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

Episode 292: Lopez 2024

April 4th, 2020  |  1 hr 16 mins

1password, 8d audio, adobe premiere, amazon in app, amazon prime video, apple card, april 1st, audible, beatles, billy illish, binaural, covid-19 app, dark side of the moon, dark sky, defer, elizabeth warren, facebook login, hig, hiring freeze, iphone 11 pro, iphone 8, iphone xr, jack henry, judy, last pass, macbook pro 16, master detail, mcintosh, mdm, mit, online learning, paul hudson, paul mccartney, peter steinberger, pointers, quadraphonic, sarah dietschy, skype, slack, sonic the hedgehog, sony atv, two straws, usb to lightening, we work remotely, webex, zoom

We follow up on the Apple Store, the deadline for App updates, Apple's COVID-19 app, Warren's open sourced tools, Zoom updates their app, the MacBook Pro 16, Amazon Prime Video adds InApp purchasing and the Apple Card extends the payment deferral. We chat about Supporting Pointer Interactions on iPadOS. Apple Acquires Weather App Dark Sky. Apple’s iOS 14 may turn iCloud Keychain into a true 1Password and LastPass competitor. Picks: 8D Audio, LIVE who’s hiring or freezing, WeWorkRemotely, Spot the Swifty, more Keyboard Tricks, iOS Conf SG 2020 videos and Apple docs Diffs.

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.

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Episode 285: Convenience vs Security

February 15th, 2020  |  1 hr 16 mins

activesync, amazon, apache 2.0, apple, apple pay, bank of america, bbs, blackberry, breaker, business chat, carbon copy cloner, case sensitive, catalist, control room, convenience, corona virus, crypto, enterprise, file manager, galaxy z flip, graphviz, guy kawasaki, helen heidi pilypas, hewlett packard, iphone 5, kindle, las vegas, mit, n95, nsnorth, objc.io, open banking, open source, pager, paul hudson, plamos, playgrounds, qnx, recovery mode, remarkable people, rene richie, secure enclave, steve wozniak, swift crypto, t2, taika waititi, thinking swiftui, threat model, touch id

We follow up on Breaker and the difference between CryptoKit and Swift Crypto. ‘They know us better than we know ourselves’: how Amazon tracked my last two years of reading. Jaime's adventures in cloning to a new Mac. Apple Pay on pace to account for 10% of global card transactions. Watch apps are getting iAP in watchOS 6.2. Open Banking. Why the iPhone Killed BlackBerry. Open Source Licenses in 2020: Trends and Predictions. The Shapes of Code. Picks: The Apple Color Commentary by Steve Wozniak, Thinking in SwiftUI, ‎Swift Playgrounds on the Mac App Store, Control Room

Episode 244: Game of Drones

April 26th, 2019  |  45 mins 22 secs

abc store, acquisition, average, boeing, boeing 787, border, cbc spark, cdic, common shares, conte, coreml, crunchable, development, facebook, game of drones, giulherme rambo, go train, haptic, hawaii, hibiscadelphus woodii, ifixit, intents, jaime, kauai, lais, macfixit, marzipan, mcdonalds, mean, mit, mongo db, national geographic, nlp, non-stop, nsnorth, ntgb, nvme, pastel, paysa, preferred shares, privacy commissioner, realm, reminders, salaries, screentime, search, setapp, shortcuts, sign-on bonus, siri, swift, the milk is free, timing, tunnelbear, vancouver, vc, watercolor, westjet, whatsapp

We follow up again on developer salaries, your privacy at airports and borders, MongoDB is acquiring Realm, and McDonald’s mobile app exploits. Siri Shortcuts and Screen Time are coming to the Mac. For developers at WWDC; Siri, Marzipan, AR, and more. What would you pay for WhatsApp, FaceBook or Twitter as a service. Is Apple working on a Apple Paintbrush. Extinct flower rediscovered in Hawaii, via drones. Picks: Just say “Hey Siri, remind me about this” from inside an app.

Episode 214: Don't Panic Jaime!

September 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 43 mins

273°k, 320 x 480, 802.11k, 802.11r, acc, ai for accessibility, al gore, amanda lang, amazon echo, amazon football, american horror story, american pavilion, andy hunt, applecare, apy, bc place, best buy, bose, buckminster fuller, cirus logic, cisco fast-lane, echo dot, elevate tech fest, elo, elton john, environment canada, eric schmidt, expo 67, expos, fargo, fight club, finfet, freedom mobile, headphone dongle, hockey cards, ing direct, iphone 6, jarry park, ken dryden, maple leaf socks, mars discovery, mit, montreal biodome, montreal biosphere, monza, mosfet, nsnorth 2019, olympic stadium, philips hue, place ville marie, protected goal, roger waters, rusty staub, scotiabank centre, split view, stubhub, subwoofer, tangerine, td davinci, ted nugent, tennis ball, tfsa, the big o, the good place, toronto raptors, towel day, u2, uidocument, velodrome, works with alexa, world’s fair

Our #askMTJC yielded a lot of feed back. SplitView mode on the Plus size iPhones. Paul Wilkinson illuminates Wifi Assist, Enterprise wifi routers can force devices to re-associate, and AP roaming & traffic priorities. Best Buy matches Freedom Mobiles $0 iPhone XS deals. iOS 12 improves iPhone app emulation with iPhone 6 resolutions and also fixes glitches with 2FA with multiple Apple ID users. AppleCare for iPhone X's. Amazon reveals 14 new devices. Headphone dongle missing. NSNorth 2019. What’s new in Swift 5.0. Supports opening documents in place. iPhones to be banned in South Korea? Picks: Supporting iPhone XS Max and XR, Using Command-Line Arguments to Configure In-App Dependencies, TD DaVinci API, Elevate Tech Fest Hackathon, Microsoft Build: AI for Accessibility, Why the metric system matters - Matt Anticole

Episode 168: Preaching To The Choir

November 4th, 2017  |  1 hr 26 mins

@escaping, @objc, atari, aws, calculator bug, cryptonomicon, et, homepod, ios 11, iphone x, mac os 8, microsoft, mit, pgp, pre-order, safari, sirikit, splitview, spock cast, taskrabbit, youtube

We discuss #askMTJC on iPhone Plus models landscape SplitView mode, PGP encryption apps, the iOS 11 Calculator bug, and Blockchain diplomas. We follow up on GPG encryption tools, iPhone X Demand, and Reachability on the iPhone X. We discuss experiences of trying to pre-order iPhone X models by ourselves and others. We also discuss Gluon: a new library for machine learning from AWS and Microsoft, SiriKit in 11.2 beta brings commands for the upcoming HomePod. Picks: Tips and Tricks: Ten Safari long-press shortcuts for iPhone and iPad and Xcode's Show Live Issues.