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Episode 197: Dub Dub San Jose: WWDC Crystal Ball

June 2nd, 2018  |  1 hr 40 mins

1password, 360 idev, aaron douglas, agilebits, airplay 2, altconf, animoji, ashley nelson-hornstein, ats, auttomatic, basso, borg, buddy build, burrito, castle, cherry picking, chip & pin, clifford stoll, cloud kit, curtis herbert, dark mode, dispatch queue, drag and drop, dub dub san jose, eddie cue, energy efficiency, ethernet adapter, fastlane, felix krause, flappy birds, flappy filipe, font, git k, home pod, https, hybrid apps, icloud, imac pro, imessage, ish, john gruber, jony ive, kgb, kline bottles, letraset, loop bash, marco armet, mchenry, metal, metal by tutorials, mobius, moscone, ncr, nova, panic, qos, quebec, rebase, rob napier, safari, san francisco, san jose, saroush, secure id, security kit, selfie, siri, siri kit, size class, sjmacindie, source tree, susan kare, tencode ten, tiny wings, tmobile, true depth camera, typeface, vesa, watch faces, wey han, wireless debugging, workflow, wwdc, wwdc parties, xcode 3d, xcode bots

We are joined by Greg Heo as we look ahead and suggest what Apple may introduce at WWDC 2018. We follow up on the Command key icon, castle connection, as well as Clifford Stoll and the Cockoo's Egg. Jaime uncovers ⌘+Ctrl+Shift+H to find a methods callers. Tim relays early experience drawing and designing typefaces in the early days of Mac. AirPlay 2 gives the HomePod the ability to have multi-room and stereo audio. HomePod launching in Canada, France, and Germany. Felix Krause thinks apps should be in a network sandbox. App Insight attempts to expose 3rd party framework use. Genius Bar Broke an iMac Pro. We lay down our best guesses about where Apple will go with WWDC 2018. Picks: How to debug your mobile hybrid app on iOS, Beacon - Signal Availability by Ashley Nelson-Hornstein, Prioritize Work with Quality of Service Classes.

Episode 196: Test Backed Development

May 26th, 2018  |  1 hr 22 mins

1password, a12 processor, acoustic coupler, alibaba, amazon, amd, android wear, angstrom, app: the human story, apple key, apple music, apple park, apple watch, assistant editor, astropad, berkley, brent simmonds, buddy build, charcoal, chris wagner, clifford stoll, cmd shift j, cobra kai, command key, conte, ctrl opt g, cube, dark matter, de enza, firefly, foundation, gdpr, google, home pod, homestead, infinity loop, intel, interpol, jonathan kuehlein, kim alberg, laurel, microns, modem, montage, motorola, nanometer, omni, option click, paper by 53, pencil, podcast, project navigator, quartz, river, rwdevcon, saskatchewan, serenity, siemens, skytrain, southpark, space channel, standard editor, starlost, stuxnet, susan kare, symantec, t shirts, tacow, test backed development, the expanse, topology eyewear, tulip, usatoday, wolfe, workflow, wwdc, xcode, youtube red

This week we follow up on MTJC 2018 T-Shirts and the origins of Apple's Command Key. We also follow up on the Apple Store founders, Apple's GDPR profile downloads, Apple Watch usage and Apple's self driving cars. We discuss the Home Pod sales numbers, erroneous new Siri features, and a sophisticate worm virus and one of the first Internet hackers. We also chat about Apple's own podcasts and their use of original illustrations on the App Store. Picks: A handy Xcode keyboard shortcut to the Assistant Editor and App: the Human Story, Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds and 1Password 7.

Episode 193: Mind Altering Software Development

May 5th, 2018  |  1 hr 36 mins

aapl, air pods, android studio, apu, chris lattner, codable, creo, daniel steinberg, decipher media, declarative ui, devil they know, earnings, f8, google i/o, home pod, ibdesignable, ibm, interface builder, ios animations by tutorials, iphone x, jamf, kelly h. wilkerson, lake champlain, marzipan, matt greoning, mea culpa, oculus go, podcast analytics, property animators, secure id, simpsons, size classes, tandy radio shack, tensor flow, texas instruments, windows 10, wwdc

We start off with some #askMTJC about Property Animators, the possibly faked iPad 2018 armor, and dealing with corrupt and challenging iOS backup and restore. On this mostly follow up show, we talk about our space grey 2018 T-Shirt, Swift for TensorFlow is now available, cross-platform Apple development probably not coming at WWDC, JAMF stats on platform choices in the enterprise and benchmarking Codable. We also discuss Apple's earnings and some history via Bill Atkinson's new post to folklore.org. Congratulations to our book winner: Adam Armstrong. iTunes is now on the Microsoft Store. Apple's new MacBook Air is delayed until late 2018. Picks: What's New In Swift, Licenses + Plain English, Classic Computer Science Problems in Swift: Essential Techniques for Practicing Programmers

Episode 183: I Can't Hear It From Here

February 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 5 mins

air play 2, amazon echo dot, amazon show, ash furrow, boston dynamic, fletcher munson curves, frequency response, google home, google translate, home pod, icloud, ish, joe cieplinski, newton message pad, palm pilot, siri, skydio, skydio r1, timer, visual intertial odometery

We start of looking at Boston Dynamic's robots that can team up, open doors and leave a room. We dig into the Home Pod, with perspectives from @Ish and Joe Cieplinski posts. Jaime has received his Home Pod and compares to his other digital children, Amazon Dot, Amazon Show and Google Home. He discusses placement, the sound, set up and low level performance. Home Pod is also making impressions on oiled wood furniture. We also have a audiophile's review of the Home Pod. Picks: Apple put together three short videos to explain how to use your new HomePod, HomePod User Guide, Google Translate by Google, Inc., Skydio R1

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

Episode 180: Home, James, and don't spare the horses.

January 26th, 2018  |  1 hr 30 mins

30 under 30, aaron hillegass, alexa, alexa skills, conditional conformance, costume, coursera, daniel jalkut, facebook, flatmap, flick, google home, graham devine, hacking in swift, home pod, ios 11.3, machine learning, macintosh, malala fund, malala yousafzai, marcus zara, millinery, paul hudson, self driving cars, sirikit, sonos, swift 4.1, swift cloud workshop 3, swift forums, tim cook, unit of time

Recorded on the 34th anniversary of the Macintosh unveiling, we follow up on self driving cars with no steering wheels. We discuss improvements to Siri in iOS 11.2.5 and Thor Ragnarok slips out on the web early. The Malala Fund and Apple join to aid 100K underprivileged women to attend school. The Home Pod is now available for order in the US, UK and Australia. Facebook has introduced a new unit of time. Apple previews iOS 11.3. Paul Hudson posts in What's new in Swift 4.1. Picks: Canada's DEVELOPER 30|30, Swift Forums, Cousera's Machine Learning.

Episode 177: It Was Black Magic

January 6th, 2018  |  58 mins 13 secs

7th guest, amd, analytics, apple security, arm, asynchronous, battery, blackberry, buddy build, burstly, continuous development, echo base, echo dot, ellen shapiro, fastlane, flashlight, google home, graeme devine, graph-calc, home pod, iphone 6, jesse chartier, kyle richter, meltdown, mike daley, multithreaded, myst, nsnorth, orchard, practical security, provisioning, rebel assault, riven, skills, spectre, tacow, tangerine, testflight, the room, xcode bots

This week we follow up on the iPhone battery debacle and Apple's battery replacement program. We also follow up on sales of Amazon Echo and Google Home while waiting for Apple's HomePod. We discuss the 25th anniversary of pCalc. Meltdown and Spectre are the main topic as we chat about Intel's kernel memory leaks. Blackberry signs a deal with Baidu to build self-driving cars. The big story for us is Apple's acquisition of Buddy Build. Picks: 5 Advanced Mac Tricks You've Never Used, Oh Sh!t Git, 7th Guest for iOS, 360iDev 2017 Session Playlist