Edge Cases

Andrew Pontious talks with Wolf Rentzsch about the current tech bubble: is it one? Is it web or mobile, or both? Is it like the 90s dot-com bubble? Plus: the tech industry in San Francisco, and Andrew's tips for surviving a bust.

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about the dynamics and politics of code reuse: from the complexities of the simple case to the control issues of relying on Apple's code.

Andrew Pontious talks to Wolf Rentzsch about refactoring, including Martin Fowler's influential book, what ASTs are and aren't, and Andrew's time working on the refactoring feature in Xcode.

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious Conflict-free Replicated Datatypes (CRDTs), an exciting new suite of simple data types that are explicitly designed for distributed data storage. Also: CAP theorem, eventual consistency, and Indiana Jones.

Andrew Pontious takes advantage of Apple's looser WWDC NDA to talk with Wolf Rentzsch about some of the new features in the prerelease version of Xcode 6.

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about technical culture: how various technologies are associated with beliefs and their priorities. Examples include Linux, Perl, Python, the Web, and of course Apple and Swift.

Wolf Rentzsch and Andrew Pontious record before a live audience at AltLabs during WWDC. Topics: avoiding Sherlocking, seriousness/elegance vs. fun/extensibility at Apple, the "tidal wave" of third-party developers (Wolf) and Swift as a half-step (Andrew).

During Wolf's continuing hiatus, second guest cohost Ashley Nelson-Hornstein talks with Andrew Pontious about how tech industry job interviews don't work, and what can be done to fix them.

As Wolf takes an extended hiatus, first guest cohost Justin Kaufman talks with Andrew Pontious about how you use text and audio to describe video, such as closed captions, subtitles, and descriptive audio. Also: many contributions by Andrew’s cat, sorry!

Wolf Rentzsch talks to Andrew Pontious about Apple's new promising but troubled Multipeer Connectivity framework and his new app that takes advantage of it: Rumor Monger.