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Episode 289: Flattening the Curve

March 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 44 mins

aaron douglas, adobe connect, agnes, alt conf, alta vista, app store, ask jeeves, astropad, bell curve, blood oxygen, bmw, byte conf, carbon computing, ces, clorox, composable, conference call bingo, covid-19, craig ferguson, decorative, digital printed, don river, e3, ekg, electronic expo, fda, fitbit, foodora, forged in fire, gang of four, gaussian curve, google, grateful dead, ios 14, ipad, ipad air, iphone 4, it crowd, java, john wetton, kewl, lauren moon, lego maters, lycos, macbook pro, march break, microsoft developer, mit, mtv, mute, new rochelle, peopleware, peter capaldi, philadelphia, programmer, push notifications, quartet, raptors, reality tv, riddiculousness, rita wilson, riverdale, russian nesting dolls, santa clara county, sap concur, scott forestall, slack, sopranos, spam, spanish flu, st louis, staff pad, steve jobs, symphony pro, t-pain, tachymeter, the mast singer, tom hanks, tomomi imura, trello, watchos 6, wfh, whiteboard, who, who doctor, will arnett, wishbone ash, world war z, wwdc, yahoo

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

Episode 288: The Apocalypse Will Not Be Televised

March 7th, 2020  |  1 hr 15 mins

128 corridor, 1password, 8086, anime, apocalyse, argumentparser, atsui, authenticator, big dig, boston, bts, butterfly keyboard, byte conf, carbon, carbon fibre, cbc, clearview ai, conference, covid-19, developer relations, doritos, f8, facebook messanger, fetchedresultscontroller, fleets, golden ticket, google io, graphport, graphql, hired.com, hockey sticks, init(whatever:_), intel bunnies, ios architecture, isitcancelledyet, james dempsey, jason snell, json decode, library of congress, lottery, mac os classic, macbook, macbook pro 14, macworld, maple syrup, mattt, metro morning, ming-chi kuo, networking, pentium, project lightspeed, quartz2d, rcmp, regent height, remote working, santa clara county, short, sign in with apple, sqlite, sugar maple, sugarbush farms, telepresence, that conference, twitter, vermont, wash your hands, webex, wwdc 2020, wwdc labs, xcconfig

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.