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

Episode 320: A Lead Pipe to the Kneecaps

November 28th, 2020  |  1 hr 38 mins

5 nanometer, a lead pipe to the kneecaps, app store, apple silicon, bill atkinson, boot camp, commission, createinstallmedia, cryptocurrency, disktop, duns, epic, firestrom core, flipboard, fortnite, geekbench, hazel, hig, icestorm core, intel, internet recovery, ipad, iphone 12 mini, iphone 12 pro mac, juiced, m1, macbook air m1, macbook pro 13 m1, macbook pro 14, macbook pro 16, macpaint, magic keyboard, multifinder, network framework, paul hagerty, readonly friday, recovery partition, rosetta 2, secure enclave, sf symbols, simply accounting, small business, soc, system 6, t2, the register, vmware, windows, wwdc video

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; Apple Inc.

Episode 260: Can't Fit a Pizza Through a Tube!

August 10th, 2019  |  1 hr 21 mins

1password, 360idev, 5th anniversary, ada, agilebits, apple card, bbc, bento, bill graham, bitbucket, bitcoin, bonnie raitt, calculus, caviar, claris, claris works, clarus the cow dog, cnbc, cpa, cryptocurrency, curtis herbert, cydia, david tennant, doctor who, dominos, facebook, filemaker pro, foil, gerrit, github enterprise, goldman sachs, gordon lightfoot, graham nash, grammerly, greg heo, grubhub, hyper card, indie devstock, ios 13, ipad, irs, jail breaking, jay freeman, jodi whittaker, joni mitchell, leonard cohen, macwrite, matt smith, microsoft works, mysql, neil young, notifications, nscoder, parliament funkadelic, paul beadey, pbs, php, pushkit, ritual, robby robertson, rush, screen printing, shirley eichart, simcoe day, slopes, south bay, swiftto, the fed, tragically hip, uber eats, voip, woodstock, youtube, zoom

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

Episode 236: In a Plexiglass Box

March 2nd, 2019  |  58 mins 41 secs

2fa, 401k, apple watch, augmented reality, austin tx, auto renewal, boeing, boeing 787, c55 h104 o6, canadian international autoshow, conrad stoll, cryptocurrency, curiosity, dan benjamin, do androids dream of electric sheep, face book, fireside, futurama, ghost in the shell, grocery 2.0, hololens 2, htc vive, increased lethalogy, ira, layout margins, lunar excursion module, lunar module, lunar rover, margins, mark gurman, martian craft, nsnorth, oculus rift, opportunity, plexiglass box, privacy, rich turton, ross ulbricht, safe area, safe deposit box, sam grover, satya nadella, sensor area, silk road, simon sinek, sleep tracking, sleep++, subscriptions, tfsa, the apprenticeship of duddy kravitz, the man in the high castle, wealthsimple, whatsapp

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.

Episode 199: Your WWDC 2018 E-Ticket

June 16th, 2018  |  1 hr 26 mins

adam armstrong, advanced debugging, advanced debugging book, android studio, apfs, arkit 2, audrey tam, august lock, big nerd ranch, bill graham, boot camp, buzz aldrin, cne grandstand, collections, create ml, crusty, cryptocurrency, dann beauregard, dark mode, dave abrams, david okun, david sinclair, derek selander, designing fluid interfaces, doobie brothers, dropbox, e-ticket, ed arenberg, grande, grateful dead, half moon bay, hfs+, ibm watson, intel, jackson browne, james dempsey & the breakpoints, jefferson airplane, jim dalrymple, kelvin lau, kitura, llvm, marzipan, massey hall, michael macdonald, mojave, monterey, moscone west, network.framework, non-destructive, ok go, os.signpost, os_log, paul simon, philips hue, photoshop, pixelmator, playgrounds, presido, robert plant, rosetta, rube goldburg, ry cooder, santa cruz, server side swift, siri shortcuts, spark, steely dan, strombo, swift package manager, the warfield theater, turi create, victoria heric, walter becker, watch points, wwdc 2018, xcode 10, xctest

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.

Episode 186: iPhone X: /aɪ/ /fəʊn/ /ten/

March 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 31 mins

bug shot, cryptocurrency, developer survey, ello, gibson, google maps, james thompson, john geleynse, lottery, mastodon, mcafee, patrick ewing, pcalc, peach, pi day, pinpoint, project marzipan, red menubar, rwdevcon 2018, stack overflow, swift coders, tau day, tunnelbear, vero, wwdc 2018, wwdc scholarships

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

Episode 184: Piercing the Veil

February 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 7 mins

11.2.6, 1password, alan downey, altered carbon, apple, apple park, arkit, astropad hq, astropad studio, azure, bluemix, computer literacy, cryptocurrency, docker, doping, duck, errors & omissions, gamplaykit, google home, hockey, home brew, homepod, huawei, ios 11, iosref, iphone x, jupiter notebooks, lcc, light saber effect, maltese falcon, mentor, miracle on ice, notch, notes, objective-c, olympics, piercing the veil, python, raymond chandler, richard k morgan, roundabout matt ronge, safe area, samsung, scene editor, scenekit, short track speed skating, skydio r1, spritekit, strategy analytics, swift, swift playground, the big sleep, what is architecture

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

Episode 181: Where Power Resides

February 3rd, 2018  |  1 hr 15 mins

apple store, applecare +, bch, bitcoin, bitcoin cash, blockchain, btc, cryptocurrency, etherium, galaxy s7, google play, green line, home pod, ibook, iphone x, ocarina, oled, powerbook g3, row column driver, samsung, self-driving, side button, spotify, square cash, susan kare, wallstreet

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