This week Tim sits down with Charlie Chapman, developer advocate, iOS engineer and host of the Launched podcast. We talked about developing indie apps, in app purchases, the Apple Vision Pro after 4 months, Deep Dish Swift and what to do it Cupertino during WWDC week. TL;DR Charlie says there’s a lot of networking and things to do during the week.
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Charlie Chapman – A day in the life of Developer Advocate
This week Tim sits down with Charlie Chapman, developer advocate, iOS engineer and host of the Launched podcast. We talked about developing indie apps, in app purchases, the Apple Vision Pro after 4 months, Deep Dish Swift and what to do it Cupertino during WWDC week. TL;DR Charlie says there’s a lot of networking and things to do during the week.
- Deep Dish Swift
- Charlie Chapman
- Dark Noise app
- RevenueCat
- OMTConf
- WWDC24 Discord
- Shoulder Surgery Arthoscopy
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Let’s Do Something Stupid Next with Steve Lipton
This week Tim sits down with Steve Lipton, CIO Scientific Device Laboratory, Author and Speaker on creativity, iOS, watchOS, and SAP Business One. Steve is a serial educator who has been teaching iOS based courses for many years on Lynda.com and now on LinkedIn Learning.
- Make App Pie
- Steve on LinkedIn
- Steve on Mastodon – @[email protected]
- Apple dips toe in the AI pool with new model framework
- Swift Remote Studio – Virtual Coworking for iOS, Mac, and Swift Developers
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Dave Verwer – Don’t Forget Your Towel
This week Tim sits down with Dave Verwer to discuss his contributions to the Apple developer community. They chat about Dave’s iOS Dev Weekly newsletter, the Swift Package Index, and the iOS Dev Directory. They also discuss Swift on Windows, Vaper and server-side swift, and the basics on how to publish a Swift Package. Don’t forget your towel.
iOS Dev Weekly – The best iOS development links, every Friday
Ted Kremenek on Twitter
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Danijela Vrzan, SwiftTO 2023 Speaker Series
This week Tim sits down with Daniel Vrzan iOS developer. bootcamp mentor and conference speaker. They discuss her career pivot to becoming an iOS engineer, her life in Croatia and migration with her husband to Canada. They discuss the Kodeco bootcamps and how Danijela became a mentor. They also dig into building website in Swift.
- https://www.danijelavrzan.com/speaking/
- https://twitter.com/dvrzan
- https://www.kodeco.com/u/dvrzan
- https://www.swiftconf.to/
- This episode on YouTube
Matt Massicotte, SwiftTO 2023 Speaker Series
This week Tim chats with Matt Massicotte about his experience as a Mac developer, and early Mac enthusiast. They also discuss working with AppKit and SwiftUI, and Matt’s upcoming talk on Swift Concurrency.
- massicotte.org
- @[email protected]
- Swift TO
- Chime – an editor for macOS
- ResEdit – Wikipedia
- Arkanoid – Wikipedia
- Learn C on the Mac: For OS X and iOS: 9781430245339: Mark, David, Bucanek, James
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Episode 224 – Siri, Open The Pod Bay Doors
We discuss using Siri to access application settings in our #askMTJC. We fact check on Indian Partitioning dates. We follow up on Apple Music arriving on Amazon’s Echo, Apple vs Qualcomm trial date set, 5G iPhone maybe as late as 2020, wireless charging for AirPods and AT&T first to support eSim. We discuss changing laws with GitHub pull requests. Apple’s program for women entrepreneur developers. Siri Shortcuts Not Working for many people. Real-time text support for Wi-Fi calling. Touch ID used in app scams to bilk users. Picks: Xcode Short Cuts, Run macOS on iPad, Play Retro Dark Castle on iPad with System 6.0.8, Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings
Episode 224 – Show Links:
- Mike Hendley on Twitter: “#askmtjc Invoking Siri and saying “Settings” when in an app will bring you directly to the settings for that app.”
- Apple Music arrives on Amazon’s Echo speakers starting December 17 | Ars Technica
- Judge officially sets Apple v Qualcomm trial date as Apple lawyer refutes possibility of settlement – 9to5Mac
- Don’t expect a 5G iPhone before 2020 – The Verge
- Report: AirPods with wireless charging expected in early 2019 | Ars Technica
- What carriers support iPhone XS & iPhone XR eSIM? – 9to5Mac
- How I changed the law with a GitHub pull request | Ars Technica
- Apple launches app development program to support women entrepreneurs – Apple
- Siri Shortcuts Not Working Properly For Some iPhone Users [Fixed] – MacRumors
- How to use real-time text on macOS and iOS – 9to5Mac
- Scammy iOS apps used Touch ID to push users toward $99 payouts – The Verge
- Bohemian Rhapsody – Marc Martel (one-take) – YouTube
- What Makes This Song Great? Ep.51 THE BEATLES – YouTube
Episode 224 Picks
- Jordan Morgan on Twitter: “Here’s a thread of some of my favorite #Xcode keyboard shortcuts, in particular order. Reveal all tabs (a lá Safari) 1) command + shift + \… https://t.co/H8N4dcAmDW”
- How to use Apple’s MacOS on an iPad – Business Insider
- zydeco/minivmac4ios: Mini vMac for iOS
- Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings – Apple
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Episode 198 – WWDC 2018 Reflections
This week we give our impressions of WWDC 2018 keynote. We discuss Apple’s presenting the scholarship winner apps on the App Store. Microsoft’s purchase of GitHub. Apple is getting into the ad game to compete with other online players. The rumored iPad with face recognition is coming. We talk about the deprecation of OpenGL and OpenCL. Finally by Rene Richie guides our discussion of the WWDC announcements. Picks: UX Cake w/Jaime Lopez Jr, Machine Learning – Build a Model, App Store Review Guidelines Diff, Stevie the Snail, SpriteKit, PlayDead’s INSIDE
The cover image contains apps the hosts have worked on.
Episode 198 Show Links:
- Evan Dekhayser on Twitter: “Cool to see some of this year’s WWDC scholars having their apps featured on the App Store: https://t.co/v0IA5gYp7a”
- Microsoft has reportedly acquired GitHub – The Verge
- Microsoft snaps up GitHub for $7.5 billion | Ars Technica
- Microsoft + GitHub = Empowering Developers – The Official Microsoft Blog
- Can Apple Stay Apple?
- Apple Is Working on 2018 iPad Redesign With Facial Recognition – Bloomberg
- iPad with Face ID leaks in iOS 12 beta – The Verge
- What’s New in macOS – Apple Developer
- Daring Fireball: WWDC 2018: Apple’s Software Chief Details How iOS Apps Will Run on Macs | WIRED
- WWDC 2018 Aftermath: The year of FINALLY and why! – YouTube
- SetApp
- Backtrace by James Dempsey and the Breakpoints on Apple Music
- 360iDev 2015 Conference Highlights
- macOS – Mojave Preview – Apple
- Backtrace by James Dempsey and the Breakpoints on Apple Music
- 360iDev 2015 Conference Highlights
- Ray Wenderlich Store | ARKit by Tutorials
- Ray Wenderlich Store | Metal by Tutorials
- SwiftShot: Creating a Game for Augmented Reality | Apple Developer Documentation
- Building for Voice with Siri Shortcuts – WWDC 2018 – Videos – Apple Developer
- Dance Like You Mean It — Animoji Music Video – YouTube
- Funkytown- Lipps Inc (original) – YouTube
- No Man’s Sky
- The Mayan Calendar
Episode 198 Picks:
- Design and Dev – How to Create Solutions Together | Amplify Alliance
- Machine Learning – Build a Model – Apple Developer
- Rich Hong on Twitter: “App Store Review Guidelines diff: WWDC 2018 Edition. https://t.co/PS1sWKKhce”
- Stevie The Snail on the App Store
- Product Manager | Los Angeles | Victoria Heric
- BANDIMAL on the App Store
- Playdead’s INSIDE on the App Store
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Episode 196 – Test Backed Development
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 sophisticated 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
Episode 196 Show Links:
- Jonathan Kuehlein on Twitter: “Visited the @mtjc_podcast headquarters of @timmitra and all we got were these cool t-shirts! @Xman_1664 #morethanjustcode #mtjc #askmtjc… https://t.co/WLj1ykzIdz”
- Tim Mitra on Twitter: “#askMTJC Did we talk about the symbol on the Command Key?… “
- The untold story of why the Command key replaced the Apple key on your Mac – BGR
- jcieplinski on Twitter: “@timmitra #MTJC Ron Johnson, originally from Target, was the retail guy you were thinking of who spearheaded the original Apple Stores. One of the unsung heroes of Apple’s rise to world domination.”
- Apple users in the EU can now download all the info the company has on them – The Verge
- Apple’s 7-nanometer A12 processors for 2018 iPhones reportedly start production – The Verge
- The Apple Watch has found a surprisingly useful home with everyone that works on their feet — Quartz
- Apple, spurned by BMW and Mercedes, signs deal with Volkswagen for driverless cars
- SkyTrain
- Apple reportedly ships 600k HomePods during Q1 as Amazon faces increasing competition | 9to5Mac
- Apple shipped an estimated 600,000 HomePods in the first quarter of the year – The Verge
- Apple teases a ‘smarter’ Siri with a new look and voice | The Star
- Apple’s teases about a smarter Siri were from last year
- What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written? – Quora
- The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage – Wikipedia
- The KGB, the Computer, and Me (Complete) – YouTube
- Apple In Business Podcasts – iTunes
- Astropad Standard on the App Store
- The Expanse Trailer – YouTube
- Dark Matter – Trailer – YouTube
- Amazon.com: Foundation (9780553293357): Isaac Asimov: Books
- Cube (1997) – Opening Scene – YouTube
Episode 197 Picks:
- Illustration in the App Store + Subtraction.com
- App: The Human Story – Available Now
- Developing UIViews in Xcode Playgrounds | Topology Engineering
- Evan K. Stone on Twitter: “TIL you can load a file into the Assistant Editor in #Xcode by doing an Open Quickly search with Shift-Cmd-O, and then Alt-clicking it when the file you want to open appears in the list. ? Exactly as I expected, but had never tried before! ???? #Xcode #iOSDev #macOSDev”
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