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

Episode 355: MTJC Max Pro Ultra

January 21st, 2023  |  1 hr 41 mins

1password, adobe illustrator 88, bitrise, bugsnag, chatgpt, console, dsotm, eric clapton, faces, figma, homepod, jan hammer, jeff beck, johnny depp, keynote, kraken, liquid retina xdr, m2 max, m2 pro, mac mini m1, macbook pro 14 m2 pro, macbook pro 16 m2 pro, matter, maybe i’m amazed, melody gardot, mixpanel, mobsf, natural language processing, neural engine, newer technology, optimizly, owasp, owc, quadrophonic, rob napier, runway, sketch, slack, stable diffusion, static analysis, swiftui, tears in heaven, testrail, the last of us, truth, tunein radio, xbb 1.5, xcode cloud

This week we discuss the new M2 Max, M2 Pro and Mac mini, MacBook Pros 14 & 16. We follow up on Stable Diffusion, ChatGPT and updated Apple Design Resources. We also cover augmenting accessibility with localized image names and the 2nd generation HomePod. In our Picks; Improving Console Output, SwiftUI Views Life Cycle, SwiftUI 4 adds tap location, DIY iOS Static Analysis, Gitignore.io, Getting Started with Xcode Cloud, and How to professionally say...

Episode 314: More Bang

September 6th, 2020  |  1 hr 4 mins

!hws, .mac, adafruit, app annie, apple stock, apple tv, apple watch series 6, arcade, ardunio, arm cortex m7, auto renewable, battle royal, chinese cards, deeplink, embed xcode, eworld, fedex, free trail, fry’s, gaming, health app, hello to bangs, homepod, hotmail, human centipad, ilife, iphone 12, limited time, malware, micromachine.io, mobileme, notarization, offer codes, puzzle, rasberry pi, rejection, rpg, shield, splunk, stapler, subscriptions, swifter, universal links, url schemes, usps, workout

We fact check Apple's stock if it had never split. FoS Joe Cabrera offers the inside view of FedEx driver tracking. Apple is preparing 75 million iPhone 12 for release. App Store appeals process is now live. Get ready for subscription offer codes. Apple is still trying to erase mac.com email addresses. Game IQ is a taxonomy to help publishers understand mobile game categories. Apple approves notorious malware to run on Macs. Picks: How to test deep links with UI Testing. How to manually add workout data to the Health app on your iPhone. World-first circuit board with Swift. Use !hws in DuckDuckGo.

Episode 282: Rack 'Em Up

January 26th, 2020  |  1 hr 14 mins

1 u, airpods, andy bargh, anno domini, app annie, apple archive, apple card, apple ii, apple tv+, blackberry, bric, c++ 20, carlton, cbs all access, children of mars, college, color bump 3d, coronavirus, crossy road, data center, dev degree, dominic monahan, encryption, fortan, freshbooks, gaming, gen z, homepod, icloud, intelligent tracking, iphone x, jet.com, jetbrains, kotlin, lemmings, macbook pro 16, macintosh office, macworld boston, mandalorian, microsoft edge, netflix, nokia, open banking, picard, powerbook g4, quicken, rack mount, rackspace, retail, safari, shopify, short circuit, short treks, spockcast, star trek discovery, subscriptions, swift for tensorflow, swiftui, titanium, touch bar, trouble with edward, tunein radio, university, wal-mart, wealthsimple, wuhan, york u

We follow up on AD and BC, HomePod in use, Dominic Monaghan, MacWorld Boston and Swift Developments by FoS Andy Bargh. Apple’s rack-mounted Mac Pro variant is now available to order. Download New Microsoft Edge Browser. Fun With Charts: A decade of Apple growth. Kids Hack AirPods. App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry. Where programming languages are headed in 2020. FORTRAN.io. State of Mobile 2020. Wealthsimple looks to be Canada’s Apple Card, launches metal Visa. Picks: Shopify Dev Degree, The (Unofficial) Apple Archive, How to fix and restart the Touch Bar when it stops working, Apple Card users can now download monthly transactions in a spreadsheet.

Episode 265: AppleTV+ and Chill

September 14th, 2019  |  1 hr 42 mins

12mp telephoto camera, 12mp wide angle camera, 12mp wide camera, 16:00, 4x optical zoom, 5th avenue, a10 fusion, a13 bionic, aberswith, aluminium, amazon prime, apple arcade, apple card, apple event, apple hearing study, apple heart and movement study, apple research, apple research app, apple store, apple tv+, apple u1, apple watch, apple watch experience, applecare +, barbara bain, cinematic stabilization, comcast, compass, crayon, dave okun, deep fusion, developer advocate, drigend, ethan hunt, evangelist, face id, filmic pro, frogger in toy town, glyph, haptic touch, hermes, homepod, iosdevuk, ipad, iphone 11, iphone pro 11, iphone xr, kerf, ki wireless kitchen, konami, leonard nimoy, liaison, macintosh lc, martin landeau, metallica, microsoft, midnight green, mission impossible, multitasking, netflix and chill, night mode, office space, patina, people skills, peter graves, posix, see, shawn marsten, shrewsbury, slofies, smart hdr, space 1999, st albans, stadium, starboard, steam, steven troughtan-smith, sumbul desai, tamara jones, the edge, the strokes, theater mode, titanium, touch id, trypophobia, u2, vintage, weatherspoon, zoom wheel

We follow up on Ethan Hunt, POSIX, in-screen Touch ID, Apple Card case, and Jaime at iOSDevUK 2019. We dig into the Apple iPhone event: Apple Arcade, TV+, iPad 10.2 inch, Apple Watch Series 5, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and Apple Retail. We also discuss extending AppleCare+, new AirDrop in iPhone 11, Apple VR headset, new Home Pod features, and total TV subscriptions. Picks: Mohamed Ghebaji on Medium, try Combine, Apple Event in 2 Minutes, Microsoft the Musical, The difference between UK and US Mac keyboards.

Episode 259: Crossing the Rubicon

August 3rd, 2019  |  1 hr 2 mins

addc, apple card, apple stock, applecare, auto playing, bindable object, combine, dark pattern, delaware, earnings, eps, fuad, george washington, github, gitlab, hey siri, hockey, homepod, infinite scrolling, julius caesar, michael keaton, netflix, objectwillchange, observedobject, pompey the great, prime day, project tango, rene cacheaux, ridley scott, rome, rubicon, siff, sirios, smart act, steve jobs, tiff, tim burton, time of flight, tps reports, trade sanctions, upgrade program

We follow up on TIFF, siriOS, black turtlenecks, the Apple Card, and Apple's financial engineering. Apple investors shrug off sputtering iPhone sales. Apple will let you choose ‘bigger’ or ‘more’ app icons on your iPad’s home screen. Apple’s future iPhone might add a time-of-flight camera. GitHub restricts developer accounts under US sanctions. Proposed US law would ban infinite scroll, autoplaying video. Picks: ADDC 2019, Swift changes under Xcode 11/iOS13 beta 5.

Episode 229: Feeling The Pinch

January 12th, 2019  |  1 hr 36 secs

5ge, 64-bit, alexa, antenna, apple tv, at&t, facebook portal, filemaker pro, fire stick, github, google assistant, google home max, hacking with swift, headphone jack, homepod, hspa+, ipad mini 5, jim cramer, lg, mad money, photos, quickkeys, rene richie, roku stick, samsung tv, security & privacy, siri, smart tv, sonos, swift, television, test your swift, vector, watchpoints

We take a look at Vector's review on fixing the HomePod. Samsung's Smart TV will support iTunes Movies & TV Shows as well as AirPlay 2. We discuss the original Apple TV. AT&T tries to slip in a 5G icon on client phones. Microsoft's GitHub adds unlimited private repos. We look at a leaked photo of an iPad Mini 5. A new "behind OLED" Face ID sensor is revealed. Apple uses trade-ins as well as lower prices in some markets to encourage iPhone sales. Samsung also warns of a 30% reduction in profits in it's 4th quarter. Yubico reveals Lightning port security keys. Apple's TV service should come out in 2019. Picks: Xcode in 10 Seconds, Shortcuts links, Test Your Swift.

Episode 195: There's Still Good In You

May 19th, 2018  |  1 hr 3 mins

amazon, bank of america, berlin, bruce lee, carnegie, carnegie melon, carplay, casl, caviar, chase, circadian rhythm, classickit, cmu, compusa, dave delong, deep learning, dell, denise crosby, elecktron, forums.swift.org, foyer, game of death, gatekeeper, gateway, gdpr, general moters, goldman sachs, google analytics, google car, google i/o, homepod, hov, hyjack, iglistkit, joe fafard, jordan maletta, kareem abdul jabar, logitech crayon, lou ferigno, mail chimp, marin todorov, markdown, moose horns, mtjc mailing list, nova, nova wonders, patrick roy, pci, platform state of the union, rene fouquet, ryan nystrom, seiko, sharpie, ski rack, spockcast, support vector machines, swift, sydney crosby, t-shirts, td centre, tesla, the cows, the pasture, tulip, uikonf, uitouch, visual studio code, wells fargo, wellsley, weymo, wwdc, wwdc keynote, york

We start with a T-Shirt sighting in Berlin's UIKonf. We follow up on more GDPR data retention updates, this time from Google and MailChimp. Also Apple may launch a credit card, Carnegie Melon is offering an undergraduate degree in AI, Swift.org forums is supporting related products, ClassicKit surfaces to offer Win 98 UI for iOS apps, Logitech Crayon for iPad is now available, and a customized iPhone X with solar charger. It's the anniversary of the launch of the Apple Store. Apple has registered 50 self-driving cars in California. Picks: UIKonf 2018 Livestream, Visual Studio Code. Aftershow: Nova Machine Learning, Amazon HQ 2 search continues and a missed #askMTJC on timezones.

Episode 190: Test Is Green. Code Is Clean.

April 14th, 2018  |  1 hr 29 mins

(product)red®, 32-bit, 400, 401, algorithm github, algorithms, amazon music, apple music, audrey tam, bell curve video, black jeopardy, blackberry, coreml, data structures, developer shaming, dr doom, early adopters, echo, flip phones, google home, homepod, hot rods, house of strombo, ibm watson, interstate, iphone 8, i’m a teapot, mac pro, maple leafs, multi core mac pro, multi-core, nbc, pandora, reagan airport, road apple, simon sineck, spotify, start with why, tweetbot, twitter, twitterific, watch series 2, webdav, welcome to leopard, xcode, youtube, zuckerberg

This week we follow up on Youtube changes, IBM Watson and CoreML, 3rd party Twitter apps. We discuss Xcode compilation on mutli-core Mac Pros. The Home Pod has a sluggish start in sales. Apple reveals the (Product)RED® iPhone 8. Apple Music has 40 million users and a new boss. We follow up on HTTP 400 error codes. We discuss Apple upcoming purge of 32-bit macOS apps, reliving Windows File manager and the RWDevCon 2018's post mortem. Picks: Understanding Git Version Control and Learn how to Use it in Xcode 9, Xcode TDD keyboard short cuts, App Store insights. Aftershow: Facebook testimony.

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 171: A Fiduciary Duty

November 25th, 2017  |  1 hr 44 mins

build times, face id, fuchsia os, homepod, ios 11.2, iphone density, iphone se, iphone x, layout bugs, live share, reachability, skydio, teletype, thanksgiving

We begin our US Thanksgiving Episode looking into the iPhone's density from our #askMTJC as well as Reachability. iOS 11 has some layout bugs. The HomePod will be delayed until the new year. Fact Check: Face ID does learn from its mistakes, also you need to focus on it sometimes. Tim shares some experiences updating apps for the iPhone X. The iPhone SE may get updated in the new year. We ponder that Swift code will run on Google's Fuchsia OS. iOS 11.2 will allow introductory subscription pricing. We discuss the issues around Net Neutrality as the FCC votes on it. We discuss Uber's attempt to cover up a major hack where 57 million user accounts are stolen. Coding can be done at the same time with Atom's Teletype and Visual Studio's Live Share. Picks: iOS Thanksgiving 2017: Tools & Libraries We’re Thankful For, Optimize Swift Build Times, Avoiding force unwrapping in Swift unit tests, Skydio is hiring: iOS Engineer, Android Engineer, Mobile QA Engineer