Lulzbot Mini, Maker Festival, Pokemon Go and Continuous C# and F# IDE for the iPad
Episode 99 Show Notes:
Evan Dekhayser
Raise to Wake System Requirements
askMTJC WarningZiOSApp
Jaybird Sport
Beats
66 Audio BTS Headphones
Bellboy BlueTooth Headphones
The Deprecation of iCloud Core Data
Ensembles
FireBase
Realm
The MacBook Air will likely never get an update
Software has diseconomies of scale - not economies of scale
Richardson Maturity Model
iOS Architecture Patterns
Agile Manfesto
TACOW
Thingiverse
Printrbot
SketchUp: 3D for Everyone
Cura 3D Slicing Software
Pythonista
Codea
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
String.io
vuforia
Spacecraft 3D
Ingress - The Game
Paul McCartney
Classic Albums Live
Episode 99 Picks:
Lulzbot Mini
Maker Festival Toronto
Pokemon Go PSA
Continuous C# and F# IDE for the iPad
7/9/2016 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 98: No Longer Spinning Rust
This week Greg Heo leads the all West Coast show. We begin with a discussion about NSPredicate. #askMtJC covers tips for finding your first job. We follow up on Swift Playgrounds and APFS. We discuss GraphQLm the rumored in-screen Home button on the iPhone 7. Picks: Ultimate Apple IO death chart, Git standup, Detecting Low Power mode, WWDC app
Episode 98 - Show Notes
Instagram
Creating Predicates
KVC (Key Value Coding)
NSDateFormatter
Linq
@ThirdBeach
Is Swift Playgrounds For Kids?
iMessage
A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
Why Did Apple Drop ZFS From Snow Leopard?
GraphQL for iOS Developers
GraphQL
Pattern: Backends For Frontends
RESTful
GraphQLHub
Mac Rumors iPhone 7
iOS 10’s ‘Raise to Wake’ only works on new iPhones
Overcast: Podcast Player
BlackboxPuzzles
Buckethead
Episode 98 Picks
The Ultimate Apple I/O death chart
Git standup
Detecting Low Power mode
macOS WWDC app
7/2/2016 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 6 seconds
Episode 97: More Than Just WWDC 2016 Videos
This week we follow up on Apple's app subscriptions. We also discuss Joist's departure from Toronto, laying off 60 employees. We discuss our favorite WWDC 2016 sessions.
Picks: Raspberry Pi Zero, Pi GRRL Zero Parts Kit - Includes Pi Zero V1.3, How to undo (almost) anything with Git, The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes, Lightweight Generics in Objective-C, Swift Playgrounds - Teacher’s guide, App Development with Swift
To debug your views in the console enter:
po [[UIWindow keyWindow] recursiveDescription]
Episode 97 Show Notes:
JOIST LAYS OFF 60 EMPLOYEES AS COMPANY RELOCATES TO SAN FRANCISCO
Toronto is poised to become the next great producer of tech startups
The Talk Show w/Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
Introducing Swift Playgrounds
What's New in Xcode App Signing
Optimizing Startup Time
What's New in Core Data
Improving Existing Apps with Modern Best Practices
iMessage Apps and Stickers, Part 1
iMessage Apps and Stickers, Part 2
What’s New in Swift
Swift API Design Guidelines
Top 10 WWDC 2016 Videos
Protocol and Value Oriented Programming in UIKit Apps
What's New in UICollectionView in iOS 10
What's New in watchOS 3
What's New in Auto Layout
The Talk Show w/Phil Schiller and Craig Federighi
What's New with CloudKit
Creation Inc - DIY Electronics & Robotics
Apple Design Awards
What's New in Foundation for Swift
Fraser Speirs
Swift Education - on github
Realm Live: WWDC with Greg Heo
Episode 97 Picks:
Raspberry Pi Zero
Pi GRRL Zero Parts Kit - Includes Pi Zero V1.3
How to undo (almost) anything with Git
The Children's Illustrated Guide to Kubernetes
Lightweight Generics in Objective-C
Swift Playgrounds - Teacher’s guide
App Development with Swift
6/25/2016 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 96: extension WWDC2016: MTJCPodcast
This past week was Apple's WWDC 2016. We met midweek to discuss our initial impressions of the Keynote, Platform State of the Union and a few of the sessions that we were able to see. We had a chance to look at the betas for macOS Sierra, iOS 10 and Xcode 8. Picks: Swift Playgrounds on iPad, API reference, App Review Guidelines (The Comic Book), Optimizing App Startup Time
Episode 96 Show Notes:
Brian Gilham WWDC 2016 screensaver
A Tiny Game of Pong
watchOS Preview
tvOS Preview
What's New with CloudKit
Magpie
MacID
Google Photos
Dropbox
Azure
macOS Preview
Introducing SiriKit
iOS 10 Preview
Introducing Expanded Subscriptions in iTunes Connect
Xcode Extensions - A brave new world
What's New in Xcode App Signing
FixCode
SourceKit rewritten in Swift (FU JP Simard)
Uncovering SourceKit - JP Simard
ITUNES TERMS AND CONDITIONS: The Graphic Novel
Episode 96 Picks:
Swift Playgrounds on iPad
Alpha - API reference
Beta - App Review Guidelines (The Comic Book)
Optimizing App Startup Time
6/18/2016 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 95: Batman and Rubin
This week we follow up on Apple Pay. Our #askMTJC spawns questions about getting a start in freelance, bootcamps for Android, expectations of Xcode 8 and does host Mark Rubin have a personal Twitter account. We dive in and discuss Apple's newly announced App Subscriptions, Shortened Review Times and Paid App Search Ads. Jaime introduced WWDC Friends. We also discuss our WWDC wish list. Picks: Motion Stills by Google, Android iPhone Case, Oslo Coding, Creating and Distributing iOS Frameworks
Osmo Coding iPad Pro 12.9 vine
Episode 95 Show Notes:
Farley's Apple Pay Tweet
Yoko MittleFehldt's Freelancing Tweet
Big Nerd Ranch Android Essentials Course
Cocoa Programing with OS X
The New App Store: Subscription Pricing, Faster Approvals, and Search Ads
What’s New in Subscriptions
Cinemagraph Pro iOS
AppCode
Versioning, Licensing, and Sketch 4.0
Briefs
Federico Viticci
WWDC.family
AltConf Schedule
Osmo Vine
Cargo-Bot
Scales & Modes
Episode 95 Picks
Motion Stills by Google
Android iPhone Case
Osmo Coding
Creating and Distributing iOS Frameworks
6/11/2016 • 1 hour, 46 minutes, 20 seconds
Episode 94: Objective-C For Swift Developers
This week we discuss the rumoured OLED display bar for the MacBook Pro line. We follow up on Mekorama, Mekorama Forum and Twitterrific's Tip Jar. We discuss Apple Pay initial role out in Canada. We cover the Swift 3.0 Preview for developers. We discuss naming classes in code as well as delegates vs observers. Picks: MTJC T-Shirts Update, NSCache, Jazzy and Hyperdev
Tim's conversation with Martin Magni
> How did you build it? Unity?
I wrote it from scratch in C and used the (open source) Bullet Physics library.
> Did you do all the work, art, music?
Yes. I'm a bit of a jack of all trades ;)
> What made you decide on pay what you want?
I wanted to try IAPs. But locking features down would hurt the game. Especially given its create and share functionality, which benefits from having many users contribute content. PWYW "solves" these issues and seems relatively untried in the app stores.
> We talk about devs charging decent money for their work. How has the IAP performed. Not to be to specific. Are you happy with the result?
I charge exactly what the app is worth to you, couldn't get more decent than that.
Are people paying? Some. (Thank you!) Am I making minimum wage? No. Will I survive? Yes, I'm extremely frugal.
> What cause the app to tip? Was it marketing, interviews, luck?
Would it be presumptuous of me to suggest that the quality of the game played a role? Making it free helped too.
> How long did it take? Were you working on it exclusively?
I'm a full time indie dev. I worked exclusively on the game for almost a year and a half.
> How are your other apps doing, do you have any?
My first game (in my current solo constellation) was 2015's Odd Bot Out. It's pay to play and has done better than Mekorama (so far).
Episode 94 Show Notes
OLED display on MacBook Pro
Optimus Maximus keyboard
Conversation with Martin Magni
Mekorama Forum
Super Mario Maker
League of legends
Twitterrific’s new tip jar
Monument Valley lego
Linden labs
Second Life
Apple Pay - Canada
Venmo
Apple Pay SDK?
Swift 3 Preview 1
Xcode: Switching Toolchains
Apple releases Swift 3.0 Preview 1 ahead of WWDC 2016
Too Many Managers
Delegates vs Observers
Objective-C for Swift Developers
Trello
FogBugz
Dash
ConstraintLayout 101 & the new Layout Builder in Android Studio
Episode 94 Picks
MTJC T-Shirts Update
Un: NSCache
Deux: jazzy
Hyperdev
6/5/2016 • 1 hour, 52 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 93: Hey Siri! Can We Talk?
This week Jaime follows up on Google IO - Android Instant Apps & FireBase, as well as Google Play services. We delve into Firebase's new platform. Tim also follows up on discussions with Ryan MacLeod developer of Blackbox (SPOILER: 24:30 - 27:00). We discuss Apple's future plans with rumored Siri SDK and a voice-enabled home device as well as Vocal IQ. We look at Apple technologies and make predictions of what Apple will introduce at WWDC16. We also look at the upcoming 5G technologies. Picks: Xcode search, Blockhead, Mekorama (we CollectionView and ScrollView in the after show)
Yes, I incorrectly stated the power requirement for iPads. It requires a 10 volt charger.
“Instant gratification takes too long.” - Carrie Fisher
Episode 93 Show Notes:
Android Instant-Apps
Buzzfeed
Android - Platform Versions
FireBase - New Web Site
A Look at the New Firebase: A Powerful Google Platform
How I got 10,000 five star reviews in 4 weeks
BlackboxPuzzles
Ryan McLeod
Report: Apple planning Siri SDK for WWDC as it builds Amazon Echo/Google Home hardware competitor
Apple’s Secret AI Technology: Meet Vocal IQ the self learning technology that is a part of Siri2.
Amazon Echo
Jibo Robot
WWDC16
Swift vs Objective-C dynamism
Inessential by Brent Simmons (look for articles in late May 2016)
Ready Player One
5G Networks will do so much more than stream cat videos
Canada’s major telecoms set to leap into 5G technology
PlugBug World
http://www.thingcharger.com
MartinMagni.com
Monument Valley
WWDC 11 - Advanced ScrollView Techniques
Episode 93 Picks:
0000 0001 - Xcode search
0000 0010 - Blockhead
Mekorama
App Annie
5/29/2016 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 92: The MTJC Book Club
This week we are joined by Greg Heo to get caught up on his move to San Francisco. We discuss the 12 inch MacBook. We discuss a couple of #askMTJC questions on books and resources for iOS developers as well as finding inspiration and blockers. We follow up on Perfectsoft, Swift 3.0 and the lack of ABI compatibility, MacID, a Women in Code study and Shorter App review times. Picks: Gboard, Finda.photo, Pallets, Disrupted and Swift Algorithm Club.
Episode 92 Show Notes:
Protocol Oriented Programming in Swift
Advanced Swift
Effective Objective-C 2.0
Swift Apprentice
iOS Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (5th Edition)
Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (2nd Edition)
Core Data (2nd edition) - Marcus Zarra
Functional Swift
Instapaper
Pocket
NSHipster: Obscure Topics in Cocoa & Objective-C
Perfectsoft gets funded
Swift 3.0 Release Process
Swift 3 release & ABI stability
Application Binary Interface
Kane Chesire developer of MacID
Women write better code, study suggests
Ada Lovelace
Grace Hopper
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
The Difference Engine - William Gibson & Bruce Sterling
App review times really low?
Silicon Valley (HBO)
RWDevCon Inspiration Talk – Math Isn’t Scary by Matthijs Hollemans
Chase Utley Rule
Episode 92 Picks:
Gboard — Search. GIFs. Emojis & more. Right from your keyboard
Finda.photo
Pallets - Alex Mathers
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Swift Algorithm Club
5/22/2016 • 1 hour, 27 minutes
Episode 91: Choosing Your Favorite Children
Hey the MTJC T-Shirt is back for 2016. We chat about the rumored MacBook Pro refresh, thanks to Justin Stanley, and riff on a Pro iOS or mashup of iOS & OS X. We dissect the Mac Dev 2016 Survey. Is Apple stealing your Music and are they responsible for dyld crashes? Github has a new pricing policy. Jaime attended CocoaConf 2016 in Seattle. Picks: Star Wars - Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” Homage, Launcher, GIF, Deadpool, BonMot, Managed App Configuration.
Episode 91 Show Notes:
MTJC T-Shirt: USA Edition
MTJC T-Shirt: EU Edition
MacBook Pro
MacID
Near Lock
Mac Dev Survey 2016
App Camp For Girls
Ladies Learning Code
Women write better code, study suggests
Apple stole my music
GitHub unlimited repositories
GitLab
CocoaConf 2016 Seattle
Mark Zarra
Daniel Steinberg
Brent Simmons
James Dempsey
Ellen Shapiro
Jonathan Penn
dyld crash at launch
App Config Community (discussion cut from the show)
InvisibleRed
RoundaboutFM - Episode 55 – Joseph Cieplinski
RoundaboutFM - Episode 56 - Agile Bettys
Episode 91 Picks:
Star Wars - Episode V “The Empire Strikes Back” Homage
Launcher
GIF
Deadpool
BonMot
Managed App Configuration
We follow up on Apple Music API, iOSReal's iOS podcast review, hiring iOS dev teams, Trutone displays, TZStackviews. Tim gives his review of talks and the tech workshop at NSNorth 2016, featuring Daniel Steinberg, Ayaka Nonaka, Gwen Weston, Gene Goykhman, Liz Marley, Jonathan Rhyne, Pamela Pavliscak, Rob Segal and Robles Jama. We talk about PerfectlySoft and Buddy Build. We also discuss the end of the iPhone by examining iPhone Warning Signs. Picks: HomeControl, Xcode Configs
Episode 90 Show Notes:
Apple announces new Apple Music API
Best iOS Podcasts in 2016
Jessy Catterwaul on Episode 89 – “WWDC is cancelled”
FoS Ryan Renna - Understanding the 9.7 True Tone Display
NSNorth Highlights
Daniel Steinberg - Swift Tech workshop.
Penulimate
Evernote
Ayaka Nonaka - Clean View Layout with iOS9 Features
Gene Goykhman - Writing Backends Can be Fun
PerfectlySoft
Buddy build - build apps faster
Liz Marley - Safety, Fun, and Learning
App Camp For Girls
Pamela Pavliscak - Designing Like a Human in the Age of Algorithms
Hockey Hall of Fame
Karl Moskowski
Anluan O'Brian
Paddy O'Brien
Adrienne Marshall
Dan Byers
Philippe Casgrain
Rob Segal - Journey to the East
Mega Jump
Robles Jama - Charting on the App Store: How to climb to the top (and stay there)
Next Keyboard
Wake Alarm
iPhone Warning Signs
The Greatest Investors: Peter Lynch
Joe Cieplisnky on Roundabout
Apple Campus
Phillips Hue - HomeKit
Leena Mansour
Episode 68 – The Future of Swift Idioms
Greg Heo - Switching Your Mind to Swift
Episode 90 Picks:
HomeControl
Xcode Configs
Using Xcode Configs for API endpoint
Hacking Your Phone
Blackbox - Think Outside the Box
5/8/2016 • 1 hour, 32 minutes, 22 seconds
Episode 89: "WWDC is cancelled"
We discuss the effect of Apple's poorest performance report in many years, yet the iPhone 6 size skews the numbers. Also to Apple Watch outsold many similar products. We discuss the Apple Watch after a year of use. We discuss Stripes new Bring Your Own Team idea. Aaron discusses an Ad free Apple experience. Picks: Draftly, Readable Content Guides, Glot.io, Concepts, RWDevCon 2016 Vault (incl Advanced LLDB Debugging)
Episode 89 Show Notes:
THE IPHONE 6 BLIP
WHAT IS THE APPLE WATCH GOOD FOR?
Rich Turton
Guess which ‘flop’ sold twice as well as the iPhone in its first year
Apple Watch ‘flop’ outsold Rolex by about $1.5 billion
WatchOS 2 is super serious now, folks
WatchKit
How to check the weather on your Apple Watch
BYOT
After abandoning iAd revenue, Apple Inc can reintroduce an ad-free internet
Authorize.net
Moneris
Quit my full time corporate job. Built an iOS game. It became #1 in the App Store.
The Working Group
Bez
The Story of English episode 6 - Pioneers O Pioneers - Part 2 / 7 (Welland Canal)
Episode 89 Picks:
Draftly
Readable Content Guides
glot.io
Concepts: Smarter Sketching, Design & CAD for Architecture & Illustration
RWDevCon 2016 Session 202: Programming in a Swift Style
RWDevCon 2016 Vault - incl Advanced LLDB Debugging
5/1/2016 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 88: What's the Diff?
Apple's WWDC Lottery announcement anchors the show. Additionally we discuss the Macbook speed bump and some changes to App Store Review Guidelines. We chat about getting around SanFrancisco during WWDC, where to stay and commuting to reduce expenses. We also discuss the benefits of attending. We follow up on annotations & instrumentation for Android, Android Studio and the Motor-Trend Apple Car story. We discuss the changes to Apple's developer website: WWDC and App Store Guidelines. We also revisit developer success and salaries. Picks: Hatching Twitter, Classic Programmer Paintings, OOP is Bad and Curing Our Slack Addiction.
Episode 88 Show Notes:
WWDC 2016
Much Ado About WWDC
BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit
MUNI
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Macbook
Hyper 5-in-1 USB C Hub
Developer App Store Page
App Store Review Guidelines History
Ray Wenderlich News Letter
Quit my full time corporate job. Built an iOS game. It became #1 in the App Store.
Touch Arcade
Farewell Instacast
Rubymotion
Xamarin
Serious Business Computer
GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, AMAZON AND MICROSOFT SALARIES
5,000 developers talk about their salaries
Better Call Saul
Chancellor Hotel
Calibri - Mexican Bistro
Basecamp 3
How to pronounce Bagel
Reposado
El Tesoro: De Don Felipe Tequila
Dribbble
Draftly Now Available
Episode 88 Picks:
Hatching Twitter
Classic programmer paintings
OOP is Bad
Curing Our Slack Addiction
4/23/2016 • 1 hour, 42 minutes, 7 seconds
Episode 87: Exclusive: The MTJC Car
This week we follow up on code obfuscation, iOS hacking, CloudKit server code, Man Mini colocation and vim adventures. These were based on feedback from our website and twitter feeds. We discussed the hyped Motor Trend exclusive non-announcement. We also celebrate the successful merging of Swift code for Android platforms. We discuss using schemes in Xcode for unit testing as well as Swift 3.0 pruning. Picks: Bez, PolyMail for Mac, Milanese Loop knockoff, The Practical Dev and Source Tree.
Episode 87 Show Notes:
Farley recommends Arxan
vim adventures
OS X Server
FireBase
Feedback on Episode 86
The Apple Car Is Here...If You Believe This Rumored Concept Art
Yahoo Finance Sneak Peek Apple Car
Swift for Android Merged
Google is said to be considering Swift as a ‘first class’ language for Android
Go (programming language)
Kotlin
JetBrains
IntelliJ
Android Studio
Preparing for [Swift] 3.0 API pruning
Gerund
Using Xcode's Schemes to run a subset of your tests
Migrating From Objective-C to Swift - Alexander Voronov
Episode 87 Picks:
Bez
PolyMail for Mac
Milanese Loop knockoff for $20 USD
The Practical Dev
Source Tree
4/17/2016 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 8 seconds
Episode 86: Incredible & Impossible Deals
We dive right in on Facebook and Google employee on boarding. We also discuss Instaparser as well as the new subscription pricing model by TextExpander. We also discuss a couple of options for Mac Mini colocation hosting. Spoilers: The Force Awakens is discussed. Picks: Color Combination Cheat Sheet, GitHub Pull Request Templates and iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers.
Episode 86 Show Notes:
Instapaper makes Instaparser
vi
macvim
ed
Smile Software Makes TextExpander Subscription-Base
Response roundup
Demo Monkey
Shapr 3D
Cinemagraph Pro iOS
Paprika Recipe Manager
Keyboard Maestro
Disktop
Quicksilver
TypeIt4Me
MacMiniColo Merges with MacStadium, Offers “Impossible Deal”
Is Drake Trying To Change Toronto's Nickname From Tdot To 'The 6'?
Zend Desk
Perfect - server side swift
Adobe Capture (formerly Color)
atom
Sublime Text
Textmate
BBEdit
mou
Proguard
Dune (novel)
Dune (movie)
Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
Wolflight
Episode 86 Picks:
Color Combination Cheat Sheet
GitHub Pull Request Templates
iOS Application Security: The Definitive Guide for Hackers and Developers
4/9/2016 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 54 seconds
Episode 85: Roses Are Grey. Violets are Grey. I Am a Dog.
This week we discuss the inevitable death of Twitter, the rise of Pro iOS app pricing and the return of old formats. We follow up on feedback regarding privacy as discussed on Episode 84. We hear Tim's opinion on the 9.7 inch iPad Pro and discuss the differences with it's larger sibling. We discuss Joe Cieplinski's post on iPhone SE upgrade woes. Booking.com breaks iOS 9.3. Picks: Linux on Windows, Safari Preview Edition, nscurl, Hermes knockoffs, Google Cardboard for iOS and Charles Proxy.
Episode 85 Show Notes:
Correction: TLS 1.2 is the current version. Thanks to @NolanObrien
TWTR
Crashlytics
The Case for Pricing Parity for Desktop and Mobile Apps
Shapr 3D - as mentioned on Release Notes Podcast
Episode 84
12.9" iPad Pro remains Apple's fastest tablet, as 9.7" model's A9X chip is underclocked
9.7 inch iPad Pro and the missing USB 3 speed
New iPad “Pro” 9.7 only has 2GB ram
Jason Snell on TTS
The History and Science Behind the Color Blue
iPhone SE: The Long-Term Outlook
Stratechery
Booking dot com? Booking dot yeah!
Qualys-SSL Labs
The Cat API
Episode 85 Picks:
Run Linux on Windows
Safari Preview Edition from Apple
Using the nscurl tool to diagnose ATS connection issues
“swank-lookin’” Hermes knockoff
Google Cardboard SDK for iOS
Charles
4/3/2016 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 13 seconds
Episode 84: MTJC SE
This week Greg Heo and Tammy Coron take over the show along with special guests Aaron Vegh and Mark Rubin. They follow up on Apple's cloud services. They review the latest keynote from Apple discussing security, the environment, CareKit, Watch bands, the 9.7 inch iPad Pro and iPhone SE. Picks Selections: Patreon, Conquering Your Fear of Adopting Swift, Contributing to Open Source Swift.
Episode 84 Show Notes:
Report: Apple developing at least 6 cloud infrastructure projects incl. servers to prevent snooping
Dropbox takes the reins, moves off AWS and onto its own infrastructure
Jonathan Ździarski
FBI says it may have found a way to unlock shooter's iPhone
Apple’s Recycling Robot Needs Your Help to Save the World
Our bodies, ourselves: How CareKit apps will revolutionize health care
Apple Watch Bands
Apple iPad Pro
Apple iPad pricing chart
Apple iPhone SE
New comments on cost of app making on Episode 3
MTJC Patreon
Just Write Code on Patreon
"That guy we talked about at the beginning" - got cut from the show
Episode 84 Selections:
Patreon
Conquering Your Fear of Adopting Swift
Contributing to Open Source Swift
3/25/2016 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 2 seconds
Episode 83: Whispering Sweet Nothings
We start off talking about innovations in integrated circuitry. Also discussed is the latest betas for iOS, OS X and Xcode as well as Apple's iCloud distribution among online services. Aaron posts Rene Richie's piece on App Store vs indie devs. Job opportunities and employment recruiters are discussed. We're getting ready with a WWDC Wishlist as well as the Apple Special Event. A Swift method naming convention change proposal is accepted. Picks: 123D Circuits, Miracle Timer, Cobalt & Factor Samurai
Episode 83 Show Notes:
Apple releases OS X 10.11.4 beta 7 with Messages & Notes improvements, more
Google Inks Cloud Computing Services Deal With Apple
IBM Bluemix
What no indie developer wants to hear about the App Store
Magpie for Apple TV
Anvil
TACOW
Mark Pavlidis
Shopifiy Careers
WWDC Wishlist
UXKit
Apple Special Event: March 21, 2016
RWDevCon 2016 Post-Mortem
Establish consistent label behavior across all parameters including first labels
Fritzing.org
Episode 83 Picks:
123D Circuits
How to pass a programming interview
Miracle Timer
Cabalot
Factor Samurai - Multiply and Divide your way to Times Tables Mastery
3/20/2016 • 1 hour, 28 minutes, 19 seconds
Episode 82: Pair Programming For the Introvert
This we discuss the OS X ransomware spread via the Transmission app. We also follow up on how much to make an app. We discuss the challenges of pair programing for the introverted.
Picks: Protocol-Oriented Programming with Swift, The Majestic Monolith & RWDevCon
Episode 82 Show Notes:
First OS X ransomware detected in the wild, will maliciously encrypt hard drives on infected Macs [Update: How to fix]
Reamde: A novel
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Seveneves a novel by Neil Stevenson
Cryptonomicon
Transmission
WHAT DOES IT COST TO DEVELOP AN APP?
Hockenberry on Making Twitterrific
Hypercritical
Fogcreek Software
Episode 82 Picks:
Protocol-Oriented Programming with Swift, by Jon Hoffman
The Majestic Monolith
RWDevCon
This week the podcast is extended by Greg Heo and Tammy Coron, just before RWDevCon 2016. Tammy tells why she likes Fantastical 2 and her Gumdrop case for her iPad Pro. We chat about preparing for RWDevcon 2016. We discuss switching from indie and freelance development to joining corporations. We speculate on the rumored 9.5 inch iPad Pro. We geek out on biological motors and DRAM Challenges. Picks: OS X Playgrounds, League of Legends, Jamstik +
Episode 81 Show Notes:
Fantastical 2 for the Mac
RWDevcon 2016
Apple is reportedly launching a 9.7-inch iPad Pro in March
Hideaway Case for iPad Pro 12.9
The Apple Pencil, and Open Source Swift – Podcast S05 E04
1xnm DRAM Challenges
Leisure Suit Larry
Amiga 1200
NP-complete problem solved with biological motors
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon—And Invented Software Itself
A Story About ‘Magic'
Tim Cook Interview with ABC News
Washington Blog - Snowden Quote
Apple's lease of old Sunnyvale Pepsi bottling plant hints at Project Titan expansion
RWDevcon 2016 Schedule PDF
Swift port to Android
Invisible Red Podcast
Episode 81 Picks:
Creating an Xcode Project With a Built-in Playground
League of Legends
Jamstik +
3/6/2016 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 21 seconds
Episode 80: The Two Finger Long Press
We start off covering Tim Cook's appearance on ABC News. We follow up on the FBI's actions reseting the shooter's password and the populace understanding of the ramifications. We also follow up on the Cambrian explosion of Swift web servers and the Quartz news app. We discuss Github's drag and drop, devmate and Make Money Outside the App Store. We explore the two finger long press to select text. Picks: iOS App Extensions, Tiny Game of Pong, Test Your Swift.
Episode 80 Show Notes:
Tim Cook Interview with ABC News
FBI: Resetting San Bernardino gunman's iCloud password wasn't a mistake
Answers to your questions about Apple and security
iOS: Understanding data protection
iOS Security
Eliza, computer therapist
Quartz iOS App
Apple TV Tech Talks Videos
GitHub drag & drop
GitHub Desktop for Mac
DevMate goes free
Make Money Outside the Mac App Store
Fastspring
Kitura
Build End-to-End Cloud Apps using Swift with Kitura
Perfect
Blackfish
Swifter
Django
Flask
Pyramid
Apple, don't cripple the Pencil's navigation in iOS 9.3
Teleprompt+ 3
Parrot Teleprompter
Episode 80 Picks:
iOS App Extensions: Series Introduction
A Tiny Game of Pong
How to measure the digital crown
Test Your Swift
2/27/2016 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 79: Your Back Door Man
This week we discuss the Letter published by Tim Cook in response to the FBI's request to create a "back door" into iOS. We talk about Panic's Prompt app update. We ponder Rob Rhyne's departure to join Apple and Jaimee Newberry's rise to COO of MartianCraft. Greg sneaks in a couple of posts on Blackfish and Swifter; two Swift based http servers. Picks: Quartz iOS App, Earl Grey and The Astonishing Powers and Mesmerizing Secrets of 3D Touch.
Episode 79 Show Notes:
Customer Letter
Prompt 2
Remade: A novel
Fourth Amendment
“Do you know the way to use eBay”
Cook & Jobs on privacy
APPLE VERSUS THE FBI, UNDERSTANDING IPHONE ENCRYPTION, THE RISKS FOR APPLE AND ENCRYPTION
Turn off Find My iPhone Activation Lock
Apple can comply with the FBI court order
Why the FBI's request to Apple will affect civil rights for a generation
This is why the FBI can’t hack into iPhones
Ghost moving to Singapore
Wordfence
Blackfish
Swifter
Rob Rhyne moving to Apple
Jaimee Newberry
MartianCraft
Money Well
Kevin Hoctor
Episode 79 Picks:
Quartz iOS App
Earl Grey
The Astonishing Powers and Mesmerizing Secrets of 3D Touch
2/20/2016 • 1 hour, 20 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 78: Greg Heo Cracks the Whip
This week we follow up on the Parse wind down as well as the App Store Economy and Panic's 2015 report. We also discuss fonts for coders & console use. Apparently Moore's Law is dead and we touch on the iPad Pro in use. The absence of Americans on the show devolves into a discussion of the weather and where to get a good poutine. More than just code, folks! Picks: Algorithms & Data Structures in Swift and Hirundo.
Episode 78 Show Notes:
NSCoder
the App Store as an economy
Introducing Day One 2
The Panic 2015 Report
Omni Group
Font is a four letter word
Using Operator in Xcode
Operator
Inconsolata
Inconsolata-dz
Hack | A typeface designed for source code
Consolus
Apple made $20 Billion in services alone!
Moore’s law really is dead this time
iPad Pro Keyboard and Pencil Review
Evernote
How would you explain the various sorting algorithms to a six year old?
Smokes Poutinerie
Fancy Franks Gourmet Hot Dogs Toronto
NSNorth 2016
Episode 78 Picks:
Algorithms & Data Structures in Swift, by Wayne Bishop
Hirundo – Comfortably follow Swift Discussions
2/13/2016 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 28 seconds
Episode 77: A Reading by Aaron Vegh
This week we discuss the shutdown of Parse, Orta Therox's post on finding a job as an iOS developer, the Swift Algorithm Club and working in Objective-C. We're joined by Tammy Coron, who is a developer and all around creative person. We do discuss Star Wars and try not to spoil it. We also touch on developer conferences coming in 2016. Picks: Pomo.tv, Android Study Jams, 360|Andev, X-Files season 10, IndieDevStock and NSNorth.
Episode 77 Show Notes:
Mason-Dixon Line
Parse is shutting down
Heroku
Azure
FireBase
Interviewing, applying and getting your first iOS job
Cocoa Programming for OS X – The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
C4 (conference)
CocoaConf
RWDevCon Inspiration Talk – Contributing by Ryan Nystrom
Swift Algorithm Club
RWDevCon Inspiration Talk - Math Isn't Scary by Matthijs Hollemans - Ray Wenderlich
Seasonality Go
Developer didn't study CS
Why I write in Objective C
Episode 77 Picks:
Pomo.tv
Android Study Jams
360|Andev
X-Files season 10
IndieDevStock
NSNorth
2/6/2016 • 1 hour, 33 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 75: UIStack and Barrel
This we discuss various implementations of Stack Views, UI Testing and Unwind Segues. An Apple Watch Easter Egg is debunked as well as the Stolen app.
Picks: Desktop Neo, A simple tip to reduce App Store rejections and Testing in iOS.
Episode 75 Show Notes:
UIStackViews
Sam Davies
Introducing Stack Views Series (Swift)
XCode 6: How To Debug The View Hierarchy In Your Storyboard
Mysteries of Auto Layout, Part 1
TZStackView
OAStackView
You need to read this review
Canada Mac Prices
Oil price falls below $28 a barrel - less than cost of an actual barrel
Calabash
Appium
Robotium
Expresso
Nimble Snapshots - Ash Furrow
Eidolon code walkthrough
unwind segues vs delegation in storyboards
Apple Watch Easter Egg
Stolen, which turned your Twitter profile into a trading card, is pulled from the App Store
Tim Mitra - RoundaboutFM podcast
Episode 75 Picks:
Desktop Neo
A simple tip to reduce App Store rejections
Testing in iOS Series
1/23/2016 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 74: Windows Happy Fun Time
SPOILERS - We dive into discussions about our previous iOS projects and future prospects. We also discuss our opinions on Star Wars: The Force Awakens. We talk about the new CocoaPods editor for Mac. We follow up on Stock Options for developers. We discuss the multi-user support on iPad coming in iOS 9.3. We discuss Apple's decision to disband the iAd team. We follow up on iOS 9 install base at 75%. Jaime gets an Android phone. Picks: The Swift Jobs Board.
Episode 74 Show Notes:
weWorkRemotely.com
Apple in 2015: The Six Colors report card
Cocoapods App for Mac
Orta
An Engineer’s guide to Stock Options
iOS 9 Preview
MDM - Mobile Device Management
1Password
f.lux
Apple Steps Back From Its iAd Advertising Business
iOS 9 is Now Installed on 75% of Active iOS Devices
Analytics for iOS
MixPanel Report on iOS9
LG Optimus Zone™ 2
Android Dashboards
Natasha the Robot
Ash Furrow
Dominic Gleeson
Aftermath: Star Wars
Daisy Ridley
Episode 74 Picks:
Swift Jobs board
1/16/2016 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 73: #73 - Making the Case for iPad
This week Aaron discusses his hands on impressions of the iPad Pro and iPad Mini 4. We discuss new products revealed at CES for Macbook, Apple Watch, HomeKit and Apple TV. We discuss a new curated list for Apple TV apps as well as Stacks. Picks: iPad Cases from Khomo and Finite, Little things that can make your life easier in 2016 and Apple Pencil Tutorial: Getting Started.
Episode 73 Show Notes:
Kijiji.ca
CES 2016 Roundup: The best iPhone, iPad, Mac, & Apple Watch accessories on show this week
iPad Mini 4
Brydge announces new clamshell backlit keyboard cases for iPad Pro & iPad mini 4
KBKit
Hyper 5-in-1 USB C Hub
Pigment - The only true coloring book experience for adults
CES 2016: 8 interesting HomeKit accessories
Griffin-usb-c-adapter
Chevrolet’s Bolt is an electric vehicle for the masses—and we’ve driven it
Voices: Is Faraday Future Apple's hidden elephant?
Pebble Classic
Apple TV Apps: The best Apple TV Apps
StackShare
HomeScreen
NetNewsWire
FeedWrangler
Twitter app
A long time ago, just now: Simon Pegg on Star Wars
Episode 73 Picks:
KHOMO iPad Mini 4 Case
Fintie iPad Air 2 Case - Slim Fit Leather Folio Case
Little things that can make your life easier in 2016
Apple Pencil Tutorial: Getting Started
1/9/2016 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 43 seconds
Episode 72: #72 - Just Another Spin Around the Sun
We are graced by the presence of Tammy Coron and Greg Heo as guest hosts. We discuss the freshly minted update to the Twitter for Mac app. We discuss The IndieDevStock conference coming to Nashville TN in the fall. Starting with a follow up on building apps for the iPad Pro, we review the Best tech for developers in 2015. Picks: Parsing JSON in Swift, 12 Resolutions for Programmers and Procreate.
Episode 72 Show Notes:
Twitter’s updated Mac app wasn’t made by Twitter - Blame Black Pixel?
Tweetbot
The iPad Pro has an App Store problem
Loren Brichter's funny tweet
IWearYourTShirt.com
Indie Devstock
The Apple Pencil, and Open Source Swift
iPad Pro
Pencil By 53
Cintiq Companion
Capo
Capo Touch
This week’s Incomparable was edited and posted (not recorded) entirely on an iPad Pro using Ferrite
Job one for Apple's Phil Schiller: Fix the Mac App Store
In Memoriam: Ian Murdock
Apple TV
Ad blocking
Swift
Apple Watch
MacBook 12
GameplayKit
Episode 72 Picks:
Parsing JSON in Swift
12 Resolutions for Programmers
Procreate
1/1/2016 • 1 hour, 49 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 71: #71 - A Little Skin in the Game
This week we jump into a discussion on accepting equity as part of your pay as developer. We discuss the risk and the rewards. That leads into a brief discussion of Canadian and US economies. We discuss the Apple Tv after using it for few months as well as Mark's impressions on the Apple TV Tech Talks. We discuss what is using Swift correctly and what to do with old Macs. Picks: Zync, icons8, Lynda.com and Programming iOS 9 and GamePlayKit by Tammy Coron.
Episode 71 Show Notes:
When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
RSU
TAM
Broadway Leads formerly iOS Leads
W8BEN
George W. Bush Cold Open - SNL (US Only)
Apple TV Tech Talks - Session Resources
Plex App
Marathon
Alto's Adventure
Badland
Does not Commute
Luther Season 4
NSCoderTO
Tammy Coron
Roundaboutfm Podcast
Simon Allardice
Scott Gardner
Lynda.com
Toronto Public Library - Lynda
Complete Free IOS 9 , Xcode 7 and Swift 2.0 Development Course
Switching Your Brain to Swift
Advanced Swift
Perfect.org
NSDate
Computer History Museum
The Computer Museum, Boston
Swift 2.0 Essential Training
Episode 71 Picks:
Zinc - Video Bookmarks
icons8
Programming iOS 9 and GamePlayKit by Tammy Coron
12/26/2015 • 1 hour, 39 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 70: #70 - The Source Awakens
This week we reminisce about out earliest Star Wars memories. NO SPOILERS! We follow up on a decent USB-C port adapter. Greg reports on PromiseKit. We also follow up on developer's salaries in Canada at least. We discuss the interview of Craig Federighi on The Talk Show, as well Greg's plans to explore more on Swift.org. We discuss building for Android with Android Studio and cross platform with React Native. We follow up on Greg's experience with Apple Pay. Picks: This Week on Swift.org, Android Feast
Episode 70 Show Notes:
Graeme Devine
PromiseKit
BrightFutures
Here's the MacBook USB-C adapter that Apple should have made
In a fierce fight for talent, Canadian startups try to edge out Google and Facebook
Hire great talent "The Voice" way.
‘HOW MANY FINGERS SHOULD THIS BABY HAVE?’, WITH SPECIAL GUESTS CRAIG FEDERIGHI AND JOHN SIRACUSA
Android Studio
Introducing the Android Feast!
USE REACT NATIVE
Rubymotion
Scala Language
Gradle
Metrolinx
Episode 70 Picks:
This week on Swift.org
Introducing the Android Feast!
Star Wars - The Force Awakens
12/19/2015 • 1 hour, 19 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 69: #69 - Swift Takes Flight
We follow up on the Apple Watch now that Jaime is back. We discuss the first Apple TV Tech Talk (SuperGirl spoilers) in Toronto. We follow up on Swift Open Source, which actually went live on github. We also discuss the Taxonomy of Developers as seen by Y-Combinators. Wire framing tools are also discussed. Picks: AppCooker, Swift Algorithm News and MacID.
Episode 69 Show Notes:
the Score
Brian Gilham
Robin Senior
Natasha the Robot
Apple plans March Apple Watch 2 event, 4-inch ‘iPhone 6c’ possible
Fibit
Microsoft Band
Pedometer++ 2.3: Embracing the Apple Watch
Apple TV Tech Talk
Shaan Pruden
John Geleynse
Josh Tidsbury
Apple TV Streaming Content on Hold for now
Digital Ad Spending Expected to Soon Surpass TV
Welcome to Swift.org
Chris Lattner
Greg's contribution to Swift
Your source for Swift at IBM
Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox
docker
Source Kitten
SourceKit
Introduction to Open Source Swift on Linux
A Taxonomy of Programmers
Y Combinator
Sketch
iMockUp
Interface 3
Briefs
Omni Graffle
AppTaster
RWDevCon Inspiration Talk – Contributing by Ryan Nystrom
Episode 69 Picks:
AppCooker
Swift Algorithms News
MacID
12/13/2015 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 38 seconds
Episode 68: #68 - The Future of Swift Idioms
We dive right in on a discussion on wages and salaries for iOS developers. Next we celebrate Adobe's decision to end Flash and introduce Animate CC. We discuss Dan Frommer's post on the stalled Apple Watch platform. Bohemian Coding's decision to remove Sketch from the Mac App Store is also discussed. We corner guest host Greg Heo on whether Swift has gained it's own development idioms and the pending Swift going open source. Picks: Realm, Asynchronous Values in Swift, UITouch.Stylus
Episode 68 Show Notes:
iOS Developer Salary - Toronto
FLASH, HTML5 AND OPEN WEB STANDARDS
Writing Production Swift - Ash Furrow
Algorithm Design Manual
Swift Apprentice
Sketch Leaving the Mac App Store
How Apple could fix the Mac App Store
Quiver: The Programmer's Notebook (no longer on sale)
iTunes link maker really shows what Apple thinks of the Mac App Store.
Realm - Threading
YapDatabase
WWDC 2015 Advanced Touch Input in iOS
Apple Pencil Teardown
Episode 68 Picks:
Realm
Asynchronous values as first-class citizens in Swift
UITouchType.Stylus - Supporting the Pencil
12/6/2015 • 1 hour, 36 minutes, 52 seconds
Episode 67: #67 - Perfect, Timing and the iPad Pro
Once again we discuss the iPad Pro and it's professional moniker and why now is the right time for a device - based on the hardware and the state of iOS and OS X. We discuss Readdle's post on becoming successful on the Mac App Store. Also Alan Pike's report on another developer using his own support email address in their poorly written app. We follow up on idiomatic swift with a post by Erica Sadun. We discuss whether Swift's automatic inclusion could be problematic for now developers. We also discuss Perfect.org's Perfect server side swift project.
No kittens were harmed in the making of this show.
Episode 67 Show Notes:
The Hype is Real - Gus Mueller
UITouchType.Stylus - Supporting the Pencil
AstroPad
Adobe Comp
Adobe Photoshop Mix
How To Launch a Mac App and Become #1 Top Paid App Globally
PDF Expert
John Geleynse Director of Technology Evangelism & User Experience Evangelist
(Tim mispronounced his name)
AgileBits
The Worst App
Readdle
Erica Sadun - A handful of Swift style rules
The Official raywenderlich.com Swift Style Guide.
The official raywenderlich.com Objective-C style guide.
Effective Objective-C 2.0
Matt J Galloway (developer author)
Matt Galloway CBC (radio host)
Perfect (server side swift)
Perfect.org
Chromecast
Facebook SDK for tvOS Now Available
Hitman Go
League of Legends
California Golden Seals
Episode 67 Picks:
Beamer for Mac
Lara Croft Go
11/28/2015 • 1 hour, 3 minutes, 55 seconds
Episode 66: #66 - Dump Trucks Full of Money
This week we discuss the latest Mac App Store certificate Snafu and iTunes Connect issues and the effect on developers. Apple Pay arrives in Canada with caveats and Greg relates his experience with it. We discuss the A9X and A10 chip manufacturers and iPad Pro sales predictions. Tim gives a review of productivity on the iPad Pro after one week. Greg introduces Apple's move to subscriptions for some services and Castros move to patronage in their podcast app. Picks: Bus Driver and Ferrite
Episode 66 Show Notes:
Apple Responds to Developers Regarding Expired Mac App Store Security Certificates
Receipt Validation Programing Guide
Rich Turton
Apple Pay Launches in Canada Today
Apple Canada - Apple Pay
KGI expects Apple to sell 2.5M iPad Pros in Q4, TSMC found to be sole provider of A9x chip
AAPL has huge potential for more monthly revenue, says Goldman Sachs, estimating $7.6B/month
Graphic - Illustration and design (formerly iDraw)
Autodesk Sketchbook
Pencil by 53
Adobe Photoshop Express
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Tim's Tweet to Craig Hockenberry
Evan Dekhayser
Tammy Coron
Use iPad Pro Like a Wacom Cintiq
MTJC on Patreon
Castro is Now Free with Patronage
Castro 1.5
Castro 1.5 and Patronage
DISINGENUOUS
Carbon Copy Cloner
Pedometer++
Aaron Dowd @thepodcastdude
Editing podcasts on iOS with Ferrite
Andrew S
Castmate.fm
Chris Eidhoff
The First Swift Developer Conference in China
Episode 66 Picks:
Bus Driver
Euro Truck Simulator
Ferrite Recording Studio
11/21/2015 • 1 hour, 34 minutes, 1 second
Episode 65: #65 - Empty Vessels of Opportunity
We dive right in with our hands on review of the iPad Pro. We also comment on technical issues with the iOS & Mac App Store as well as iTunes Connect. We discuss how mobile app devs are suffering and how the top sellers make 60% of app income. What opportunities and what road blocks that Apple provides. Dropbox drops Objective-C. Picks: Fake, Thumbzone and Smashy Road: Wanted
Episode 65 Show Notes:
TACOW
Fraser Speirs
Dave Delong
Desktop Computer - Horace Dediu
iPad Pro Accessories Review: Apple Pencil, Smart Keyboard, Logitech CREATE Keyboard
Apple. We're Looking At You
Mobile App Developers are Suffering
Omni Group
Coda For iOS
#130: It’s a Giant Distraction Box
PCalc – The Best Calculator
Plex
Simplex
MARIN TODOROV - WHAT’S IN FOR US AFTER THE INDIEPOCALIPSE?
'Guitar Hero Live' Launches For Apple TV, But Gamers Need Guitar Controller To Play
Apple TV Tech Talks
MFI Program
More testers available via TestFlight
Dropbox drops Objective-C from newest SDK
Todd Dichindorf
App Programming Guide for tvOS
Torchwood
Retroactive Continuity (retcon)
Driver
Spy Hunter
Sheep, Dog & Wolf
Innoveghtive.com
Episode 65 Picks:
Fake
Thumbzone
Smashy Road: Wanted
11/14/2015 • 1 hour, 27 minutes, 49 seconds
Episode 64: #64 - iOS In My Head
This week we discuss our hands on experience with the new Apple TV. We also covered the pending 1Password for Teams and the rumoured iPad Pro release date. Picks: BackChannel.io, Grocery Shopping List and Osmo iPad Gaming System.
These notes were compiled and edited by Tim on his iPad, sitting on the couch with the TV on.
Episode 74 Show Notes:
CocoaConf San Jose
360|iDev
Andy Ihnatko
Plex for Apple TV
TextBlade
MAME
1Password for Teams
Passpack
Meldium
Atari Greatest Hits (for iOS)
Xcode Continous Integration
Bandai Namco on the App Store
Flight Control by Firemint (acquired by EA. Is now FireMonkeys Studios)
Angela Ahrendts
Apple plans to start selling the iPad Pro on November 11th
Apple Watch discount: Great deal, or sign of trouble?
Episode 64 Picks:
Backchannel.io
Grocery Shopping List by Capitan
Osmo iPad Gaming System
11/7/2015 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 63: #63 - Calculated Apple TV Launch
This week we discuss the release of the Apple TV as the reviews start to appear. We discuss the options for transferring an app, new app sizes coming with the iPad Pro and supporting legacy apps. We chat about the Mac sales and potential of the Mac app development. Nintendo's pending smart phone app entry and our favorite pCalc coming to the Apple TV as well as the app approval experience. Picks: Satechi Type-C Adapter, Aerial, Her Story and 2D iOS & tvOS Games by Tutorials
PCalc screenshot by James Thompson
Episode 63 Show Notes:
APPLETV AND THE ICLOUDPOCALYPSE
Apple TV Weekly #6
Transferring and Deleting Apps
iPad Pro raises iOS supported sizes to 22
Updating a Cocos2D-iPhone application to a 64-bit architecture
Toronto Star - Why owning an Apple can be fruitful
Six Colors: Apple results: Record Mac sales, $11.1B profit
Nintendo set to reveal first smartphone game a day before Apple TV gaming hits the living room
Pokémon TCG Online
Square Enix
Square Enix on the App Store
PCalc - The Best Calculator
Magpie for Apple TV
Dan Jalkut's Shush for TV vs Apple Store
Core Intuition - Episode 203: Thankfully I Didn’t Even Try
Introducing the USB-C Dock
Jobs At Apple
Thunderbolt 2 Dock
RoundaboutFM Podcast
Episode 63 Picks:
Satechi Announces Type-C Hub Adapter for MacBook
Aerial
Her Story
2D iOS & tvOS Games by Tutorials
10/31/2015 • 1 hour, 43 minutes, 33 seconds
Episode 62: #62 - One Xcode to Rule Them All (for now)
We started on Apple's new Apple Watch TV commercials, Apple TVOS Gold Master and all of Apple development products under one roof. We briefly discussed issues with Apple Transport Security, the lack of USB-C cable in second wave TVOS Dev Kits and Apple TV WWDC give-away conspiracy. How will the Apple TV app store work? We discussed challenges with Paypal's SDK and challenges uploading large bitcode laden builds to Github. Picks: Outlook for iOS, 19 Tips for Everyday Git and Swift Apprentice.
Episode 62 Show Notes:
Apple's Latest Apple Watch Ads Showcase Siri, Apple Music, Apple Pay and More
Apple TV Development Kits
USB 2.0 USB-C Male to USB-A Male Cable, 3ft
Brian Gilham
Tim Cook Says New Apple TV Will Ship Next Week, Orders Begin Monday
Dash
NetNewsWire crash assessment
Brent Simmons
Daniel Pasco
Paypal SDK with Bitcode vs Github limits
Inbox for iOS
Gmail for iOS
Mattjias Holleman
Ray's post - Swift Apprentice Now Available!
Beginning Swift Bundle
Audrey Tam
Episode 62 Picks:
Outlook for iOS
19 tips for everyday git use
Swift Apprentice
10/23/2015 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 35 seconds
Episode 61: #61 - Let Them Eat Cake
This week we had an impromptu discussion about game development. We discussed Overcast 2 and Marco Arment's decision to make all features free and Samantha Bielefeld's rebuttal. We talked about the patent Apple lost to U of Wisconsin. We discussed the use of gratuitous animation and blocking UX with too many spinners. Picks: Colors and Tyme.
Episode 61 Show Notes:
1010!
Crossy Road
Panic - Shockingly Good Software
The Omni Group
Flixel
Pragmatic Pricing
The Elephant In the Room
Apple loses patent lawsuit to U of Wisconsin
Do not let your user see spinners
Your UI isn't a Disney movie
Episode 61 Picks:
Colors
Tyme
10/21/2015 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 14 seconds
Episode 60: #60 - We Do Math
This week we discuss the struggles and lack there of faced by Instagram, Evernote and Patreon. We also touched on the Apple TV Developer Kit round 2. We discuss the new paradigm in interacting with the Apple TV. We discuss Microsofts new Surface Book and Display Dock. Developers made need to pay tax to Japanese govt. Picks: Apple Developer Search, Paintcode 2, Starbucks and iOS 9 By Tutorials
Episode 60 Show Notes:
The Other App Store
Instagram
Apple Developer Kit
iFixit’s Apple TV Tear Down Screwed Developers
Inquisitive #27: Behind the App #1: History - Relay FM (Mike Hurley)
Microsoft PixelSense (multi-touch table)
Jim Dovey
Teleprompt+ 3
Evernote
Patreon (MTJC Page)
The right way to ship software
The iPad Pro is too big to get Office apps for free, says Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook for iOS
Microsoft’s Surface Book Will Redefine How PCs Are Made
Microsoft Display Dock
Filezilla
Modbook
Compaq TC1000
Microsoft HoloLens: release date, rumours, specs & pricing
Understanding Japanese App Store Withholding (old post)
Tweetbot 4 for Twitter
PaintCode Tutorial for Designers: Getting Started
asciiwwdc
Revision of Consumption Taxation on Cross-Border Supplies of Services
Jeff M
Vinyl Tap Tour: Every Song Tells a Story
Netflix documentary 'Keith Richards: Under The Influence'
Episode 60 Picks:
developer.apple.com Search
Paintcode 2
Starbucks app
iOS 9 By Tutorials
10/11/2015 • 1 hour, 40 minutes, 58 seconds
Episode 59: #59 - We Can't Help Ourselves
This week we chat about Internet pricing, cell service plans and iPhone subsidies. We follow up on Content Blockers and advertising. OS X El Capitan ships and discuss upgrading strategies. We cover our recommended upgrade strategies, cloning hard drives, backup and storage. We discuss the consequences of breaking Apple's NDA as iFixit gets kicked out.
Episode 59 Show Notes:
Tech Savvy
Comcast
iPad Pro
iPad Model Comparison
HIG Icon and Image Sizes
Graffiti (Palm OS)
ATP: Episode 137 Feature Photos
Open X Ad Server
Link Share
Lex Freidman
Block Party
Top Selling Paid Apps
Mixpanel - iOS 9 adoption
El Capitan
CronniX
Super Duper!
Carbon Copy Cloner
Crash Plan
Background Backup
Drobo
How to move your Mac's iTunes library to an external drive
Synology
Apple Bans iFixit Developer Account and Removes App After Apple TV Teardown
Gizmodo
Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006
Merch by Amazon
NerdGirl 19
Swiftee
Camera+
Wordplay (2006)
Episode 59 Picks:
Lingon
Shooty Skies
Both Samsung and TSMC are making the A9 chip for Apple
iPhone 6S Photo comparison
10/3/2015 • 1 hour, 23 minutes, 31 seconds
Episode 58: #58 - Speak Now or Keep Your Peace
This week we discuss the early success of iOS 9 installs. We cover the XcodeGhost that loaded malicious content through tainted copies of Xcode. We discuss the overwhelming success of Content Blockers and one developers decision to remove his blocker app. We discuss the reports on Apple's Car team assembling. We cover our experiences with the Apple TV Developer Kit, App Transport Security, Multitasking and Storyboard References. Picks: Shush & Reverse Crown
Episode 58 Show Notes:
iOS 9 is already running on more than half of Apple mobile devices
iOS 9 adoption
Xcode 7
Validating Your Version of Xcode
OS X: About Gatekeeper
Hundreds of millions of devices potentially affected by first major iOS malware outbreak
Just doesn’t feel good
John Gruber
Rene Ritchie
Jason Snell
Federico Viticci
Page Load Time Comparison
App Camp For Girls
Macworld Digital Magazine (U.S.)
Report: Apple's electric car given 2019 launch date
Report: Apple met with California DMV to discuss self-driving cars
Apple TV Developer Kit
Storyboard References
App Transport Security Technote
WORKING WITH APPLE’S APP TRANSPORT SECURITY
Networking with NSURLSession
Facebook SDK for iOS
About Multitasking on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
Episode 58 Picks:
The Apple Watch and 'Reverse Crown'
Mizage Shush
9/26/2015 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 36 seconds
Episode 57: #57 - Saying Nein From Now On
This week we continue deliberations on the iPad Pro and is this the right time for another iPad? Once again we discuss "Premium" app pricing and the reactive to Jaime's recent tweet. We discuss the Apple TV Developer Kit. We talk about Lyft's all Swift app. We discuss transitioning apps under iOS 9 which shipped this past week. Picks: Peace, Paper for iPhone and Hand Prix.
Episode 57 Show Notes:
iPad Pro
Pencil by 53
We need sketch for the iPad Pro!
Apple TV Developer Kit
Jaime's $4.99 tweet
Crystal - Block Ads Browse Faster
Lyft
Cocoa Programming for OS X - The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
Top Tips for iOS 9 Development
Mastering Auto Layout - Justin Williams
Mortal Pongbat
App Store Games
Battle Chess
Beyond Dark Castle
Episode 57 Picks:
Peace by Marco Arment (Marco Arment has removed the app from the App Store.)
Paper - Notes, Photo Annotation, and Sketches by FiftyThree by FiftyThree, Inc
Hand Prix
9/20/2015 • 1 hour, 25 minutes, 59 seconds
Episode 56 Pt 2 - On To The iPhone 6S
Continuing our look at latest Apple Event - Hey Siri! Give Us a Hint, we discuss the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. We also continue to discuss developing for the iPhone 6S with 3D Touch as well as Apple TV with TV OS. Picks: Swift Summit, Apple TV Weekly & Local
Episode 56 Part 2 Show Notes
iPhone 6S
3D Touch video
Live Photos video
Live from Apple's iPhone 6S announcement
iPhone Upgrade Program (link isn't available yet)
Jim Rutherford
iCloud Storage Pricing
Amazon Cloud Drive
Apple TV Development Kit (closed)
Apple TV Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
Apple Event Bingo
MTJC Mailing List
WatchKit Resources Mailing List
This Week In Swift
Episode 56 Picks
Swift Summit
Apple TV Weekly
Local
9/12/2015 • 41 minutes, 57 seconds
Episode 56 Pt 1 - Siri Gave Us a Hint
We take a look at the Apple Event - Hey Siri! Give Us a Hint, where Apple announced the new iPad Pro, new Apple TV & TVOS, iPhone 6S (covered in Part 2). We also grill Greg on his thoughts on Swift implementation. Picks will be in Part 2.
Episode 56 Pt1 Show Notes:
Episode 53 – Deciding Where the Exclamation Marks Go
AirStrip One
Hermes Apple Watch Bands
Pencil by 53
iPad Pro
Imaginary Physics Store
Wacom Cintiq
Sir Jonathan Ive
weheartgames
Zombie Conga for tvOS! :]
Steve Luibitz
Aaron Douglas
9/11/2015 • 1 hour, 11 minutes, 32 seconds
Episode 55: C'Mon In. The Water's Fine
We start off with some follow up on Amazon Underground. We discuss iOS 9 Content Blocking extensions. We discuss the waining support of Flash in web ads, web browsers & the enterprise. We speculate on the products to be announced on Sept 9th - also whether Apple will make a play into providing content & games on the Apple TV. Aaron illuminates his progress using Swift. Picks: VHS Camcorder app and QuartzCode app.
Episode 55 Show Notes
Mic Pringle
Darryl Bayliss
Amazon Underground
iOS 9 Content Blocking Extensions Explained - iMore
iOS 9 content blocking will transform the mobile Web: I’ve tried it
Cloud to Butt
Amazon - Technical guidelines (no more Flash)
Fluid Coupling - Asymco
Apple & IBM
iPad Pro planned for Sept. 9 debut with iPad mini 4; October pre-orders, November launch
Apple TV 4 hardware revealed: A8 chip, black remote, 8/16GB storage, same ports, no 4K
Jimmy Iovine
Dr. Dre
Apple Executive Bios
Moving Swiftly - Allan Pike argues that now is the time for Swift
Advanced Swift - Objc.io Book
Kung Fury Official Movie
Kentucky Fried Movie
Paint Code
Principle For Mac
Episode 55 Picks
VHS Camcorder by Rarevision
QuartzCode app
9/5/2015 • 1 hour, 16 minutes, 29 seconds
Episode 54: The Fellowship of Swift
This week we follow up on the Swift adoption discussion started last week. We discuss the "All you eat" software models. We discuss the role of Product Manager in development. Tim Cook sends an email and saves stock market. Picks Crossy Road (Pacman edition), PAC-MAN 256 and iSwift.
NB The 360|iDev 2015 videos should be ready around Aug 28, 2015
Episode 54 Show Notes:
Josh Micheals 360|iDev Keynote
John Wilker
Mastering Auto Layout - Justin Williams
Dave Wiskus - 'All You Can App'
Amazon’s new games and apps store: Free for users, 12¢ an hour for devs
Amazon Underground Features An Android App Store Focused On “Actually Free” Apps
Gus Mueller
Daniel Jalkut
The Last Job - Kyle Richter
Uber
Strategic Coach - Business Coaching
Steve Jobs Movie
Steam
Defence of the Ancients
Tetris
2048
Apple Stock Reacts After Tim Cook Email Praises China Sales
Jim Kramer
iSight Camera Replacement for iPhone 6 Plus
Episode 17 – Why Did the Chicken Crossy the Road?
OpenDoc
Greg Heo - Switching your brain to Swift
Bringing Swift to your Objective-C Projects - René Cacheaux
Developing iOS 8 Apps With Swift
Episode 55 Picks:
Crossy Road - Endless Arcade Hopper (Pac-Man update)
PAC-MAN 256 - Endless Arcade Maze
iSwift
Special Guest: Fuad Kumal.
8/28/2015 • 1 hour, 31 minutes, 40 seconds
Episode 53: Deciding Where the Exclamation Marks Go
This week we recorded the show while attending 360|iDev 2015 in Denver Colorado. We were joined by conference speaker, Greg Heo, and MTJC uber-fan, Fuad "Hey Siri!" Kamal. We discussed the new paradigm of podcast cliques and what is involved in a tech podcast. We also give an overview of the sessions at this years 360|iDev conference. Picks: Principle for Mac, RWDevCon 2016 and Vainglory.
Episode 53 Show Notes:
Fuad Kamal
podcasts for iOS developers
Accidental Tech Podcast
John Siracusa
Relay FM
Mike Hurley
Release Notes – the Business of iOS and Mac Development
iOhYes
NSBrief
Build Phase
RoundaboutFM
The raywenderlich.com Podcast
Core Intuition
Daniel Jalkut
Manton Reese
The Talk Show With John Gruber
Shared Instance podcast
360|iDev
Still Here - Josh Michaels
Solving Auto Layout Problems - Jack Cox
Mastering Auto Layout - Justin Williams
Switching Your Brain to Swift - Greg Heo
Bringing Swift to Your Objective-C Projects - René Cacheaux
Something Deep With Mike - Mike Lee
The Last Job II - Kyle Richter
What's In It For Us After the Indiepocalipse - Marin Todorov
Brandon Trebitowski
Episode 53 Picks:
Principle for Mac: animation prototyping tool for web/mobile
RWDevCon 2016
Vainglory
Special Guest: Fuad Kumal.
8/22/2015 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 51 seconds
Episode 52: The Aaron App Store
This week we follow up on Twitter, who has hired Falcon Pro app developer to build an Android app. We also discuss limitations of iPad as a production device. Can it be used for high end productivity or will the rumored iPad Pro fill that need. Aaron open’s his Crazy Idea Corner with an independent App Store idea. Picks; Github Desktop, Microsoft Translator, iOhYes podcast
Episode 52 Show Notes
Twitter hires Falcon Pro app developer for Android Twitter app
The Screen-Size Debate: How the iPhone 6 Plus Impacts Where We Read & Watch
Neil Cybart on the future of iPad
Dringend - The development environment for your iPhone & iPad
Apple Features Indie Game apps
Propolitico a Lesson in laser focused pay wall - Matthew Ingram
Next Issue – unlimited access to more than 140 magazines
Adobe Creative Cloud
AppHub.io: Update React Native apps instantly
React Native
Apple App Store Guidelines 332 & 333
Canonical Ubuntu
Cydia
Panic Coda
Rob Rix
Build Phase
Greg (too famous) Heo
Beginning Steve Jobs
Magpie Video
Release Notes
Chris Liscio
FuzzMeasure
Episode 52 Picks
GitHub Desktop for Mac
Microsoft Translator by Microsoft Corporation
iOhYes podcast
8/15/2015 • 1 hour, 26 minutes, 56 seconds
Episode 51: Twitter, You're Holding It Wrong
This week we discuss all kinds of social networking tools prompted by Twitter's report on slowing user growth. We discuss how the various popular social networking tools are used by the general public and it skews differently for those of us in the tech sector.
Picks: pttrns.com, bloc app, App Icon Template. Tim discusses Bed Debugging in the aftershow.
Episode 51 Show Notes:
Dashboard
Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over
Twitter Investors Brace for Crummy Q2 Earnings
Facebook
Periscope
Maker Festival Toronto 2015
Instagram
TweetDeck
IT Crowd Season 3 Episode 4 - FriendFace
LinkedIn
Episode #2 – First World Problems – Aug 12, 2014
Foursquare
Swarm by Foursquare
Messenger by Facebook
Fabric - Twitter's Mobile Development Platform
Crashlytics
Messenger is being downloaded more than Facebook’s flagship app
MoPub - World's Largest Mobile Ad Server and RTB
Build and Analyze: California Knife in Your Back
Tweetbot
Twitterific
app.net
Ello
Loren Brichter
CompuServe
Seveneves a novel by Neil Stevenson
Periscope on Pttrns.com
Github Pages
gist
Long & McQuade: Canada's Music Store, Musical Instruments
XRackPro2
BedBugsAndBeyond.ca
Episode 51 Picks:
Pttrns.com
Bloc App
App Icon Template
8/8/2015 • 1 hour, 41 minutes, 16 seconds
Episode 50: Do You Have O(air conditioning)?
This week we follow up on Apple Music issues, iTunes, the judicious use of shitty code with Design Stamina Hypothesis and Apple's rumored Car. Greg and Aaron go on a couple of tangents on AI and the new Cross Point memory. Our Picks: Ghostery, open source Objective-C, ASCIIwwdc, Paint Code and Telekinesis (beta).
Sponsored by: Hired.com
Episode 50 Show Notes:
Apple Music The Highs and Very Lows of Day 1 Usability
I Got My Music Back. At Least Most Of It
Hired.com/morethanjustcode
Intel and Micron unveil 3D XPoint, a brand new memory technology
Design Stamina Hypothesis
Refactoring - Improving the Design of Existing Code
Rumor: Apple’s Finder App to get Cocoa Rewrite for Snow Leopard
Apple is reportedly considering teaming up with BMW to build an electric car
Apple Car Development is Advancing
In the Beginning Was the Command Line
Intel and Micron unveil 3D XPoint, a brand new memory technology
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
360iDev 2015
Episode 50 Picks:
Ghostery
Objective-C Runtime source code
ASCIIwwdc
Paint Code and Telekinesis
8/1/2015 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 23 seconds
Episode 49: We Say Ship it!
This week we discuss Apple Music prompted by Jim Dalrymple's online rant. Why do you need to manage your music when Apple will do it for you? We discuss Apple's Q3 results and Apple's awkward children the Mac App Store, the iPod and iPad - and how they are used. Picks this week are KeroBlaster, Mechanize for Ruby and App Store Health Check.
Sponsored by: Hired.com
Episode 49 Show Notes:
Who's Actually Buying iPods These Days?
Hired.com
Beta testers can no longer post app reviews in prerelease iOS versions
Half-Assed
AppAnnie.com
Apple Music is a nightmare and I’m done with it
rdio
AsyncDisplayKit
MacBook Light. Years ahead.
USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter
Toronto Facts
Apple Hires Auto Industry Veterans
Realtor.ca app
360iDev 2015
Judicious Use of Shitty Code
Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
Pillboxie
Video Games at MOMA: 14 in the Collection, for Starters
Episode 49 Picks:
KeroBlaster by Studio Pixel
Mechanize for Ruby
App Store Health Check
7/25/2015 • 1 hour, 24 minutes, 26 seconds
Episode 48: Preparing for Disaster & Other Vestigial Tales
This week we talk about the new 6th Generation iPod Touch as well as the oddity of continuing cellular minutes & data charges. We follow up on REPL as it relates to Swift scripting on the command line. We discuss the new lower app pricing tier in emerging markets. Picks: Matt Luedke's Free App Preview Music, AltConf 2015 and Swift Summit videos.
Episode 48 Show Notes:
Swift Scripting with Ayaka Nonaka
Tim’s REPL adventures (on Twitter)
Scriptable Image Processing System
Telemachus: An NSImageView & UIImageView Asynchronous Image Loading Category
New IPod touch w/A8 & M8 + 4 inch screen
iRepair.ca
LIVE FROM WWDC 2015, WITH SPECIAL GUEST PHIL SCHILLER
Roam Mobility
OSTicket :: Support Ticket System
Zend Desk - Customer Support Software
Jira
OfferUp Jobs
The Really Big One
Apple’s new pricing tiers for “emerging markets”
Paper by FiftyThree - Draw, Sketch, Create Notes and Ideas
Pencil by 53
Route 85: Quick Tip, majorRadius in UITouch
Advanced Touch Input on iOS
I Have No Idea What I'm Doing - Graham Lee
AltConf 2015 Highlights
Psst! Save 15% off on 360 iDev registration with the code "cocoacommunity"
Episode 48 Picks:
AltConf 2015 Session Videos
Swift Summit
Free App preview music by Matt Luedke
7/18/2015 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 47: Psst! Wanna Buy an App?
We continue the discussion on the value of apps, how apps are priced and the cost of building apps in terms of time and effort. We look at examples of relatively successful indie apps. We discuss some of our own experiences with marketing, pricing, sales, discoverability, and whether ads are beneficial in apps.
Episode 47 Show Notes:
The Art of Price and Value
NSCoding Tutorial for iOS: How To Save Your App Data
My Delivery Truck
Sustainable Indie Apps
The first year of Mahjong Cards
Hockey App
Mark Thistle
MS Band SDK
MS Garage
Toss Up
Becoming Steve Jobs
Hacking Team
Sohail Ahmed
Magpie Video
PRMac
AFNetworking
Alamofire
CocoaPods
Pi Day Countdown
Steve Hayman
Admob
Pokertini: Video Poker With A Twist!
Scales & Modes
Device Tracker Website
Barcode Framework
Episode 47 Picks:
MacUpdate Developer Bundle - on sale until July 13, 2015
Dash, Paw, Code Runner
7/12/2015 • 1 hour, 12 minutes, 9 seconds
Episode 46: Oh Canada Edition
Aaron and Greg dig deep into CloudKit and how Aaron used it in the creation of Magpie. They discuss the CKNotifications, sharing code between iOS and OS X, the use on FMDB to manage the data model, iOS 8 share extensions and target conditionals. We discuss Brent Simmons post on building apps with Love and a couple of follow up articles. We talk about becoming successful like Omni Group, AgileBits, Flexibits, Daniel Jalkut. What does success look like. How do you measure a senior developer. We talk about finding quality poutine, chocolate mousse and espresso. Picks: Screens, Apple RSVP and Background Backup.
Episode 46 Show Notes:
Magpie
Love
Tough Love
The Supply-Side Blues
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan
1Password for OSX
1Password for iOS
Geese Squad
Swiss Chalet
Hero Burger
Omni Group
iMac with Retina 5K Display
Mocha VNC
Teamviewer
Rasberry Pi
Python
Crash Plan
Backblaze
Disk Warrior
Diefenbunker Museum
Super Duper
Skype Call Recorder
Episode 46 Picks:
Screens by Edovia for iOS
Screens by Edovia for OS X
Apple RSVP - Camp for Kids
Background Backup
7/4/2015 • 1 hour, 21 minutes, 44 seconds
Episode 44: #44 - Best of WWDC15
This week we follow up on our impressions of the WWDC sessions. We also follow up on SupportKit's unique support of WWDC attendees. A post on a potential security issue opens up discussion of Apple's position on responding to security issues. Picks ETA - your GPS driving assistant for travel times, traffic and directions, Xcode upload tip and Slack
Episode 44 Show Notes:
SupportKit
Major zero-day security flaws in iOS & OS X allow theft of both Keychain and app passwords
1Password inter-process communication: a discussion
The truth about Apple, Mac security, and responsibility
Apple security updates
Apple Product Security
Ghostery
Protocol-Oriented Programming in Swift
Building Better Apps with Value Types in Swift
Advanced NSOperations
Getting Started with Multitasking on iPad in iOS 9
Layout and Animation Techniques for WatchKit
Steven Troughton Smith
What's New in Notifications
Introducing GameplayKit
Mysteries of Auto Layout - Part 1
Mysteries of Auto Layout - Part 2
Controlling Complexity in Swift — or — Making Friends with Value Types
Top 10 WWDC 2015 Videos
Apple’s Bitcode Telegraphs Future CPU Plans
Episode 26 – Moving Swift-ly wearing banana hats – Ding!Episode 44 Picks:
ETA - your GPS driving assistant for travel times, traffic and directions
Slack
This week we discuss the new information introduced by Apple at WWDC 2015. From the Key Note , the Platform Stats of the Union. We cover Multitasking, open sourcing Swift 2, Watch OS, Protocol Based Swift, Storyboard References, Safari WebView, HealthKit and Health Kit for WatchOS, UI Testing, UI Stacks, XCTesting, GamePlayKit, deep app searching and CloudKit with web services.
Episode 43 Show Notes
The Online Privacy Lie Is Unraveling
We need a “Safari view controller”
Becoming Steve Jobs
UXLaunchpad (discount code MTJC - save $50 USD)
Peter Steinberger on Objective C++
Joe Cieplinski - Design is not for Designers
Ray Wenderlich on Overloading Comparison
Steven Troughton Smith
Episode 43 Picks
WWDC Video Downloader
LIVE FROM WWDC 2015, WITH SPECIAL GUEST PHIL SCHILLER
Exclusive: Tim Cook says lack of diversity in tech is 'our fault'
6/13/2015 • 52 minutes, 18 seconds
Episode 42: Trust: Would I lie to you?
This week we discuss our impressions of Google I/O 2015 in contrast to next week's WWDC 2015. We discuss Tim Cook's criticism of Google & Facebook's potential misuse of people's privacy. We discuss the importance of focus in the light of Brent Simmons withdrawal from Q Branch. Even more important the need for developers to focus on the new products and frameworks introduced at WWDC. Picks: Google Photos for iOS and Re:quest
improved audio
Episode 42 Show Notes:
developers.google.com/ios
Apple’s Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy
Write a poem for free tweet
Brent Simmons resigns from Q Branch
Net News Wire
Vesper
Black Pixel
OmniGraffle 6
Omnifocus 2
MarsEdit
John Gruber
Dave Wiskus
Georgia Dow - Fear is the Killer
WatchKit By Tutorials
iOS Animations By Tutorials
Lighthouse Labs
photos.google.com
Photos for OS X
Dropbox
Magpie
Pinpoint
MartianCraft
Rob Rhyne
Episode 42 Picks:
Google Photos For iOS
Re:Quest
6/7/2015 • 1 hour, 29 minutes, 12 seconds
Episode 41: #41 - Looking Beneath the Surface
We follow up on Robin Senior's blog post on optimizing apps for the Apple Watch. We briefing talk about the ResearchKit tutorial on raywenderlich.com as well as great episode of Release Notes that every developer should listen to. The latest beta of Yosemite, 10.10.4, has reinstated mDNSResponder as a replacement to the disastrous discoveryd. We discuss the announced preview of a native Apple Watch SDK at WWDC and speculate about the new items to be introduced. We list off what we'd like to see fixed with iOS 9, framework & layout issues, iPad Pro and dual boot machines. We discuss Google IO 2015 with Google Pay.
Episode 41 Show Notes:
Reducing WatchKit Traffic With View Models
Release Notes interview with Michael Simmons Part 2
Fanstastical 2
ResearchKit Tutorial with Swift: Getting Started
Quebec man ticketed for driving while using apple watch
Toronto Argos
Live Blog: Apple Senior VP of Operations Jeff Williams interview at Code Conference
WWDC App for iOS
Halo Back: World's First Smart Screen Protector
Microsoft's Surface sales are on the upswing once again
Google I/O 2015
Craig Hockenberry
Episode 41 Picks:
Paw Rest Client
Carbo - Handwriting in the Digital Age
WatchKit By Tutorials (updated for Swift 1.2)
5/30/2015 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 46 seconds
Episode 40: #40 - Adding Voice to the Situation
This week we continue the discussion of a Siri API, based on Ben Thompson's post, GreenyDev's SiriViewServiceHeaders and Persimmon for Swift. Aaron also discusses the attempts to get MagPie approved. We also discuss Redacted's sales on the Mac App Store.
Episode 40 Show Notes:
Apple Watch and Continuous Computing
Her
PCalc - The Best Calculator
Redacted
Parsimmon
SiriViewService-Headers
Magpievideo.com
Ex Machina
Product Hunt
WatchAware
Digg
Cheddar Plus (iOS) (Mac)
Vanhawks.com
WWDC Watch Hackathon
Episode 40 Picks:
Venmo
Passbook
5/24/2015 • 1 hour, 13 minutes, 10 seconds
Episode 39: #39 - Hey Siri! Are We There Yet?
This week we discuss the rework of the Overcast app for the Apple Watch. We also discuss the future use of a Siri API - will Apple open it up at WWDC 2015? We discuss the early impressions of iTunes Connect Analytics. We explore Evan Dekhayser's use of Darwin Notifications to enable the sharing of data between the iPhone and the Watch. Aaron's pick is the MacBook, Guest Host Greg Heo's is MMWormhole and Tim picks Reduce Motion as a survival skill on the Watch.
Episode 39 Show Notes:
Redesigning Overcast's Watch App
Overcast: Podcast Player
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." What Would a Siri API Look Like?
Robin Senior
The Score app
Brian Gilham
Globe & Mail app
An @import-ant Change in Xcode
Sharing Core Data between iPhone and Watch Apps
Darwin Notification Concepts
Device Tracker
TypeRacer.com
Magpie Video (@magpievideo on twitter)
Episode 39 Picks:
MacBook (2015)
MMWormhole
How to reduce motion on your Apple Watch
5/16/2015 • 1 hour, 14 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 38: #38 - Performing Triage on Your Wrist
This week we discuss the recent WeAreWearables Meetup at MaRS Discovery District, which had panel discussions on the Apple Watch launch and experiences of early app developers. We discuss interacting with the watch, apps, activity. We speculate about Siri, Cortana and Google Now API access. Using Apple Watch buttons, force touch and the Digital Crown. We also talk about Craig Hockenberry's angry post on discoveryd.
MTJC T-Shirts available until May 13, 2015
Episode 38 Show Notes:
Apple releases guidelines for creating third-party Apple Watch bands
Band Design Guidelines for Apple Watch (PDF)
Apple preps in-store stock & pickup option
WeAreWearables.com
Raju Mudhar
Nicole Bogart
Patrick O'Rourke
Daniel Bader
Randi Bergman
Tom Emrich
iOS 9: Siri Extensions - Chris Wagner
My Biggest WatchKit Mistake - Part 1
My Biggest WatchKit Mistake - Part 2
Brian Gilham
Natasha the Robot
Phillipe Casorla
DiscoveryD Clusterf*ck
iconfactory
Should you get a stylus for your Apple Watch?
Blockly
Rebus
Briana Wu on Patreon
Episode 38 Picks:
Star Wars X-Wing for Mac
28 Apple Watch tips and tricks
Linkitz
5/8/2015 • 1 hour, 17 minutes, 34 seconds
Episode 37: #37 - Aaron's Apple Watch Strikes Out
This week Aaron and Tim discuss their first impressions of using the watch; quality of design and construction, durability, third party app performance and satisfaction. Also items that developers should consider. We discuss Apple's ability to sell the world on a new product with hinging on specifications.
Episode 37 Notes:
First Day in the Life of an Apple Watch User - Jerica Thraux
TreadDesk.com
We Destroyed the Apple Watch
MLB At Bat
Lose It!
Twitterific 5
Overcast: Podcast Player
Globe and Mail app
Consumer Reports runs Apple Watch through scientific torture test
Apple Watch Stand on Thingiverse
NSCoderTO Meetup
Greg Heo
Brian Gilham
Mark Pavlidis
Freshbooks
Episode 37 Picks:
Apple Watch
Noodles!
5/2/2015 • 1 hour, 18 minutes, 53 seconds
Episode 36: #36 - Special Opportunities
This week we discuss Apple's new fixation with lotteries, the latest being a lottery for developers to receive Apple Watches early. We discuss WatchAware.com that aggregates the approved Watch apps that are on the App Store before launch. We discuss Apple Watch band patents and differences in construction. We discuss the new Google Fi cellular service. Our picks this week are Growth.supply and CSUnplugged.
This weeks show was edited and mixed with Logic X. It appears that Final Cut Pro X cannot export a suitable MP3 file without corruption. Please excuse the choppy edits.
Episode 36 Notes:
Apple Patents Watch Bands
The First Apple Watch Apps
Apple Offers Expedited Apple Watch Ordering Lottery
Click - The First Watch Band Adapter for Apple Watch!
Calc - watch app
Meipai
Apple Watch buyers guide
Google Fi Launches
Domain Name Ordering via it-guy.com
Episode 36 Picks:
Growth.supply
CSUnplugged.com
MTJC T-Shirt on TeeSpring
4/27/2015 • 1 hour, 1 minute, 52 seconds
Episode 35: #35 - Dear Developer Letters
This week we discuss WWDC 2015 and ticket lottery. Jaime and Tim discuss their experiences at NSNorth at the Chateau Montebello. The team discusses the Apple Watch try on experiences at the Apple Store. We also discuss the new Glide Kickstarter campaign.
Episode 35 Show Notes:
WWDC 2015
NSNorth 2015
Periscope
Slack
Evan Dekhayser
WWDC Student Scholarship
Brian Gilham
Georgia Dow
Jonathan Penn
Ash Linquist
Ashley Nelson-Hornstein
Gord Fontenot
JP Simard
Rob Rix
RWDevCon Inspiration T