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

Episode 354: What Did You Think Was Going To Happen !? - George Stroumboulopoulos

December 10th, 2022  |  52 mins 9 secs

assorted, blt, burning man, burrito, canadian club, cbc, cochela, discord, harley, hockey night in canada, house of strombo, instagram, jean beliveau, lebanon, linkedin, malton, mastodon, mr sub, myspace, rick vaive, rogers, slack, testflight, the hour, the strombo show, tiff, tupac, twitter, vegan, world food program

This week George Stroumboulopoulos joins Tim to catch up on The Strombo Show, Mastodon, social media and the best submarine sandwich.
Apple announces biggest upgrade to App Store pricing, adding 700 new price points
Stable Diffusion with Core ML on Apple Silicon
Apple Announces Upcoming Apple Music Sing Feature
Apple advances user security with powerful new data protections
Picks:
Data Tile
Coduo lets you share and collaborate in Xcode

Episode 342: What the iPhone Means to Me - Best of MTJC

January 9th, 2022  |  1 hr 25 mins

amazon prime, app store rating, apple music, at&t, blackbox, blade runner, chris lattner, cidia, clean my mac x, dashcode, dropbox, goggle drive, icloud drive, india, iphone, ipod touch, jan 9 2007, llvm, logmein, macbook pro, man from high castle, metacircular evaluator, palm trio, philip k dick, phill schiller, prime photos, rapid weever, rogers, setapp, strombo, top gear, ulysses, wordpress

In celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the iPhone announcement at Mac World 2007, here is our 10th anniversary episode.

We were joined by Tammy Coron and Greg Heo. We followed up on Learning to Learn, a MacBook Pro saving a life, where Apple products are made and the math behind a 5-star rating. Reorded the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the iPhone announcement by Apple. So we asked listeners and friends to tell us what the iPhone has meant to them. We hear from Kim Ahlberg, Justin Stanley, Aaron Douglas, Peter Cook, George Stroumboulopoulos, Jaime Lopez Jr and Rich Turton. We talk about Phil Schiller's press tour on the iPhone early history as well as some recent turnaround in iPhone sales and market growth. We speculate Chris Lattner's move to Tesla. Cloud storage is mentioned. Picks: Kaleidoscope, Hyperdrive USB Hub

Recorded Jan 2017.

Episode 331: On To Bigger Problems

July 3rd, 2021  |  1 hr 9 mins

accessibility, air tags, app store optimization, apple arcade, apple store, arc, async await, at&t, bon mot, bondi blue, chemical brothers, cliff notes, completion handler, coreaudiod, ctv news, dark mode, delta variant, digital lounges, docc, don melton, github companion, heat dome, imac m1, iphone, iphone 12, iphone 3g, iphone 4s, khtml, konqueror, large titles, leo laporte, lockdown, look again, lost in space, macbreak, marques brown, mkbhd, monterey, office x, pcalc, powerpc, rene richie, rogers, safari, san francisco, scales & modes, steve jobs, swift package index, swift playgrounds, use your loaf, vaccinated, vancouver, visual codes, webkit, what’s new in swift, widget, will & kate, withcheckcontinuation, wwdc, wwdc viewing guide

We fact check MKBHD, Air Tags, Visual Codes app, and Lavell Crawford. The iPhone shipped 14 years ago and WebKit was released 20 years ago. 100M iPhone 12 were purchased. Wrapping completion handlers into async API. GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer. What's new in SwiftUI. Using SwiftUI’s AsyncImage to render remote images from URLs. What's New in iOS 15 for App Store Optimization. Picks: WWDC21Lounges, WWDC 2021 Viewing Guide, Swift Package Index.

Yes, the episode was renamed.

Episode 283: Limited Edition

February 2nd, 2020  |  1 hr 23 mins

adobe flash, altered carbon, ample labs, apple car, applenet, bill atkinson, black water slide, breakpoints, carbon copy cloner, carona virus, cash back, chalmers, classical gas, degrassi junior high, delta hacks vi, drake, earnings, homeless, hotwheels, hypercard, ios 13, ipad, iphone se, jamf, jenkins, jesse squires, joni mitchell, laserwriter, m-pesa, mac pro rackmount, macintosh office, migration assistant, ming che quo, myst, neil young, phonenet, presto card, rogers, rush, sgi, softfpu, songsterr, speech synthesis, spirit, sun microsystems, swift 6, swiftui sheets, target mode, ted kremenek, tesla, tops, touch id, tragically hip, upfront edge, w-8ben, xcode previews, yyz

We follow up on rack mounting the Mac Pro, the Macintosh Office and HyperCard. We follow up on providing tech support for apps and services. After a decade of drama, Apple is ready to kill Flash in Safari once and for all. There’s an Apple Car for sale — but it's not the one you think. Apple’s first iPad was revealed 10 years ago today. Everything we know about the iPhone SE 2. Apple hits 1.5 billion active devices with ~80% of recent iPhones and iPads running iOS 13. Sheets don’t inherit the environment. On the road to Swift 6. Software Maker for Apple Devices Jamf Files Confidentially for IPO. Apple delivers best-ever quarterly numbers, powered by iPhones, services. Picks: Speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS with Swift. Rogers ends subsidized phone plans, now exclusively offers device financing. Xcode Previews. Xcode tip: Using breakpoints as bookmarks.

Episode 235: Twice as Big as It Needs To Be

February 23rd, 2019  |  1 hr 7 mins

1password, air pods 2, alexis, apple display 6k 31 inch, bell, bilateral wifi charging, book of record, bravo, cornucopia, craft beer, curiosity, digital sweater, dread pirate roberts, ekg, face id, forbes, fxx, google assistant, google authenticator, hello barbie, hulu, identity theft, law of diffusion of innovation, lunokhod, macbook pro 16 inch, mark gurman, marzipan, microsoft authenticator, mike hendly, opportunity rover, otp, pliny the younger, rogers, ross ulbricht, samsung, scify, security by obscurity, show case, silk road, slap bracelet, sms 2fa, sojouner, solo, space tv, tap hunter, target, the man in the high castle, two factor authentication, unlock mac with watch, untapped

In our #askMTJC we discuss 1Password and other tools for Two Factor Authentication. We follow up with more Engineering jokes, digital team jerseys, a foldable slap bracket smart phone, apps for craft breweries, enterprise certificate uses, activating 2FA, iPhone 6/6S battery, and Amazon cancels NYC headquarters. Apple buys AI voice startup know for Alexis and Google Assistant. Apple is set to introduce a 16-inch MacBook Pro, a 31-inch 6K display, iPhones with upgraded Face ID and bilateral wireless charging. Apple files a patent on foldable screens. Apple is continuing to work on Marzipan — to combine iOS and macOS apps. Picks: Greg Heo's new favorite Xcode keyboard shortcut, Online Swift Playground, The mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT.

Episode 222: Everyone's A Publisher

November 24th, 2018  |  1 hr 10 mins

49’ers, amazon, andrew ng, at&t, bill 101, black friday, braves, buffalo bills, claris works, code warrior, comcast, convolutional neural networks, cousera, crazy russian hacker, dark castle, deep fakes, deep learning, direct tv, esim, everyone’s a publisher, face id, folding phones, inside macintosh, instagram, jordan peele, london bridge, mac 128k, machine learning, marsipan, napalm girl, natural language processing, neural networks, new england patriots, nfl, nlp, obama, pict, post, recurrent networks, red sox, rogers, spockcast, sportsnet, st michael’s, system 6.0.8, tsn, verizon

We follow up on folding phones as Google adds support to Android. Apple cuts production on all new iPhone X series phones. Verizon will bring eSIM support for iPhones. Amazon US will now sell Macs for Apple. Prince William weighs in on social network giants lack of discretion. Tim Cook says regulations as inevitable. Apple has bought a privacy-conscious AI start up. Picks: Swift Heroes 2018 conference videos, Mini vMac for iOS, Deep Learning Specialization

Episode 221: Not Expected Behavior

November 17th, 2018  |  1 hr 8 mins

6.001, abelson, aloestackview, android, asp, ast 2 configuration suite, bear market, bin, emacs, ex-dividend date, folding phone, functions are fun, i feel fine, instagram, intel iphone, iphone 8, jim kramer, lisp, lsp, macbook escape, mit open courseware, night sight, paperback writer, patreon, pixel 3 phone, python, revolution 1, revolution no. 9, right to repair, rogers, scheme, screen replacements, shortcuts drawer view, spotify, structured interpretation of computer programming, sussman, t2, tariffs, the beatles, the little schemer, the white album

We look at #askMTJC from Paul Wilkinson on emptying the bin. Greg Heo joins us again as we discuss Apple's plan to replace unresponsive screens on iPhone X models. An iPhone X has exploded after being recharged. Spotify has launched an Apple Watch app. Apple's T2 chip will require a post upgrade/repair diagnostic tool to be run. Apple's stock price continues to drop as more suppliers lower their estimates on future iPhone XR orders. We also discuss Samsung's foldable phone and Google's Pixel 3 Night Sight feature. We discuss Swift LSP and MIT's 6.001 course on Lisp and Scheme. Picks: Is this AI? We drew you a flowchart to work it out, Kotlin Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide, AloeStackView, Re-creating the Siri Shortcuts Drawer Interaction.

Episode 212: The Boiling Point

September 15th, 2018  |  1 hr 56 mins

2112, 3d touch, a12 bionic, airpower, apple watch, ar quicklook, at&t, bell, boka, c spire, commodore, computational photography, da vinci, dual sim, eat sleep ride, edition, eeg, electro cardiograph, encephalograph, esim, f-stop, fahrenheit, fall detection, feeder, fireside, greeks, health canada, home pod, imdb, iphone 7, iphone 8, iphone se, iphone upgrade program, iphone xr, iphone xs, jean macdonald, jony ive, justin williams, kian, life extension, lifeline, liquid retina, metro pcs, micro.blog, netflix, nonosim, pokemon go, regina, rex, rogers, roman numeral, romans, rounded rect, rush, sensor housing, series 4, shell, siri, sonos, spotify, steve nash, tennis, the boiling point, tmobile, usdz, verizon, zero

We discuss the naming and iconography of the new iPhone models. We also discuss our "guess the name" twitter pole. How did Apple make the secret twitter list and send out the Keynote in 108 seconds. Apple shipped 4 million Watches in the past quarter. Oleg Begemann's What's New in Swift playground has been updated. The European regulators have cleared Apple's purchase of Shazam. We also cover the "Gather Round" iPhone & Watch event: Apple Watch Series 4, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR. Picks: Beyond Meat Burger supply, Fish shell, exa, bat, Trailer.io

Episode 192: The Quadruple One

April 28th, 2018  |  1 hr 49 mins

1.1.1.1, 2018 ipad, amazon echo, amiga, amphibians, apoo, apple give back, automator, avengers: infinity wars, aziz ansari, bell, benjamin jarvy, birds, blade runner 2049, chris adamson, cloud flare, codemonkey, comcast, cornetto, daisy, ellis island, fishes, futurama, game of thrones, gazelle, halt & catch fire, iphone se x, jessica jones, jurassic park, kal penn, kim’s convenience, lacrosse, layers 2015, lcbo, liam, lost in space, maple leaf square, medieval techsupport, mel blanc, michael geist, net neutrality, orchard, pot, privacy policy, ray allen, reactive, ready player one, realm, realm cloud, revolution in the valley, rogers, sailfish, scratch, sean of the dead, short circuit, silicon valley, silmarillion, simpholders, skydive, speedy gonzalez, spockcast, susan kare, swaffa, targaryens, terry o’reilly, texas instruments, the canadian dream, the great canadian tripod, the jefferson’s, the problem with apu, the quadruple one, the simpsons, they came from behind, this i know, time warner, true depth camera, tsmc, vodaphone, westworld, workflow

This week we are joined by Marin Todorov to discuss his new book and apps. We follow up on Flight School's meaning, an iPad screen protector vendor leaks the 2018 model, downloading your Google profile and Marin relays European ISP experiences. The last Apple Watch boutique is closing. We also follow up on Susan Kare: the woman who gave the Mac its smile. We discuss the new trade-in program with Apple GiveBack, Daisy: Apple’s new iPhone-recycling robot, FoundationDB is Open Source and Marin's book - Realm: Building Modern Swift Apps with Realm Database. Picks: 5 Useful 3D Touch Features for iPhone, Snipetty, Bringing Objective-C to the Amiga, How to build your own Alexa skills with the new Alexa Blueprints, Xcode Treasures: Master the Tools to Design, Build, and Distribute Great Apps, Mixpanel v. 3.3.0 - opt in/out at run time

Episode 167: Death By Design

October 28th, 2017  |  1 hr 15 mins

apple store app, arkit, bitcoin, block chain, calculator app, death by design, foxcon, ios, ios 11, iphone x, preorder, quick start, reclaiming, recycling, rogers, theodolite, version

We start this week's show with a discussion about preordering the iPhone X. We follow up with the Quick Start method for migrating your identity to a new iOS device. We also follow up on predictions of iPhone X supply rumors. Death By Design is a documentary about the creation and disposal of all the electronic devices we crave and their toll on some societies and the environment. Jaime lightens the discussion with a look a the percentage of games using ARKit. Picks: Theodolite, iOS 11 Bug: Typing 1+2+3 Quickly in the Calculator App Won't Get You 6, Face Tracking with ARKit.