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

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 245: Back Bacon and Pineapple

May 4th, 2019  |  50 mins 59 secs

737 max 8, airpod, aperture, back bacon, biannual, biennial, blackbox, buy back, cassette, cd-rom, cdic, chickens, chris eidoff, cingelton, clip sharing, crane, docker, downloads, earnings, fdic, guilherme rambo, hawaiian pizza, hickory smoked, investing, iphone sales, kaiwi, kotlin, lightroom, lps, luminary, maui, mdm, mercer, nsnorth, nsuseractivity, nua, oahu, parental control, privacy commissioner, rooster, sam panopoulos, semi annual, stock, swift, touch id, transformer, wwdc

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.

Episode 225: A BIt Of A Fumble

December 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 1 min

5g, alloc, apple music, associated value, big nerd ranch, bobby orr, carlton the bear, china, container, david smith, docker, egypt station, enum, failable initializer, fortnight, galaxy a8, gofundme, google+, gritty, hail mary, headphone, hole punch, hyperdrive, ibm swift sandbox, infinity blade, infinity o display, init, iot, iphone x, iphone xr, iphone xs, kubernetes, liquid retina, liverpool, machine learning, mccartney, mixpanel, moulds, oled, oleg begaman, optionals, orchard, qualcomm, scarborough, seattle, shortcuts, stock market, swift, swift 5, try?, ubuntu, united states

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.

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 138: Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

April 8th, 2017  |  1 hr 2 mins

access control, advanced debugging, awesome, buddy build, docker, fileprivate, imagination technologies, ios 10.3, lldb, mac pro, metal, opencl, opengl, perfect, reactive program, rwdevcon, rxswift, tammy coron

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.