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

Episode 317: Best of MTJC: Test Backed Development

September 27th, 2020  |  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.

Photo: Tim Mitra
Originally broadcast: May 26th, 2018

Episode 298: Double Waffle Double Patty Bacon Jam Cognac Maple Syrup

May 16th, 2020  |  1 hr 25 mins

1tb ssd, 3com, 3d printing, 3rd party library, air flight, airpods studio, alpha, analytics, appauth, appletv, arpanet, arrow, bob metcaff, budweiser stage, chinese 13 card poker, cne 2020, comments, connectix, cover art, covid-19, cursor, disk doubler, double down, double waffle double fried chicken, douglas engelbart, facebook sdk, fur babies, fusioncast, gcode, gloom haven, hair styles, hardware engineers, heart attack grill, intent, ipados, ipod, itunes, java, kernel_task, kfc, leo dion, macbook pro, magic mouse, magic trackpad 2, maltese falcon, mayor john tory, mobe+e, mountain view, nil check, oauth, on-site, ontario place, over the ear, passiondale, poker stars, rain design, rambo, roku, roscoe’s chicken & waffles, shelter in place, sketchup, slow jam, speed doubler, spindump, susan kare, swift 5.3, tapgesturercognizer, twitter, uibutton, vimy ridge, windows support, wingardium leviosa, world war one, youtube

We discuss the rumored storage on the iPhone 12 Pros. We follow up on the 142 year traditional Canadian National Exhibition is cancelling in 2020. Apple discusses some staff returning to work on site ahead of competition. We delve into how Apple has reinvented the cursor. You may want to charge your MacBook Pro 16 on the right side. We also follow up on Speed Doubler which improved the performance of the 68K emulator on Power PC. "AirPods Studio" may the name of Apple's new over ear headphones. We discuss building an adaptive button. A programming error at FaceBook knocks out Spotify, Venmo, TikTok, and other iPhone apps. Swift 5.3 attempts to add support for Windows development. We look at iOS and iPadOS 13 adoption. Unreal Engine 5 revealed for iOS and Mac, coming in 2021. Picks: Conventional Comments, FusionCast

Episode 227: They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!

December 29th, 2018  |  1 hr 6 mins

accessibility, adam armstrong, affinity designer, airplay, amend, app store, appl, apple give back, apple music, apple stock, apple store, arkit, astropad studio, austin, bendgate, beyond meat, boxing day, buddy build, bullwinkle & rocky, charles proxy for ios, clip studio paint, compensation, cost of living, coursera, create ml, csis, denver, downton abbey, dudley do-right, equity compensation, escape key, flack, fourier analysis, gdpr, ghostery lite, home alone, home pod, ibm watson, ipad 9.7, ipad pro, iphone os sdk, logitech crayon, luna display, macbook air 2018, machine learning, marathon, mcafee, memoji, mini vmac, minimoog model d, mp3, neuroplasticity, nsnorth, pcalc, promo codes, rcmp, require attention, san jose, seattle, skydio r1, stanley cup, susan kare, suzanne vega, testflight, this is your brian on music, token, tom’s diner, tunnel bear, turi create, uber, vesting, wwdc 2018, xcode treasures

We fact check on CSIS, overtime hockey, defeating Face ID, and git commit --amend. #askMTJC brings up promo codes for IAP and the bands on the Stanley Cup. Apple stock sees its best performance in five years. The main topic is top paying tech companies in 2018 and comparative compensation vs cost of living. We review the highlights of the More Than Just Code podcast in 2018. We also choose our top picks for 2018. Picks: Google Home Alone

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 194: There Is No Step Three

May 13th, 2018  |  1 hr 35 mins

adobe, aldus, alexa, android p, anthony michael hall, ar core, azure, bezier, bill gates, bill paxton, capital gains, cardiff electric, carrie fisher, cdev, chris espinosa, civil war, click of death, cn tower, compaq, core ml, cortana, countdown, cubic, date, device tracker, donna clark, elvis, gestures, gil amelio, gmail, google analytics, google assistant, google goggles, gordon clark, halt & catch fire, iceo, imac, init, iomega, iphone 7, iphone x, ipod, itunes on windows, james paxton, jazz drive, jerry garcia, jobs, joe macmillan, john rubinstein, location, macintalk, macintosh portable, mendosa, microsoft, ml kit, netflix, noah wile, phil schiller, pirates of silicon valley, resedit, reverse engineering, rich turton, roundabout, sharing, silicon cowboys, steve jobs, susan kare, swift tensorflow, syquest, talking moose, ted turner mode, tensor processing unit, there’s no step three, tpu, tracking, uber, uipropertyanimator, vapor 3, visual positioning system, vps, vst floppy drive, what’s on your ipod, windows 3.1, wwdc, zip drive

This week we follow up on iTunes on Windows, UIViewPropertyAnimator, iPhone 7 microphone issues, Countdown To WWDC, and the first pedestrian death by Uber's self-driving car. We discuss the 20th Anniversary of the iMac, the call for Apple Heart Study, Lobe's use of Core ML, and Apple cracking down on location sharing. We also cover the Microsoft Build 2018 and Google I/O 2018 keynotes. Picks: Vapor 3, Dealing With Dates, Frinkiac.com
Photo: Apple

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 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