More Than Just Code podcast - iOS and Swift development, news and advice

Episode 296: A Stab in the Dark

May 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 10 mins

affinity photo, app store, apple arm, bluetooth, bumbershoot festival, classic mac, combine, combine all the things, combine in practise, conditional, contact tracking, dark mode, face id, face mask, final cut, forbes, gmail, gordon kelly, grep, habitat, hockey night in canada, hype cycle, intel, ios 13.4.2, james doohan, justin long, lego, lightning to usb 3 camera adapter, mac vs pc, macintosh iivx, mark gurman, nevermind, nfl, nhs, nick heath, notification, nserror, oasis, osx, performa, powerpc, quadra 650, sars, scott gardner, screen printer, shindi, star trek: the animated series, swift 2, swift paris, swiftui, trough of disillusionment, try! swift world, uiwebview, what’s the story morning glory, xcode on ipad, yellow box

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.

Episode 294: Contact Tracing & iPhone SE

April 18th, 2020  |  1 hr 28 mins

4.7 inch, 6502, a13, abstract expressionism, accessibility, altair, apple express, apple ii, apple tv, arthur c. clarke, atari 800, basic, bing crosby, bluetooth le, captain pike, caves of steel, cdc, clips, cobol, combine, contact tracing, cyclorama, deadpool, denise crosby, discovery, dragon’s den, effective objective-c 2.0, fortran, github, github actions, green lantern, greg heo, halt and catch fire, harry mudd, home pod, ios dev uk, iphone se, ipod, isaac azimov, jj abrams, jordan mechner, kirk, lee krasner, lidar, mac pro, marin todorov, mark cuban, mckoy & spock, nasa, neural engine, next, ozark, pcalc, peek, poke, prince of persia, road apple, robert a. heinlien, robots of dawn, rotoscoping, ryan reynolds, saml, section 31, shark tank, siri, slices, sphero, spore drive, spotify, sso, swift paris, talos 4, the foundation, the naked sun, timelane, today at apple, tvos, uibutton, wheels, wolverine, wwdc 2013

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.

Episode 291: Social Distance Edition

March 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 13 mins

10m masks, 360 idev, acer, alouettes, anchorage, apple store, ar, back to my mac, be safe, beatles, bill gates, blender, cbs all access, combine, craig federighi, danny boyle, discovery, east york, eaton centre, eb games, ecg, el paso, etobicoke, everrett, fairview mall, framingham, google io, hololens, hosts, hovereffect, ios 13.4, ipad pro, ipados 13.4, john lennon, juno, karaoke, keith urban, key path, key value coding, lead developer, logitech create keyboard, macos 10.15.4, magic keyboard, manchester, matt neuburg, montreal, mr robot, oculus, onhover, patrick stewart, robocop, santana row, screen, social distancing, spockcast, star trek: picard, swift 5.2, swiftui, talking dead, texas, tim cook, tracking, unity, unreal, valleyfield, vr, westworld, yesterday

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.

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Episode 284: The Accidental Security Podcast

February 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins

1password, accessibility, amber macarther, apns, appkit, beyond the valley, big papi, black history month, black software, breaker, callasfunction, cbc radio, certificates, combine, conan o’brian, correlation, cra, cryptokit, dashlane, david ortiz, device support, digital id, dnto, docker, dr who, find my phone, google doc, google maps, graphviz, guy kawasaki, hacking with macos, icloud.com, irs, jazzy, kara swisher, kirk douglas, kristina fox, kyron, last pass, leah culver, lineup, malcolm gladwell, microsoft, multitasking, nora young, notary, open banking, paul hudson, privacy controls, project catalyst, radio flyer, rene richie, river styx, rob napier, serviette, sim jacking, single purchase, smat pawk, social insurance number, social security, spark, splunk, super bowl, swift crypto, swift doc, swiftui, teams, threat model, thunderbolt, timelane, tivo, voice control, w8-ben, webauthn, webkit, women at wwdc, xcode 11.4, xserve, yaml, youtube music

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.

Episode 280: This Is Not Your Mother's Star Wars

January 11th, 2020  |  1 hr 40 mins

alphabet, american graffiti 2, apple card, asimov, azure, billie lorde, build phase scripts, bullfrog, business chat, carrie fisher, combine, corellium, cvv, dynamic dispatch, facebook, foundation, gen z, goldman sacks, google, goshdarnswiftui, greg grenburg, heros, hines auditorium, indesign, ipados, iphone 11 pro, jj abrams, joe cieplinski, k2, mac app store, mac osx beta, mandalorian, multitasking, nightmode, notarization, o365, observableobject, offerup, oura ring, pi day countdown, pimp my ride, po dameron, prudential center, renewable, rian johnson, scene delegate, september 1752, snapchat, sourcerer, star wars, static dispatch, steve hayman, swiftui, tech support, terawatt, tik tok, uiviewrepresentable, uiwebview, vault, venmo, waterfield designs, wkwebview, xzibit, year zero, yo dawg, zstack

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).

Episode 268: Xcode Memory View

October 5th, 2019  |  50 mins 35 secs

1password, ad astra, agilebits, allow apps from anywhere, big endian, black hat, bob dylan, canadian dollar, caveman debugging, checkm8, class, code completion, combine, copy by reference, copy by value, copy on write, corgi, dev.to, expecations, function builders, greta, heap, hendrix experience, hotwheels, inglorious bastards, int8, interviews, john sundell, journey to the far side of the sun, lancia, little endian, macpaw, marin todorov, mark ambrose, matchbox, mattel, memory viewer, omg cable, on boarding, penbook, pencilkit, property wrappers, quentin tarantino, ryan nystrom, setapp, space 1999, sr&ed, stack, star wars, struct, swift playgrounds, swiftui, the great escape, the musical box, thunderbirds, top gear, try combine, tyco, worcester

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.

Episode 267: Great Developers Paste

September 28th, 2019  |  1 hr 42 mins

3rd party, ad mob, alt store, apple pencil, arcade, austin, australia, battery health, bluetooth, canada council, canadian media fund, carebear, cheech & chong, chef, chris hadfield, close tabs, combine, control center, corgi, dark mode, desktop-class browsing, development, dlc, dynamic type, ea, elevate 2019, elevate tech jam, flatmap, gestures, gorn, greg joswiak, guy kawasaki, hacktoberfest, home screen, hotwheels, iap, instant coffee, internet, ios 13.1, ipad os videos, ipados, jaundice, joz, kirk, konami, latency, mac app store, mac pro, made by snowman, masters of the universe, matchbox, my little pony, namco, no paywall, nsnorth, objective-c, omni channel, open source, photo editor, polyglot, publishers, settapp, share sheet, shawn marston, smartphone, source code, spark, spek, spock, sr&ed, steve wosniak, swift 3, swiftui, swipe-to-type, swtchtolatest, the agency podcast, the cloud, tim hortons, tommy chong, toy hall of fame, transforming operators, transitions, version control, version editor, where cards fall, woz, xcode 11

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.

Episode 264: Morgan Just Go!

September 7th, 2019  |  1 hr 36 mins

2020 ipad pro, a13, american history, apple glasses, apple pencil, apple socks, augmented reality, bbedit, caffeine, call silencing, chase sapphire visa, chick-fil-a, combine, dark mode, deep fake, ethan hunt, face id, facebook, fat secret, google daydream, google glasses, hamilton, hip hop, ios 13 beta, ios 13.1 beta 2, iphone 11 pro, ipv6, jesse squires, lose it, mac app store, macbook, mvc, notarization, nshipster, nutrition facts, pete townshend, popeye’s chicken, posix, property observer, red eye, sandbox, scanning electronic microscope, spam, spamalot, ssl, state, sting, structured light, swiftui, the last ship, the who, tile, time of flight, usb-c, vr, won’t get fooled again, wwdc

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.

Episode 262: The Evil Geniuses Podcast

August 25th, 2019  |  1 hr 11 mins

2112, abby jackson, amygdala, anchorman, apple card, apple tv+, apple watch event, arbitrations, arcade, bitbucket, buckethead, c++, casey affleck, ceramic watch, chase, cinema strangiato, cocoa love, cocos2d, combine, cvs, denim, dropbox, duckduckgo, duckie, eliza, ghostery lite, git, goldman sacks, graham lee, home-brew, leather, linus torvalds, mac tv, mercurial, morning show, neil peart, netgear, news room, nickelback, no late fee, passes, paul hudson, paul rudd, pippin, powerline network, praxis, preforce, rubber duck, rush, sccs, setlist.fm, south park, spritekit, subversion, swift to, the evil geniuses club, this is halloween, trailer park boys, tubular bells, wallet, wcag, woodstock, xanadu

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.

Episode 261: Even Cowdogs Get the Blues

August 17th, 2019  |  1 hr 16 mins

60hz, abbey jackson, aberswift, advance placement, ap, apple card, arek dreyer, bitrise, black hat, bleeding edge, bloody mary, bonmot, bug bounty, caesar, caesar salad, capsaicin, catalyst by tutorials, ci/cd, clamato juice, coldplay, combine, combine by tutorials, copywrite, cpa, dave grohl, dave matthew band, everyone can code, faa, face id, frank corville, ghost pepper, github actions, habanero, ifixit, ios dev uk, iphone battery, jalapeno, jeff marlow, kalvin lau, kyle newsome, led zeppelin, localtalk, london, lyft, macbook pro battery, marin todorov, mfi, nickelback, nova scotia, nsnorth, objective-c, open doc, phonenet, quinton price, right to repair, samsung note 7, scott gardner, scoville, security, sriracha, stopgap.ca, suica transit card, swift conference to, swift evolution, swiftui by tutorials, telus, the beatles, tim condon, trademark, twitter, usb cable, v8, wallet, worcestershire, x10, zev eisenburg

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