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

Episode 360: The Curious Case of Daniel Steinberg

April 14th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

8 out of 10 cats, actor model, async await, behind the scenes with threads, breakpoints, canvas, carl hewet, chicago, cocoaconf, eric meijer, erica sadun, gordon lee, guy kawasaki, infinite monkey cage, ipad, james dempsey, jim wyrick, matt smith, non copiable value types, objective-c, paul hudson, pragmatic programmers, sal salghoian, san jose, steven fry, swift, threads, top 40, trailing closure syntax

This week Tim sits down with Daniel Steinberg to talk about his work, teaching, and his new book The Curious Case of the Async Cafe. The book explores Swift concurrency. They also discuss Daniel's experience as a broadcast radio host, his upcoming Top 40 format app, has his thoughts on WWDC 2023.

Episode 356: Leo Dion

January 31st, 2023  |  1 hr 18 mins

360 idev, 360 stump, amiga, ash furrow, celine dion, deep dish swift, dionne quintuplets, disk doubler, eggs benedict, facebook, floppy disk, grace hopper, healthkit, hearttwitch, indiana jones, ipad, jay freeman, lansing michigan, lzw compression, marcel dionne, mark german, mastodon, mini vmac, myspace, objective-c, patch, punch card, raiders of the last arc, scsi, server side swift, swift to, temple of doom, twitter, unique ability, univac, vapor, virtualization

This week Leo Dion joins Tim to discuss his career as Server-Side Swift developer, speaker and podcaster. They discuss some computer and development history, the future of Twitter, as well as, the upcoming Reality Pro AR/VR headset rumoured to be coming from Apple. Leo makes gets an early start on the best sandwich.

Episode 351: This Is Nothing...

October 22nd, 2022  |  1 hr 39 mins

32 pin, a14, adaptability, affinity publisher, airpower, android, apple card, apple pencil 2, apple pencil hover, apple tv+, apy, aqua, auto-update, bell fibe tv, beos, biometrics, black pixel, bluetooth, bs-o-matic, classroom kit, cmd shift d, comcast, copland, deep purple, defaults, desktop, dynamic island, elon musk, european union, function keys, geoff hackworth, goldman sachs, hdr10e, home pod, icloud, internet explorer, ipad, ipad 3, ipad os 16, ipad pro, iphone 14 pro, iphone se, keychain, lightning, linkedin, liquid retina, liquid retina xdr, m2, mac os 8, macos ventura, magic keyboard, magic keyboard folio, mark german, mini-led, ms surface, octane x, paybright, qi, roku, safe area, samsung, scquemorphic, sherlock, size classes, smart connector, square cash, stage manager, system 7, thunderbolt 4, tiktok, touch id, treasury bonds, twitter, usb-c, wf-fi 6, wi-fi 6e

This week we follow up on iPhone 14 series screen sizes. We debate the EU's future standardization of USB-C for all mobile devices and Apple Card's new high yield Savings accounts. We dig into to the newly introduced Apple TV 4K (3rd Gen), the new iPad (10th Gen) with Magic Keyboard Folio, and the new iPad Pro (6th Gen) series with M2 and Mini-LED (sort of). Picks: macOS defaults, Apple Aqua: Exploring the Legacy Of MacOS X User Interface, iOS Architecture Generator.

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 337: Joe Cieplinski

September 25th, 2021  |  1 hr 4 mins

360idev, 360idev keynote, airplane mode, apple watch, bass guitar, brave new world, breakfast of champions, catch-22, catch-22 tv show, conditional breakpoints, dale blubond, ferrite recording studio, foundation, glass.photo, ipad, ipad mini, iphone 13 mini, james dempsey, john updike, kurt vonnegut, lord of the rings, mark twain, nomad scuplt, paul mccartney, series 7, slaughterhouse 5, yossarian

Joe Cieplinski, from the Release Notes podcast, joins Tim to discuss his move to Colorado in his 5th appearance on MTJC. We chat about podcasting, the Apple iPhone Event, his favorite bass, form and function, SwiftUI and Michelangelo's Last Supper.

Recorded Sept 14, 2021

Episode 336: A Lot of Nits to Pick

September 19th, 2021  |  1 hr 31 mins

a lot of nits to pick, a13, a15, alvy ray smith, apple cinema display 20, centerstage, ceramic shield, cinematic mode, cloudkit, digital light, ed catmull, ekg, epic, firewire 400, fitness +, forced entry, godel escher bach, google, hdr, iap, ios 15 rc, ipad, ipad mini, iphone 13 mini, john lassater, john wilker, meditaion, motorola, night mode, nomad sculpt, pa semiconductor, peanuts, pegasus, pilates, pixar, pok pok, presbyopia, promotion, series 7, smurf berries, snoopy, super retina xdr, ted lasso, thunderbolt, titanium, xcode, xerox parc

We fact check on our start at 360iDev and follow up on Apple Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, and tech giants planning to make their own chips. Apple releases iOS 14.6 and macOS 11.6 to prevent the Pegasus spyware gateway. We discuss Alvy Ray Smith the genius who helped make Pixar possible. We review Apple's Califironia Streaming iPhone event and new items announced. Picks: Apple CloudKit samples, Xcodes: The best command-line tool to install and switch between multiple versions of Xcode, Draw Yourself as a Peanuts Character in Pages with a Snoopy Artist, Nomad Sculpt.

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 316: One Bundle To Rule Them All

September 20th, 2020  |  1 hr 31 mins

a14x, ab testing, altimeter, angstrom, app store, appkit, apple tv+, appleone, arm, blood oxygen, catalyst, core data, epic, fitness+, floppies, fortnite, fruta, geofence, guidlines, ios 14, ipad, ipad air, iphone 12 plus, kilobytes, la crosse, mac user group, macbook air, macos, news+, nvidia, pete steinberger, pulse oximetry, safari, softbank, solo loop, swiftui, ted lasso, tennis, touch id, uoft, watch se, watch series 6, wta, xcode 12 gm

We fact check 3.5inch floppy sizes. Nvidia buying ARM for $40B. App Store Review Guideline updates now available. Apple Insider Confirms New iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro Releases. Apple Is About To Leave Your MacBook Air Behind. The State of SwiftUI. We cover the 9/15 Apple Event. Apple developers are scrambling over accelerated iOS 14 release. Picks: iOS 14 widgets you can try today.Core Data in SwiftUI.

Episode 310: So It Must Be True

August 9th, 2020  |  1 hr 34 mins

120hz, 1password, 360 idev, 548, alan cross, apple, apple gift card, apple silicon, apple store, apple store badge, appletalk, automater, bitcoin, citizen band, cold wallet, compuserve, core data, covid alert, derived data, disk warrior, drobo, forecast, fusion drive, greg joswiak, handle, imac 27inch, ipad, ipad pro, iphone xr, isight camera, jack henry, jeff bezos, las vegas golden knights, lidar, macbook air superdrive, maccatalyst, maker fair, marc andre fluery, mark stone, mobile notts, murder, nano texture, nhl, nottingham, nstoolbar, parallelogram, persistence container, phil schiller, pod, powerbook g4, preprocesser directive, quicktime, rhombus, shawn marsden, shot on iphone, spockcast, star trek lower decks, twitter hack, xserve

We fact check on 548 and the height of the iPhone 5. In the follow up Apple confirms that new iPhones models won't arrive in September. Apple has a record breaking third quarter on Mac and iPad sales. Apple introduces "Everything Apple" gift card. iPhone 12 prices leaked and iOS 14 beta reveals a 5.4 inch iPhone 12. 1Password roles out on Linux. Tim reviews the MacCatalyst Tutorial. Canada's Covid Alert app is out on Android and iOS. In the main show we cover Grouping Array Elements With Dictionary. Apple introduces a new Intel iMac 27 inch. Setting up a Core Data store for unit tests. Apple replaces longtime marketing chief Phill Schiller. Picks: Apple Store badges are back with Memoji. Deleting Derived Data with Automator. Fleury, Stone join forces to shoot Apple ad on iPhone 11 Pro. Fun: Footage taken in an Apple Store back in 2003 looks…weird. Forecast: A must-have tool for Mac podcasters.

Episode 289: Flattening the Curve

March 14th, 2020  |  1 hr 44 mins

aaron douglas, adobe connect, agnes, alt conf, alta vista, app store, ask jeeves, astropad, bell curve, blood oxygen, bmw, byte conf, carbon computing, ces, clorox, composable, conference call bingo, covid-19, craig ferguson, decorative, digital printed, don river, e3, ekg, electronic expo, fda, fitbit, foodora, forged in fire, gang of four, gaussian curve, google, grateful dead, ios 14, ipad, ipad air, iphone 4, it crowd, java, john wetton, kewl, lauren moon, lego maters, lycos, macbook pro, march break, microsoft developer, mit, mtv, mute, new rochelle, peopleware, peter capaldi, philadelphia, programmer, push notifications, quartet, raptors, reality tv, riddiculousness, rita wilson, riverdale, russian nesting dolls, santa clara county, sap concur, scott forestall, slack, sopranos, spam, spanish flu, st louis, staff pad, steve jobs, symphony pro, t-pain, tachymeter, the mast singer, tom hanks, tomomi imura, trello, watchos 6, wfh, whiteboard, who, who doctor, will arnett, wishbone ash, world war z, wwdc, yahoo

We follow up on home delivery of Apple products, music scoring apps, and Byte Conf online conference. In reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic Apple tells employees to work from home, tells consumers that they can disinfect their iPhones, Microsoft launches and online conference, and we discuss how cancelling events and self-quarantines save lives, by flattening the curve.Apple will fix third-generation iPad Air screens that permanently go black. Apple Watches may soon detect blood oxygen levels. Apple Watch Series 6 and watchOS 7 to include 'Infograph Pro' with tachymeter, Schooltime and kids mode, sleep tracking and more. Apple has updated App Store Review Guidelines on spam, Push Notifications, App Store Reviews and MDM Apps. Composable Decorators vs. Imperative Utility Methods. Whaddaya Mean, You Can’t Find Programmers? Picks: Doodles-as-A-Service Repo, The Best Advice For Remote Work Success From 10 Global Teams.

illustration by Toby Morris