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

Episode 345: Don't Hand Them Rocks

February 26th, 2022  |  1 hr 21 mins

2048, ada lovelace, advil, altair, app store, apple, apple cash, bartender, big sur, bill gates, bric, catalina, charles babbage, chippendales, chromium, coca cola, combine, congressman, core data, cpm, de anza college, dev tools, disktop, don’t hand them rocks, douglas englebart, drag lock, dry, gary kildall, guitar, homebrew, house of representatives, hydrox, india, iphone se 5g, jesse squire, joseph heck, kimberly clark, kleenex, konqueror, log, m2, macbook air, magsafe, monterey, moore, mozilla, nfc, notch, objective-c, open source, optionals, oreo, personal computer, positive grid, pragmatic programmer, purple, sanate, schoolhouse rock, shopify, shortcuts, sideload, spark 40, square, stripe, swift, threes, tom harrington, trade dress, venmo, wordle, yagni

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

Episode 339: Marin Todorov

October 30th, 2021  |  1 hr 29 mins

ago, airport express, apple silicon, apple tv, applescript, asimov, async/await, asynchronous, audible, backslash, barcelona, co-operative tread pull, combine, doc c, dtk, filemaker pro, forward slash, grand central dispatch, home pod, homebridge, hypercard, ios happy hour, ipad, louve, macbook air, marcel proust, moma, monterey, nelix, philip k dick, picasso, pink floyd, pthread, rwdc, sacrada familia, se/30, sfmoma, suspension point, swift concurrency, symbol graph, trolley, tuvix, tuvok, underplot, vienna, voy, voyager, way back machine, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

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.

Episode 328: Best of MTJC: WWDC 2019 LIVE from the Podcast Studio

May 30th, 2021  |  48 mins 35 secs

@binding, altconf, arkit 3, callbacks, carthage, classkit, closures, coacopods, collectionview, combine, declarative, diffable, domain specific language, flutter, force touch, homeviewcontroller, interface builder, ipados, ipod touch, john gruber, kvo, llvm, macintosh manual, minecraft, moon boots, nsnotifinaction, objective c, ocr, oslog, pixar, platform unification, reality composer, ricky mondello, schoolbook, sfsymbols, sign in with apple, smalltalk, swift evolution, swift package manager, swift playground, swiftui, testflight feedback, toplogy eyewear, transporter, tryswift, ulysses, voice dream language, watch, winston chen

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.

Episode 307: The Most MTJC Bug Ever

July 19th, 2020  |  1 hr 24 mins

30 rock, 64 bit, @appstorage, @scenestorage, a4, a6, ableton, adobe, amy pond, apple news, apple silicon, arm, arm core, avenue 5, battery, big sur, catch 22, circle of fifths, cisco ios, clearvue ai, cloudkit, code names, collectionview, combine, cop watch, creative selection, cyberduck, date picker, disney +, european union, every good boy deserves fudge, everyone can code, firebase, gemini man, greyhound, healthkit, home pod, hulu, hvac, icloud core data, intel, ios 13.6, ireland, jumanji: the next level, karen gillan, knives out, lazystack, live link face, macbook pro 14, ming chi kwo, minority report, mythic quest: raven’s banquet, nuemonics, ontarians, opposite over adjacent, palo alto semiconductor, parks and recreation, pathway to apple card, peacock, please excuse my dear aunt sally, power reserve, public beta, qualcomm, rcmp, readme, rene ritchie, rick beato, san jose, saskatchewan, saskatoon, scales and modes, seattlites, shopify, soft bank, sop cah toah, space force, star trek: lower decks, stargate universe, steve breen, swiftui, system on a chip, texteditor, the underdogs, torontonian, ulitmaker cura, unreal, user defaults, what’s new in swift, wwdc12

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.

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.