Fatal Error

By Soroush Khanlou & Chris Dzombak

Fatal Error is a weekly show hosted by software developers Soroush Khanlou and Chris Dzombak. We discuss topics at the cutting edge of iOS software architecture, Swift, and best practices.... more

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The podcast currently has 94 episodes available.

Fatal Error episodes:

April 03, 2017 24. The fileprivate kerfuffle
This week, Soroush and Chris work through their feelings about the ongoing debate about fileprivate and access control in Swift.
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33min
March 27, 2017 23. Metaprogramming (Objective-C vs Swift)
This week, Chris and Soroush talk try to compare Objective C and Swift, but end up talking about metaprogramming a lot.
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40min
March 20, 201722. Optional Properties
Soroush: That One Optional Property

Massive View Controller

Sandi Metz: Nothing is Something (RailsConf 2015)

Finite State Machine (Wikipedia)

StatefulViewController

Soroush: a state machine where invalid transitions can’t compile

A gentle introduction to dependent types

Less gently: Dependent Types at Work

D Oisín Kidney: In which I Misunderstand Dependent Types

Validated

Andy Matuschak: A composable pattern for pure state machines with effects

Functional core, imperative shell is from Boundaries by Gary Bernhardt
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25min
March 13, 2017 21. try! Swift Tokyo
Chris interviews Soroush about his experience at the try! Swift Tokyo conference.
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26min
March 06, 201720. Simple Made Easy
Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey

“Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.”

Talk Transcript, with slides

Fatal Error episode 7: The Single Responsibility Principle

Fatal Error episode 15: Not Invented Here
Some examples we mention:
Object-Relational Mapping vs Key-value Database

CocoaPods vs. Carthage
Slides mentioned in this post:
Development Speed

Simplicity Made Easy
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32min
February 27, 2017 19. Playgrounds Conference
This week, Soroush was in Melbourne, Australia for the Playgrounds conference.
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25min
February 20, 201718. Code Review
The Joel Test: 12 Steps To Better Code

On Code Review

GitHub: Pull Request Reviews

BitBucket: Working with Pull Requests

Phabricator

Danger CI

Reference with examples of some things Danger can do

SwiftLint

Twitter Jokes about Code Review: 1, 2
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0min
February 13, 2017 17. Testing your Network Layer
This week, Chris and Soroush discuss different approaches to testing your network layer.
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19min
February 06, 201716. Swifty Error Handling
Representing and Throwing Errors in Swift

Cocoa with Love: Values and errors, part 1: ‘Result’ in Swift

antitypical/Result

Sunset Lake Software: Swift 2 Error Handling in Practice

Soroush: Decoding JSON

[swift-evolution] throws as returning a Result

Joe Fabisevich on Twitter: “Food for thought when considering Swift’s un-typed errors. Do types end up mattering much?”

Java Exception Handling

Olivier Halligon — Asynchronous error handling

Swift Asserts: the missing manual reviews fatalError and the other ways for your code to fail at runtime

Never: “The return type of functions that do not return normally; a type with no values.”

Railway Oriented Programming

Scott Wlaschin - Railway Oriented Programming — error handling in functional languages
Additional Reading (not covered in the show)
Swift Error Handling and Objective-C Interop In Depth

Partial functions in Swift, Part 1: Avoidance
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32min
January 30, 2017 15. Not Invented Here
Caleb and Sam from Runtime (https://spec.fm/podcasts/runtime/) join Chris and Soroush to talk about "Not Invented Here" and how we approach project dependencies.
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34min

FAQs about Fatal Error:

How many episodes does Fatal Error have?

The podcast currently has 94 episodes available.